This book explores the intimate connection between body and instrument in popular music, explaining chords, melodies, riffs, and grooves in terms of embodied movement, which in turn informs the imagination in constructing meaning in songs. Tracing connections from foundational blues, gospel, and rock musicians to current rap artists, author Timothy Koozin demonstrates how a focus on body-instrument interaction can illuminate creative strategies while leveling implied hierarchies of cultural value, revealing how artists represent subjectivities of gender, race, and social class in shaping songs and whole albums.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1. Guitar Voicing and Embodied Gesture in Rock
- 1. Guitar Voicing I: Barre chords, Gesture, and Agency
- 2. Guitar Voicing II: Open-String Chords, Fretboard Strategies, and Virtual Spaces
- Part 2. Gospel and Groove: Gestural Strategies in Soul and Funk
- 3. Funk at the Keyboard
- 4. Pentatonic Space to Outer Space: Funk Bands and the Rise of Afrofuturism
- Part 3. Gestural Variation in Songs with Acoustic Instruments
- 5. Temporality and Gesture in the Songs of Bob Dylan
- 6. Counterpoint and Embodied Expression in the Music of Joni Mitchell
- Part 4. Situating Gesture
- 7. Keyboard Playing in the Beatles' Abbey Road: Topic, Persona, and Social Discourse
- 8. Musical Topic and Ironic Gesture in the Songs of Steely Dan
- 9. Voice in Hip Hop
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
