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Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead 1st Edition

by Brad Osborn Ph.D. (Author)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
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More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so radically experimental that it thwarts any learned notions. While averting mainstream trends but still achieving a significant level of success in both US and UK charts, Radiohead's music includes many surprises and subverted expectations, yet remains accessible within a framework of music traditions. In Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead, Brad Osborn reveals the functioning of this reconciliation of extremes in various aspects of Radiohead's music, analyzing the unexpected shifts in song structure, the deformation of standard 4/4 backbeats, the digital manipulation of familiar rock 'n' roll instrumentation, and the expected resolutions of traditional cadence structures.

Expanding on recent work in musical perception, focusing particularly on form, rhythm and meter, timbre, and harmony, Everything in its Right Place treats Radiohead's recordings as rich sonic ecosystems in which a listener participates in an individual search for meaning, bringing along expectations learned from popular music, classical music, or even Radiohead's own compositional idiolect. Radiohead's violations of these subjective expectation-realization chains prompt the listener to search more deeply for meaning within corresponding lyrics, biographical details of the band, or intertextual relationships with music, literature, or film.

Synthesizing insights from a range of new methodologies in the theory of pop and rock, and specifically designed for integration into music theory courses for upper level undergraduates, Everything in its Right Place is sure to find wide readership among scholars and students, as well as avid listeners who seek a deeper understanding of Radiohead's distinctive juxtapositional style.
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    Oxford University Press
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    November 1, 2016
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    English
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"Osborn has given fans the tools to study the music and has given what is probably the most intelligent bunch of musicians to ever sell out an arena their proper critical due."--PopMatters

About the Author

Brad Osborn is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Kansas. His articles on Radiohead and other recent rock music are published in Music Theory Spectrum, Perspectives of New Music, Music Analysis, Music Theory Online, Gamut, and in several edited collections. Brad writes and records atmospheric rock music under the artist moniker, D'Archipelago.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (November 1, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190629231
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190629236
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.1 x 0.7 x 6.1 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 78 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars Over my head but still worth it
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2018
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I’m not a musician and clearly not part of the target audience for this book. But I am a HUGE Radiohead fan, and while much of it was over my head I still learned a lot and gained even more respect for the band and its music. This is not the stuff you’d find in Rolling Stone or other music magazines/websites. The author is definitely not some amateur fan; he knows his stuff and I gained enormous respect for him.

I got the paperback version and for me at least, the best thing about it is it makes a great coffee table book. It certainly dispels any notion that Radiohead is just another rock band. They are truly musical geniuses.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it, though it does help to know some music theory
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2021
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This is an awesome book that certainly increased my respect for and understanding of Radiohead and their music. That said, it does go into some chordal analyses and it does help to have an understanding of music theory, which I do. I highly recommend this book but you should be committed to wanting to better understand the music,
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Patty sandt
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2024
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greg jones
3.0 out of 5 stars Takes the band with sufficient seriousness but it's introduction is ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2018
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Takes the band with sufficient seriousness but it's introduction is highly misleading. Author claims that you need to read music to get something from text. This is absurd. Not only is musical literacy an absolute requirement for large sections of the text, the section on Timbre requires that you have the familiarity with EDM tech that only a professional musician might have. Suffice it to say that I have read texts on string theory that I have gotten more out of than this work.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2019
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Christine Boone
5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal Content, Excellent Organization!
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2017
This is a really great book. It's organized into chapters based on musical characteristics: form, rhythm and meter, timbre, and harmony and voice leading. For that reason, it introduces concepts that can be applied to music by other artists. I'm definitely assigning it as a required text the next time I teach Analysis of Popular Music at the college level.
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C. Young
2.0 out of 5 stars Is this a peer-reviewed journal?
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2021
Oh my God, this guy is so pretentious. I have a doctorate in an unrelated field, and I cannot understand some of the simplest concepts because he goes out of his way to use the biggest words he can find. I think a lot of germs would reject this because it is unnecessarily jargony. If you’re really that insecure that you have to word things like that to share how smart you are, you should not be writing books for the general population.
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Aponys 21
5.0 out of 5 stars The product arrived intact. Nothing to complain about.
Reviewed in Germany on April 13, 2024
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I bought this product as a gift to someone.
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Dimitrios Papageorgiou
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2021
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This is a truly remarkable book. It is one of these things that you can not believe how good it is.
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Eduardo Garcia
5.0 out of 5 stars Para músicos y fans
Reviewed in Mexico on September 25, 2018
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Para profundizar en el estilo musical de Radiohead, este libro es una buena opción. Está escrito de manera sencilla, sin embargo, vale la pena señalar que se necesitan saber nociones de solfeo y lectura de partituras para poder sacar todo el provecho del mismo.
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Dante Cargnelutti
5.0 out of 5 stars Ok
Reviewed in Italy on June 21, 2019
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Ali Demir
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good
Reviewed in Germany on December 11, 2017
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I don't have the basic music theory to understand some of the parts, but if you're interested in understanding the music, a Radiohead fan and a music nerd, you'll love this book. Realizing and counting the rhythms of songs is enjoyable. To get an idea about the book and the author, you can check the video on YouTube where he discusses his book and Radiohead.
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