From Me To You

Dynamic Discourse in Popular Music

Bibliographic Data

ID4390950
AuthorsMatthew L Baileyshea (Eastman School of Music), Matthew Baileyshea (Eastman Chemical Company (Germany), corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume20
Issue4
Publication date2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMusic Theory Online (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1067-3040 • E-ISSN: 1067-3040
PublisherSociety for Music Theory (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.30535/mto.20.4.1
OpenAlexW1491404553
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited21

Scholars have long recognized the complexities of song personas in popular music. Less well recognized is the way that the deployment of pronouns in pop song lyrics can create sudden shifts in the various currents of musical meaning. Although songs often commit to a single point of view, it is quite common for songs to feature complex shifts in discourse, sometimes aligned with important changes in the music. This paper addresses an especially important pattern, a shift from distance to intimacy

Aesthetics · Art · Commit · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Lyrics · Musical · Persona · Popular music · Communication · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Mathematics · Music History and Culture · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology

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