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*Rationale* As a pensioner I can’t go on running this site without some sort of income to cover a part of what it actually costs me. On the other hand, I don’t see why students, especially those in non-OECD nations, should have to pay ‘first-world’ prices for accessing knowledge and ideas about the sort of music that most people hear on an everyday basis. That’s why the books I put on line can now be downloaded by those who donate as little as £1.50 towards the running of my site (including the MMMSP pages). More...	Download instructions [1] Decide how much you want to donate (see minimum and suggested amounts, below). [2] Click the requisite ‘Add to cart’ button. [3] In the shopping cart screen, enter the amount you want or are able to donate. [4] Enter your PayPal account or your credit card details and ‘Send’ your donation. [5] In the email you receive from e-junkie.com, click the relevant download link. [6] Save the ZIP file to disk and extract its constituent files. • I have zipped (compacted) the files to save disk space and download times.
• All monetary quantifications here are in United Kingdom pounds (Sterling, £, GBP). Here are recent exchange rates between GBP (£) and virtually any currency. • All books have the page format 7×10" = 177×254 mm which fits easily on both A4 and North American ‘Letter’ sheets of paper. • Donations are processed through two secure online payment systems: [1] e-junkie.com, a shopping-cart operation which currently costs me $5 (US) a month and allows me to store four zipped PDF-format books with no restrictions on the number of downloads (recommended); [2] PayPal (no introduction needed).

Philip Tagg: Kojak - 50 Seconds of TV Music (1979/2000).

min £2.80
suggested donation £9.50

was £25.50 + shipping!

Philip Tagg: Fernando
the Flute (1992/2000).

min. £1.50
suggested donation £5

Was £14 + shipping!

Philip Tagg & Bob Clarida:
Ten Little Title Tunes (2003)

min. £5.90
suggested donation £16

was £53.15 + shipping!

Yngvar Steinholt: Rock in the Reservation (2004)

Hard-copy book (£14.60??).
Please contact the author
for info and ordering.

Philip Tagg: Everyday Tonality - Towards a tonal theory of what most people hear (2009)

min. £2.50
suggested donation £8.50

Hard copy would've cost
£30 + shipping!

424 pp. 187 music examples.
92 figures and tables.
ISBN 0-9701684-0-3.

A classic of popular music semiotics — ‘refreshing’, ‘heroic’, ‘‘useful and practical’, ‘ a major paradigm shift’, ‘original’, etc. More...

144 pp. Illustrated, numerous music examples, complete transcription.
ISBN 0-9701684-1-1.

This analysis of an Abba mega-hit from 1975 is required reading for popular music analysis classes in several universities. More...

xvi+898 pages. Illustrated, 501 music examples plus complete transcriptions. Extensive appendix and index sections. ISBN 0-9701684-2-X .

Monumental study of everyday musical meanings in the mass media, from sighing sixths to cowboy cadences, from pastoral romance to urban urgency, from the musical mediation of gender to matters of educational democracy, etc., etc. ‘Compelling’, ‘erudite’, ‘shocking’, ‘staggering’, ‘useful’, ‘it made my Christmas’, ‘essential reading’... More

254 pages. Illustrated, music examples. $21.95.
ISBN 0-9701684-3-8.

How does rock in 1980s Leningrad relate to the demise of the Soviet Union? How could rock flourish in a system that did not recognise its existence? A convincing multidisiplinary account of central issues in the recent musical, literary, social and political history of Europe‘s largest nation.

iv+334 pages. 50 diagrams, charts and tables, 160 music examples.
ISBN 978-0-9701684-4-3

What do terms like note, pitch, octave, tone, tonality, mode, modality, melody, polyphony and harmony really mean? And how do you talk about the tonality of all the everyday music that contains no dominants, subdominants or perfect cadences and works just fine without them? Everyday Tonality makes sense of these issues... More.

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