“Total Trash”

Research Article| December 04 2018 “Total Trash”: Analysis and Post Punk Music Theo Cateforis Theo Cateforis Syracuse University; e-mail: tpcatefo@syr.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2018) 30 (4): 95–112. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2018.300406 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Theo Cateforis; “Total Trash”: Analysis and Post Punk Music. Journal of Popular Music Studies 4 December 2018; 30 (4): 95–112. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2018.300406 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search Analysis and rock music: are they incompatible? Is popular music criticism’s analytic methodology ill-equipped for its own purposes? In the above passage, Paul Clarke complains that modes of inquiry developed for the analysis of western art music, focusing upon the text and the musical ‘score,’ are inappropriate for the analysis of rock music. He believes rock analysts wrongly attempt to fit the music within a narrow, established template. A more profitable approach, he suggests, would evaluate the music “not on any one aural strand - lyrical, musical or vocal - but on the complex of created relationships between sounds as they act on us through time.” Clarke’s analysis would represent a composite set of interests. His insights would emerge from his own interpretive experience as well as from a technical understanding of the music. His observations would be less confined by preexisting prescriptive or circumscribed guidelines. Instead, Clarke suggests that... You do not currently have access to this content.