Recent publications
Article
Bechtold, TA, Curry, B & Witek, M 2024, 'The perceived catchiness of music affects the experience of groove', PLOS One, vol. 19, no. 5, e0303309. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303309
Bechtold, T, Kilchenmann, L, Curry, B & Witek, M 2023, 'Understanding the Relationship Between Catchiness and Groove: A Qualitative Study with Popular Music Creators', Music Perception, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 353–372. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2023.40.5.353
Curry, B 2017, 'Two Approaches to Tonal Space in the Music of Muddy Waters', Music Analysis, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 37-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12084
Curry, B 2017, 'Valency - Actuality - Meaning: A Peircean Semiotic Approach to Music', Journal of the Royal Musical Association, vol. 142, no. 2, pp. 401-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2017.1361177
Curry, B 2015, 'Blues Music Theory and the Songs of Robert Johnson: Ladder, Level and Chromatic Cycle', Popular Music, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 245-273. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143015000276
Curry, B 2012, 'Resituating the Icon: David Osmond-Smith’s Contribution to Music Semiotics', Twentieth-Century Music, vol. 9, no. 1-2, pp. 177-200. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478572212000254
Curry, B 2010, 'Musical Semiotics in Action: Applying and Debating Hatten’s Semiotics in a Musico-Dramatic Context', Studies in Musical Theatre, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 53-65. https://doi.org/10.1386/smt.4.1.53_1
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Curry, B 2018, Music and Reality. in E Sheinberg & W Dougherty (eds), Routledge Companion to Musical Signification. Routledge.
Curry, B 2012, Time, Subjectivity and Contested Signs: Developing Monelle’s Application of Peirce’s 1903 Typology to Music. in Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations. Routledge, pp. 149-161.
Paper
Curry, B 2021, 'What Gets Lost in Music Analysis? Insights from Wittgenstein', Paper presented at Birmingham Music Analysis Conference 2021, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 28/07/21 - 30/07/21.
Curry, B 2019, 'Early African American Music Sources and the 'Origins of the Blues''.
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