Popular music

This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis.

In a career that's spanned thirty-five years and generated fourteen albums, fifty-three singles (two of them UK number ones), four Brit Awards, two Ivor Novellas and inspired literally hundreds of university dissertations, quite a few PhD's and the odd specialist subject on Mastermind, Manic Street Preachers have become, in the words of their 2011 singles collection, national treasures.

Contributions by Joshua Coleman, Christine Hand Jones, Kevin C.

 This edited book considers the impact of neoliberalism on music teaching, research and scholarship in a higher education context.

This book, first published in 1968, describes the development of religion by radio, and its influences on people both inside and outside the Church.

In Songs in the Key of Black Life, acclaimed cultural critic Mark Anthony Neal turns his attention to Rhythm and Blues.

Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study.

Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else is a critical biography of Ray Davies, with a focus on his music and his times.

Tony Bolden presents an innovative history of funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic.

How does the constant presence of music in modern life-on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television-affect the way we listen?

Looking at schools and universities, it is difficult to pinpoint when education, teaching and learning started to haemorrhage purpose, aspiration and function.

»Seine Storys, seine Gedichte: Sie sind perfekte Dissonanzen, in denen eine Welt, ein ganzes Leben erklingt und bricht.

Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men.

College campuses have become rich sites of hip-hop culture and knowledge production.

This book provides the first detailed study of the water supply of households in antiquity.

This book examines the diverse facets of popular music in Malta, paying special attention to ghana (Malta's folk song), the wind band tradition, and modern popular music.

Contributions by Ignatius Calabria, H.

Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community.

This book highlights how the diverse nature of spiritual practices are experienced and manifest through the medium of popular music.

The unexpected death of George Michael on Christmas Day, 2016 brought to a close the life of one of the UK's most loved pop icons.

The Music and Life of Theodore "e;Fats"e; Navarro: Infatuation is the first comprehensive study of the jazz trumpeter Theodore "e;Fats"e; Navarro.

American soul music of the 1960s is one of the most creative and influential musical forms of the twentieth century.

In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont concert, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.

Artie Shaw led one of America's most accomplished big bands during the 1930s and 1940s, and has sold over 100 million records.

David Bowie: The Golden Years chronicles Bowie's creative life during the 1970s, the decade that defined his career.

Christians and Christianity have been central to Hip Hop since its inception.

Over three decades and more than 150 million albums, AC/DC has established itself as much more than just a great rock band.

Sean Stroud examines how and why MA sica Popular Brasileira (MPB) has come to have such a high status, and why the musical tradition (including MPB) within Brazil has been defended with such vigour for so long.

The Jazz Standards, a comprehensive guide to the most important jazz compositions, is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form.

Are you disconnected from God?

It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ.

Listen to Soul!

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

Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945 provides the first broad scholarly discussion of this music since 1990.

Dylan's friends - from Pete Seeger to Bruce Springsteen to Rosanne Cash to Bono to Tom Petty - offer insight into the singer-songwriter's artistic genius and personality.

Italien und die Musik.

Hip-hop is now a global multi-billion pound industry.

What did popular song mean to people across the world during the First World War?

Although military music was among the most widespread forms of music making during the nineteenth-century, it has been almost totally overlooked by music historians.

This book examines the diverse facets of popular music in Malta, paying special attention to ghana (Malta's folk song), the wind band tradition, and modern popular music.

Please note: this edition is text only and does not contain images.

Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre traces the uses and transgressions of genre in the music of Radiohead and studies the band's varied reception in online and offline media.

Billboard magazine named The Beatles the greatest performing musical act of all time, and their albums continue to chart to this day.

'[A] penetrating biography .

What is experimental music today?

Listen To This If You Love Great Music is a must read for anyone with even a passing interest in music.

Barbara Lebrun traces the evolution of 'protest' music in France since 1981, exploring the contradictions that emerge when artists who take their musical production and political commitment 'seriously', cross over to the mainstream, becoming profitable and consensual.

Practical Musicology outlines a theoretical framework for studying a broad range of current musical practices and aims to provoke discussion about key issues in the rapidly expanding area of practical musicology: the study of how music is made.