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Guitar Picks of Rock & Roll 2 - The Deluxe Edition (Hardcover): Brian Bouchard Guitar Picks of Rock & Roll 2 - The Deluxe Edition (Hardcover)
Brian Bouchard
R1,173 Discovery Miles 11 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Music/Video - Histories, Aesthetics, Media (Hardcover, Paperback): Gina Arnold, Daniel Cookney, Kirsty Fairclough, Michael... Music/Video - Histories, Aesthetics, Media (Hardcover, Paperback)
Gina Arnold, Daniel Cookney, Kirsty Fairclough, Michael Goddard
R4,931 Discovery Miles 49 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively under-explored in a 21st century context. The music video has remained suspended between two distinct poles. On the one hand, the music video as the visual sheen of late capitalism, at the intersection of celebrity studies and postmodernism. On the other hand, the music video as art, looking to a prehistory of avant-garde film-making while perpetually pushing forward the digital frontier with a taste for anarchy, controversy, and the integration of special effects into a form designed to be disseminated across digital platforms. In this way, the music video virally re-engenders debates about high art and low culture. This collection presents a comprehensive account of the music video from a contemporary 21st century perspective. This entails revisiting key moments in the canonical history of the music video, exploring its articulations of sexuality and gender, examining its functioning as a form of artistic expression between music, film and video art, and following the music video's dissemination into the digital domain, considering how digital media and social media have come to re-invent the forms and functions of the music video, well beyond the limits of "music television".

Development Drowned and Reborn - The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Hardcover): Clyde Woods Development Drowned and Reborn - The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Hardcover)
Clyde Woods; Edited by Laura Pulido, Jordan Camp
R3,096 Discovery Miles 30 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region and a history of resistance. Written in dialogue with social movements, this book offers tools for comprehending the racist dynamics of U.S. culture and economy. Following his landmark study, Development Arrested, Woods turns to organic intellectuals, Blues musicians, and poor and working people to instruct readers in this future-oriented history of struggle. Through this unique optic, Woods delineates a history, methodology, and epistemology to grasp alternative visions of development. Woods contributes to debates about the history and geography of neoliberalism. The book suggests that the prevailing focus on neoliberalism at national and global scales has led to a neglect of the regional scale. Specifically, it observes that theories of neoliberalism have tended to overlook New Orleans as an epicenter where racial, class, gender, and regional hierarchies have persisted for centuries. Through this Blues geography, Woods excavates the struggle for a new society.

Our Musical Heritage - From Yankee Doodle to Carnegie Hall, Broadway, and the Hollywood Sound Stage (Hardcover): Mark Evans Our Musical Heritage - From Yankee Doodle to Carnegie Hall, Broadway, and the Hollywood Sound Stage (Hardcover)
Mark Evans
R1,160 Discovery Miles 11 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
KJ - A Visual Tribute to Keith Jarrett's Music (Hardcover): J Rosa G KJ - A Visual Tribute to Keith Jarrett's Music (Hardcover)
J Rosa G
R953 Discovery Miles 9 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Light On A Hill (Hardcover): Aiyisha T Obafemi A Light On A Hill (Hardcover)
Aiyisha T Obafemi
R1,024 Discovery Miles 10 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Seduced and Abandoned - Essays on Gay Men and Popular Music (Hardcover): Richard Smith Seduced and Abandoned - Essays on Gay Men and Popular Music (Hardcover)
Richard Smith
R3,897 Discovery Miles 38 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Smith examines the different ways in which gay men use pop music, both as producers and consumers, and how, in turn, pop uses gay men. He asks what role culture plays in shaping identity and why pop continues to thrill gay men. These 40 essays and interviews look at how performers, from The Kinks' Ray Davies to Gene's Martin Rossiter, have used pop as a platform to explore and articulate, conform to or contest notions of sexuality and gender. A defence of cultural differences and an attack on cultural elitism, Seduced and Abandoned is as passionate and provocative as pop itself.

The Jesus and Mary Chain (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Andrew Catlin The Jesus and Mary Chain (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Andrew Catlin; Jim Reid, Julie Reid
R1,082 Discovery Miles 10 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Gainesville Punk - A History of Bands & Music (Paperback): Matt Walker Gainesville Punk - A History of Bands & Music (Paperback)
Matt Walker
R548 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Exercises for the Modern Jazz Pianist - Daily Studies (Hardcover): Robin Boudreaux Exercises for the Modern Jazz Pianist - Daily Studies (Hardcover)
Robin Boudreaux; Foreword by A.L. Kennedy
R3,010 Discovery Miles 30 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wax Poetics Issue One (Special-Edition Hardcover) (Hardcover): Various Authors Wax Poetics Issue One (Special-Edition Hardcover) (Hardcover)
Various Authors
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Songwriting Secrets of the "Beatles" (Hardcover): Dominic Pedler The Songwriting Secrets of the "Beatles" (Hardcover)
Dominic Pedler
R1,120 R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Save R179 (16%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

More than thirty years after The Beatles split up, the music of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison lives on. What exactly were the magical ingredients of those legendary songs? why are they still so influential for today's bands? This groundbreaking book sets out to exlore The Beatles' songwriting techniques in a clear and readable style. It is aimed not only at musicians but anyone who has ever enjoyed the work of one of the most productive and successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. Author Dominic Pedler explains the chord sequences, melodies and harmonies that made up The Beatles' self penned songs and how they uncannily complemented the lyrical themes. He also assesses the contributions that rhythm, form and arrangement made to the Beatles unique sound. Throughout the book the printed music of the Beatles' songs appears alongside the text, illustrating the authors explanations. The Songwriting Secrets of The Beatles is an essential addition to Beatles literature - a new and perceptive analysis of the music itself itself as performed by what Paul McCartney still calls 'a really good, tight little band'.

Wake Up, Mr. West - Kanye West and the Double Consciousness of Black Celebrity (Paperback): Joshua K Wright Wake Up, Mr. West - Kanye West and the Double Consciousness of Black Celebrity (Paperback)
Joshua K Wright
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Black celebrities in America have always walked a precarious line between their perceived status as spokespersons for their race and their own individual success -and between being "not black enough" for the black community or "too black" to appeal to a broader audience. Few know this tightrope walk better than Kanye West, who transformed hip-hop, pop and gospel music, redefined fashion, married the world's biggest reality TV star and ran for president, all while becoming one of only a handful of black billionaires worldwide. Despite these accomplishments, his polarizing behavior, controversial alliances and bouts with mental illness have made him a caricature in the media and a disappointment among much of his fanbase. This book examines West's story and what it reveals about black celebrity and identity and the American dream.

Transglobal Sounds - Music, Youth and Migration (Hardcover, Hardback): Joao Sardinha, Ricardo Campos Transglobal Sounds - Music, Youth and Migration (Hardcover, Hardback)
Joao Sardinha, Ricardo Campos
R4,239 Discovery Miles 42 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic intersections between the local and the global, and between agency and identity, are presented through case studies in this book. Transglobal Sounds contemplates migrant youth and the impact of music in diaspora settings and on the lives of individuals and collectives, engaging with broader questions of how new modes of identification are born out of the social, cultural, historical and political interfaces between youth, migration and music. Thus, through acts of mobility and environments lived in and in-between, this volume seeks to articulate between musical transnationalism and sense of place in exploring the complex relationship between music and young migrants and migrant descendant's everyday lives.

Growing Up with the Hits! - Reliving the Best Time of Your Life 1955-1989 (Hardcover): Nevin Grant Growing Up with the Hits! - Reliving the Best Time of Your Life 1955-1989 (Hardcover)
Nevin Grant
R983 R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Save R95 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Happy Daze with Tommy and the Rivieras - 1960s Rock and Roll (Hardcover): Tommy Janette Happy Daze with Tommy and the Rivieras - 1960s Rock and Roll (Hardcover)
Tommy Janette
R656 R589 Discovery Miles 5 890 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Birth of Breaking - Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up (Hardcover): Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian The Birth of Breaking - Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up (Hardcover)
Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian
R2,169 Discovery Miles 21 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop dance in the world today, with an estimated one million participants taking part in this dynamic, multifaceted artform. Yet, despite its global reach and over 40 years of existence, historical treatments of the dance have largely neglected the African Americans who founded it. Dancer and scholar Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian offers, for the first time, a detailed look into the African American beginnings of breaking in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s. Given the pivotal impact the dance had on hip-hop's formation, this book also challenges numerous myths and misconceptions that have permeated studies of hip-hop culture's emergence. Aprahamian draws on untapped archival material, primary interviews, and detailed descriptions of early breaking to bring this buried history to life, with a particular focus on the early aesthetic development of the dance, the institutional settings in which hip-hop was conceived, and the movement's impact on sociocultural conditions in New York throughout the 1970s. By featuring the overlooked first-hand accounts of over 50 founding b-boys and b-girls, this book also shows how indebted breaking is to African American culture and interrogates the disturbing factors behind its historical erasure.

The Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 (Hardcover): Simon Barclay The Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 (Hardcover)
Simon Barclay
R1,086 Discovery Miles 10 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Baptized in Dirty Water (Hardcover): Daniel White Hodge Baptized in Dirty Water (Hardcover)
Daniel White Hodge
R1,021 R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Save R161 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
KISS KLASSIFIED 2017 - WAR STORIES FROM A KISS ARMY GENERAL (Hardcover): KISS KLASSIFIED 2017 - WAR STORIES FROM A KISS ARMY GENERAL (Hardcover)
R1,290 R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Save R216 (17%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Southern Music Icons of Hendersonville, Tennessee (Hardcover): Jennifer Bruce, Tena Lee Southern Music Icons of Hendersonville, Tennessee (Hardcover)
Jennifer Bruce, Tena Lee; Foreword by Foreword Jamie Clary
R744 Discovery Miles 7 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Sound of Navajo Country - Music, Language, and Dine Belonging (Hardcover): Kristina M Jacobsen The Sound of Navajo Country - Music, Language, and Dine Belonging (Hardcover)
Kristina M Jacobsen
R2,872 Discovery Miles 28 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this ethnography of Navajo (Dine) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music's connections to the Indigenous politics of language and belonging, examining through the lens of music both the politics of difference and many internal distinctions Dine make among themselves and their fellow Navajo citizens. As the second largest tribe in the United States, the Navajo have often been portrayed as a singular and monolithic entity. Using her experience as a singer, lap steel player, and Navajo language learner, Jacobsen challenges this notion, showing the ways Navajos distinguish themselves from one another through musical taste, linguistic abilities, geographic location, physical appearance, degree of Navajo or Indian blood, and class affiliations. By linking cultural anthropology to ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology, and critical Indigenous studies, Jacobsen shows how Navajo poetics and politics offer important insights into the politics of Indigeneity in Native North America, highlighting the complex ways that identities are negotiated in multiple, often contradictory, spheres.

HIP-HOP History (Book 1 of 3) - The Incorporation of Hip-Hop: Circa 1970-1989 (Hardcover): Antwan Ant Bank$ HIP-HOP History (Book 1 of 3) - The Incorporation of Hip-Hop: Circa 1970-1989 (Hardcover)
Antwan Ant Bank$
R2,470 R2,036 Discovery Miles 20 360 Save R434 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adios, Motherfucker - A Gentleman's Progress Through Rock and Roll (Paperback): Michael Ruffino Adios, Motherfucker - A Gentleman's Progress Through Rock and Roll (Paperback)
Michael Ruffino
R391 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R21 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A blend of This Is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the cult classic confessions of a debauched rock 'n' roller and his adventures in excess on the '80s hair-metal nostalgia tour through Middle America--available again, and now revised and updated.

Once upon a time at the start of the new century, the unheard-of Unband got a chance to drink, fight, and play loud music with '80s metal bands like Dio and Def Leppard. To the mix they brought illegal pyrotechnics, a giant red inflatable hand with movable digits, a roadie dubiously named Safety Bear, a high tolerance for liver damage, and an infectious love of rock & roll and everything it represents.

Unband bassist Michael Ruffino takes us on an epic joyride across a surrealistic American landscape where we meet mute Christian groupies, crack-smoking Girl Scouts, beer-drinking chimps, and thousands of head-bangers who cannot accept that hair metal is dead. Here, too, are uncensored portraits of Ronnie James Dio, Anthrax, Sebastian Bach, Lemmy of Motorhead, and others.

Adios, Motherfucker is gonzo rock storytelling at its finest--excessive, incendiary, intelligent, hilarious, and utterly original.

HIP-HOP History (Book 2 of 3) - The Incorporation of Hip-Hop: Circa 1990-1999 (Hardcover): Antwan Ant Bank$ HIP-HOP History (Book 2 of 3) - The Incorporation of Hip-Hop: Circa 1990-1999 (Hardcover)
Antwan Ant Bank$
R2,335 R1,928 Discovery Miles 19 280 Save R407 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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