Acknowledgement Contributors 1. Introduction Allan F. Moore 2. Popular music analysis: ten apothegms and four instances Robert Walser 3. From lyric to anti-lyric: analysing the words in pop songs Dai Griffiths 4. The sound is 'out there': score, sound design and exoticism in The X-Files Robynn J. Stilwell 5. Feel the beat come down: house music as rhetoric Stan Hawkins 6. The determining role of performance in the articulation of meaning: the case of 'Try a Little Tenderness' Rob Bowman 7. Marxist music analysis without Adorno: popular music and urban geography Adam Krims 8. Jethro Tull and the case for modernism in mass culture Allan F. Moore 9. Pangs of history in late 1970s new-wave rock John Covach 10. Is anybody listening? Chris Kennett 11. Talk and text: popular music and ethnomusicology Martin Stokes Bibliography Discography Film/Videography Index.
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