"Fernandes brilliantly captures the moment when a global generation curved toward a unifying language and culture and found something that was both much more and much less than what it was searching for. Close to the Edge is a beautifully told tale of the collective and the pers…
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Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Temporaries and Eternals focuses on the music column that Huxley wrote for The Weekly Westminster Gazette in 1922-23. Readers of Huxley's novels, essays and travel writing will be aware of the wealth of …
Prologue: Nothing Has Been Done Before -- Part 1. The Past in the Present -- Chapter 1. Revivals Are Revisions: New Millennial Folk Music Rolls the Dice -- Chapter 2. "Love and Theft":Transgression and the Cultural Archive -- Chapter 3. The Problem of Knowing Too Much: Meta-Rock…
"Is there such a thing today as music that's meaningfully new? In our contemporary era of remixing and retro styles, cynics and romantics alike cry 'it's all been done before' while record labels and media outlets proclaim that everything is new. Coded into our daily conversatio…
Is there such a thing today as music that's meaningfully new? In our contemporary era of remixing and retro styles, cynics and romantics alike cry "It's all been done before" while record labels and media outlets proclaim that everything is new. Coded into our daily conversation…
'When Genres Collide' is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone.
"By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by World War II and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Müller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European hist…
"Monáe's full-length debut, The Archandroid, is a science fiction concept album that tells the story of the android Cindi Mayweather, a citizen of 28th century Metropolis who is on the run from the authorities for daring to love a human. As she fights for survival, Cindi realize…
Media narratives in popular music
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"The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and q…
Introduction: Once upon a time -- 1. Sweet romance: a tale of two discos -- 2. Faster and faster to nowhere: fairy tales and the black urban experience -- 3. Working the midnight shift: life and music inside the Munich machine -- Brief interlude: a man like you or how to get you…
"Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella story,…
Introduction: I'm going hunting -- State of emergency: Björk's crisis -- I want to go on a mountain top: Björk's escape -- The marvellous web: Björk's friends -- Excuse me, but I just have to explode: Björk's noises -- You just didn't know me: Björk's characters -- Home, what's …
"In recent years, Björk's artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art coinciding with her most recent album, Vulnicura, in …
Kerouac on Record: a Literary Soundtrack
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"He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during the 1940s with Ch…