[Smt-talk] Paul Simon

[Nicole Biamonte]

Thanks, Jim--actually, I didn't have the Meintjes article.  Here's the
updated list, for anyone else who might be interested:


Bennighof, James.  “Fluidity in Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’: On Text and Music
in a Popular Song.”  *College Music Symposium* 33-34 (1993): 212-236.

Bennighof, James.  *The Words and Music of Paul Simon.*  Praeger, 2007.

Everett, Walter.  “Swallowed by a Song: Paul Simon's Crisis of
Chromaticism.”  *Understanding Rock,* ed. John Covach and Graeme M. Boone,
113-153.  Oxford University Press, 1997.

Kaminsky, Peter.  “The Popular Album as Song Cycle: Paul Simon’s *Still
Crazy After All These Years*.” *College Music Symposium* 32 (1992): 38–54.

Luftig, Stacey, ed.  *The Paul Simon Companion: Four Decades of Commentary.
*Schirmer, 1997.

Meintjes, Louise.  “Paul Simon's Graceland, South Africa, and the Mediation
of Musical Meaning,” *Ethnomusicology* 34.1 (1990): 37-73.

Perone, James E.  *Paul Simon: A Bio-Bibliography.*  Greenwood Press, 2000.

I've been looking for the complete citation for Anna Stephan-Robinson's
dissertation, but haven't been able to find it.  Can anyone provide the
exact title and year?

Thanks all,
Nicole

Nicole Biamonte
Assistant Professor of Music Theory
University of Iowa
nicole-biamonte at uiowa.edu
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Bennighof, James <
James_Bennighof at baylor.edu> wrote:

> The bibliography that Nicole mentions contains all the published analytical
> work on Simon of which I'm aware, except for Anna Stephan-Robinson's
> dissertation.
>
> My book, as requested by the publisher to conform to others of a
> "singer-songwriter" series, surveys all of Simon's songs that he recorded on
> his studio albums, offering an analysis of each as the various facets of the
> music interact with the lyrics.  The analyses average about 500 words
> apiece, and are intended to be fairly comprehensible to non-music-theorists
> who have some musical background (I gave myself a bit of leeway by including
> mini-primers on musical terminology, chord structure, and "The Musical
> Languages of Paul Simon").  The publisher describes these as "narrative
> reference" books (expecting that, although they're presented in normal
> chapter format, people will commonly dip into them to find discussions of
> particular songs and albums, rather than necessarily reading them from front
> to back), and intended them to be marketed most primarily to public
> libraries and academic libraries (the selling point is that these books talk
> about the work of the singer-songwrite
>  rs, rather than primarily about their lives and careers).  I haven't
> looked at the other books in the series, except for a couple of excerpts,
> but was told when mine appeared as the eighth that it contained the most
> technical musical discussions up to that point (which may say more about the
> others than about mine).  I think there are now about seventeen out or in
> press (others listed in the bibliography are on Stevie Wonder (by the series
> editor, James Perone, who also did a Paul Simon bio-bibliography that's
> listed there) and Frank Zappa.
>
> --Jim Bennighof
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> ________________________________
> From: "Eric C. Lai" <Eric_Lai at baylor.edu>
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:48:08 -0600
> To: "Haag, Daniel" <dhaag at butler.edu>, <smt-talk at societymusictheory.org>
> Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] Paul Simon
>
> Hi Dan,  My colleague James Bennighof has published a book: The Words and
> Music of Paul Simon (Praeger, 2007).  Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Eric Lai
> Associate Professor of Music Theory
> School of Music
> Baylor University
> One Bear Place #97408
> Waco, TX 76798-7408
> E-mail: eric_lai at baylor.edu
> Phone: 254-710-2360
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>
>
>
> On 11/4/09 7:37 AM, "Haag, Daniel" <dhaag at butler.edu> wrote:Haag, Daniel
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I'm interested in doing some analysis of the music of Paul Simon, with
> particular emphasis on the evolution of his compositional style over time.
>  First, does anyone know of any theoretical analysis of his music that has
> been done, or any bibliographic suggestions (particularly of sources from
> 2000 or later)?  Second, has anyone done theoretical analysis of pop music
> that can offer suggestions on methodology?  I appreciate it!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dan Haag
> Graduate student, Butler University
> Indianapolis, IN
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