Music: styles and genres

This volume is the first book-length study of hooks in popular music.

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

Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi is one of the first book-length studies of Malawian hip hop.

Wallace Stevens's musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry.

This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon's iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993).

 The life and death, but also the creative work of famous musicians is closely linked to their personal medical histories.

This volume examines how African indigenous popular music is deployed in democracy, politics and for social crusades by African artists.

This volume explores the nature, philosophies and genres of indigenous African popular music, focusing on how indigenous African popular music artistes are seen as prophets and philosophers, and how indigenous African popular music depicts the world.

This book delves into a critical and comprehensive analysis of Mtukudzi's legacy, as an outstanding musician who anchored his music on cultural identity specifically through the artistic manipulation of language.

This edited collection delves into the industrial music genre, exploring the importance of music in (sub)cultural identity formation, and the impact of technology on the production of music.

 This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously as a concept album and a visual album or "e;emotion picture"e; in spring 2018.

Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations opens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens of the interaction between words and music.

This book is a critical reflection on the life and career of the late legendary Zimbabwean music icon, Oliver "e;Tuku"e; Mtukudzi, and his contribution towards the reconstruction of Zimbabwe, Africa and the globe at large.

This book critically analyses Eminem's studio album releases from his first commercial album release The Slim Shady LP in 1999, to 2020's Music To Be Murdered By, through the lens of storytelling, truth and rhetoric, narrative structure, rhyme scheme and type, perspective, and celebrity culture.

Celebrated musician and entertainer Lizzo wowed audiences and left many "e;feeling good as hell.

This book investigates the agency and influence of medieval queens in late fourteenth-century England, focusing on the patronage and intercessory activities of the queens Philippa of Hainault and Anne of Bohemia, as well as the princess Joan of Kent.