Popular music

Finding the Beat explores humankind's ability, propensity, and enjoyment in finding the beat in live and recorded experiences of music-making through the lens of entrainment, the human capacity to perceive a beat and to synchronize to it.

The definitive guide to the world of contemporary and electronic music by the media's top music pundit'An exhilarating history of pop - a brilliant and joyous book' Guardian'A passionate, irresistible encouragement to listen more, and to listen better' Sunday TimesHas pop burnt itself out?

This manual contains complementary information for that included in my previous texts regarding contemporary jazz improvisation techniques.

Join Greg Laurie, pastor and bestselling author of Steve McQueen: The Salvation of an American Icon, as he takes you on a personal journey into the life and legend of Johnny Cash.

Brazilian music has been central to Brazil's national brand in the U.

Since Radiohead's formation in the mid-1980s, the band has celebrated three decades of creative collaboration and achieved critical acclaim across music genres as cultural icons.

Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human.

Is it possible to disagree politically and love unconditionally?

The Festivalization of Culture explores the links between various local and global cultures, communities, identities and lifestyle narratives as they are both constructed and experienced in the festival context.

In this lively examination of youth and their relationship to music, first published in 1994, contributors cover issues ranging from the place of music in urban subculture and what music tells us about adolescent views on love and sex, to the political status of youth and youth culture.

Short-listed for the 2011 Golden Oak Award From the moment three-year-old Jeff Healey first laid a guitar across his lap in what was to become his signature style, it was clear he was no ordinary kid.

A map for the masculine journey.

Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.

Andre Kostelanetz On Records and On the Air is a comprehensive discography of the commercial recordings of the Russian/American conductor and radio personality, Andre Kostelanetz.

Hebraism in Religion, History, and Politics is an investigation into Hebraism as a category of cultural analysis within the history of Christendom.

From the day that Bobby Zimmerman first turned on the radio in his parents' home in Hibbing, he'd had a pretty good idea that big things were happening.

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Recorded Jazz Music-Certificate of Merit (2013)The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression.

Simon Frith has been one of the most important figures in the emergence and subsequent development of popular music studies.

In 1997 the rap group Racionais MCs (the 'Rational' MCs) recorded the album Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), subsequently changing the hip-hop scene in Sao Paulo and firmly establishing itself as the point of reference for youth across Brazil.

The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters.

Progressive rock is maligned and misunderstood.

›Freiheit‹, ›Mit Pfefferminz bin ich dein Prinz‹, ›Sexy‹, ›Lass uns leben‹, ›Wieder hier‹ sind Songs, die ganze Generationen geprägt haben.

In 2006, the Stones are in the middle of their latest world tour, and reach the UK in the summer with sell-out shows at giant arenas like Wembley Stadium.

The Spice Girls phenomenon was a genuine pop music landmark.

Featuring 100 photographs of Frank Sinatra working with orchestras and arrangers, listening to playbacks, and, of course, singing, this book tells the whole story of how he created the Sinatra sound and translated the most intense personal emotions into richly worked-out songs of unrivalled expressiveness.

In France during the 1960s and 1970s, popular music became a key component of socio-cultural modernisation as the music/record industry became increasingly important in both economic and cultural terms in response to demographic changes and the rise of the modern media.

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and CosA fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another.

They've sold more than 20 million albums, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and they're one of Homer Simpson's favorite bands-but even today, fifty years after they first formed, Cheap Trick remains to many a club band with a cult following.

Are you a romantic optimist with a cheery disposition?

For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic.

The official book celebrating the 25th anniversary of SPIN magazineFrom its first issue in 1985, SPIN has cultivated a reputation for brilliant writing and broad musical coverage, including genres and artists long abandoned by its competitors.

Is modern racism a product of secularisation and the decline of Christian universalism?

Unlike most books on rock music, Music of Yes does not focus on personalities, but instead on musical structures, lyrical vision, and cultural and historical context.

Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China.

The Eastern Christian tradition is filled with theological and spiritual riches.

There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form.

In the 1970s, Northern Soul held a pivotal position in British youth culture.

Corey Taylor has seen a lot of unbelievable things.

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Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies: if religion has a natural ally, it is authoritarianism--not republicanism or democracy.

You know it when you hear it, but can you say what it is?

The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space.

"e;Golland leaves no stone unturned in this fine-grained chronicle of the rock group Journey.

Metal, Rap, and Electro in Tunisia is a trip into the music scenes of Tunisia after the Arab Springs.

A Social History of Early Rock 'n' Roll in Germany explores the people and spaces of St.

Dubbed the 'man in black', it's time to look beyond the myth and the rumours of this most charismatic but misunderstood of rock Guitarists.

The world's fascination with New Orleans stems from the allure of the music of the city-music that owes its origins and development to many sources.

Winner of the 2022 Open Publication Prize by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-ANZ)A Women's History of the Beatles is the first book to offer a detailed presentation of the band's social and cultural impact as understood through the experiences and lives of women.