Times A-Changin'' : Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music

Name: Times A-Changin''
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780197635216
Price: 11850 KES
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ISBN: 9780197635216

by Nancy Murphy

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Format Hardback

Book Series OXFORD STUDIES IN MUSIC THEORY

ISBN-10 0197635210

ISBN-13 9780197635216

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 4th, 2023

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 454 grams

Dimensions 16.30 x 24.30 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Folk, Folkloric styles Folk & traditional music Traditional and folk music

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How did emerging singer-songwriters in the 1960s and 1970s develop traditions for musical self-expression? This book takes a new listen to the music of beloved songwriters Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Simon, and Cat Stevens to show how they used malleable metric settings as an important part of their self-expressive toolkit in performance.

In 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter music, some artists used malleable metric settings alongside other features of self-expression in performance. This resulted in songs with extremes of self-expressive timing flexibility that cannot be accounted for using a single conception of meter. This book proposes a theory of flexible meter that recasts metric structure as encompassing the variety of metric scenarios presented by the self-expressive performance practice of singer-songwriters, from metric regularity to metric ambiguity, and vacillations between these two possibilities. Author Nancy Murphy explores performances by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Simon, and Cat Stevens to investigate the individual metric style of each artist and how their flexible metric techniques contribute to the self-expressive rhetoric of the singer-songwriter performance tradition.

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