Music

Focuses on issues of musical communities and the politics of media by exploring the confluence of music consumption, burgeoning technology, and contemporary culture.

The first comprehensive account of classical music on British radio stations, BBC and commercial, between 1945 and 1995.

Explores how individuals use music in the context of their everyday lives and how, in return, music acquires certain roles within everyday contexts and more broadly in their life narratives.

Discusses how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing relationship between artists and audiences.

Highlights the challenges currently facing the fashion industry, which has been strongly influenced by the digital revolution in the music industry.

Examines how being a metal music fan is an experience shaped by gender.

The first comprehensive account of how Anglo-American popular music transformed Italian cultural life, especially the rise of new musical tastes and social divisions in late 20^th-century Italy.

Explores how new modes of computation may provide exciting new directions for future developments in the music industry, guiding the reader through the latest research in this emerging interdisciplinary field.

Examines the post-1960s era of popular music in the Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and methods.

Proposes that new music technologies attract unconscious desires for socialism and collectivity, enabling millions of people living under capitalism to dream of repressed social alternatives.

What do millennial rappers in the United States say in their music? This timely and compelling book answers this question by decoding the lyrics of over 700 songs from contemporary rap artists.

Focuses on Hendrix's life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with emphasis on his relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation.

Investigates the stardom of Lady Gaga within a cultural-sociological framework.

Explores the connections between law and opera, providing a comprehensive, multinational, and multidisciplinary (jurists, philosophers, musicologists, historians) resource on the subject.

Uncovers how music experience, both live and recorded, is changing along with the use of digital technology in the 2000s.

Explores the power that music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and well being.

Provides rare insights into the difficult and complex dialogues between stakeholders within and outside the music industries in a time of transition to a digital era.

Explores how music can improve skills that are impaired in some neurodevelopmental disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, and Rett syndrome.

Looks at the role of popular music in constructing the myth of the First World War. Since the late 1950s over 1,500 popular songs from more than forty countries have been recorded that draw inspiration from that conflict.

The Beatles are probably the most photographed band in history and are the subject of numerous biographical studies, but a surprising dearth of academic scholarship addresses the Fab Four. This book offers original, previously unpublished essays that explore 'new' aspects of the Beatles.

Outlines career models for artists, methods of creative engagement, artistic options including individuality and branding, production practices, the realities of being a musician in the new industries, and implications for popular music education.

New Orleans' contributions to popular music around the world has been unrivaled; performing this music authentically requires collective improvisation, taking performers on sonorous sojourns in unanticipated, 'magical' moments.

Details the history of Chinese theatre, and British representations of Chinese theatre, on the London stage over a 250-year period.

Discusses Nashville as a music place, especially the importance of the fans (tourists) in creating the city's multifaceted musical identity.

Explores popular music in Eastern Europe during the period of state socialism in Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Estonia and Albania.

Explores the ways in which music scenes are not merely physical spaces for the practice of collective musical life but are also inscribed with (and enacted through) the articulation of cultural memory and emotional geography.

Documents the 19^th biannual conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.

Explores the centrality of The Who's classic album Quadrophenia to the recent cultural history of Britain.

Explores the relationships among the musical genres of post-punk, goth, and metal.

Based on ethnographic research within the extreme metal community, Unger offers a thought-provoking look at how symbols of authenticity and defilement fashion social experience in surprising ways.

This anthology offers perspectives on the evolving legacy of performance ethnography in socio-musical analysis.

Offers a holistic description of the multifaceted field of systematic musicology, which is the study of music, its production and perception, and its cultural, historical and philosophical background.

Presents the first in-depth study of the Eurovision Song Contest from an Australian perspective. Using a cultural studies approach, the study draws together fan interviews and surveys with media and textual analysis of the contest itself.

Argues that popular music since rock-'n'-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western elevation of the intellect above all things corporeal.

Perspectives in psychology, aesthetics, history and philosophy are drawn upon to survey the value given to sad music by human societies throughout history and today.

This book, the first English-language translation of Acoustique des instruments de musique (2^nd ed.) presents the necessary foundations for understanding the complex physical phenomena involved in musical instruments.

Covers acoustics for sound production and analysis, Fourier, frequency modulation, wavelets, and physical modeling and a classification of musical instruments and sound spaces for tuning and counterpoint.

By exploring the many different types and forms of contemporary musical instruments, this book contributes to a better understanding of the conditions of instrumentality in the 21^st century.

Weaves together historical descriptions of the physical phenomena with the author's clear interpretations of the most important aspects of the science of music and musical instruments.

Comprises twelve articles which cover a range of topics from musical instrument acoustics to issues in psychoacoustics and sound perception as well as neuromusicology.