Popular MusicPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/S0261143023000041
A. Danielsen, Mats Johansson, Ragnhild Brøvig, B. Sandvik, Kjetil K. Bøhler
{"title":"Shaping rhythm: timing and sound in five groove-based genres","authors":"A. Danielsen, Mats Johansson, Ragnhild Brøvig, B. Sandvik, Kjetil K. Bøhler","doi":"10.1017/S0261143023000041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143023000041","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Shaping events at the microlevel of rhythm is an important aspect of many groove-based musics. In the present study, we explore the interconnectedness of musical parameters such as timing, attack shape, timbre and relative intensity in creating groove through investigating musicians and producers’ discourse in five genres (jazz, samba, electronic dance music, hip-hop and traditional Scandinavian fiddle music). Through semi-structured interviews, we found both genre-specific accounts of how such musical features interact at the microlevel of rhythm and a cross-generic focus on inducing movement by shaping sound and generating rhythmic friction. The study empirically substantiates the multiparameter nature of musical performance and experience, and that particular genre-typical configurations of temporal and sonic features are needed to create the experience of groove. It thereby adds to the scholarly discourse on groove, which has often taken a more general and time-oriented view of rhythm.","PeriodicalId":46171,"journal":{"name":"Popular Music","volume":"42 1","pages":"20 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48109318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Popular MusicPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/S0261143023000090
Claire E.A. Mcleish
{"title":"Hip-hop sampling aesthetics and the legacy of Grand Upright v. Warner","authors":"Claire E.A. Mcleish","doi":"10.1017/S0261143023000090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143023000090","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1991, Gilbert O'Sullivan sued Biz Markie for sampling without permission: this lawsuit, Grand Upright v. Warner, became a landmark case for music copyright, and for some scholars, represented a symbolic end to hip hop's golden age. This paper uses the lawsuit as a point of entry into debates about hip hop during a time of aesthetic transformation. Specifically, I present a corpus study spanning 1988–1993, consisting of hip hop songs of various subgenres drawn from Billboard charts. Unlike previous studies on this period, I consider both canonical artists, whose mastery of sampling is widely admired (such as Public Enemy), and more commercially successful artists (like the Fresh Prince), who used fewer samples. My study reveals a decrease in the average number of samples per song, and a radical shift in how these remaining samples are used. I situate Grand Upright at the intersection of legal institutions and musical aesthetics","PeriodicalId":46171,"journal":{"name":"Popular Music","volume":"42 1","pages":"79 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49567479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Popular MusicPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/s0261143023000235
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Popular MusicPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/S0261143023000107
Veronika Muchitsch
{"title":"Listening to Anohni's variously vibrating voice: studying transfeminine vocality in 21st-century popular music culture through the concept of vocal figurations","authors":"Veronika Muchitsch","doi":"10.1017/S0261143023000107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143023000107","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the work and reception of singer-songwriter Anohni to investigate sonic and discursive negotiations of transfeminine vocality in 21st-century popular music culture. Developing Haraway's concept of feminist figurations, it introduces the concept of vocal figurations, which articulates a performative, relational and multiply mediated understanding of voice, wherein gendered voice takes shape through processes of voicing and listening. I initially examine Anohni's reception to analyse how biologist, trans-exclusionary and othering discourses surrounding voice and gender inform emergent discourses of transfeminine voices in the first decades of the 21st century. Subsequently, I build on trans and queer theorisations of voice and listening to engage Anohni's variably vibrating voice as a vocal figuration that may challenge biologist and marginalising constructions of transfeminine vocality. I suggest that it may attune us to recognise all gendered voices as thoroughly situated yet changeable configurations of sounding voices, bodies, and subjects.","PeriodicalId":46171,"journal":{"name":"Popular Music","volume":"42 1","pages":"59 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48646457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Popular MusicPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/S0261143023000089
Artur Szarecki
{"title":"Musicking assemblages and non-human becomings: Mapping morphogenetic processes and distributed agencies in Wolfgang Buttress’ the Hive","authors":"Artur Szarecki","doi":"10.1017/S0261143023000089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143023000089","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper introduces the concept of musicking assemblages to account for the agency of non-human actants in a project by contemporary artist, Wolfgang Buttress, that involved creating a musical soundscape together with bees. Collapsing distinctions between popular music, contemporary art and scientific research, the project exhibits musicking not as a result of human action but as emerging from intensive flows of matter-energy circulating between a multiplicity of actants, both human and non-human. Consequently, it presupposes a materialist ontology that breaks with anthropocentric hierarchies and encourages us to rethink popular music as always already involving ‘becoming with’ non-human others, in a way that overcomes the division between culture and nature, as well as its epistemological corollaries.","PeriodicalId":46171,"journal":{"name":"Popular Music","volume":"42 1","pages":"42 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48200840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Popular MusicPub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1017/S0261143022000708
C. Fraysse
{"title":"A Women's History of The Beatles. By Christine Feldman-Barrett. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 257 pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-7594-1","authors":"C. Fraysse","doi":"10.1017/S0261143022000708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143022000708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46171,"journal":{"name":"Popular Music","volume":"42 1","pages":"106 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48992123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Popular MusicPub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1017/S0261143022000770
K. Womack
{"title":": The Revolution in Life-Writing","authors":"K. Womack","doi":"10.1017/S0261143022000770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143022000770","url":null,"abstract":"Curry, T. 2017. The Man-Not Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press) Hoffman, F. L. 1896. Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro (Andesite Press) Leavy, W. 1983. ‘Is the Black male an endangered species?’, Ebony, 41, August. Nott, J. 1854. Types of Mankind (University of Michigan Library) Snodgrass, E. 2021. A new study suggests diversifying law enforcement could lead to better policing. Insider, 18 February. https://www.insider.com/new-study-suggests-police-diversification-could-lead-to-betterpolicing-2021-2 Walker, T. 2022. The Misandric Miseducation of Black Boys. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=q2FJp6Uzpj8&t=1203s (accessed 11 August 2022)","PeriodicalId":46171,"journal":{"name":"Popular Music","volume":"42 1","pages":"112 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48067915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Popular MusicPub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1017/s0261143023000028
M. Munro
{"title":"The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music. Edited by Nanette de Jong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 247 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-42192-8","authors":"M. Munro","doi":"10.1017/s0261143023000028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261143023000028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46171,"journal":{"name":"Popular Music","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48375831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Popular MusicPub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1017/s0261143022000733
Andrew Davis
{"title":"A Philosophy of Cover Songs. By P.D. Magnus. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2022. 145 pp. ISBN 978-1-800-64422-9","authors":"Andrew Davis","doi":"10.1017/s0261143022000733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261143022000733","url":null,"abstract":"ating their own performance spaces. The New York ‘Loft Jazz Scene’ of the 1970s and 1980s was one such example. Such musicians have certainly found greater favour in mainland Europe than at home, but these African American musicians – and younger, often white American musicians – have continued to play free jazz. The point is that failure to attend to the who, what, when, where, how and why makes for arid and even inaccurate history. Of course, historians may justifiably widen the scope of inquiry and must seek to understand and interpret the ‘facts’ in terms of the ‘larger historical and cultural contexts’. However, context applies to one’s own work, not just to writers outside one’s own approach. As E.H. Carr (1987, p. 30) noted, history is ‘a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and the past’. But Carr did not accept that all views of the past were equally valid: ‘It does not follow that because a mountain appears to take on a different shape from different angles of vision, it has objectively no shape at all or an infinity of shapes’ (Carr 1987, pp. 27–8). It is the mountain – the music and those who made it what it is and what we know of it – that is unfortunately missing from Jazz Diaspora.","PeriodicalId":46171,"journal":{"name":"Popular Music","volume":"42 1","pages":"116 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49195777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Popular MusicPub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1017/s0261143022000757
Duncan Heining
{"title":"Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalization. By Bruce Johnson. London: Routledge 2020. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1-138-57755-8","authors":"Duncan Heining","doi":"10.1017/s0261143022000757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261143022000757","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46171,"journal":{"name":"Popular Music","volume":"42 1","pages":"114 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44598645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}