This book could be an important first step in shifting the field from entrenched habits of sole-authorship to the incorporation of many different kinds of collaboration, including smaller groups, junior-senior scholar pairings, or single-author analyses with responses and revisions published together. This book reminds us that there is no one way to do popular music analysis and is an opportunity to think even more creatively about what effective and fulfilling research can look like.
- Alexa Woloshyn, Carnegie Mellon University
Taken as a whole, this essay collection not only makes a convincing case for the relevance of musicological analysis in the study of popular music, but also provides us with an impressive demonstration of the myriad ways by which it can be done.
- Nadav Appel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Open University of Israel, Israel
I know of no other instance in popular-music analysis in which multiple authors reconcile their views within the bounds of a single essay, and so this effort should be applauded for its original approach.
- Trevor de Clercq, Middle Tennessee State University
This book offers an engaging read and presents multiple approaches to musical analysis, which is to be expected given the diversity of its contributors.
- Donna Weston, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
'The last twenty years or so have seen a marked increase in academic writing about popular music by musicologists and music theorists. Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music brings together a talented group of scholars to make a significant and much anticipated contribution to this increasingly diverse field of analytical approaches and repertories. It will be required reading for anyone interested in hearing, and then re-hearing, recent popular music.' John Covach, Institute for Popular Music, University of Rochester, USA 'At last, a new, quality collection of pop music essays that truly values analysis, close reading and listener interpretation. It's refreshing to see the wide range of genres covered as well - it makes for a great post-modern playlist.' --Justin A. Williams, University of Bristol, UK
'This book could be an important first step in shifting the field from entrenched habits of sole-authorship to the incorporation of many different kinds of collaboration, including smaller groups, junior-senior scholar pairings, or single-author analyses with responses and revisions published together. This book reminds us that there is no one way to do popular music analysis and is an opportunity to think even more creatively about what effective and fulfilling research can look like.' --Alexa Woloshyn, Carnegie Mellon University
'Taken as a whole, this essay collection not only makes a convincing case for the relevance of musicological analysis in the study of popular music, but also provides us with an impressive demonstration of the myriad ways by which it can be done.'--Nadav Appel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Open University of Israel, Israel
'I know of no other instance in popular-music analysis in which multiple authors reconcile their views within the bounds of a single essay, and so this effort should be applauded for its original approach.' --Trevor de Clercq, Middle Tennessee State University
