Brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb trailblazed their way across pop music since the 1960s and were the first band to......more
The 1960s marked the dawning of a new era - and nowhere was this more manifest than in black America. Social shifts and ......more
New facsimile edition of a Classic Text of Music Education. This detailed study is based on reliable information and dev......more
A fun and inspiring look back at more than fifty years of Dolly Parton on the airwaves, packed with beautiful photos of ......more
Startup language, culture and strategy--once seen as enemies to the music business--have permeated artists’ careers and ......more
Startup language, culture and strategy--once seen as enemies to the music business--have permeated artists’ careers and ......more
Schenkerian theory has become recognized internationally as a valuable method of music analysis. But Viennese theorist H......more
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While Southern California punk bands were saying, "Our band could be your life," Los Angeles’s hair metal acts were insi......more
The Pet Shop Boys--Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe--are arguably the most successful duo in the history of pop music. Three-......more
Changes in the construction of musical instruments have always taken place, some with more radical results than others. ......more
Changes in the construction of musical instruments have always taken place, some with more radical results than others. ......more
Thomas Morley (1557/8-1602) has long been regarded as the most important English music theorist of the early modern peri......more
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The description for this book, Lennon-isms, will be forthcoming....more
Musical improvisation is a complex form of creative human expression. In this book, Sabina Rakcheyeva explores the logic......more
Adolph Bernhard Marx (1795-1866) may be the single most influential music theorist before Heinrich Schenker; he is also ......more
Mali has provided many of Africa s best known and most celebrated artists, several of whom have won Grammy awards and ot......more
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Although Gustav Holst is rarely thought of as an opera composer, his operatic works provide a gateway to the exploration......more
Carl Stumpf (1848-1936) was a German philosopher and psychologist and a visionary and important academic. During his lif......more
2018 will mark the 800th anniversary of the consecration of the Abbey of St Beno (R)t-sur-Loire - or Fleury Abbey - the ......more
With the abrogation of the Zen Buddhist Fuke sect during Japan s modernisation process in the late nineteenth century, t......more
This is the first book to explore the manifestation of myth, magic and mysticism in music since 1920 against a backgroun......more
Theorizing Resistance examines the extent to which music constructions provide windows for opposition and resistance to ......more
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This Routledge Television Guidebook on Television Music provides a comprehensive overview of the engagement between musi......more
This Routledge Television Guidebook on Television Music provides a comprehensive overview of the engagement between musi......more
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This new and musicologically informed version presents for the first time an accurate translation of a key text within M......more
This book offers the first musical, cultural, and technological history of loudness, highlighting how loudness calls att......more
Nabeel Zuberi explores how popular music in the US and UK has mediated violence and racial conflict since 9/11. The text......more
An intimate look inside the Beatles and their relationships with their muses, the eight women who shared the Beatles’ li......more
With Forewords by Brian May & Roger Taylor. 50 years+ of Queen memorabilia brought together in a magnificent, fully illu......more
How did Keith Urban go from Australian smalltown singer to Nashville superstar? The Grammy Award winner’s astonishing tr......more
A fearless, inspiring, and refreshingly candid memoir by the Grammy-award winning rapper, multi-platinum recording artis......more
In Lyrics to Live By: The Beatles, Stella Barnes takes a look back on the foundation of the Fab Four’s most influential ......more
Phaedra was the album that saw Tangerine Dream move from relative obscurity to mainstream success. Championed by broadca......more
Phaedra was the album that saw Tangerine Dream move from relative obscurity to mainstream success. Championed by broadca......more
The life and times of a living legend, the most successful and influential singer/songwriter of the past fifty years thr......more
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The second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music provides an updated, state-of-the-art analys......more
Discover John Kander and Fred Ebb, the most artistically and commercially successful musical theatre writing team since ......more
Discover John Kander and Fred Ebb, the most artistically and commercially successful musical theatre writing team since ......more
Dave Davieswas seventeen when he recorded "You Really Got Me." With the British Invasion in full swing, the precocious t......more
How do we study the sonic nature of war when very few of these sounds remain? World War One has left little sonic trace ......more
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This book fills a gap in religious studies literature by providing a historical study of Black gospel music in Britain. ......more
Loco is the first volume of autobiography from Dez Fafara. The California-born and raised everyman is now the singer and......more
The sound of New Wave pop music and the early days of MTV were defined by the work of a handful of iconic musicians, and......more
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This book pays homage to a rock band that has most influenced alternative culture, the Grateful Dead. It critically disc......more
This book pays homage to a rock band that has most influenced alternative culture, the Grateful Dead. It critically disc......more
Is contemporary Black British gospel music a coloniality? What theological message is really conveyed in these songs? In......more
Discourse on popular music frequently describes artists’ recordings and performances as "intimate." Yet that discourse o......more
The Beatles are known for cheeky punchlines, but understanding their humor goes beyond laughing at John Lennon’s memorab......more
Throughout the history of popular music, the careers of many culturally significant artists and groups began on the smal......more
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A massive photographic archive of Lee "Scratch" Perry’s legendary recording studio A 600-page tribute to one of the most......more
Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be ......more
A punk rock anti-memoir told through the eyes of a biracial Afrolatino punk academic. PÓNK! follows Moose, an alienated ......more
This exploration of the controversial polymath scholar Marcus Meibom (1630-1711) sheds new light on aspects of his scien......more
Musicians have always been inspired by the places in which they live. Benjamin Britten will always be identified with th......more
An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black viole......more
An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black viole......more
The revelatory origin story of one of America’s most beloved musicians, Louis Armstrong How did Louis Armstrong become L......more
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Deeply informed by jazz, Billie’s Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expre......more
Deeply informed by jazz, Billie’s Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expre......more
Do you feel like you live life looking in from the outside? From the way you speak, to the color of your skin, to the wa......more
Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagner’s operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons betwee......more
In Go All The Way, today’s best and brightest writers go deep on what certain Power Pop bands and songs mean and have me......more
An extremely rare and intimate look into the extraordinary life and death of legendary A$AP Mob founder A$AP Yams and th......more