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Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives
Häftad, 2015
785 kr
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Written from the perspective of a scholar and performer, Traditional Music and Irish Society investigates the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity. The opening chapter integrates a thorough survey of the early sources of Irish music with recent work on Irish social history in the …
Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71
Lost in the Future
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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The Stooges have come to be considered one of the most important rock bands, especially in regard to the formation of punk. By emphasizing their influence on later developments, however, critics tend to overlook the significance of the band in their own context and era. The Music and Noise of the …
Status Quo: Mighty Innovators of 70s Rock
Av Andrew Cope
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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Status Quo were one of the most successful, influential and innovative bands of the 1970s. During the first half of the decade, they wrote, recorded and performed a stream of inventive and highly complex rock compositions, developed 12 bar forms and techniques in new and fascinating ways, and …
Frank Zappa and the And
Av Paul Carr
Inbunden, 2013
2578 kr
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This collection of essays, documented by an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars, represents the first academically focused volume exploring the creative idiolect of Frank Zappa. Several of the authors are known for contributing significantly to areas such as popular music, …
Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence
Häftad, 2009
770 kr
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Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of the subject. It is a pioneering examination of the ways in which popular music has been deployed in association with violence, ranging from what …
Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Av JanetK. Halfyard, Janet K. Halfyard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2578 kr
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The intense and continuing popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and depth of the academic critical response. This volume, the first devoted to the show's imaginative and widely varied use of music, sound, and silence, …
Heavy Metal Music in Britain
Av Gerd Bayer
Häftad, 2016
919 kr
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Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer good in the early twenty-first century. Early proponents of the musical style, such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Saxon, Uriah Heep and Iron Maiden, were mostly …
Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71
Lost in the Future
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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The Stooges have come to be considered one of the most important rock bands, especially in regard to the formation of punk. By emphasizing their influence on later developments, however, critics tend to overlook the significance of the band in their own context and era. The Music and Noise of the …
Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead
Mystery Dances in the Magic Theater
Av Brent Wood
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead is a multifaceted study of tragedy in the group’s live performances showing how Garcia brought about catharsis through dance by leading songs of grief, mortality, and ironic fate in a collective theatrical context.This musical, literary, and …
Singer-Songwriter in Europe
Paradigms, Politics and Place
Av Isabelle Marc, Stuart Green
Häftad, 2019
785 kr
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The Singer-Songwriter in Europe is the first book to explore and compare the multifaceted discourses and practices of this figure within and across linguistic spaces in Europe and in dialogue with spaces beyond continental borders. The concept of the singer-songwriter is significant and …
Songs of Joni Mitchell
Gender, Performance and Agency
Häftad, 2019
785 kr
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An unorthodox musician from the start, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's style of composing, performing, and of playing (and tuning) the guitar is unique. In the framework of sexual difference and the gendered discourses of rock this immediately begs the questions: are Mitchell's songs specifically …
Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Av Florian Heesch, Niall Scott
Häftad, 2019
755 kr
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Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality brings together a collection of original, interdisciplinary, critical essays exploring the negotiated place of gender and sexuality in heavy metal music and its culture. Scholars debate the current state of play concerning masculinities, femininities, queerness, …
Music and Irish Identity
Celtic Tiger Blues
Av Gerry Smyth
Häftad, 2019
725 kr
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Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth, focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish identity. The nature of popular music and the Irish identity it supposedly articulates have both undergone profound change …
Popular Music, Cultural Politics and Music Education in China
Av Wai-Chung Ho
Häftad, 2019
785 kr
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While attention has been paid to various aspects of music education in China, to date no single publication has systematically addressed the complex interplay of sociopolitical transformations underlying the development of popular music and music education in the multilevel culture of China. Before …
Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass
Häftad, 2019
725 kr
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Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass traces the stylistic evolution of jazz from the bass player’s perspective. Historical works to date have tended to pursue a ‘top down’ reading, one that emphasizes the influence of the treble instruments on the melodic and harmonic trajectory …
Community-based Traditional Music in Scotland
A Pedagogy of Participation
Inbunden, 2022
2190 kr
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This book examines the community-based learning and teaching of ‘traditional’ music in contemporary Scotland, with implications for transnational theoretical issues. The book draws on a broad range of scholarship and a local case study of a large organisation. A historical perspective provides an …
Another Song for Europe
Music, Taste, and Values in the Eurovision Song Contest
Av Ivan Raykoff
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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The Eurovision Song Contest is famous for its camp spectacles and political intrigues, but what about its actual music? With more than 1,500 songs in over 50 languages and a wide range of musical styles since it began in 1956, Eurovision features the most musically and linguistically diverse song …
Paul Weller and Popular Music
Identity, Idiolect and Image
Av Andrew West
Inbunden, 2022
2190 kr
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Using research, analysis and a range of historical sources, Paul Weller and Popular Music immerses the reader in the excitement of Paul Weller’s unique creative journey, covering topics such as the artist’s position within his field; his creative processes; the contexts in which the music was made; …
One-Track Mind
Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song
Av Asif Siddiqi
Inbunden, 2022
2578 kr
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The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces—cultural, aesthetic, and technical—the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short, discrete, and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism, …
One-Track Mind
Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song
Av Asif Siddiqi
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces—cultural, aesthetic, and technical—the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short, discrete, and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism, …
Popular Song in the First World War
An International Perspective
Av John Mullen
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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What did popular song mean to people across the world during the First World War? For the first time, song repertoires and musical industries from countries on both sides in the Great War as well as from neutral countries are analysed in one exciting volume. Experts from around the world, and with …
Stories We Could Tell
Putting Words To American Popular Music
Av David Sanjek, Benjamin Halligan m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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How has the history of rock ‘n’ roll been told? Has it become formulaic? Or remained, like the music itself, open to outside influences? Who have been the genre’s primary historians? What common frameworks or sets of assumptions have music history narratives shared? And, most importantly, what is …
Music Festivals in the UK
Beyond the Carnivalesque
Häftad, 2020
665 kr
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The outdoor music festival market has developed and commercialised significantly since the mid-1990s, and is now a mainstream part of the British summertime leisure experience. The overall number of outdoor music festivals staged in the UK doubled between 2005 and 2011 to reach a peak of over 500 …
Music Festivals and the Politics of Participation
Häftad, 2020
829 kr
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The spread of UK music festivals has exploded since 2000. In this major contribution to cultural studies, the lid is lifted on the contemporary festival scene. Gone are the days of a handful of formulaic, large events dominating the market place. Across the country, hundreds of ’boutique’ …
PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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PJ Harvey’s performances are premised on the core contention that she is somehow causing ’trouble’. Just how this trouble can be theorised within the context of the music video and what it means for a development of the ways we might conceptualise ’disruption’ and think about music video lies at …
Death and the Rock Star
Av Catherine Strong, Barbara Lebrun
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012, have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music, fame and death. If the phrase ’sex, drugs and …
From the chanson française to the canzone d'autore in the 1960s and 1970s
Authenticity, Authority, Influence
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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The similarities between the chanson française and the canzone d'autore have been often noted but never fully explored. Both genres are national forms which involve the figure of the singer-songwriter, both experienced their golden age of production in the post-World War II period and both are …
This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, listeners and critics for centuries. Irony in popular music is especially worthy of study because it is pervasive, even fundamental to the music, the …
Another Song for Europe
Music, Taste, and Values in the Eurovision Song Contest
Av Ivan Raykoff
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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The Eurovision Song Contest is famous for its camp spectacles and political intrigues, but what about its actual music? With more than 1,500 songs in over 50 languages and a wide range of musical styles since it began in 1956, Eurovision features the most musically and linguistically diverse song …
Studies in Maltese Popular Music
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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This book examines the diverse facets of popular music in Malta, paying special attention to għana (Malta’s folk song), the wind band tradition, and modern popular music. Ciantar provides intriguing discussions and examples of how popular music on this small Mediterranean island country interacts …
