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The first book-length study of one of the most essential elements of hip-hop: musical borrowing

It's long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? Written by an award-winning popular music scholar, this book argues that aesthetic value is just as important in popular listening as it is with ""serious"" music.

Among other topics, individual chapters of the book focus on the redefinition of German identity in the music of Kraftwerk, Can, and Neu!; on community and conflict in the music of Amon Duul, Faust, and Ton Steine Scherben; on "cosmic music" and New Age; and on Donna Summer's and David Bowie's connections to Germany.

Opens new territory in the study of Motown's legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit's postwar black middle class; and that Motown's creative personnel participated in an African-American tradition of dialogism in rhythm and blues while developing the famous ""Motown Sound"".

Offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and salient harmonic-progression classes, or harmonic schemas.

Offers a study of creativity in the context of expert popular music instrumental performance. Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the creative behaviors of a specific subset of popular music instrumentalists, Bill Bruford demonstrates the ways in which expert drummers experience creativity in music performance.

Within popular music there are entire genres, styles, techniques, and practices that rely heavily on musical intertextuality and references between music of different styles and genres. This interdisciplinary collection of essays covers a wide range of musical styles and artists to investigate intertextuality - the shaping of one text by another - in popular music.

The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group's oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly volume to explore this seminal recording at length.

How and why have pop music aesthetics been co-opted to benefit corporate branding? What effect have Pepsi's music marketing practices in particular had on other brands, the advertising industry, and popular music itself? Soda Goes Pop investigates these and other questions around the relationships between popular music and advertising.

Offers the first thorough accounting of collegiate a cappella's history and reveals how the critical issues of sociability, gender, performance, and technology affect its music and experience. Just as importantly, Duchan provides a vital contribution to music scholarship more broadly.