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Convocation – “Hidden Harmonies in the Hot 100”
October 22, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dr. Thomas Robinson
The pop music charts are regularly derided as emblems of commercial homogeneity, when in fact they are weekly displays of astonishing harmonic diversity. This lecture walks through ten decades of popular music, looking beneath the veneer of transient and superficial stylistic conventions to reveal the melodic, scalar, and harmonic-syntactical innovations in songs sitting side by side.