Times a-changin' : flexible meter as self-expression in singer-songwriter music /

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and index.The self expressive rhetoric of flexible meter -- The theory of flexible meter -- Regular and reinterpreted meter -- Self-expressive innovations : Lost meter -- Intensifying "imperfection" : Ambiguous meter -- What happens next to self-expressive flexible meter?"In 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter music, some artists used malleable metric settings alongside other features of self-expression in performance. This resulted in songs with extremes of self-expressive timing flexibility that cannot be accounted for using a single conception of meter. This book proposes a theory of flexible meter that recasts metric structure as encompassing the variety of metric scenarios presented by the self-expressive performance practice of singer-songwriters, from metric regularity to metric ambiguity, and vacillations between these two possibilities. Author Nancy Murphy explores performances by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Simon, and Cat Stevens to investigate the individual metric style of each artist and how their flexible metric techniques contribute to the self-expressive rhetoric of the singer-songwriter performance tradition."--