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What defines pop music? Why do we consider some styles as easier listening than others? This collection of essays by a group of international scholars shows how academics have responded to questions such as these within pop criticism over the last twenty-five years. The intellectual perspectives on offer present the interdisciplinary aspects of stu

This selection of essays on historical performance practice of the Baroque era includes the key essays from recent scholarly research which, eventually, changed both the way performers approach Baroque music, and the way audiences listen to it. Topics covered include historical instruments, pitch, tuning, temperament, the nexus between technique an

This volume explores the means and motives for the distribution of music during the Renaissance. The selected essays discuss both the technical side of the production of sources as well as their roles in the society in which they were produced, and are accompanied by an introduction which places the essays within the wider history of Renaissance mu

This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage, and positions it as part of an ongoing cultural, ethical, and psychological debate about the effects of performance on actors and on spectators.

Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s investigates the function of music in European cinema after the Second World War up to the fall of the Berlin wall, a period when composers and directors embraced experimentation.

Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship.

This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of art song-a solo song set to a poem in the local language in Western art music style accompanied by piano-as a vehicle for creating a localized musical identity.

Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account explores current challenges for music education in relation to wider philosophical and political debates, and seeks to find a way forward for the field by rethinking the nature and value of epistemic knowledge in the wake of postmodern critiques.

Electro swing is a relatively recent musical style and scene which combines the music of the swing era with that of the age of electronic dance music.

This Handbook provides readers with an overview of the field of Practice-Based Research (PBR): different approaches, disciplines that frequently employ PBR, methodologies and creative outputs.

This book uncovers the multifaceted nature of music participation through a collection of studies in a wide variety of musical contexts across the United States.

The use of historical recordings as primary sources is relatively well-established in both musicology and performance studies and has demonstrated how early recording technologies transformed ways in which musicians and audiences engaged with music.

This book considers the intersection of music, politics and identity, focusing on music (genres) across the world as a form of political expression and protest, positive identity formations, but also how the criminalisation, censuring, policing and prosecution of musicians and fans can occur.

The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms across the globe.

“Robertson offers the whole picture, warts and all. In doing so, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his life—and opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic.”—Blues Blast MagazineDust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) is a collection of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most innovative, influential, and fascinating musicians. From rock to folk, blues to gospel, country to the unclassifiable; from the famous, to the forgotten, to the barely known, Ray Robertson combines a novelist’s eye for dramatic detail with an unapologetic fanboy’s appreciation for and awe at the lives and lasting artistic achievements of twelve of his musical heroes, among them Alex Chilton, Duane Allman, Nick Drake, and Muddy Waters.

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