Popular music

Miles on Miles collects the thirty most vital Miles Davis interviews.

Popular music in Japan has been under the overwhelming influence of American, Latin American and European popular music remarkably since 1945, when Japan was defeated in World War II.

The idea that the universe is created out of sound or music (and therefore is music) is a very ancient one.

Bringing together cultural, political and economic analyses, Lawrence Grossberg offers an original and bold interpretation of the contemporary politics of both rock and popular culture.

Early Christian spirituality is a topic of enduring fascination today among scholars and general readers alike.

The Sunday Times Sports Book of the YearA Times Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'The heartwarming story of the collaboration and friendship between English football s oddest couple, Elton John and Graham Taylor' The Times' A wonderful, feel-good account of an ultimately English provincial story' Simon Kuper_____________________ An unforgettable British underdog story from one of our greatest narrative nonfiction writers, John Preston, and the international musical icon and bestselling author, Sir Elton John.

A disciple of Classical sculpture in a time of pervasive abstract modernism, Lawrence M.

Although it isn't the official national anthem, America may be the most important and interesting patriotic song in our national repertoire.

Jazz on the Line: Improvisation in Practice presents an ethnographic reflection on improvisation as performance, examining how musicians think and act when negotiating improvisational frameworks.

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians in the French jazz world and the ways in which women thrive as professionals despite such conditions.

Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of performers, troupes and companies across the Atlantic, there is little in Britain to match the scholarship of blackface studies in the States.

This compilation of essays takes the study of the blues to a welcome new level.

First Published in 2009.

U2 planted the seeds for The Joshua Tree during an existential journey through America.

Beautiful Monsters explores the ways in which "e;classical"e; music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture-in pop songs, movie scores, and print media.

Most of the many books about David Bowie track his artistic 'changes' chronologically throughout his career.

Shyness & Love covers the only major study conducted to date on social anxiety disorder as it is manifested in informal, unstructured, male/female dating and courtship situations.

This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the concept of Ihsan, which means to do beautiful things.

In Spirits Rejoice!

What the hell is shoegaze?

Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll explores the interaction between two of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years - the literary forces of the Beat Generation and the musical energies of rock and its attendant culture.

Boom's Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J.

The Practice of Popular Music is a music theory and musicianship textbook devoted to explaining the organization of contemporary popular music styles such as pop, rock, R&B, rap, and country.

This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in Leeds - developed from the work of interdisciplinary scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition "e;Sounds of Our City"e; and built upon contemporary research.

Join Union J as they embark on their journey to become THE next big boyband in Our Story!

This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of the greatest wars the world had ever known.

Across his directorial films, American filmmaker Dennis Hopper used music and sound to propel the narrative, signpost the era in which the films were made, and delineate the characters' place within American culture.

Rock and roll's death has been forecast nearly since its birth; the country song "e;The Death of Rock and Roll"e; appeared in September 1956, showing that the music had already outraged a more conservative listening audience.

This analytical volume examines the various aspects of "De emendanda vita monachica", combining this with the question of whether this text by Eusthatios of Thessalonica with its polemical fireworks and learned allusions was really intended for the monks of the diocese, who are portrayed as being uneducated, or was actually aimed at an unnamed readership.

The musical output of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock has toppled genre boundaries and influenced generations of musicians.

Studies of opera, film, television, and literature have demonstrated how constructions of madness may be referenced in order to stigmatise but also liberate protagonists in ways that reinforce or challenge contemporaneous notions of normality.

A GUARDIAN AND CHOICE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A walk on the wild side with the alt-rock pioneer' GQ'DeCurtis is well placed to trace Reed's five-decade career, drawing on insider knowledge but skilfully balancing it with detailed research and fascinating interviews' Mojo MagazineAs lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock.

Originally published in 1968.

Remixing European Jazz Culture examines a jazz culture that emerged in the 1990s in cosmopolitan cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Berlin, London, and Oslo - energised by the introduction of studio technologies into the live performance space, which has since developed into internationally recognised, eclectic, hybrid jazz styles.

This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom.

The biography, life and times of American jazz trumpeter Bunk Johnson.

Music in all its forms was an indispensable part of everyday life in Britain''s armed forces during the Great War.

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "e;chosenness"e; into plans and programs for black liberation.

In a career spanning five decades, Elton John has sold over 250 million records worldwide and has appeared in nearly 4 000 live performances.

What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common?

What do the occult sciences, seances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality?

"e;When bebop was new,"e; writes Thomas Owens, "e;many jazz musicians and most of the jazz audience heard it as radical, chaotic, bewildering music.

This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of the greatest wars the world had ever known.

Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move.

'A boy sings.

Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America.

Do you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton Club?

Teenage punk, self-taught musician, bandleader, session man, smoker, drinker, multi-millionaire, David Grohl has achieved a rare feat, a rock 'n' roll double crown having been a member of two hugely successful and influential bands - Nirvana and The Foo Fighters.

The Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension.

Takes the reader through the essentials from locating and defining jazz to jazz in performance.