Popular music

An Anthology of Australian Albums offers an overview of Australian popular music through the lens of significant, yet sometimes overlooked, Australian albums.

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman composer elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1974).

'A thorough, objective telling of McCartney's story - in and out of the most famous band ever.

This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance).

Emilia Barna is Assistant Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Roman Catholics constitute the most populous religious denomination in the United States, comprising one in four Americans.

San Francisco and the Long 60s tells the fascinating story of the legacy of popular music in San Francisco between the years 1965-69.

The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and star - the art form of the 21st century.

Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light 'behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation.

Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance.

During his many years writing for publications such as LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Slake, Surfer's Journal and more, Joe Donnelly has driven to Texas with Wes Anderson, shot pool with Sean Penn, surfed with Chris Malloy, sparred (verbally) with Christian Bale, gone on a date with Carmen Electra, and listened to tall tales told by Werner Herzog.

Frank Zappa's reputation as one of rock's maverick geniuses has continued to grow since his death in 1993.

Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre.

The Gender of Sexuality serves as a fun and informative guide on how to approach the topics of gender and sexuality-two areas fraught with stereotypes and misinformation.

How popular music reveals deep histories of racial tensionsin southern culture Southern History Remixedspotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States Southfrom the late nineteenthcentury to the era of rock n roll in the 1940s,50s, and 60s.

The story of Africa is a ghost story with two plots.

As a young woman in the 1980's, Julia became entangled with the emerging punk scene in Minneapolis - in particular with the band Nobody's fool - until a mysterious and unspeakable catastrophe delivers her to a husband and the suburbs.

Classic biography of one of the great figures of modern popular music, the inventor of the 'Wall Of Sound', legendary sixties record producer Phil Spector.

Occupy Religion introduces readers to the growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement and asks provocative questions about how people of faith can work for social justice.

David McComb, the driving force behind The Triffids, shaped one of Australia's most revered albums, Born Sandy Devotional ( 1986).

This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them.

Taking you on from the earliest feature films to today, Colors of Film introduces 50 iconic movies and explains the pivotal role that color played in their success.

This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding.

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

Each state in Europe has its own national laws which affect religion and these are increasingly the subject of political and academic debate.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, and numerous other groups put Britain at the center of the modern musical map.

The time: 1936-1938.

Insulting Music explores insult in and around music and demonstrates that insult is a key dimension of Western musical experience and practice.

Originally published in 1966, this was the first book on this subject to be published for over a hundred years.

Burt Korall is widely recognized as the most authoritative writer on jazz drumming.

"e;This is the first full-length study devoted to Roger Laporte, whose lifelong exploration of the stakes of writing has produced a body of work on the borderline of literature and philosophy.

As with most great bands, it is difficult to remember a time when Blur weren't a part of Britain's rich musical landscape.

Nearly 50 years after his death, Louis Armstrong remains one of the 20th century's most iconic figures.

Music, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Teacher's Guide serves as a guide to the professor tasked with teaching music to undergraduates, with a focus on gender.

A philosophical look at heavy metal's dark masters of reality, Black Sabbath Black Sabbath is one of the world's most influential and enduring rock bands.

A "e;fun, often hilarious"e; memoir by the queen of heavy metal and Runaways guitarist, packed with "e;plenty of colorful '80s rocker stories"e; (Philadelphia Inquirer).

The first of its sort, I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock 'n' Roll High School provides readers with a detailed production history of this beloved film that draws upon extensive interviews the author has conducted with many of the people who contributed to the movie's creation, including lead actress P.

From the earliest days of rock and roll, white artists regularly achieved fame, wealth, and success that eluded the Black artists whose work had preceded and inspired them.

Black British Gospel Music is a dynamic and multifaceted musical practice, a diasporic river rooted in the experiences of Black British Christian communities.

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Driving Identities examines long-standing connections between popular music and the automotive industry and how this relationship has helped to construct and reflect various socio-cultural identities.

Ephemeral by nature, the concert setlist is a rich, if underexplored, text for scholarly research.

There has always been an intricate relationship between religion and politics.

Sin Documentos is a landmark album in Spanish popular culture and continues to maintain considerable popularity more than two decades after its release.

The author presents a cultural history of popular Viennese electronic music from 1990 to 2015, from the perspectives of production, scene and national and international reception.