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In this book, author Drew Edward Davies explores musical works from colonial Mexico as complex artifacts of religious culture. Reframing past understanding of New Spanish music, he explores how European aesthetics and local circumstances formed a New Spanish musical repertory differentiated by topicality rather than style, in addition to how that repertory is revived today.

How many cassette tapes do you still own? In one hundred years, how many TikTok videos or Instagram posts will still be accessible? Yet much of today's news and mass culture is produced and disseminated via transient means, just as in previous eras.

In over sixty years the Northern Soul scene has become Britain¿s longest surviving dance culture. Its rise in popularity has been phenomenal, all thanks due to a network of clubs and hardworking knowledgeable, passionate deejays, who have championed early American rhythm and blues music that eventually became Northern Soul.

This is Taylor Swift's life story, in a beautifully illustrated Poster Book with 16 pull out on the page posters.  She is the most streamed female artist on Spotify. Her 2024 Album The Tortured Poets Department added more than 300 million streams in 24 hours and became Spotify's most streamed album in a single day.

As the sixties revolution sweeps into the quiet market town of Chichester, the relationship between father and son falls under the spotlight. Charlotte Jones's Redlands opened at Chichester Festival Theatre in September 2024.

"Although the history of Indonesian music has received much attention from ethnomusicologists and Western composers alike, almost nothing has been written on the interaction of missionaries with local culture. This study represents the first attempt to concentrate on the musical dimension of missionary activities in Indonesia. In fourteen essays, a group of distinguished scholars show the complexity of the topic: while some missionaries did important scholarship on local music, making recordings and attempting to use local music in services, others tried to suppress whatever they found. Many were collaborating closely with anthropologists who admitted freely that they could not have done their work without them. And both parties brought colonial biases into their work. By grappling with these realities and records, this book is a collective effort to decolonize the project of making music histories"--

Author Ross W. Duffin reconstructs lost music for the three famous masques by Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Francis Beaumont performed for the 1613 Palatine wedding. His research reveals that their songs were partsongs performed by an ensemble, rather than an accompanied solo singer. The book also includes a fourth masque, in French, prepared for the wedding but never performed.

Perfectfor both the long-time Bob Dylan fan and for bemused family and friends unable tounderstand the devotion, this book explains what singer-songwriter Bob Dylanhas achieved over his 60-year career and why he has acquired such a cultfollowing.

Shows how British pop trailblazers The Yardbirds helped to shape rock music.

It's been more than 50 years since extraordinary British rock band Van Der Graaf Generator released their legendary fourth studio album, Pawn Hearts: a mind-splitting masterpiece that fascinated an entire generation of music lovers, redefining what could be done within the realm of music.

In this book, Alan Draper looks at Anthony Phillips' solo output, from his 1977 debut album through to his most successful long-form work, Slow Dance, in 1990.

Authors Andrew Wild and Alberto Bravin have listened to, digested and discussed the entire Beatles back catalogue to remind them why they love their music. This first volume covers the period 1962 to 1966 - from 'Love Me Do' to 'Tomorrow Never Knows', and the early albums  to Rubber Soul and Revolver.

In 2024, Deep Purple celebrated the fortieth anniversary of their reunion by releasing their 23rd album, =1. Some band members thought the 1984 reunion would fizzle out after one album, but it flourished despite internecine strife, illness and the loss of two founders.