From fanatics to skeptics, teenagers to octogenarians, non-musicians to professional composers, every music lover will discover something ear-opening in Switched on Pop.Ĭopyright © 2011 Skylight Books. The timeless concepts that Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding define can be applied to any musical style. Readers will find themselves listening to familiar tracks in new ways-and not just those from the Top 40. Each chapter investigates a different song and artist, revealing musical insights such as how a single melodic motif follows Taylor Swift through every genre that she samples, André 3000 uses metric manipulation to get listeners to "shake it like a Polaroid picture," or Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee create harmonic ambiguity in "Despacito" that mirrors the patterns of global migration.Replete with engaging discussions and eye-catching illustrations, Switched on Pop brings to life the musical qualities that catapult songs into the pop pantheon. Switched on Pop gives readers the tools they need to interpret our modern soundtrack. Through close studies of sixteen modern classics, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding shift pop from the background to the foreground, illuminating the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs.In 1939, Aaron Copland published What to Listen for in Music, the bestseller that made classical music.
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