Over and Over: Exploring Repetition in Popular Music - Softcover

Olivier Julien; Christophe Levaux

 
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Synopsis

From the Tin Pan Alley 32-bar form, through the cyclical forms of modal jazz, to the more recent accumulation of digital layers, beats, and breaks in Electronic Dance Music, repetition as both an aesthetic disposition and a formal property has stimulated a diverse range of genres and techniques. From the angles of musicology, psychology, sociology, and science and technology, Over and Over reassesses the complexity connected to notions of repetition in a variety of musical genres.

The first edited volume on repetition in 20th- and 21st-century popular music, Over and Over explores the wide-ranging forms and use of repetition from large repetitive structures to micro repetitions in relation to both specific and large-scale issues and contexts. The book brings together a selection of original texts by leading authors in a field that is, as yet, little explored. Aimed at both specialists and neophytes, it sheds important new light on one of the fundamental phenomena of music of our times.

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About the Author

Olivier Julien is a lecturer in the history and musicology of popular music at Paris-Sorbonne University, France.

Christophe Levaux is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Li ge, Belgium.

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ISBN 10:  1501324888 ISBN 13:  9781501324888
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
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