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The DJ stands at a juncture of technology, performance and culture in the increasingly uncertain climate of the popular music industry, functioning both as pioneer of musical taste and gatekeeper of the music industry. Together with promoters, producers, video jockeys (VJs) and …
Irish music enjoyed popularity across Europe and North America in the second half of the twentieth century. Regional circumstances created a unique reception for such music in the English Midlands. This book is a musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950-2010. Initially establishi…
"From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James "J Dilla" Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as "hip hop music" is typ…
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…
Introduction: Raucous Jazz (Rock Is Jazz?); 1 Jazz Culture as a Precursor to Rock 'n' Roll Culture; 2 The Dismissal of Rock 'n' Roll by Jazz Critics at Down Beat; 3 The American Jazz Press Covers Rock; 4 The Birth of Rolling Stone; 5 Newport 1969 and the Uneasy Coupling of Jazz …
'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.
'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.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Foreword -- Pop Goes Academia; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Englishness, whose Englishness? ; The English enigma; Sounds of Englishness; Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular music and English identities; Notes; References; Part…
"Mad Dogs and Englishness connects English popular music with questions about English national identities, featuring essays that range across Bowie and Burial, PJ Harvey, Bishi and Tricky. The later years of the 20th century saw a resurgence of interest in cultural and political…
"Explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery"--
This book traces the development of music in the late 20th and early 21st centuries with regards to the work of six women composers: Sofia Gubaidulina, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Libby Larsen, Chen Yi, and Judith Weir. The study integrates cultural contexts with the compo…
British Music and the French Revolution investigates the nature of British musical responses to the cataclysmic political events unfolding in France during the period of 1789-1795, a time when republican and royalist agendas were in conflict in both nations. While the parallel d…
This book is an English re-writing of the original Hebrew edition, published by Dvir Publishing House, in 2007, and written jointly with the late Herzl Shmueli. The book probes into the nature and quality of the beauty and meaning of music. According to.
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous and wonderfully strange music created in the years after punk.
"Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with…