{"product_id":"9780197635216","title":"Times A-Changin': Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music","description":"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.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46236811755761,"sku":"9780197635216","price":93.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780197635216","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}