Within popular music there are entire genres (jazz “standards”), styles (hip hop), techniques
(sampling), and practices (covers) that rely heavily on references between music of different …

The concept of intertextuality–namely, the meaning generated by interrelations between
different texts–was coined in the 1960s among literary theorists and has been widely …

Covering” the musical practice of one artist recording or performing another composer's
song” has always been an attribute of popular music. In 2009, the internet database Second …

This essay reviews alternate mixes and edited versions produced for numerous purposes
over the past half-century for stock singles, promotional singles, albums and reissues of all …

" The outstanding originality of this book lies in the detail and perspicuity with which
interrelations are traced between texts, it even seems that relations sometimes work …

The value of narratives in human understanding of the world is widely recognized. The
importance of narrative is apparent in varieties of everyday storytelling as well is in written …

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the
scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for …

This collection of essays, written by ten leading musicologists and music theorists
specializing in popular music, presents a wide range of scholarly approaches to …

The concept of intertextuality derives from the view of a literary work as a text whose
richness of meaning results from its location in a potentially infinite network of other texts. In …

Reading Pop collects together key essays on the interpretation of pop songs previously
published in the journal Popular Music. In sixteen varied studies by many of the best-known …