Murphy, Nancy - Times A-Changin'

How did emerging singer-songwriters in the 1960s and 1970s develop traditions for musical self-expression? This book takes a new listen to the music of beloved songwriters Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Simon, and Cat Stevens to show how they used malleable metric settings as an important part of their self-expressive toolkit in performance.

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CONTENTS

Abstract
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Captions
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The Self Expressive Rhetoric of Flexible Meter
Self-Expressive Features
Flexible Meter and The Fiddle and the Drum
Self-Expression and the Singer-Songwriter
Expectations for Singer-Songwriter Music
Bob Dylan and The Folk Revival
Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music
Chapter 2: The Theory of Flexible Meter
Types of Flexible Meter
Regular Meter
Reinterpreted Meter
Lost Meter
Ambiguous Meter
Metric Potential
Chapter 3: Regular and Reinterpreted Meter
Regular Meter
Reinterpreted Meter
Joni Mitchell's Rhapsodic Sentiments
Paul Simon: Reinterpreted Meter Expressing Enigmatic Lyrics
Cat Stevens's Introspection
A Closer Look: Joni Mitchell's Lesson in Survival
Chapter 4: Self-Expressive Innovations: Lost Meter
Bob Dylan's Only a Pawn in Their Game
Cat Stevens's Time
Joni Mitchell's Blue
Chapter 5: Intensifying Imperfection: Ambiguous Meter
Bob Dylan's Down the Highway
Bob Dylan's Restless Farewell
Joni Mitchell's The Fiddle and the Drum
Buffy Sainte-Marie's Sir Patrick Spens
Chapter 6: What Happens Next? Self-Expressive Flexible Meter
Beyond 1982
Future Singer-Songwriters
Buffy Sainte-Marie's My Country (1966)
My Country (1966, Rainbow Quest)
My Country (2017, Medicine Songs)
Conclusion: Flexible Meter as Self-Expression
Index

Series	Oxford Studies in Music Theory