Introduction. Saving Eccentricity -- 1. Celibacy, Abstinence and Rock 'N' Roll -- 2. Oxymoronic Self -- 3. Art of Coyness -- 4. Maudlin Street -- 5. The Light That Never Goes Out -- Epilogue : A Ticklish Subject -- Selected Bibliography. "Morrissey is arguably the greatest dist…
Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic gestures of glam rock and the New Romantics, Morrissey's early bookish ineptitude, his celebration of the ordinary, and his subve…
"Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libe…
"Christopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing -- even occasionally stomping on vinyl that sounded too clean. Using production…
Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study. Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia,…
"The first overview of resonance/vibration - covering the field thematically, and written by one of the leading figures in sound studies and sound art"--
On Resonance -- The Visitors -- Time -- Water -- Air 2.0 -- Human, All Too Posthuman -- Silence -- Telepathic Variations -- Unwalled. "The first overview of resonance/vibration - covering the field thematically, and written by one of the leading figures in sound studies and sou…
Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scr…
"For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate. At once among the most widely beloved and…
The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.
The end -- The beginning -- A cellarful of noise -- And the band begins to play -- Rock and roll music -- The biggest showbiz town ever -- Yesterday and today -- The end of the road -- The act you've known for all these years -- Roll up for the mystery tour -- Whiter shades of p…
In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the l…
"Translating for Singing discusses the art and craft of translating singable lyrics, a topic of interest in a wide range of fields, including translation, music, creative writing, cultural studies, performance studies, and semiotics. Previously, such translation has most often b…
"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…
"A highly original work in the philosophy of music and sound, offering an in-depth study of the nature and purpose of rhythm"--
"Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age explores the relationship between macro environmental factors, such as politics, economics, culture and technology, captured by terms such as 'post-digital' and 'post-internet'. It also discusses the creation, monetisation and consumption o…
