title: Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music (Tracking Pop)
author:  John Covach 
description: Mark Spicer is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His writings have appeared in Contemporary Music Review, Gamut, Music Theory Online, twentieth-century music, and other scholarly journals and essay collections.<br />John Covach is Professor of Music at the University of Rochester and Professor of Theory at the Eastman School of Music. He is the author of the college textbook What's That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and Its History and the coeditor of Understanding Rock, American Rock and the Classical Music Tradition, and Traditions, Institutions, and American Popular Music.
zlib_text: ## TRACKING POP
  
  SERIES EDITORS: LORI BURNS , JOHN COVACH, AND ALBIN ZAK
  
  In one form or another, the influence of popular music has permeated cultural
  activities and perception on a global scale. Interdisciplinary in nature,
  Tracking Pop is intended as a wide-ranging exploration of pop music and its
  cultural situation. In addition to providing resources for students and
  scholars working in the field of popular culture, the books in this series
  will appeal to general readers and music lovers, for whom pop has provided the
  soundtrack of their lives.
  
  Listening to Popular Music: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Led
  Zeppelin
  
  _by Theodore Gracyk_
  
  Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music
  
  _edited by Mark Spicer and John Covach_
  
  I Don't Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America
  
  _by Albin J. Zok III_
  
  Soul Music: Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
  
  _by Joel Rudinow_
  
  Are We Not New Wave? Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s
  
  _by Theo Ca