Times A-Changin': Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music

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Nancy Murphy (Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Michigan)

Times A-Changin'

Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music

Nancy Murphy (Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Michigan)

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Oxford University Press Inc
27 December 2023

Folk & traditional music

Series: OXFORD STUDIES IN MUSIC THEORY

In 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter music, some artists used malleable metric settings alongside other features of self-expression in performance. This resulted in songs with extremes of self-expressive timing flexibility that cannot be accounted for using a single conception of meter. This book proposes a theory of flexible meter that recasts metric structure as encompassing the variety of metric scenarios presented by the self-expressive performance practice of singer-songwriters, from metric regularity to metric ambiguity, and vacillations between these two possibilities. Author Nancy Murphy explores performances by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Simon, and Cat Stevens to investigate the individual metric style of each artist and how their flexible metric techniques contribute to the self-expressive rhetoric of the singer-songwriter performance tradition.

By: Nancy Murphy (Assistant Professor of Music Assistant Professor of Music University of Michigan)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 164mm, Width: 243mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 452g
ISBN: 9780197635216
ISBN 10: 0197635210
Series: OXFORD STUDIES IN MUSIC THEORY
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 27 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Abstract Table of Contents List of Figures and Captions Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The Self Expressive Rhetoric of Flexible Meter Self-Expressive Features Flexible Meter and ""The Fiddle and the Drum"" Self-Expression and the Singer-Songwriter Expectations for Singer-Songwriter Music Bob Dylan and The Folk Revival Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music Chapter 2: The Theory of Flexible Meter Types of Flexible Meter Regular Meter Reinterpreted Meter Lost Meter Ambiguous Meter Metric Potential Chapter 3: Regular and Reinterpreted Meter Regular Meter Reinterpreted Meter Joni Mitchell's Rhapsodic Sentiments Paul Simon: Reinterpreted Meter Expressing Enigmatic Lyrics Cat Stevens's Introspection A Closer Look: Joni Mitchell's ""Lesson in Survival"" Chapter 4: Self-Expressive Innovations: Lost Meter Bob Dylan's ""Only a Pawn in Their Game"" Cat Stevens's ""Time"" Joni Mitchell's ""Blue"" Chapter 5: Intensifying ""Imperfection"": Ambiguous Meter Bob Dylan's ""Down the Highway"" Bob Dylan's ""Restless Farewell"" Joni Mitchell's ""The Fiddle and the Drum"" Buffy Sainte-Marie's ""Sir Patrick Spens"" Chapter 6: What Happens Next? Self-Expressive Flexible Meter Beyond 1982 Future Singer-Songwriters Buffy Sainte-Marie's ""My Country"" (1966) ""My Country"" (1966, Rainbow Quest) ""My Country"" (2017, Medicine Songs) Conclusion: Flexible Meter as Self-Expression Index"

Nancy Murphy is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, previously teaching at the University of Houston and the University of Chicago. Her research studies singer-songwriter music, metric flexibility, self-expression, vocal production, and transcription. She has published articles and reviews in Music Theory Spectrum, Music Analysis, and Music Theory Online and serves on the editorial boards of Music Theory Online, Indiana Theory, and Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy (Associate Editor). She has reviewed journal submission for multiple peer-reviewed publications including Music Theory Spectrum, Popular Music, Music Theory Online, Analytical Approaches to World Music, Engaging Students, and Indiana Theory Review.