Music

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

Explores Canadian music's commentaries on American 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.

Explores the ways music can engender religious experience by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us.

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

Focuses on content-based analysis of music files, a system that automatically analyzes the structures of a music file and then annotates it with the perceived emotions.

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

Offers a unique analysis of social protest in popular music.

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.

Explores the connections among international relations, music, and diplomacy from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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.

Offers an original interdisciplinary overview of the role of haptic feedback in musical interaction.

Experts across fields including psychology, neurology, music therapy, medicine, and public health review research on the benefits of music in relieving physiological, psychological, and socioemotional dysfunction.

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.

Offers a unique perspective on music history and performance through a series of conversations with women and men intimately associated with music performance, history, and practice.

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.

Colonialist, nationalist, and regionalist ideologies have profoundly influenced folk music and related musical practices among the Garhwali and Kumaoni of Uttarakhand. This book blends historical and ethnographic approaches to unlock these influences.

Explores the significance of reggae and hip hop in Southern Italy from the beginning of the 1980s to the present.

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

Explores questions of identity, cultural change and creativity from the perspective of contemporary musicians currently engaged in redefining Asian musical traditions and notions of heritage in Singapore.

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.

Reviews the current practices of traditional musics in various cultures of all continents, and examines the impact and significance of traditional musics in the modern world.

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.

Addresses core questions about the role of materials in general and of wood in particular in the construction of stringed instruments used in the modern symphony orchestra (violins, violas, cellos and basses). Further attention is given to materials for classical guitars, harps, harpsichords and pianos.

Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound file: all were cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early 20^th century, and for many musicians, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. This book traces a network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art.

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.

Instructional resource with immense personal, practical, social, philosophical, educational, and cultural relevance for today's studio music teachers. Its humanistic and holistic approach invites teachers to consider not only who they are and what music means to them, but also what they have yet to imagine about themselves, about music, their students, and life.

Offers a provocative sociological examination of masculinity, class and music education within the context of a unique and fascinating culture: the classical musical world of choirboys.

Examines the inter-relationship between music learning and teaching, and culture and society.

Examines pluralism in light of recent music education research history and pluralistic approaches in practice.