Popular music

Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity explores the meaning of Jewish involvement in the world of American jazz.

Twenty-First Century Musicals stakes a place for the musical in today's cinematic landscape, taking a look at leading contemporary shows from their stage origins to their big-screen adaptations.

Twenty-First Century Musicals stakes a place for the musical in today's cinematic landscape, taking a look at leading contemporary shows from their stage origins to their big-screen adaptations.

This research and information guide provides a wide range of scholarship on the life, career, and musical legacy of Miles Davis, and is compiled for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars in jazz and popular music, musicology, and cultural studies.

This research and information guide provides a wide range of scholarship on the life, career, and musical legacy of Miles Davis, and is compiled for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars in jazz and popular music, musicology, and cultural studies.

This book, first published in 1982, shows that jazz and blues are music forms that are about individualism, experiment, expression and feeling.

This book, first published in 1982, shows that jazz and blues are music forms that are about individualism, experiment, expression and feeling.

This collection of essays, first published in 1987, provides a sociological treatment of many musical forms - rock, jazz, classical - with special emphasis on the perspective of the practising musician.

When rock 'n' roll began its ascendancy in the 1950s the older generation saw it as dangerous, renegade, threatening the moral stability of a nation.

When rock 'n' roll began its ascendancy in the 1950s the older generation saw it as dangerous, renegade, threatening the moral stability of a nation.

The first non-stop rock video channel was launched in the US in 1981.

The first non-stop rock video channel was launched in the US in 1981.

In Tin Pan Alley we see the beginnings of the pop world as we now know it: commercial, constantly capturing, exploiting or even occasionally creating a public mood.

In Tin Pan Alley we see the beginnings of the pop world as we now know it: commercial, constantly capturing, exploiting or even occasionally creating a public mood.

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.

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.

This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986.

This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986.

The approach of this book, first published in 1982, is multi-disciplinary.

The approach of this book, first published in 1982, is multi-disciplinary.

This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music.

This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music.

This collection of essays, first published in 1987, provides a sociological treatment of many musical forms - rock, jazz, classical - with special emphasis on the perspective of the practising musician.

This book investigates the discursive and performative strategies employed by Australian Indigenous rappers to make sense of the world and establish a position of authority over their identity and place in society.

Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos.

Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos.

Recording Analysis: How the Record Shapes the Song identifies and explains how the sounds imparted by recording processes enhance the artistry and expression of recorded songs.

Recording Analysis: How the Record Shapes the Song identifies and explains how the sounds imparted by recording processes enhance the artistry and expression of recorded songs.

The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it.

The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it.

This book explores the trend of retro and nostalgia within contemporary popular music culture.

This book explores the trend of retro and nostalgia within contemporary popular music culture.

For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in public poses particular challenges.

For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in public poses particular challenges.

Since the first series of Pop Idol aired in the UK just over a decade ago, Idols television shows have been broadcast in more than forty countries all over the world.

Since the first series of Pop Idol aired in the UK just over a decade ago, Idols television shows have been broadcast in more than forty countries all over the world.

For more than three decades, a punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it'.

The use of popular music in advertising represents one of the most pervasive mergers of cultural and commercial objectives in the modern age.

The use of popular music in advertising represents one of the most pervasive mergers of cultural and commercial objectives in the modern age.

For more than three decades, a punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it'.

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century.

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century.

Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain.

Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain.

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

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

Black British musicians have been making jazz since around 1920 when the genre first arrived in Britain.

Black British musicians have been making jazz since around 1920 when the genre first arrived in Britain.

Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry.

Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry.