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No Machos or Pop Stars - When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk (Paperback): Gavin Butt No Machos or Pop Stars - When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk (Paperback)
Gavin Butt
R737 R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Save R90 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After punk's arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these artists-turned-musicians challenged the limits of what was deemed possible in rock and pop music. Taking avant-garde ideas to the record-buying public, they created Situationist antirock and art punk, penned deconstructed pop ditties about Jacques Derrida, and took the aesthetics of collage and shock to dark, brooding electro-dance music. In No Machos or Pop Stars Gavin Butt tells the fascinating story of the post-punk scene in Leeds, showing how England's state-funded education policy brought together art students from different social classes to create a fertile ground for musical experimentation. Drawing on extensive interviews with band members, their associates, and teachers, Butt details the groups who wanted to dismantle both art world and music industry hierarchies by making it possible to dance to their art. Their stories reveal the subversive influence of art school in a regional music scene of lasting international significance.

Bruce Springsteen -- Keyboard Songbook 1973-1980 - Piano/Vocal/Guitar (Paperback): Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen -- Keyboard Songbook 1973-1980 - Piano/Vocal/Guitar (Paperback)
Bruce Springsteen
R735 R631 Discovery Miles 6 310 Save R104 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For pianists who love Bruce Springsteen, this sheet music collection is a dream come true. Rich with piano, Hammond organ, glockenspiel, and more, Springsteen's early albums contain some of the most memorable keyboard tracks in rock 'n' roll history. Now, for the first time, keyboard parts for 25 songs from his legendary 1973--1980 era have been notated with unprecedented accuracy and gathered in this collectible volume. Note-for-note keyboard transcriptions are woven into arrangements that make each song playable on piano from start to finish. Complete vocal melodies and lyrics are included, along with chord grids for guitar. The 25 selections in this volume were chosen for their playability on piano and their popularity among songs Springsteen recorded during his exciting '70s era---a time of boundless creativity and energy that stands out amid the many highlights of his unparalleled career. Titles: Ain't Good Enough for You * Backstreets * Badlands * Because the Night * Born to Run * Darkness on the Edge of Town * Growin' Up * Hungry Heart * It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City * Jungleland * Kitty's Back * Meeting Across the River * New York City Serenade * Out in the Street * Point Blank * The Promise * The Promised Land * Prove It All Night * Racing in the Street * The River * She's the One * Spirit in the Night * Streets of Fire * Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out * Thunder Road.

Touched by Grace - My Time with Jeff Buckley (Book): Gary Lucas Touched by Grace - My Time with Jeff Buckley (Book)
Gary Lucas 1
R490 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R113 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We're going to do this tribute in St Ann's Church in Brooklyn - a wonderful space. Oh, by the way, we've been contacted by Tim Buckley's son, Jeff. Touched By Grace is an up-close-and-personal account by the legendary guitarist and songwriter Gary Lucas of the time he spent with his friend and collaborator, Jeff Buckley, during Jeff's early days in New York City. It describes their magical performance together at the Greetings From Tim Buckley concert at the Church of St Ann in 1991 - the event that first introduced Jeff to the world at large; the creation of their songs 'Mojo Pin' and 'Grace,' which started life as guitar instrumentals by Gary and would later become integral to Jeff's debut album, Grace; and their plan to take on the world together in Gary's band Gods and Monsters. Just as the band was set to soar, however, Jeff pulled the plug, opting instead to sign a solo deal with Columbia Records - the very label that had recently cut short its recording contract with the original incarnation of Gods and Monsters. In this fascinating, revelatory new book, Gary Lucas writes with vivid, heartfelt honesty about the highs and lows of this all-too-brief musical union, from his first meeting with Jeff through to the devastating phone call from an MTV journalist with news of Jeff's disappearance in the Mississippi River. Touched By Grace is an eye-opening tale of music, passion, betrayal, and more.

Music in the Course of Life (Hardcover): Joseph A. Kotarba Music in the Course of Life (Hardcover)
Joseph A. Kotarba
R3,761 Discovery Miles 37 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book illustrates how social meanings provided by music are experienced throughout the course of life. To this end, the author examines in depth the concepts of self, identity, socialization, and the life course itself. Social scientists have traditionally focused on music experiences among different generations, one at a time, with an emphasis on young audiences. This book explores appreciation for and use of music as a dynamic process that does not begin when we enter adolescence, nor end when we become adults. It demonstrates the relationship between the experience of music and the experience of self as a fundamental feature of the more general relationship of the individual to society. Music completes the circle of life. The author bases his analysis on observations made through a variety of qualitative studies and methodologies, as well as his own music autobiography. Clear and jargon free, this book is a timely application of key concepts from the everyday life sociologies for scholars and students in the sociology of music and culture and other related disciplines such as anthropology and ethnomusicology. It will be of interest for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in culture, music, symbolic interaction, social psychology, and qualitative research methods.

Punk Rock Dad - No Rules, Just Real Life (Paperback): Jim Lindberg Punk Rock Dad - No Rules, Just Real Life (Paperback)
Jim Lindberg
R384 R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jim Lindberg is a Punk Rock Dad. When he drives his kids to school in the morning, they listen to the Ramones, the Clash, or the Descendents and that's it. He goes to all the soccer games, dance rehearsals, and piano recitals, but when he feels the need, he goes into the slam pit at punk shows and comes home bruised and beaten--somehow feeling strangely better. While the other dads dye their hair brown to cover the gray, Jim occasionally dyes his blue or green. He pays his taxes, serves jury duty, votes in all major elections, and reserves the right to believe that there's a vast Right Wing Conspiracy--and that the head of the P.T.A. is possibly in on it. He is a Punk Rock Dad.

Jazz in Contemporary China - Shifting Sounds, Rising Scenes (Hardcover): Adiel Portugali Jazz in Contemporary China - Shifting Sounds, Rising Scenes (Hardcover)
Adiel Portugali
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* first of a kind to explore the topic of contemporary Chinese jazz, and unique in examining phenomena of contemporary music in China * exposes the insiders' views of the very people - jazz musicians, teachers, students, producers and fans - who in their daily practices first created and developed Chinese jazz. * offers a unique study of the vibrant culture in China, with an exclusive comprehensive view on the increasing importance of music and urban culture in the everyday lives of Chinese people. * engages debates in jazz and popular music studies related to place, identity, education, creativity, individuality, politics, economy, society and cultural development in contemporary China.

Remaking Culture and Music Spaces - Affects, Infrastructures, Futures (Hardcover): Ian Woodward, Jo Haynes, Pauwke Berkers,... Remaking Culture and Music Spaces - Affects, Infrastructures, Futures (Hardcover)
Ian Woodward, Jo Haynes, Pauwke Berkers, Aileen Dillane, Karolina Golemo
R3,778 Discovery Miles 37 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection analyses the remaking of culture and music spaces during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Its central focus is how cultural producers negotiated radically disrupted and uncertain conditions by creating, designing, and curating new objects and events, and through making alternative combinations of practices and spaces. By examining contexts and practices of remaking culture and music, it goes beyond being a chronicle of how the pandemic disrupted cultural life and livelihoods. The book also raises crucial questions about the forms and dynamics of post-pandemic spaces of culture and music. Main themes include the affective and embodied dimensions that shape the experience, organisation, and representation of cultural and musical activity; the restructuring of industries and practices of work and cultural production; the transformation of spaces of cultural expression and community; and the uncertainty and resilience of future culture and music. This collection will be instrumental for researchers, practitioners, and students studying the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of cultural production in the fields of cultural sociology, cultural and creative industries research, festival and event studies, and music studies. Its interdisciplinary nature makes it beneficial reading for anyone interested in what has happened to culture and music during the global pandemic and beyond.

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender (Paperback): Stan Hawkins The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender (Paperback)
Stan Hawkins
R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Why is gender inseparable from pop songs? What can gender representations in musical performances mean? Why are there strong links between gender, sexuality and popular music? The sound of the voice, the mix, the arrangement, the lyrics and images, all link our impressions of gender to music. Numerous scholars writing about gender in popular music to date are concerned with the music industry's impact on fans, and how tastes and preferences become associated with gender. This is the first collection of its kind to develop and present new theories and methods in the analysis of popular music and gender. The contributors are drawn from a range of disciplines including musicology, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, philosophy, and media studies, providing new reference points for studies in this interdisciplinary field. Stan Hawkins's introduction sets out to situate a variety of debates that prompts ways of thinking and working, where the focus falls primarily on gender roles. Amongst the innovative approaches taken up in this collection are: queer performativity, gender theory, gay and lesbian agency, the female pop celebrity, masculinities, transculturalism, queering, transgenderism and androgyny. This Research Companion is required reading for scholars and teachers of popular music, whatever their disciplinary background.

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education (Paperback): Gareth Smith, Zack Moir, Matt Brennan, Shara... The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education (Paperback)
Gareth Smith, Zack Moir, Matt Brennan, Shara Rambarran, Phil Kirkman
R1,283 Discovery Miles 12 830 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Popular music is a growing presence in education, formal and otherwise, from primary school to postgraduate study. Programmes, courses and modules in popular music studies, popular music performance, songwriting and areas of music technology are becoming commonplace across higher education. Additionally, specialist pop/rock/jazz graded exam syllabi, such as RockSchool and Trinity Rock and Pop, have emerged in recent years, meaning that it is now possible for school leavers in some countries to meet university entry requirements having studied only popular music. In the context of teacher education, classroom teachers and music-specialists alike are becoming increasingly empowered to introduce popular music into their classrooms. At present, research in Popular Music Education lies at the fringes of the fields of music education, ethnomusicology, community music, cultural studies and popular music studies. The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Music Education is the first book-length publication that brings together a diverse range of scholarship in this emerging field. Perspectives include the historical, sociological, pedagogical, musicological, axiological, reflexive, critical, philosophical and ideological.

Music to Silence to Music - A Biography of Henry Grimes (Paperback): Barbara Frenz Music to Silence to Music - A Biography of Henry Grimes (Paperback)
Barbara Frenz
R552 R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Save R60 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis - Expanding Approaches (Paperback): Ciro Scotto, Kenneth M. Smith, John... The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis - Expanding Approaches (Paperback)
Ciro Scotto, Kenneth M. Smith, John Brackett
R1,535 Discovery Miles 15 350 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments in contemporary art music. "Expanded approaches" for popular music analysis is broadly defined as as exploring the pitch-class structures, form, timbre, rhythm, or aesthetics of various forms of popular music in a conceptual space not limited to the domain of common practice tonality but broadened to include any applicable compositional, analytical, or theoretical concept that illuminates the music. The essays in this collection investigate a variety of analytical, theoretical, historical, and aesthetic commonalities popular music shares with 20th and 21st century art music. From rock and pop to hip hop and rap, dance and electronica, from the 1930s to present day, this companion explores these connections in five parts: Establishing and Expanding Analytical Frameworks Technology and Timbre Rhythm, Pitch, and Harmony Form and Structure Critical Frameworks: Analytical, Formal, Structural, and Political With contributions by established scholars and promising emerging scholars in music theory and historical musicology from North America, Europe, and Australia, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches offers nuanced and detailed perspectives that address the relationships between concert and popular music.

Funk & Soul Covers (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Joaquim Paulo Funk & Soul Covers (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Joaquim Paulo; Edited by Julius Wiedemann
R1,724 R1,388 Discovery Miles 13 880 Save R336 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Following the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in Black music. Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social conscience, and street portraiture meets fantastical cartoon in this dazzling anthology of visualized funk and soul. Gathering both classic and rare covers, the collection celebrates each artwork's ability to capture not only a buyer's interest, but an entire musical mood. Browse through and discover the brilliant, the bold, the outlandish and the sheer beautiful designs that fans rushed to get their hands on as the likes of Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Michael Jackson, and Prince changed the world with their unique and unforgettable sounds. Featuring interviews with key industry figures, Funk & Soul Covers also provides cultural context and design analysis for many of the chosen record covers.

Imagine John Yoko (Hardcover): John Lennon, Yoko Ono Imagine John Yoko (Hardcover)
John Lennon, Yoko Ono
R1,284 R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Save R503 (39%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Recombo DNA - The story of Devo, or how the 60s became the 80s (Paperback): Kevin C. Smith Recombo DNA - The story of Devo, or how the 60s became the 80s (Paperback)
Kevin C. Smith 1
R490 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R113 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

(Book). Devo may have become synonymous with the crass commercialism of '80s new wave, but many of their inspirations and guiding principles are firmly rooted in the idealism of the '60s. They took a willfully non-traditional approach to the surprisingly conservative world of rock music, seeking inspiration instead from Dada and Pop art, comic books and homemade electronics, and in the process becoming a sort of musical Zelig, crossing paths with everything from late '60s psychedelia to punk, krautrock to new wave. Their idiosyncratic philosophy may not always have been consistent, but it served as a deep well of inspiration, and led to them working with such legendary characters as art-rock pioneer Brian Eno and Beatles/Bowie engineer Ken Scott. Published to coincide with the group's 40th anniversary in 2013, Recombo DNA is the first book to evaluate in the proper context the innovations and accomplishments of this truly groundbreaking band. Beginning in 1970, with the transformative effects of the Kent State University shootings which the band-members witness firsthand and ending a decade later with Devo on the cusp of superstardom (with "Whip It"), it traces the sounds and ideas that the group absorbed and in turn brought to prominence as unlikely rock stars. For anyone who has ever wondered where "the band who fell to earth" came from, here is the answer.

The Smile File - The Precursors of Queen (Paperback): Christopher John Smith The Smile File - The Precursors of Queen (Paperback)
Christopher John Smith
R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Reckless Road - Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction (Paperback, Illustrated): Marc Canter, Jason... Reckless Road - Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction (Paperback, Illustrated)
Marc Canter, Jason Porath; Photographs by Jack Lue 2
R878 R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Save R133 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When teenager and amateur photographer Marc Canter set out to document his best friend Saul Hudson's rise as a rock guitarist in 1982, he never imagined he was documenting the genesis of of the next great rock 'n' roll band. His friend became the legendary guitarist Slash, and Canter found himself witnessing the creation of Guns N' Roses front and center.

She Bop - The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music (Paperback): Lucy O'Brien She Bop - The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music (Paperback)
Lucy O'Brien
R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since She Bop was first published in 1995, digital downloading has transformed the music landscape. But has issue of gender inequality changed too? For She Bop, Lucy O Brien conducted over 250 interviews with female artists and women working behind the scenes in A and R, marketing, music publishing, and production to write a groundbreaking exploration of sexism in the music industry. Fusing many untold stories, O Brien presents a feminist history of women in popular music, from 1920s blues to the present day. Talking to iconic artists from Eartha Kitt and Nina Simone to Debbie Harry, Poly Styrene, and Beyonce, she charts how women have negotiated old boy power networks to be seen and to get their music heard. This revised edition updates that story through many fresh interviews and new perspectives. In a new introduction and additional closing chapter, O Brien asks why, in 2020, women own just 13 percent of music publishing and are still a minority among festival headliners. She celebrates the rise of unique women such as Lizzo and Billie Eilish who are bursting through and creating new possibilities for female artists, while also looking at the struggles of artists like Kesha and Aaliyah, and wondering whether the pop industry has had its #MeToo moment. When she first wrote She Bop, O Brien questioned the way the music press lumped female artists together under the term Women in Rock , saying that the ultimate goal was to make that phrase redundant. Now, despite the gender inequalities that still exist, greater awareness means few magazine editors would dare to feature women in such a derogatory way. Published to celebrate the original book s 25th anniversary and in the year that also marks the 50th anniversary of Women s Liberation this new She Bop will appeal to a huge cross-section of readers, from music fans to the LGBT audience and women of all generations.

Pomus & Shuman - Hitmakers: Together & Apart (Paperback): Graham Vickers Pomus & Shuman - Hitmakers: Together & Apart (Paperback)
Graham Vickers 1
R525 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R93 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first joint biography of one of rock 'n' roll's greatest song writing teams, Hitmakers Inc. explores the private lives and public triumphs of lyricist Doc Pomus and composer Mort Shuman. Between 1958 and 1965, usually working out of Manhattan's famous Brill Building, they wrote some 500 teen anthems and timeless ballads for Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, The Drifters, Bobby Darin, Del Shannon and Andy Williams among others. Polio-stricken ex-blues shouter Pomus always attracted the press coverage, but after the duo split junior partner Shuman proved the more colourful of the two, acting in films, writing musicals, joining the post-Beatles British beat boom and eventually becoming a chart-topping singer-composer in his own right in - of all places - France. The story of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, writing together and individually, reveals a personal dynamic that was both warm and difficult but which at its height produced songs like 'Teenager In Love', 'Save The Last Dance For Me', 'Surrender', 'Little Sister', '(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame' , 'This Magic Moment' and 'Lonely Avenue'.

Popular Music and Parenting (Hardcover): Shelley Brunt, Liz Giuffre Popular Music and Parenting (Hardcover)
Shelley Brunt, Liz Giuffre
R3,762 Discovery Miles 37 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- Applies a perspective rooted in popular music studies to understanding music in the parent-child relationship, offering a fresh take on the study of early childhood music - By bringing together popular music and early childhood, appeals across disciplines to popular music, media studies, and music education - Includes both case studies and broad analysis that draws together insights from across the literature, making this an engaging overview that can readily be used by students as well as researchers

Heavier Than Heaven - A Biography of Kurt Cobain (Paperback): Charles R. Cross Heavier Than Heaven - A Biography of Kurt Cobain (Paperback)
Charles R. Cross
R531 R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Save R101 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The New York Times bestseller and the definitive portrait of Kurt Cobain--as relevant as ever, as we remember the impact of Cobain on our culture twenty-five years after his death--now with a new preface and an additional final chapter from acclaimed author Charles R. Cross. It has been twenty-five years since Kurt Cobain died by his own hand in April 1994; it was an act of will that typified his short, angry, inspired life. Veteran music journalist Charles R. Cross fuses his intimate knowledge of the Seattle music scene with his deep compassion for his subject in this extraordinary story of artistic brilliance and the pain that extinguished it. Based on more than four hundred interviews; four years of research; exclusive access to Cobain's unpublished diaries, lyrics, and family photos; and a wealth of documentation, Heavier Than Heaven traces Cobain's life from his early days in a double-wide trailer outside of Aberdeen, Washington, to his rise to fame, success, and the adulation of a generation. Charles Cross has written a new preface for this edition, giving readers context for the time in which the book was written, six years after Kurt's death, and reminding everyone how fresh that cultural experience was when the interviews for the book were done. The new final chapter will update the story since, regarding investigations into Cobain's death, Nirvana's induction into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, and how their place in rock history has only risen over the decades.

Rock & Roll - Concert and Backstage Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s (Paperback): Larry Singer Rock & Roll - Concert and Backstage Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s (Paperback)
Larry Singer
R654 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R111 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rave On - Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music (Paperback): Matthew Collin Rave On - Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music (Paperback)
Matthew Collin 1
R388 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R112 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Electronic dance music was once the utopian frontier of pop culture. But three decades after the acid house 'summer of love', it has gone from subculture to the global mainstream. Does it still have the same power to inspire?

From the pleasure palaces of Ibiza and Las Vegas to 'new frontiers' like Shanghai and Dubai, raving is now a multi-million-dollar business. But there are still hardcore believers upholding its DIY ethos - the techno idealists of Berlin and Detroit and the queer subcults of New York, the post-apartheid party people of South Africa and the outlaw techno travellers of France.

In Rave On, Matthew Collin travels the world to experience these unique scenes first-hand, talk to the key players and hear the story of how dance culture went global - and find out if its maverick spirit can survive its own success.

How Music Empowers - Listening to Modern Rap and Metal (Paperback): Steven Gamble How Music Empowers - Listening to Modern Rap and Metal (Paperback)
Steven Gamble
R1,231 Discovery Miles 12 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How Music Empowers argues that empowerment is the key to unlocking the long-standing mystery of how music moves us. Drawing upon cutting-edge research in embodied cognitive science, psychology, and cultural studies, the book provides a new way of understanding how music affects listeners. The argument develops from our latest conceptions of what it is to be human, investigating experiences of listening to popular music in everyday life. Through listening, individuals have the potential to redefine themselves, gain resilience, connect with other people, and make a difference in society. Applying a groundbreaking theoretical framework to postmillennial rap and metal, the book uncovers why vast numbers of listeners engage with music typically regarded as 'social problems' or dismissed as 'extreme'. In the first ever comparative analytical treatment of rap and metal music, twenty songs are analysed as case studies that reveal the empowering potential of listening. The book details how individuals interact with rap and metal communities in a self-perpetuating process which keeps these thriving music cultures - and the listeners themselves - alive and well. Can music really change the world? How Music Empowers answers: yes, because it changes us. How Music Empowers will interest scholars and researchers of popular music, ethnomusicology, music psychology, music therapy, and music education.

Bluegrass Ambassadors - The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World (Paperback): Paul O. Jenkins Bluegrass Ambassadors - The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World (Paperback)
Paul O. Jenkins
R695 R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Save R122 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bluegrass Ambassadors is the first book-length study of the McLain Family Band, which has spread the gospel of bluegrass for more than fifty years. Rooted in bluegrass but also collaborating with classical composers and performing folk, jazz, gospel, and even marches, the band traveled to sixty-two foreign countries in the 1970s under the auspices of the State Department. The band's verve and joyful approach to its art perfectly suited its ambassadorial role. After retiring as full-time performers, most members of the group became educators, with patriarch Raymond K. McLain's work at Berea College playing a particularly important role in bringing bluegrass to the higher education curriculum. Interpreting the band's diverse repertoire as both a source of its popularity and a reason for its exclusion from the bluegrass pantheon, Paul Jenkins advances subtle arguments about genre, criticism, and audience. Bluegrass Ambassadors analyzes the McLains' compositions, recordings, and performances, and features a complete discography.

The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd (Hardcover): Chris Hart, Simon A. Morrison The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd (Hardcover)
Chris Hart, Simon A. Morrison
R6,450 Discovery Miles 64 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of one of the world's most important and successful bands. For the first time, this Handbook will 'tear down the wall,' examining the band's collective artistic creations and the influence of social, technological, commercial and political environments over several decades on their work. Divided into five parts, the book provides a thoroughly contextualised overview of the musical works of Pink Floyd, including coverage of performance and sound; media, reception and fandom; genre; periods of Pink Floyd's work; and aesthetics and subjectivity. Drawing on art, design, performance, culture and counterculture, emergent theoretical resources and analytical frames are evaluated and discussed from across the social sciences, humanities and creative arts. The Handbook is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals. It will appeal across a range of related subjects from music production to cultural studies and media/communication studies.

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