Popular music

With just four record companies controlling nearly 80 per cent of the world market in popular music, issues of globalization are evidently significant to our understanding of how and why popular music is made and distributed.

The global movement of culture and religion has brought about a serious challenge to traditional constitutional secularism.

Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music.

From cowering, introverted founders of the alternative rock movement to one of the twenty best-selling American bands of all time, the story of R.

Stuart Nicholson's biography of Ella Fitzgerald is considered a classic in jazz literature.

Featuring over 70 black and white photos, take a peek into the minds of men from Boyzone.

Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade.

This book illustrates how social meanings provided by music are experienced throughout the course of life.

This is the first full-length biography of Keith Relf, frontman for the Yardbirds and one of the great tragic characters in rock history.

Grunge has been perceived as the music that defined 'Generation X'.

Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years.

Immediately upon publication in 1998, the Encyclopedia of Country Music became a much-loved reference source, prized for the wealth of information it contained on that most American of musical genres.

This collection explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision.

During the 1990s, Asian pop artists began entering the mainstream of the British music industry for the first time.

From the rise of the American Evangelical movement to the introduction of Eastern philosophies in the West, the past century has seen major changes in the religious makeup of Western culture.

The connections between government, organized crime, and the music industry are examined, offering compelling evidence that there may be more to the deaths of important popular musicians than has been commonly told.

The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s.

This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles techniques for all musician players of modern jazz.

Researching Live Music offers an important contribution to the emergent field of live music studies.

After it was announced that the twenty month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was abducted, the entire world grieved for their loss.

Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study, Second Edition, is a comprehensive textbook for those with no previous study in jazz, as well as those in advanced theory courses.

A lightning rod for powerful emotions, Thomas Schippers began his escalation to fame at nineteen continuing with performances in many renowned venues in the world.

In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

A lavishly illustrated tribute to the greatest entertainer of a generation.

The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies offers a series of cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling topics in the growing field of Sondheim Studies.

This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively under-explored in a 21st century context.

The greatest backup group in the history of recorded music undoubtedly was the Jordanaires, a gospel group of mostly Tennessee boys, formed in the 1940s, that set the standard for studio vocal groups in the '50s, '60s, '70s, and beyond.

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 Celine Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.

“Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration” (The Boston Globe).

Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War.

Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when James Brown's Loaded detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs were finally allowed to stay open on a Sunday).

The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943-1965 provides synopses, cast and production credits, song titles, and other pertinent information for over 180 musicals from Oklahoma!

Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy traces the representations of outlaw fathers, or queer patriarchs, and their relationships with their queer sons, in a particular literary tradition: mid-to-late-Victorian and twentieth-century British fiction and memoir.

Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music is an intimate chronicle of Gerry Mulligan's life and career, told in his own words.

Jazz first floated into the Twin Cities on the Mississippi River excursion boats, which brought the likes of Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong to listeners on the levee-and it never left.

Among the numerous sets of conferences that Thomas Merton presented to young prospective monks during his decade (1955-1965) as novice master at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani is a wide-ranging introduction to biblical studies, made available for the first time in the present volume.

With a focus on 50 defining artists, songs, and albums, Listen to Hip Hop!

Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, "e;There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate.

Why, despite the number of high profile female rock musicians, does rock continue to be understood as masculine?

An indispensable guide to Islamic political thought from Muhammad to the twenty-first centuryThe first encyclopedia of Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.

This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience.

This is your backstage pass to the hidden side of the music industry - the tantrums, the fights, the tensions, the indulgence, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs.

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Behind the glamour and the crowds.

Over 17 years and eight albums, heavy metal band Machine Head have sold millions of units, earned a Grammy nomination and won personal awards from Metal Hammer and other magazines.

By the early nineties, singer-songwriter and former Blake Babies member Juliana Hatfield s solo career was taking off: She was on the cover of Spin and Sassy.

The first book to explain from both scientific and spiritual perspectives the healing and transformative powers of harmonics.

Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues Before Sunrise, has spent more than thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene.

This is the first study of "e;hard"e; country music as well as the first comprehensive application of contemporary cultural theory to country music.