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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture provides
a comprehensive and fully up-to-date overview of key themes and
debates relating to the academic study of popular music and youth
culture. While this is a highly popular and rapidly expanding field
of research, there currently exists no single-source reference book
for those interested in this topic. The handbook is comprised of 32
original chapters written by leading authors in the field of
popular music and youth culture and covers a range of topics
including: theory; method; historical perspectives; genre;
audience; media; globalization; ageing and generation.
Richard and Fred Fairbrass, better known as Right Said Fred, scored
a global Number 1 hit in 1991 with their debut single 'I'm Too
Sexy', selling 30 million albums, being showered with industry
awards, and earning plaudits from admirers such as Madonna and
Prince. Before that breakthrough, though, the brothers spent over a
decade in London and New York, trying to make it in the music
industry. Fred played guitar with Bob Dylan and Richard played bass
in several David Bowie videos, with the brothers appearing on stage
with Joy Division and Suicide, and on film with Mick Jagger. Once
fame hit, the good times rolled, the substances mounted up and the
groupies formed an orderly queue, but it wasn't long before the
brothers realised that fame and fortune is not for everyone. Still
Too Sexy is their story, with a foreword by the legendary stunt
motorcyclist Eddie Kidd, OBE.
The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of
musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered
view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic
self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism
and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated
via socio-technological networks. Chapters funnel outward, from the
solo improviser (Evan Parker), to nonlinear group dynamics (Sam
Rivers trio), to networks that comprise improvisational
communities, to pedagogical dynamics that affect how individuals
learn, completing the hermeneutic circle. Winner of the Society for
Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam prize in its first edition, the
revised edition features new sections that highlight
electro-acoustic and transcultural improvisation, and concomitant
issues of human-machine interaction and postcolonial studies.
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