Through our LMU Spotlight series, Experience LMU offers applicants the opportunity to engage with our world-class faculty as they host interactive online seminars that bring LMU’s academic experience home to you. Participate in dynamic academic experiences, interact with our esteemed faculty, and learn more about their cutting-edge research. This Zoom seminar will look at how form in popular music has developed from 1960 to the present, using particular song examples to illustrate these developments. Students will learn approaches to formal analysis, then use what they have learned to analyze a song with a partner. David S. Carter is a music theorist and composer. He has published scholarship examining popular music in the journals Music Theory Online, Theory and Practice, Intégral: The Journal of Applied Musical Thought, and Revue musicale OICRM. He has presented papers at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting, the National Conference of the College Music Society, and at both the U.S. and International conferences of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)