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The Night Mail: 12.13

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Pop, Power and the Vocal Subject. Pop, Power and the Vocal-Subject: NEW POSTS COMING SOON. I’ve been putting all my blogging on hold this Autumn, in order to complete what has become a rather monumental project of music writing which I’m provisionally titling Pop, Power and the Vocal-Subject. I hope to format the essays into a PDF e-book thing which can be downloaded, as well as to make Soundcloud podcasts of chapters with musical examples, in the style of Rouge’s Foam. WATCH THIS SPACE….

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The Night Mail: 03.13

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Pop, Power and the Vocal Subject. Check out this Guardian interview with The Knife. Read the full interview HERE. 160;(ignoring the snarky, reactionary commentary from the interviewer), and get excited. 160;for  Shaking the Habitual. 160;on April 8th. More importantly though, this fabulous essay from n 1. Magazine (Jan 2012), by Richard Beck. Wryly styled as a review of Pitchfork (he gives them 5.4 out of 10). . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The night mail archive. View my complete profile.

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The Night Mail: 04.15

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Pop, Power and the Vocal Subject. Chapter 2.3: What is Music? This post is part of my series on Pop, Power and the Vocal-Subject. Chapter 2.2: Power and Agency in Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love'. This post is part of my series on Pop, Power and the Vocal-Subject. Like the tracks discussed in Chapter 1.3. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The night mail archive. Chapter 2.3: What is Music? Chapter 2.2: Power and Agency in Donna Summers I. View my complete profile. The very very very.

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The Night Mail: Chapter 2.1: Taking the Initiative: An Introduction to Musical Power Analysis

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Pop, Power and the Vocal Subject. Chapter 2.1: Taking the Initiative: An Introduction to Musical Power Analysis. This post is part of my series on Pop, Power and the Vocal-Subject. The key terrain of power struggle in the pop song is the moment of transformation between verse and chorus. There are no stakes higher than this moment. To control this transformation is to control the direction and meaning of the song, and to subjugate it to particular goals or interests. On a micro level, there are also prog...

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The Night Mail: Chapter 2.3: What is Music? (Three Deterritorialisations)

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Pop, Power and the Vocal Subject. Chapter 2.3: What is Music? This post is part of my series on Pop, Power and the Vocal-Subject. Music as the Deterritorialisation of the Refrain. As I argued in the last chapter. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, in their book A Thousand Plateaus. Of territorialisation. This concept (as well as its derivations – ‘deterritorialisation’ and ‘reterritorialisation’) is at the very heart of A Thousand Plateaus. And will be used extensively in the next couple of chapters.

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The Night Mail: 11.11

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Pop, Power and the Vocal Subject. Adventures in the Top 40: Wayward Choruses. Here’s a geeky. 160;medium-length post about chart pop to offset all that earnest politicising in the last post, and - spoiler alert - all the earnest politicising to come in the next post. I just wanted to describe a lovely musical trend that links three of my favourite tracks clinging doggedly to the UK singles chart. Let us listen first to Nicki Minaj. I’ve spent a little time at the Occupy London. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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The Night Mail: 02.14

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Pop, Power and the Vocal Subject. Chapter 1.5: Music and the Societies of Control, or, Why Adorno Would Have Liked Burial. This post is part of my series on Pop, Power and the Vocal-Subject. Theodor W. Adorno would have liked Burial’s music. This is a ridiculous statement of course, not only because it is impossible to verify, but because if he were still alive when the Burial. Vocal-subject, objective instrumental forces, song world, technologies of control. The previous essays in this series have begun...

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The Night Mail: 04.14

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Pop, Power and the Vocal Subject. Chapter 2.1: Taking the Initiative: An Introduction to Musical Power Analysis. This post is part of my series on Pop, Power and the Vocal-Subject. The key terrain of power struggle in the pop song is the moment of transformation between verse and chorus. There are no stakes higher than this moment. To control this transformation is to control the direction and meaning of the song, and to subjugate it to particular goals or interests. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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The Night Mail: 01.14

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Pop, Power and the Vocal Subject. Chapter 1.1: The Vocal-Subject. This post is part of my series on   Pop, Power and the Vocal-Subject. I outlined three theses concerning the way in which pop music is experienced as meaningful by its audience. The first part of this series focuses on the first of these theses:. On recorded pop tracks, the vocals constitute a distinct vocal-subject in relation to a non-vocal, musical situation. Pop, Power and the Vocal-Subject: Introduction. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).