Analysing Popular Music: Image, Sound, Text

by David Machin

Book Overview

Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values, concepts and identities.

Analysing Popular Music is a lively look at the semiotic resources found in the sounds, visuals and words that comprise the ′code book′ of popular music. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848600232
• ISBN13: 9781848600232
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.4"