The Musical Language of Rock

In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form, and emotional expression. This resource puts forth a new, comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of rock music by addressing each of these aspects. The author brings together a conventional music-analytic approach with statistical corpus analysis to offer an innovative and insightful approach to the genre. The book includes many musical examples, with sound clips available on the book's website. The Musical Language of Rock presents new insights on the powerful musical mechanisms which have made rock a hallmark of our contemporary musical landscape.