Pop Music : Technology and Creativity - Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution (Paperback)

Pop music: Characteristics of pop music; Pop and rock; Pop as a format - the single; Short and sweet; The art of the familiar; Simplicity and repetition; Round and round, like a record; Machine aesthetics; Pop and television; Pop and commerce; Pop and fashion; Let's dance; Image; Mixed media. The production of pop music - An aural art: The recording studio as resource; From analogue to digital; Using technology; Multitrack recording; Signal processing; MIDI sequencing; Sound synthesis and sampling; Recording the voice; The fade-out. The record producer: Technology and creativity - Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles; The ghost in the machine; Music; Lyrics; Production and arrangement; Disco killed the radio star; Buffalo Gals by Malcolm McLaren - A charismatic manager; From manager to artist; Applied cultural theory; The anthropological connection; Stylistic collage; Buffalo Gals; Structure; Timbre; Half-heard words; Owner of a Lonely Heart by Yes - Yes, from prog. rock to chart pop; 90125; A new image; Live/recorded; Chart pop music; Owner of a lonely heart. Form: repetition and suspension; Timbre and gesture; The artificial guitar; The multitracked vocal; Machine drums. Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Zang Tuum Tumb; Another band from Liverpool; The image; Too much, too young?; The making of Relax; Remix, re-use it; Banned; The sound of Relax; A novel approach to musical form; What's the hook?; Repetition in Relax; Who's afraid of the Art of Noise?: What's in a name?; Who's afraid of the Art of Noise?; Cover imagery; Sampling; Recording records; Listening to samples; Sampling and the Art of Noise; Studio made; Timbre; Space; Jewel, Duel and Jewelled by Propaganda: Recordings revisited; Propaganda; A Secret Wish: pretentious packaging; From engineer to producer; The music of A Secret Wish. Jewel/Duel/Jewelled: Jewel/Duel/Jewelled - the structure; Jewel/Duel/Jewelled - the sound; Technology and Propaganda; Slave to the Rhythm by Grace Jones: Slave to the fashion; Slave to the image; Slave to the cliche; Slave to the Rhythm; Re-written by machine; Concerto for Synclavier; Slave to the sampler; Space; Spatial orchestration; Words; Slave to the remix; Conclusion. Appendices Interview with Trevor Horn; Trevor Horn discography.