Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music

by George Plasketes

Book Overview

Covering"the musical practice of one artist recording or performing another composer's song"has always been an attribute of popular music. In 2009, the internet database Second Hand Songs estimated that there are 40,000 songs with at least one cover version. Some of the more common variations of this "appropriationist" method of musical quotation include traditional forms such as patriotic anthems, religious hymns such as Amazing Grace, Muzak's instrumental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138250031
• ISBN13: 9781138250031
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"