Supplemental Information: Episode 6
1.6 - The Inside of the Tune: Analyzing the Bridge in Pop
Elizabeth Newton (Independent Scholar) & Franklin Bruno (SUNY Purchase)
Release Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022
Producer: David Thurmaier.
Music Credits:
SMT-Pod Theme music by Zhangcheng Lu;
Closing music "hnna" by David Voss.
This episode appears in 2 Parts.
Bio: Elizabeth Newton is a writer, editor, and musicologist whose research focuses on the intellectual history of poetry, song, recordings, and writing about music. She holds degrees in musicology from Indiana University and the CUNY Graduate Center. Visit her website at musicalwork.info.
Bio: Franklin Bruno is an interdisciplinary writer working at the intersection of philosophy, musicology, and cultural criticism. He is the author of a monograph of Elvis Costello’s album Armed Forces (Bloomsbury, 33 1/3 series) and the poetry collection The Accordion Repertoire (Edge Books). His scholarly and critical writing on music has appeared in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Popular Music and Society, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Nation, Oxford American, and two installments of Best Music Writing (Da Capo). As a musician and songwriter, he has released 20 albums as a solo artist and leader of Nothing Painted Blue and, currently, The Human Hearts; and has written, recorded, and/or performed with The Mountain Goats, Laura Cantrell, Jenny Toomey, and the Schramms. He is currently writing The Inside of the Tune: The Bridge in Pop from “St. Louis Blues” to “Single Ladies” for Wesleyan University Press.
Keywords: Bridge, popular music, song form, songwriting, music theory, popular musicology
Part 1 Keywords: Taylor Swift, Smokey Robinson
Part 2 Keywords: Hank Williams, Bessie Smith, Fats Waller, Marion Harris, Adorno