Sounding out pop : analytical essays in popular music /

Table of Contents: “…Leiber and Stoller, the Coasters, and the "dramatic AABA" form / John Covach -- "Only the lonely" : Roy Orbison's sweet West Texas style / Albin Zak -- Ego and alter ego : artistic interaction between Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn / James Grier -- Marvin Gaye as vocal composer / Andrew Flory -- A study of maximally smooth voice leading in the mid-1970s music of Genesis / Kevin Holm-Hudson -- "Reggatta de blanc" : analyzing style in the music of the Police / Mark Spicer -- Vocal authority and listener engagement : musical and narrative expressive strategies in the songs of female pop-rock artists, 1993-95 / Lori Burns -- Recombinant style topics : the past and future of sampling / Rebecca Leydon -- "I'm not here, this isn't happening" : the vanishing subject in Radiohead's Kid A / Marianne Tatom Letts.…”

Ducktails, drive-ins, and broken hearts : an unsweetened look at '50s music / by Davis, Hank, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Chuck Miller : fryers, broilers, and the House of Blue Lights ; Huelyn Duvall : close but no cigar ; Eddy Bell : his alter ego became a star ; Sherry Crane : a parakeet visits 706 Union Avenue ; Ben Hewitt : the best known unknown ; Joey Riesenberg : the scrapyard drummer ; Troy Shondell : the early years of a one-hit wonder ; Carl Mann : that "Mona Lisa" boy -- Part III: Chasing the story. …”