Part 1: Establishing and Expanding Analytical Frameworks / 1. Some Practical Issues in the Aesthetic Analysis of Popular Music (Christopher Doll) / 2. Style as Analysis (Phil Ford) / 3. Thank You for the Music (Giles Hooper) / 4. Listening to the Sound Music Makes (Allan F. Moore) / 5. Analyse This: Types and Tactics of Self-Referential Songs (Bethany Lowe with Freya Jarman) / 6. A-ha's "Take on Me": Melody, Vocal Compulsion and Rotoscoping (Stan Hawkins and Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik) / 7. Interpreting Transmedia and Multimodal Narratives: Steven Wilson's 'The Raven That Refused to Sing' (Lori Burns) / Part 2: Technology and Timbre / 8. Analysing the Product of Recorded Musical Activity (Simon Zagorski-Thomas) / 9. The Production of Timbre: Analyzing the Sonic Signatures of Tool's Ænima (1996) (Kevin Osborn and Brad Osborn) / 10. "What Music Isn't Ambient in the 21st Century?": A Design-Oriented Approach to Analyzing and Interpreting Ambient Music Recordings (Victor Szabo) / 11. Electronically-Modified Voices as Expressing the (Post)Human Condition in Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (2013) (Jane Piper Clendinning) / Part 3: Rhythm, Pitch, and Harmony / 12. Pulse as Dynamic Attending: Analysing Beat Bin Metre in Neo Soul Grooves (Anne Danielsen) / 13. Rhythmic Functions in Pop-Rock Music (Nicole Biamonte) / 14. The Aesthetics of Drone (Jonathan W. Bernard) / 15. A Tonal Axis to Grind: The Central Dyad in Sonic Youth's Divergent Textures (David Heetderks) / 16. Chromatic Linear Progressions in Popular Music (Neil Newton) / 17. System 7 (Ciro Scotto) / 18. Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Toccata" and the Cyborg Essence of Alberto Gianastera (Kevin Holm-Hudson) / Part 4: Form and Structure / 19. Yes, the Psychedelic-Symphonic Cover, and "Every Little Thing (John Covach) / 20. 'Silence in the Studio!' Collage as Retransition in Pink Floyd's 'Atom Heart Mother Suite' (Shaugn O'Donnell) / 21. "Weed Crumbles into Glitter": Representing a Marijuana High in Frank Ocean's Blonde (John Brackett) / 22. Form and Time in Trout Mask Replica (Peter Silberman) / Part 5: Critical Frameworks: Analytical, Formal, Structural, and Political / 23. New Music in a Borderless World (Marianna Ritchey) / 24. Here Lies Love and the Politics of Disco-Opera (Áine Mangaoang) / 25. The Love Detective: Cybernetic Cycles and the Mysteries of Desire in Arab Strap (Stephen Overy and Kenneth Smith) / 26. Unending Eruptions: White-Collar Metal Appropriations of Classical Complexity, Experimentation, Elitism, and Cultural Legitimization (Eric Smialek and Méi-Ra St-Laurent) / 27. Hearing Postmemory: Anne Frank in Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane over the Sea (Michael Spitzer) / 28. "Poet-Composers": Art and Legitimacy in the Singer-Songwriter Movement (Christa Bentley)