This article argues for understanding popular songs and songwriting through the metaphor
of architecture, an idea we draw from vernacular terms used by songwriters when …

This article explores issues in and approaches to music analysis in the field of popular music
studies. First it reviews the work of popular music scholars since the early 1980s in …

For the past few decades, the field of music theory has struggled with the question of how
well traditional concepts—that is, those that were developed to describe and analyze the …

Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz,
addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various …

Inspired by an Ellington quote about the influence of his Orchestra's 1963 tour on the
composition of the Far East Suite, this article examines the inherently subjective process of …

Kind of Blue remains one of the most influential and successful jazz albums ever recorded,
yet we know surprisingly few details concerning how it was written and the creative roles …

Debates concerning the origins of “Blue in Green” as a composition often focus on who
wrote the piece (Miles Davis or Bill Evans) rather than how it was written. Such accounts rely …

Abstract William “Count” Basie (1904-1984) is one of the most beloved and imitated figures
in American music. His name has long been ubiquitous among jazz scholars, critics, and …

The study of the American musical is emerging in two different research streams. The first
treats the musical as an aesthetic object and applies traditional methods of structure and …

Second generation immigrants to the US and the UK are precariously positioned in terms of
cultural acceptance in their respective host societies. They are racially marginalized, yet …