Popular music

Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz.

In this book, native popular musicologists focus on their own popular music cultures from Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the first time: from subcultural to mainstream phenomena; from the 1950s to contemporary acts.

From the mid-1940s until his death in 1979, Charles Mingus created an unparalleled body of recorded work, most of which remains available in the 21st century.

The biography, life and times of American jazz legend Louis Armstrong.

Politics, while always an integral part of the daily life in the South, took on a new level of importance after the Civil War.

Everyone is paying attention to Pope Francis, and that includes the most unlikely of admirers: a female Baptist pastor.

Rock Tonality Amplified presents an in-depth exploration of rock tonality.

The popularization of radio, television, and the Internet radically transformed musical practice in the Asia Pacific.

Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the question: how has writing past and present been influenced by popular music, and vice versa?

'I'm going to camp out on the land .

Beginning early in the 1980s, a dance music revolution swept across Europe and Britain, merging rock, new wave, disco and worldbeat sounds.

Music and War in the United States introduces students to the long and varied history of music's role in war.

Ewan MacColl is widely recognized as a key figure in the English folk revival, who tried to convey traditional music to a mass audience.

David Bellamy is a natural story teller whose memoir is packed full of funny anecdotes and observations.

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media.

This interdisciplinary volume enters the scholarly conversation about Bruce Springsteen at the moment when he has reinforced his status of global superstar and achieved the status of social critic.

Living in the Merry Ghetto reframes how people use music to build resistance.

Sex, death and nostalgia are among the impulses driving Beatles fandom: the metaphorical death of the Beatles after their break-up in 1970 has fueled the progressive nostalgia of fan conventions for 48 years; the death of John Lennon and George Harrison has added pathos and drama to the Beatles' story; Beatles Monthly predicated on the Beatles' good looks and the letters page was a forum for euphemistically expressed sexuality.

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.

Authorship Roles in Popular Music applies the critical concept of auteur theory to popular music via different aspects of production and creativity.

A playwright, also known as a dramatist or dramaturg, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama.

The finest book on Britain's most popular rock 'n' roll band'Read on .

Women, Music and Leadership offers a wide-ranging survey of women in musical leadership and their experiences, highlighting women's achievements and considering how they negotiate the challenges of the leadership space in music.

In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in the Western world.

Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why.

This book is intended as a survey history of the American record business as it developed during its first full century.

What is Hip-Hop?

In Trump, White Evangelical Christians, and American Politics, political scientists Anand Edward Sokhey and Paul A.

Will Ashurst provides tangible answers as he delves deep into the music industry.

Taking readers behind Bob Dylan's familiar image as the enigmatic rebel of the 1960s, this book reveals a different view--that of a careful craftsman and student of the art of songwriting.

Through nigh-on forty years of laconic brilliance on Radio 1, a musical taste which defined a culture and his wildly popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths, John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection.

Black Sabbath has often been credited with inventing heavy metal with their first album released in 1970.

In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound.

How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time?

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training).

This book explores an important aspect of hip-hop that is rarely considered: its deep entanglement with spiritual life.

A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identity and history.

HONK!

An extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J.

"e;Industrial"e; is a descriptor that fans and critics have applied to a remarkable variety of music: the oildrum pounding of Einstrzende Neubauten, the processed electronic groans of Throbbing Gristle, the drumloop clatter of Skinny Puppy, and the synthpop songcraft of VNV Nation, to name just a few.

This account of Led Zeppelin's decadent life on the road by their longtime tour manager "e;dishes up the real dirt as only an insider's report can"e; (Kirkus Reviews).

Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Leo Ferre are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with each other by the public and the media.

A New York Times BestsellerIn Every Little Step, Bobby Brown tells the full story of his life and sets the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.

The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs.

Take a look at the drinking dive under a teashop where the original Rolling Stones were recruited, visit the places where skiffle was born, The Beatles played their last gig, and Paula Yates died.

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.

This anthology consists of fourteen topically arranged essays that explore a form of humanism characterized by epistemic humility, a progressive ethical orientation, as well as a respect for the positive features of religion.

Developing Expression in Brass Performance and Teaching helps university music teachers, high school band directors, private teachers, and students develop a vibrant and flexible approach to brass teaching and performance that keeps musical expression central to the learning process.