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1. Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration
by Brothers, Thomas
2018
ethnomusicology | Ellington, Duke | rock and roll song | creative process | United States | jazz song | collaboration | Beatles | folk music | jazz music | rock and roll music
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2. Everything in Its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead
by Osborn, Brad
2017
ethnomusicology | Radiohead (musical group) | rock and roll song | folk music | England | rock and roll music
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3. Forever Stardust: David Bowie across the Universe
by Brooker, Will
2017
rock and roll song | Bowie, David | dramatic arts | folk poetry | England | folk song | film | rock and roll music | folk literature
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4. Louie Louie
: the history and mythology of the world's most famous rock 'n' roll song ...
by Marsh, Dave
1993, 1st ed., ISBN 1562828657, x, 245 p., [8] leaves of plates
History and criticism | Rock music | Berry, Richard, 1935- Louie Louie
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5. The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
by Marcus, Greil
2014
rock and roll song | United States | folk poetry | England | folk song | folk literature
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6. Humorists vs. Religion: Critical Voices from Mark Twain to Neil DeGrasse Tyson
by Ellis, Iain
2018
rock and roll song | 1800-2099 | United States | religious beliefs | parody | folk poetry | film | 1900-1999 | European literature | Russia | British and Irish literatures | humor | dramatic arts | folk song | satire | folk literature | American literature | television and video
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7. Full Text Big Mama Thornton, Little Richard, and the Queer Roots of Rock 'n' Roll
by Steptoe, Tyina
American Quarterly, ISSN 0003-0678, 2018, Volume 70, Issue 1, pp. 55 - 77
This essay uses two musicians, Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton and Richard "Little Richard" Penniman, to add a focus on queerness and the sociopolitical climate... 
1932 | United States | Gay musicians | Homosexuality and popular music | Thornton, Big Mama | Gays and rock music | Little Richard | HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | rock and roll song | rhythm and blues song | gender | race | Thornton, Willie Mae | folk poetry | folk song | rock and roll music | folk literature | nonconformity | Musicians & conductors | Homosexuality | War | Rhythm | LGBTQ studies | Civil rights movement | Social history | Cold War | Historiography | Black Power movement | Political activism | Focus | Music | Sexuality | Race | Rock music | Politics | World War II
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8. Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation
by Olsson, Ulf
2017
ethnomusicology | Grateful Dead (musical group) | rock and roll song | United States | folk music | rock and roll music | sociopolitical context | improvisation | counterculture
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9. Full Text Zombie birdhouse on the occasion of the dada centenary
by Golden, Mason
Raritan, ISSN 0275-1607, 06/2018, Volume 38, Issue 1, pp. 46 - 56
rock and roll song | United States | folk poetry | Dada | folk song | 1900-1999 | Pop, Iggy | folk literature | Zombie Birdhouse | European literature
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10. Full Text ‘I wanna be a Rock Star!’ Lyrical Communication in Self-Referential Rock Songs
by Fischer, Pascal
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, ISSN 0044-2305, 11/2016, Volume 64, Issue 3, pp. 335 - 351
The article uses insights into lyrical communication for an analysis of the lyrics of three popular rock songs: Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” (1985),... 
LITERATURE | rock and roll song | self-reference | United States | folk poetry | England | folk song | Australia | folk literature
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11. Full Text 'Moving past the feeling': Emotion in Arcade Fire's Funeral
by Spitzer, Michael
Popular Music, ISSN 0261-1430, 05/2017, Volume 36, Issue 2, pp. 252 - 282
AbstractThis article focuses on Arcade Fire's 2004 first album, Funeral. It is analytical in orientation, offering close (analytical) readings of Funeral's 10... 
rock and roll song | Canada | Arcade Fire (musical group) | emotions | folk poetry | folk song | rock and roll music | folk literature | Analysis | Emotions
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12. Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2
2018
Wordsworth, William | rock and roll song | United States | English literature | folk poetry | England | 1800-1899 | Canada | Blake, William | 1700-1799 | Romantic period | folk song | rock and roll music | folk literature | poetry
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13. The Who and Pop Art: The Simple Things You See Are All Complicated
by Stanfield, Peter
Journal of Popular Music Studies, ISSN 1533-1598, 2017, Volume 29, Issue 1
rock and roll song | folk poetry | England | folk song | pop art | Who (musical group) | rock and roll music | folk literature
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14. On Beatles Time
by Savoye, Daniel Ferreras
Popular Culture Review, ISSN 1060-8125, 2016, Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 68
rock and roll song | Beatles | folk poetry | England | folk song | rock and roll music | folk literature
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15. In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen
by Pardini, Samuele F. S
2017
African American writers | rock and roll song | Italian American writers | United States | film genres | folk poetry | film | gangster film | 1800-1999 | racial difference | intellectual life | dramatic arts | folk song | folk literature | American literature
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16. Full Text ‘I Have a Crush on Your Skeleton’: Ecophobia, the Blues, and Captain Beefheart's Lewd(ic) Ecology
by João Paulo Guimarães
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, ISSN 1524-8429, 9/2018, Volume 20, Issue 3, pp. 385 - 406
In this article, I show that, tactfully aware of the artificiality of the gender norms that inform the logic of desire and devilish violence of the blues,... 
1960s utopianism | Speculative realism | The Abject | Umwelt | Ecofeminism | Humor | The Blues | rock and roll song | ecocritical approach | Captain Beefheart | sexuality | United States | nature | folk poetry | folk song | masculinity | rock and roll music | folk literature | blues song
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17. Full Text A corpus analysis of rock harmony
by de Clercq, Trevor and Temperley, David
Popular Music, ISSN 0261-1430, 1/2011, Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 47 - 70
In this study, we report a corpus analysis of rock harmony. As a corpus, we used Rolling Stone magazine's list of the '500 Greatest Songs of All Time'; we took... 
Musical intervals | Minor chords | Tonal theory | Major chords | Tonal centrism | Rock music | Roman numerals | Contrapuntal motion | Tonal harmony | Musical chords | MUSIC | rock and roll song | harmony | corpus analysis | United States | folk poetry | folk song | rock and roll music | folk literature | Usage | Mathematical statistics | Analysis | Music history | Statistical analysis | Musicology | Corpus analysis
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18. Straddling the Crystal Frontier: Reworkings of the U.S.-Mexican Border in the Lyrics of Calexico
by Engelschalt, Julia
forum for inter-american research, ISSN 1867-1519, 2018, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 34
rock and roll song | Mexico-United States border | alternative song | United States | Tucson | 2000-2099 | Calexico (musical group) | folk poetry | folk song | folk literature | Arizona | hybridity
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19. Full Text Slanted beats, enchanted communities: Pavement's early phrase rhythm as indie narrative
by Heetderks, David
Popular Music, ISSN 0261-1430, 05/2017, Volume 36, Issue 2, pp. 216 - 232
Previous studies of indie music from the 1980s and 1990s have noted that it uses a number of stylistic markers - involving production values, singing style... 
POPULAR-MUSIC | ROCK-MUSIC | MUSIC | AESTHETICS | POLITICS | rock and roll song | United States | Pavement (musical group) | folk poetry | folk song | style | rock and roll music | folk literature | Rhythm | Analysis | Case studies | Bands | Songwriters | Cues/Cueing | Singing | Narratives | Music | Rock music
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20. Good Vibrations: Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in Critical Perspective
2016
Beach Boys | rock and roll song | United States | Wilson, Brian | folk poetry | folk song | rock and roll music | folk literature
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