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  • Formal Functions and Rotations in Top-40 EDM

    Author(s):
    Brad Osborn (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Music theory, Popular music, Musical form, Electronic dance music
    Item Type:
    Article

  • The Subdominant Tritone in Film and Television Music

    Author(s):
    Brad Osborn (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Popular music, Motion picture music, Music theory, Harmony
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    film music

  • Triangulating Timbre in Sigur Rós's Iceland

    Author(s):
    David K. Blake, Brad Osborn (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Tone color (Music), Iceland, Music theory, Ecomusicology, Film criticism--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    timbre, sigur ros

  • The Internet of Musical Stuff (IoMuSt): ubimus perspectives on artificial scarcity, virtual communities and (de)objectification

    Author(s):
    Marcello Messina (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Music and technology
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    ubimus, NFTs, Internet of Musical Stuff, (de)objectification

  • Timbre, Rhythm, and Texture within Music Theory’s White Racial Frame

    Author(s):
    Megan Lavengood (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Music theory, Musicology, Electronic dance music, Popular music
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Roland TR-909, analysis, percussion, drum machines, Jeff Mills, Popular Music Studies

  • AMS Preliminary Program

    Author(s):
    Melia Wong (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Digital Art History, Global & Transnational Studies, MusicID Community, Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Ethnomusicology, Music, History, Musicology, Music theory
    Item Type:
    Conference poster
    Tag(s):
    Music history

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis. Edited by Lori A. Burns and Stan Hawkins. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. 464 pp. ISBN 9781501342332.

    Author(s):
    Brad Osborn (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Music, Musical analysis, Culture, Music theory, Musicology
    Item Type:
    Book review
    Tag(s):
    music video, Cultural musicology, Digital musicology, Film studies

  • Resistance Gazes in Recent Music Videos

    Author(s):
    Brad Osborn (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Motion picture music, Culture--Study and teaching, Mass media--Study and teaching, Music theory, Popular music
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    music video, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Film music, Cultural studies, Media studies, Popular Music Studies

  • Cartridge Music in the Quarantine: Presence, Absence, Contingency Setups and (De-)territorialised Performances

    Author(s):
    Valério Fiel da Costa, Marcello Messina (see profile) , Marco Scarassatti
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Popular music, Sound art, Composition (Music), Music--Performance, Video art
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    John Cage, experimental music, covid-19, quarantine, Contemporary music, Music composition, Music performance, Video arts, Collaboration

  • Editorial: Ubiquitous Music Making in COVID-19 Times

    Author(s):
    Leandro Costalonga, Damián Keller, Marcello Messina (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Computers, Music, Popular music, Culture--Study and teaching, Composition (Music)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Computers and music, Contemporary music, Cultural studies, Music composition

  • Bespoke Music Theory: A Modular Core Curriculum Designed for Audio Engineers, Classical Violinists, and Everyone in Between

    Author(s):
    Megan Lavengood (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Open Music Theory — Instructor Community, Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Jazz Interest Group, Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Teaching, Music theory
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    modular curricula, music theory pedagogy, Pedagogy

  • “The Performer’s Experience: Positional Listening and Positional Analysis,” in G. Borio, G. Gioriani, A. Cecchi, and M. Lutzu, eds. Investigating Music Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections (Routledge, 2020), 56-68.

    Author(s):
    John Covach (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Popular music, Music theory, Music, History
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Popular Music Studies, Music history

  • "Popular Music in the Theory Classroom," in The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, edited by Leigh VanHandel (Routledge, 2020), pp. 331-339.

    Author(s):
    John Covach (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Popular music, Music theory, Music, History
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Popular Music Studies, Music history

  • “Jimmy Miller, the Rolling Stones, and Beggars Banquet,” in “They Call My Name Disturbance”: Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Revolution, edited by Russell Reising (Routledge, 2020), pp. 19-25.

    Author(s):
    John Covach (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Popular music, Music, History, Music theory
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Popular Music Studies, Music history

  • The Frame and The Swerve: Music Video's Relationship to Dance

    Author(s):
    Brad Osborn (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Musical analysis, Music theory, Popular music, Dance
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Lucretius, music video, Music analysis, Popular Music Studies

  • Content and Correlational Analysis of a Corpus of MTV-Promoted Music Videos Aired Between 1990 and 1999

    Author(s):
    Brad Osborn (see profile) , Emily Rossin, Kevin Weingarten
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Musical analysis, Cinematography, Statistics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    music video, 1990s, correlation, Music analysis, Video (history and studio)

  • Risers, Drops, and a Fourteen-Foot Cube: A Transmedia Analysis of Emil Nava, Calvin Harris, and Rihanna's "This is What You Came For"

    Author(s):
    Brad Osborn (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Music theory, Cinematography
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    musical form, Rihanna, Calvin Harris, Emil Nava, music video

  • Timbre, Genre, and Polystylism in Sonic the Hedgehog 3

    Author(s):
    Megan Lavengood (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    American Musicological Society, Game Studies, Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Video games, Music theory, Popular music, Musicology, Video game music, Research
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    sega, synthesizers, sound chips, new wave, michael jackson, Popular Music Studies, Ludomusicology

  • Review of Edward Lippman, A History of Western Musical Aesthetics and John Rahn, ed., Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics, Music Theory Spectrum 17/2 (1995): 275-82.

    Author(s):
    John Covach (see profile)
    Date:
    1995
    Group(s):
    American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics, Music, History, Musicology, Music theory, Art and philosophy
    Item Type:
    Book review
    Tag(s):
    Music history, Philosophy and the arts

  • Review of Alastair Borthwick, Music Theory and Analysis: The Limitations of Logic, MLA Notes (June 1996): 1192-94.

    Author(s):
    John Covach (see profile)
    Date:
    1996
    Group(s):
    American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Musical analysis, Musicology, Music theory, Art and philosophy
    Item Type:
    Book review
    Tag(s):
    Music analysis, Philosophy and the arts

  • Review of Allen Forte, The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950, College Music Symposium 36 (1996): 168-72.

    Author(s):
    John Covach (see profile)
    Date:
    1996
    Group(s):
    American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Musical analysis, Music, History, Musicology, Music theory, Popular music
    Item Type:
    Review
    Tag(s):
    Music analysis, Music history, Popular Music Studies

  • Triple review of Edward Macan, Rockin’ the Classics: Progressive Rock and the Counterculture; Paul Stump, The Music’s All That Matters: A History of Progressive Rock; and Bill Martin, Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-78, MLA Notes (September 1998).

    Author(s):
    John Covach (see profile)
    Date:
    1998
    Group(s):
    American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Music, History, Musicology, Popular music
    Item Type:
    Review
    Tag(s):
    Music history, Popular Music Studies

  • Review of Robert Freeman, The Crisis of Classical Music: Lessons from a Life in the Education of Musicians, Music Theory Online 21/2 (June 2015).

    Author(s):
    John Covach (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory (SMT), Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Music--Instruction and study, Music, History, Musicology, Music theory
    Item Type:
    Review
    Tag(s):
    Music education, Music history

  • "(Per)Form in(g) Rock: A Response"

    Author(s):
    Mark Spicer (see profile)
    Date:
    2011
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    Music theory, Popular music
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Popular Music Studies

  • "Fragile, Emergent, and Absent Tonics in Pop and Rock Songs."

    Author(s):
    Mark Spicer (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group (SMT PMIG)
    Subject(s):
    African Americans--Music, Popular music, Music theory
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    African-American popular music, Popular Music Studies

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About this group

Founded in 1998, the Popular Music Interest Group is dedicated to promoting the scholarly study of popular music through methods including musical analysis and theory. Our goals include:
• Ensuring academic recognition for popular music research
• Encouraging more scholars of music theory to engage popular repertoires
• Encouraging scholars of popular music to make effective use of musical analysis and theory

On our Humanities Commons site, we rely on our members to help edit this resource — this cooperation will help continually improve the presence of popular music in our classrooms and scholarship. Many thanks!

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