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An analysis of Neil Young's ‘Powderfinger’ based on Mark Johnson's image schemata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

William Echard
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The analysis presented in this paper is one result of my interest in embodiment, and its potential role in the semiotic analysis of popular music. In cultural studies and symbolic anthropology, theorists often read the body as a carrier of codes, a surface for the inscription and negotiation of meaning. In popular music studies, this viewpoint often appears in fairly simple ways, and it also sometimes appears in a more subtle fashion. Richard Middleton, for example, considers the body both as a code-bearing surface, and as the ground for musical feeling, exploring how embodied experiences generate and interact with other levels of code (Middleton 1990, 1993). Similar things are done by Frith (1996), Walser (1993), Brackett 1995), and others.

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Popular Music , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 133 - 144
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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