Here Comes the Sign: The Semiotics of Popular Music
Buch in deiner Nähe kaufen
Beschreibung
This text is an original and unique introduction to musical semiotics through the use of popular music acts and repertoires of global cultural impact. The basic idea of this is that the songs of The Beatles, Queen, ABBA, Madonna, Michael Jackson and others have become a lingua franca in nearly all cultures, thus making for excellent examples to illustrate musical semiotic theories. “’Heroes’” can perfectly explain Eero Tarasti’s Actantial Model, “Bohemian Rhapsody” is ideal to describe Tzvetan Todorov’s Equilibrium Theory, and so forth. Through case studies, in-depth analysis, original theoretical contributions from the author, but also a comprehensible and enjoyable writing style, this volume will be an engaging reading for students and at the same time an aid for instructors in semiotics, musicology and popular music studies.
This text is an original and unique introduction to musical semiotics through the use of popular music acts and repertoires of global cultural impact. The basic idea of this is that the songs of The Beatles, Queen, ABBA, Madonna, Michael Jackson and others have become a lingua franca in nearly all cultures, thus making for excellent examples to illustrate musical semiotic theories. “’Heroes’” can perfectly explain Eero Tarasti’s Actantial Model, “Bohemian Rhapsody” is ideal to describe Tzvetan Todorov’s Equilibrium Theory, and so forth. Through case studies, in-depth analysis, original theoretical contributions from the author, but also a comprehensible and enjoyable writing style, this volume will be an engaging reading for students and at the same time an aid for instructors in semiotics, musicology and popular music studies.
Utilizes the influence of the Beatles to help explain major theories and models in semiotics Features a monothematic focus and engaged storytelling providing an enjoyable reading experience for students Presented thru a comprehensive, didactic lens and tone making it ideal as a teaching aid
Autor*in
Dario Martinelli
Themen in »Here Comes the Sign: The Semiotics of Popular Music«
semiotics textbook the beatles textbook handbook of semiotics signification and communication linguistics and semiotics philosophy and semiotics beatles and semiotics beatles and text music and semiotics musical semiotics