Abstract

This thesis proposes a new theorization of song analysis based on practice-as-research and underpinned by structuralist narrative theory. In an examination of 300 number one songs, the research explores both the relationship of storytelling and musical structure in popular songwriting, and the nature of songwriting-as-research as a research paradigm. In doing so, the thesis and associated creative works seek to guide future songwriters and industry in how stories are most effectively conveyed in popular song lyric writing.

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