{"product_id":"times-a-changin-flexible-meter-as-self-expression-in-singer-songwriter-music-9780197635216","title":"Times A-Changin': Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nancy Murphy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Folk \u0026amp; Traditional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter music, some artists used malleable metric settings alongside other features of self-expression in performance. This resulted in songs with extremes of self-expressive timing flexibility that cannot be accounted for using a single conception of meter. This book proposes a theory of flexible meter that recasts metric structure as encompassing the variety of metric scenarios presented by the self-expressive performance practice of singer-songwriters, from metric regularity to metric ambiguity, and vacillations between these two possibilities. Author Nancy Murphy explores performances by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Simon, and Cat Stevens to investigate the individual metric style of each artist and how their flexible metric techniques contribute to the self-expressive rhetoric of the singer-songwriter performance tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47779536863383,"sku":"9780197635216","price":10106.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780197635216.webp?v=1778037295","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/times-a-changin-flexible-meter-as-self-expression-in-singer-songwriter-music-9780197635216","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}