Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth-century English vocal music, this study restores English music's relationship with the picturesque.
Part memoir, part social history, Revolutionary Spirit is the poignant, often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musicians scenic route to fame and artistic validation.
The Beatles and Vocal Expression examines popular song through the topic of paralanguage - a sub-category of nonverbal communication that addresses characteristics of speech that modify meaning and convey emotion.
The Beatles and Vocal Expression examines popular song through the topic of paralanguage - a sub-category of nonverbal communication that addresses characteristics of speech that modify meaning and convey emotion.
Everything you wanted to know about country, from the men and women who put the music on the map, to the genres, guitars and history, to the greatest hits of all time.
Bringing together a diverse group of world leading professionals across Post-Production Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music, Art of Sound explores the creative principles that underpin how sonic practitioners act to compose, tell stories, make us feel, and communicate via sound.
Bringing together a diverse group of world leading professionals across Post-Production Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music, Art of Sound explores the creative principles that underpin how sonic practitioners act to compose, tell stories, make us feel, and communicate via sound.
American Musicals in Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century gives students a fresh look at history-based musicals, helping readers to understand the American story through one of the country's most celebrated art forms: the musical.
A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022WITH A FOREWORD BY ROBERT SMITHThe definitive collection of renowned photographer Tom Sheehan's images of The Cure with photographs seen here for the very first time.
The Life and Music of Harry Styles is written in an enthusiastic tone and fan-focused style, richly illustrated with photographs of the heartthrob and charts the evolution of Styles's career from his discovery on the X Factor to his rise to a global super star and the next step: conquering the world as a solo artist and actor in 2017's Dunkirk, 2021's Eternals and landing the starring role in 2022's Don't Worry Darling.
TATE BOOK OF THE MONTH 2023A timely critique of consumer culture which captures this image-obsessed moment in history, perfect for fans of Zadie Smith's Feel Free and Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror.
An essential companion to Michael Jackson's music, films, and books, this work offers 21 original, academic essays on all things Jackson-from film, music, and dance to fashion, culture, and literature.
This insightful analysis of the broad impact of hip-hop on popular culture examines the circulation of hip-hop through media, academia, business, law, and consumer culture to explain how hip-hop influences thought and action through our societal institutions.
The second of two volumes, this companion to every song that Bob Dylan ever wrote is not just opinionated commentary or literary interpretation: it consists of facts first and foremost.
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Winner of Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2023Winner of the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright 2023"e;The men with the Piano look up the narrow staircase of our little flat and they turn to Dad, light their fags, and say; We might have to take the windows out"e;.
Winner of Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2023Winner of the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright 2023"e;The men with the Piano look up the narrow staircase of our little flat and they turn to Dad, light their fags, and say; We might have to take the windows out"e;.
Winner of Best Theatre for Young Audiences Music/Sound at the Offies Awards 2023Sometimes they eat cheeseSometimes they eat breadThey even eat the tiny crumbs that fall under the bedThey eat jellyThey eat egg!
Winner of Best Theatre for Young Audiences Music/Sound at the Offies Awards 2023Sometimes they eat cheeseSometimes they eat breadThey even eat the tiny crumbs that fall under the bedThey eat jellyThey eat egg!
SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023A VARIETY MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a trailblazer who created a new kind of music, mixing Black and white, male and female, funk and rock; penned some of the most iconic anthems of the 1960s and 70s, from "e;Everyday People"e; to "e;Family Affair"e;; and electrified audiences with a persona and stage presence that set a lasting standard for pop culture performance.
Ecologies of Creative Music Practice: Mattering Music explores music as a dynamic practice embedded in contemporary ecological contexts, one that both responds to, and creates change within, the ecologies in which it is created and consumed.
Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.
