Musical Emergence in Björk's Medúlla
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11498574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria Malawey (0009-0006-9697-3406, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 136 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141-180 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Musical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-0403 • E-ISSN: 1471-6933 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02690403.2011.562717 |
| OpenAlex | W2024026351 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Björk's 2004 album Medúlla offers listeners radical and new combinations of vocal sounds in pop music. The album features emergent processes ranging from textural emergence, as in standard pop-rock formulas for song introductions, to less common emergent and transformative processes involving metrical, tonal, motivic and phrasal structure. When such processes involving different parameters are combined, other (non-emergent) processes recede to the background, and the effect of emergence assumes a fundamental role over the course of the composition as a whole. Recognizing emergent processes opens up connections with song lyrics and possibly also extra-musical narratives which can enrich our analytical understanding and ultimately our listening experiences of these songs. Furthermore, Medúlla models ways in which other contemporary songwriters could develop sophisticated emergent processes that disturb conventional understandings of popular music as simplistic and formulaic
Active listening · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Lyrics · Musical · Musical form · Narrative · Transformative learning · Communication · Music History and Culture · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |