Simon Doonan's memoir pays homage to Lou Reed's groundbreaking glam rock album Transformer, recalling its influence on his coming of age and coming out.
As a work of cultural criticism that recalls the concerns of Foucault, Hayden White, Zizek, and others Decentering Music examines the struggle for the authority to speak about music at a time when the humanities are in crisis.
WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD A fascinating look at the impact of country home-making on the lives and work of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann.
Scholars of second-wave feminism often center their research on northern thought and political activity and usually overlook the vibrant pockets of activism that existed elsewhere.
In Mythologist in Microgroove: A Study of Italian Myths and Cultural Shifts with Fabrizio De Andre on Lead Vocals, author Julianne VanWagenen investigates the ways in which popular music, as well as other popular genres, engaged with and critiqued modern myth during years of cultural and political upheaval in Italy, from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.
The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and features of British musicals, which explore the aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings of a tradition that initially gave rise to the American musical and later challenged its modern pre-eminence.
How music embodies and contributes to historical and contemporary nationalism What does music in Portugal and Spain reveal about the relationship between national and regional identity building?
¨Charly Garcia Para piano¨ es una fina selección de 9 canciones en formato de partitura para piano, donde Guilo Villar, hace un excelente trabajo de interpretación, lectura y traducción de las melodías más ricas de este famoso autor y compositor argentino contemporáneo.
This incomparable anthology collects articles, interviews, fiction, and poetry from the Original Chicago Blues Annual, one of music history's most significant periodical blues publications.
The German-American relationship was special long before the Cold War; it was rooted not simply in political actions, but also long-term traditions of cultural exchange that date back to the nineteenth century.
Edgy, witty, and opinionated critical analysis of "e;classic rock"e; in the 21st century, discussing everything from modern remixes of classic albums (why?
