- Music, history and criticism, Popular music, history and criticism, Popular music, History and criticism
'Switched on Pop' illuminates the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. The text moves through close studies of 16 modern pop classics by artists from Beyoncé to Zedd, each chapter bringing out key aspects of a particular song as well as introducing core concepts such as rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and timbre.
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Warm, spare, cool and earnest.
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- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Charlie Harding
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780190056650
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