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Krautrock
German Music in the Seventies
Av Ulrich Adelt
Häftad, 2016
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395 kr
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Krautrock is a catch-all term for the music of various white German rock groups of the 1970s that blended influences of African American and Anglo-American music with the experimental and electronic music of European composers. Groups such as Can, Popol Vuh, Faust, and Tangerine Dream arose out of …
Bastard Instrument
A Cultural History of the Electric Bass
Inbunden, 2024
1017 kr
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2024 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award in Pop Music2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Performing Arts & Music2025 ARSC Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research on Record Labels or General Recording TopicsThe Bastard Instrument chronicles the history of the electric …
Are We Not New Wave?
Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s
Häftad, 2011
395 kr
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“Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music.”—Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out PopNew wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cast in the image of punk rock’s sneering demeanor, yet rendered more accessible and sophisticated. Artists …
I Don't Sound Like Nobody
Remaking Music in 1950s America
Av Albin Zak
Häftad, 2012
379 kr
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"In Albin J. Zak III's highly original study, phonograph records are not just the medium for disseminating songs but musical works unto themselves. Fashioned from a mix of copyright law, recording studios and techniques, the talent of musicians and disc jockeys, the ingenuity and avarice of …
Bytes and Backbeats
Repurposing Music in the Digital Age
Av Steve Savage
Häftad, 2013
395 kr
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From Attali's "cold social silence" to Baudrillard's hallucinatory reality, reproduced music has long been the target of critical attack. In Bytes and Backbeats, however, Steve Savage deploys an innovative combination of designed recording projects, ethnographic studies of contemporary music …
Rhymin' and Stealin'
Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop
Häftad, 2014
332 kr
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Rhymin’ and Stealin’ begins with a crucial premise: the fundamental element of hip-hop culture and aesthetics is the overt use of preexisting material to new ends. Whether it is taking an old dance move for a breakdancing battle, using spray paint to create street art, quoting from a famous speech, …
Powerful Voices
The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella
Häftad, 2016
332 kr
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Collegiate a cappella, part of a long tradition of unaccompanied singing, is known to date back on American college campuses to at least the colonial era. Considered in the context of college glee clubs, barbershop quartets, early-twentieth-century vocal pop groups, doo-wop groups, and contemporary …
I Hear a Symphony
Motown and Crossover R&B
Av Andrew Flory
Häftad, 2017
519 kr
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I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown’s legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit’s postwar black middle class; that Motown’s creative personnel participated in an African-American tradition of dialogism in rhythm and blues while …
Here for the Hearing
Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater
Av Michael Buchler, Gregory John Decker
Häftad, 2023
457 kr
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Winner of the Society for Music Theory's Outstanding Multi-Author Collection AwardThis book offers a series of essays that show the integrated role that musical structure (including harmony, melody, rhythm, meter, form, and musical association) plays in making sense of what transpires onstage in …
Soul Music
Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
Av Joel Rudinow
Häftad, 2010
395 kr
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"Exceptionally illuminating and philosophically sophisticated."---Ted Cohen, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago"In this audacious and long-awaited book, Joel Rudinow takes seriously a range of interrelated issues that most music theorizing is embarrassed to tackle. People often ask me …
Hearing Harmony
Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era
Häftad, 2017
519 kr
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Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and salient harmonic-progression classes, or harmonic …
Uncharted
Creativity and the Expert Drummer
Av Bill Bruford
Häftad, 2018
395 kr
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What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of others in related artistic spheres? Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the creative behaviors of a specific …
Soda Goes Pop
Pepsi-Cola Advertising and Popular Music
Häftad, 2019
519 kr
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From its 1939 “Nickel, Nickel” jingle to pathbreaking collaborations with Michael Jackson and Madonna to its pair of X Factor commercials in 2011 and 2012, Pepsi-Cola has played a leading role in drawing the American pop music industry into a synergetic relationship with advertising. This idea has …
Critical Excess
Watch the Throne and the New Gilded Age
Häftad, 2021
332 kr
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Jay-Z and Kanye West’s 2011 Watch the Throne is a self-avowed “luxury rap” album centered on Eurocentric conceptions of nobility, artistry, and haute couture. Critical Excess performs a close reading of the sonic and social commentary on this album, examining how the album alternately imagines and …
Queer Voices in Hip Hop
Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance
Häftad, 2022
270 kr
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Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapper as a Black, masculine, heterosexual, cisgender man who enacts a narrative of struggle and success. In Queer Voices in Hip Hop, Lauron J. Kehrer …
Tracks on the Trail
Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency
Häftad, 2023
388 kr
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From Bill Clinton playing his saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show to Barack Obama referencing Jay-Z’s song “Dirt Off Your Shoulder,” politicians have used music not only to construct their personal presidential identities but to create the broader identity of the American presidency. Through music, …
Bastard Instrument
A Cultural History of the Electric Bass
Häftad, 2024
311 kr
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2024 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award in Pop Music2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Performing Arts & Music2025 ARSC Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research on Record Labels or General Recording TopicsThe Bastard Instrument chronicles the history of the electric …
Prince, Musical Genre, and the Construction of Racial Identity
Häftad, 2025
457 kr
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Throughout his career, the Minneapolis musician Prince was known for fusing different musical genres as well as moving between different identities—sexual lothario, devout man of God, androgynous sprite—qualities that fit the postmodernism of the 1980s. This volume takes a fresh look at Prince’s …
Big Feelings
Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl
Av Dan DiPiero
Häftad, 2025
332 kr
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In the past decade, a distinctive resurgence of indie music has seen young, queer, and feminist artists reformulating the genre with strategic reappropriations of ’90s grunge and 2000s-era pop. Big Feelings offers a nuanced analysis of these musicians and the socio-political crises informing their …
Listening to Popular Music
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Led Zeppelin
Häftad, 2007
353 kr
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It has long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? In Listening to Popular Music, award-winning popular music scholar Theodore Gracyk argues that aesthetic value is just as important in popular listening as it is with “serious” …
Krautrock
German Music in the Seventies
Av Ulrich Adelt
Inbunden, 2016
1372 kr
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Krautrock is a catch-all term for the music of various white German rock groups of the 1970s that blended influences of African American and Anglo-American music with the experimental and electronic music of European composers. Groups such as Can, Popol Vuh, Faust, and Tangerine Dream arose out of …
Uncharted
Creativity and the Expert Drummer
Av Bill Bruford
Inbunden, 2018
1230 kr
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What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of others in related artistic spheres? Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the creative behaviors of a specific …
Soda Goes Pop
Pepsi-Cola Advertising and Popular Music
Inbunden, 2019
1372 kr
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From its 1939 “Nickel, Nickel” jingle to pathbreaking collaborations with Michael Jackson and Madonna to its pair of X Factor commercials in 2011 and 2012, Pepsi-Cola has played a leading role in drawing the American pop music industry into a synergetic relationship with advertising. This idea has …
Beatles through a Glass Onion
Reconsidering the White Album
Av Mark Osteen
Inbunden, 2019
1230 kr
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The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group’s oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly volume to explore this seminal …
Critical Excess
Watch the Throne and the New Gilded Age
Inbunden, 2021
1088 kr
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Jay-Z and Kanye West’s 2011 Watch the Throne is a self-avowed “luxury rap” album centered on Eurocentric conceptions of nobility, artistry, and haute couture. Critical Excess performs a close reading of the sonic and social commentary on this album, examining how the album alternately imagines and …
Queer Voices in Hip Hop
Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance
Inbunden, 2022
946 kr
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Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapper as a Black, masculine, heterosexual, cisgender man who enacts a narrative of struggle and success. In Queer Voices in Hip Hop, Lauron J. Kehrer …
Tracks on the Trail
Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency
Inbunden, 2023
1230 kr
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From Bill Clinton playing his saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show to Barack Obama referencing Jay-Z’s song “Dirt Off Your Shoulder,” politicians have used music not only to construct their personal presidential identities but to create the broader identity of the American presidency. Through music, …
Prince, Musical Genre, and the Construction of Racial Identity
Inbunden, 2025
1159 kr
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Throughout his career, the Minneapolis musician Prince was known for fusing different musical genres as well as moving between different identities—sexual lothario, devout man of God, androgynous sprite—qualities that fit the postmodernism of the 1980s. This volume takes a fresh look at Prince’s …
Big Feelings
Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl
Av Dan DiPiero
Inbunden, 2025
1443 kr
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In the past decade, a distinctive resurgence of indie music has seen young, queer, and feminist artists reformulating the genre with strategic reappropriations of ’90s grunge and 2000s-era pop. Big Feelings offers a nuanced analysis of these musicians and the socio-political crises informing their …
Are We Not New Wave?
Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s
Inbunden, 2011
1088 kr
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“Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music.”—Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out PopNew wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cast in the image of punk rock’s sneering demeanor, yet rendered more accessible and sophisticated. Artists …
