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Listening for form in popular music
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This free course was written by Adam White and Byron Dueck.

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Figure 3: The Ronettes performing at the London Palladium, 1964. Photo: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy.

Figure 4: The Imperial State Prison Farm, Sugar Land, c.1908. Photo: Taken from Wikimedia, Texas Prison Museum/Public Domain.

Figure 5: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee performing at Lincoln Folk Festival, 1971. Photo: Estate Of Keith Morris/Redferns/Getty Images.

Figure 6: Walter Crane, ‘Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes’, colour lithograph, song illustration from Pan-Pipes, A Book of Old Songs, Newly Arranged and with Accompaniments by Theo. Marzials, London, George Routledge & Sons, 1884. Photo: Prismatic Pictures/Bridgeman Images.

Figure 7: Fine Young Cannibals in performance, 1987. Photo: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy.

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Figure 10: Robyn performing at Carling Academy, Bristol, 2008. Photo: Lebrecht Music and Arts/Alamy.

Figure 11: The Nat King Cole Trio. Photo: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy.

Figure 12: Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh in performance, 1998. Photo: Al Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images.

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Text

‘Be My Baby’: Words and Music by Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry. Copyright © 1963 (Renewed 1991) TRIO MUSIC COMPANY, UNIVERSAL – SONGS OF POLYGRAM INTERNATIONAL, INC. and MOTHER BERTHA MUSIC, INC.

‘Midnight Special’: Traditional Folk Song.

‘Suspicious Minds’: Lyrics by Mark James/Francis Zambon. Copyright © 1968 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. Copyright Renewed.

‘Hang With Me’: Words and Music by Klas Åhlund. Copyright © 2002 Madhouse Music AB, Sweden. Universal Music Publishing Group.

‘It’s Only A Paper Moon’: Lyrics by Billy Rose and E.Y. “Yip” Harburg. Music by Harold Arlen. Copyright © 1933 (Renewed) Chappell & Co., Inc., GLOCCA MORRA MUSIC and S.A. MUSIC CO.

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