Editing Jangle (section)

==Definition and origins==
[[File:McGuinn 1972 cropped (2).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Roger McGuinn]] of [[the Byrds]] playing his 12-string, 1972]]

"Jangle" is a noun-adjective that music critics often use in reference to [[guitar pop]] with a bright mood.<ref name="KampDaly2005"/>  The verb "to jangle", of Germanic origin, means "to sound discordantly, harshly or unpleasantly".<ref>{{cite book|title=Collins Dictionary of the English Language|edition=2nd|location=London|year=1986|bibcode=1986cdel.book.....H|last1=Hanks|first1=Patrick}}{{page needed|date=August 2019}}</ref> The more modern usage of the term originated from the lyric "in the jingle-jangle morning, I'll come following you" from [[the Byrds]]' 1965 rendition of [[Bob Dylan]]'s "[[Mr. Tambourine Man]]", which was underpinned by the chiming sound of an [[electric 12-string guitar]].<ref name="KampDaly2005">{{cite book|last1=Kamp|first1=David|last2=Daly|first2=Steven|title=The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon Of Rockological Knowledge|url=https://archive.org/details/rocksnobsdiction00kamp|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=Broadway Books|isbn=978-0-7679-1873-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/rocksnobsdiction00kamp/page/54 54]}}</ref> According to academic/musician [[Matthew Bannister (musician)|Matthew Bannister]], the term "implies a more pop, mainstream approach" that is heavily connoted with "indie pure pop". He writes:

{{quote|Jangle can be understood as a subspecies of drone: trebly, relatively clean (undistorted) guitar sound played in (often) a chordal style: either strummed or arpeggiated (sounding each string in a chord separately) but generally repeating notes (pedal) over the top of a chord sequence. Pedals are normally open strings that also resonate overtones ...  This style was strongly identified with 1960s guitar bands, especially the Byrds [and has since] characterised the sound of acts like [[R.E.M.]] and [[The Smiths]] ...<ref name="Bannister">{{cite book|last=Bannister|first=Matthew|title=White Boys, White Noise: Masculinities and 1980s Indie Guitar Rock|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lt2hAgAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-9374-7|pages=71–72, 87, 124–125|author-link=Matthew Bannister (musician)}}</ref>}}

It is also deployed in the context of its own music subgenre, "[[jangle pop]]", which is characterized by trebly, ringing guitars (usually 12-string electrics) and 1960s-style [[pop music|pop]] melodies.<ref name="Gazette 2015">{{cite web |url=http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2015/aug/19/british-band-life-film-sounds-jangle-pop/ |title=British band Life in Film sounds off on 'Jangle Pop' |last=Wilkin |first=Jeff |publisher=[[The Daily Gazette]] |date=August 19, 2015 |access-date=July 24, 2016}}</ref> [[The Everly Brothers]] and [[The Searchers (band)|the Searchers]] laid the foundations for jangle in the late 1950s to mid 1960s, with examples including "[[All I Have to Do Is Dream]]" (1958) and "[[Needles and Pins (song)|Needles and Pins]]" (1964), [[John McNally (musician)|John McNally]] of the Searchers speculated that the Byrds may have been influenced by the guitars in "Needles and Pins" and said that the sound of the song "was a total mistake, and it wasn't even done with 12-string guitars. We used two regular six-string guitars playing the same riff and added a little echo and reverb ... and everyone thought we were using 12-strings."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brinn |first1=David |title=THE SEARCHERS STILL ON 'NEEDLES AND PINS' |url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/The-Searchers-still-on-needles-and-pins-462767 |website=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |date=July 30, 2016}}</ref>