A new philosophy of songwriting cakes, constellations, and other obtuse metaphors to help your practice / Andy Ward and Briony Luttrell.
| Author/creator | Ward, Andy |
| Other author | Luttrell, Briony. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024] |
| Description | xiii, 145 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Let us tell you a story -- Songs, stories, and how they come together -- Tension and release: music and stories -- Listening as multimodal act: the cake metaphor -- Multimodal narrative songwriting: a model for praxis (cakes and constellations) -- Is that egg on our faces? It's probably from all the cake making. |
| Abstract | "Songs, pervasive sonic ephemeral acts that combine words and music, live in a contemporary world of commercialization as commodity. Flowing through our everyday lives as a given and oft-underacknowledged artifact to accompany our shopping, car trips, date nights, and gym days. Yet songs have a history as long as humanity and language. They hold a place, up until recently in our evolution, as an oral history library of the human species. Why then is there limited scholarship about how songs tell stories, and the ways in which those stories come together with sounds? And why is there a disconnect between songwriting as industrial practice and academic thought? A New Philosophy of Songwriting argues that all songwriting choices are storytelling choices and asks the question: how can we think about Song as one of the most memorable, potent, multimodal, and portable storytelling devices ever devised? In doing so, Andy Ward and Briony Luttrell make the case for rethinking the analysis of songs and practice of songwriting with an emphasis on listening. This is a book for songwriters, scholars, and song lovers alike. Ultimately, the authors challenge contemporary thinking on music and song itself and argue for a new theorisation of song as a multimodal storytelling sonic act."--Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-141) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024941154 |
| ISBN | 9781666931679 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1666931675 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Stock number | 31315445 Proquest Ebook Central |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |