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Article: Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music. (Book Reviews).
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Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music. Edited by Richard Middleton. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xi, 388 p. ISBN 0-19-816612-5 (cloth); 0-19-816611-7 (pbk.). $70 (cloth); $19.95 (pbk.).]
In his introduction to this anthology of sixteen essays by various authors on the topic of popular music (all of which have appeared in the journal Popular Music), editor Richard Middleton concludes that "the best 'new musicology' of pop has grasped the need to hear harmony in new ways, to develop new models for rhythmic analysis, to pay attention to nuances of timbre and pitch inflection, to grasp textures and forms in ways that ...