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  • - Folk, Tradition and Policy
     
    582,-

    Scottish traditional music has been through a revival in the mid-twentieth century and has now entered a professionalised public space. Devolution in the UK and a surge of cultural debate surrounding the independence referendum in Scotland led to a greater study of identities in the UK, set within a wider context of cultural globalization. Tradi

  • av Catherine Strong
    764 - 2 168,-

    Grunge has been perceived as the music that defined 'Generation X'. This book explores how grunge has been remembered by the fans that grew up with it, and asks how memory is both formed by and forms popular culture. It demonstrates how different groups can use and shape memory as part of a struggle for power in society.

  • - Amateur Music Between Cultural Domination and Autonomy
    av Vincent Dubois, Jean-Matthieu Meon & Emmanuel Pierru
    764 - 2 343,-

    Despite the musical and social roles they play in many parts of the world, wind bands have not attracted much interest from sociologists. The Sociology of Wind Bands provides a sociological account of this musical universe. Based on a qualitative and quantitative survey conducted in north-eastern France.

  • - From Dance Hall to the 100 Club
    av Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Emma Webster & m.fl.
    712 - 2 249,-

    To date there has been a significant gap in existing knowledge about the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of The History of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so from the unique perspective of the music promoter. The books offer new insights into a variety of issues.

  • - Grasping the Spectacle
     
    695,-

    Throughout his 40-year career, Michael Jackson intrigued and captivated public imagination through musical ingenuity, sexual and racial spectacle, savvy publicity stunts, odd behaviours, and a seemingly apolitical (yet always political) offering of popular art. This book includes essays that aim to understand Jackson from multiple perspectives.

  • - Loss, Memory and the City
    av Richard Elliott
    712 - 1 812,-

    Fado, often described as 'urban folk music' emerged from the streets of Lisbon in the mid-nineteenth century and went on to become Portugal's 'national' music during the twentieth. This title considers the ways in which fado songs bear witness to the city of Lisbon, in relation to the construction and maintenance of the local.

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    2 265,-

    The cover phenomenon may be viewed as a postmodern manifestation in music as artists revisit, reinterpret and re-examine a significant cross section of musical styles, periods, genres, individual records and other artists and their catalogues of works. This title offers critical perspectives on the many facets of cover songs in popular music.

  • av Sophy Smith
    764 - 2 265,-

    This is the first book to explore the creative and collaborative processes of groups of DJs working together as hip-hop turntable teams. Focusing on a variety of subjects - from the history of turntable experimentation and the development of innovative sound manipulation techniques, to turntable team formation.

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    712,-

    These essays bring together the stories of 23 debut albums over a nearly fifty year span, ranging from Buddy Holly and the Crickets in 1957 to The Go! Team in 2004. In addition to biographical background and a wealth of historical information about the genesis of each album, essayists look back at the albums and place them within multiple contexts, particularly the artist's career development. In this way, the book will be of as much interest to sociologists and historians as to culture critics and musicologists.

  • av Doris Leibetseder
    712 - 2 343,-

    Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade, mimesis/mimicry, cyborg, transsexuality.

  • - Music, Meaning, and Morality in a Muslim Society
    av Pierre Hecker
    764 - 2 343,-

    Journeys deep into the heart of the Turkish heavy metal scene, uncovering the emergence, evolution, and especially the social implications of this controversial musical genre in a Muslim society. This book explores how Turkish metalheads, against all odds, manage to successfully claim public spaces of their own.

  • - State, Markets, Musicians
    av Michael Scott
    712 - 2 265,-

    Michael Scott argues that New Zealand's pop music renaissance of the early 2000s was supported by state policies. He shows how the state built market opportunities for popular musicians through public-private partnerships and organisational affinity with existing music industry institutions.

  • av Michael Brocken
    764 - 2 108,-

    At times it appears that a whole industry exists to perpetuate the myth of origin of the Beatles. This book tells the history of the disparate and now partially hidden musical strands that contributed to Liverpool's musical countenance. It is also a critique of Beatles-related institutionalized popular music mythology.

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    775,-

    Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity focuses on the new and emerging synergies of music and digital technology within the new knowledge economies. Eighteen scholars representing six international perspectives explore the global and local ramifications of rapidly changing new technologies on creative industries, local communities, music practitioners and consumers. Diverse areas are considered, such as production, consumption, historical and cultural context, legislation, globalization and the impact upon the individual. Drawing on a range of musical genres from jazz, heavy metal, hip-hop and trance, and through several detailed case studies reflecting on the work of professional and local amateur artists, this book offers an important discussion of the ways in which the face of music is changing. Approaching these areas from a cultural studies perspective, this text will be a valuable tool for anyone engaged in the study of popular culture, music or digital technologies.

  • av Michael Pickering
    712 - 2 265,-

    Blackface Minstrelsy had a marked impact on popular music, dance and other aspects of popular culture, both in Britain and the United States. This book provides a counter-argument to the assumption among writers in the United States that blackface was exclusively American and its British counterpart purely imitative.

  • - Community and Conflict
    av Mr David Cooper
    634 - 2 155,-

    With the espousal of a discrete Ulster Scots tradition since the signing of the Belfast (or 'Good Friday') Agreement in 1998, the characteristics of the traditional music performed in Northern Ireland, and the place of Protestant musicians within popular Irish culture, clearly require a thoroughgoing analysis. This book provides such analysis.

  • - The Writings of Jan Fairley
    av Jan Fairley & Ian Christie
    712 - 2 265,-

    The late Jan Fairley was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and this book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most important work together in a single place.

  • - A Critical Appraisal
     
    712,-

  • - Politics, Culture and the Creation of Musica Popular Brasileira
    av Sean Stroud
    775 - 2 108,-

    Examines how and why Musica Popular Brasileira (MPB) has come to have such a high status, and why the musical tradition (including MPB) within Brazil has been defended with such vigour for so long. This title emphasizes the importance of musical nationalism as an underlying ideology to discussions about Brazilian popular music since the 1920s.

  • av Joost de Bruin
    712 - 2 343,-

    This volume brings together original studies from international scholars to identify and evaluate the productive dimensions of Idols. As one of the world's most successful television formats, Idols offers a unique case for the study of cultural globalization.

  • - Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s
    av Annette Davison
    634 - 1 959,-

    Looks at the practices of film soundtrack composition for non- Hollywood films made after 1980. Annette Davision argues that since the mid-1970's the model of the classical Hollywood score has functioned as a form of dominant ideology in relation to which alternative scoring & soundtrack practices may assert themselves.

  • - A Way Ahead for Music Education
    av Lucy Green
    556 - 2 491,-

    Comparing the characteristics of informal popular music learning and those of formal music education, this study is based on the outcomes of research from interviews which took place between October 1998 and May 1999 with 14 popular musicians living in and around London, aged from 15 to 50.

  • - Developing a Musicology of Rock
    av Allan F Moore & Remy Martin
    542 - 1 859,-

  • - Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia since 1991
    av Catherine Baker
    712 - 2 343,-

    A study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia's war of independence from Yugoslavia. It extends cultural studies literature on music, politics, and the state, which has largely been grounded in Western European and North American political systems.

  • av Matthew Bannister
    565,-

    To what extent do indie masculinities challenge the historical construction of rock music as patriarchal? The author addresses this key question, involving an in-depth examination of indie guitar rock in the 1980s as the culturally and historically specific production of white men.

  • - Canonical Values in the Reception of Rock Albums
    av Carys Wyn Jones
    837 - 2 168,-

    Explores the symptomatic reflections of canonical values, terms and mechanisms from the canons of literature and classical music in the reception of rock music. This book examines the concept of the canon as theorized by scholars in the fields of literary criticism and musicology.

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    2 108,-

    Presents a collection of essays that explore British Heavy Metal from its beginning through The New Wave of British Heavy Metal up to the increasing internationalization and widespread acceptance in the late 1980s. This book offers a critical analysis of the politics and ideology behind the lyrics, images and performances.

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    2 265,-

    Focusing on four principal areas in which TV organizes and presents popular music, this book investigates a diverse range of musical genres and styles, factual and fictional programming, historical and geographical demographics, and the constraints of commerce and technology to give an account of the place of popular music on British television.

  • - The French Singer-Songwriter from Aristide Bruant to the Present Day
    av Peter Hawkins
    712 - 2 108,-

    A song tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages and troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries, chanson is part of the texture of everyday life in France - a part of the national identity and a barometer of popular taste. This study examines the background and development of the genre.

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