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Words and music into the future : a songwriting treatise & manifesto / Michael Koppy.
LIBRA ML3470 .K67 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koppy, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Songs--Texts--History and criticism.
- Songs.
- Lyric writing (Popular music)--History and criticism.
- Lyric writing (Popular music).
- Popular music--Criticism and interpretation.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--History and criticism.
- Popular culture--History.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Texts.
- Physical Description:
- 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Songwriting treatise and manifesto
- Place of Publication:
- West Hollywood, CA : Good Track Records, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Literary criticism, songwriting analysis, and cultural commentary, 'Words and Music into the Future' is an uncompromising examination of the current state of popular songs and songwriting in the English-speaking world. Devoid of hero worship and celebrity gossip, using mostly well-known songs from recent decades as examples, Michael Koppy presents a compelling case that we listeners have been force-fed a steady diet of industry illiteracy, and that the time has come for songwriting and song criticism to rise to greater heights."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Treatise. Distractions, diversions, deceptions
- On performance and genre
- Manifesto. Lyrics
- Music & production
- Structure
- Toward a new songwriting.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780996640022
- 0996640029
- OCLC:
- 1109726976
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