The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. Based on the premise that both popular and classical music are structured within the common practice tonal language, this study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments in contemporary art music."Expanded approaches" for popular music analysis is broadly defined as any compositional, analytical, or theoretical concept outside the domain of common practice tonality that shapes the pitch-class structures, form, timbre, rhythm, or aesthetics of various forms of popular music. The essays in this collection investigate a variety of analytical, theoretical, historical, and aesthetic commonalities popular music shares with 20th and 21st century art music. From rock and pop to hip hop and rap, dance and electronica, from the 1930s to present day, this companion explores these connections in five parts: Establishing and Expanding Analytical FrameworksTechnology and TimbreRhythm, Pitch, and HarmonyForm and StructureCritical Frameworks: Analytical, Formal, Structural, and PoliticalWith contributions by established scholars and promising emerging scholars in music theory and historical musicology from North America, Europe, and Australia, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches offers nuanced and detailed perspectives that address the relationships between concert and popular music.

Ciro Scotto is Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Theory Department at Ohio University, US.Kenneth Smith is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Liverpool, UK.John Brackett is Music Instructor at Vance-Granville Community College, US.