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Duran Duran's Rio, Limited Edition
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Classic Album
Annie Zaleski This limited printing, hardcover, 40th-anniversary edition includes an exclusive new interview with lead singer Simon Le Bon, a Rio timeline, a newly designed book cover by Rio album sleeve designer, Malcolm Garrette, vintage Duran Duran photos and ads, and much more. Duran Duran's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio represented the '80s rip-it-up-and-start-again movement, and the band became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. This book explores how and why Rio became a landmark poprock album and examines how the LP was a reflection of a musical, cultural, and technology zeitgeist.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 224 pages HB 9798765100233 • £14.99 / $19.95 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective
William L. Weir, Freelance writer, USA In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to create some innovative sounds for radio and TV. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop pioneered some of the earliest electronic music. They created TV’s best-known theme music, for Doctor Who, and created groundbreaking scores for news programs, auto maintenance shows and children’s programming using sampling, loops and early synthesizers, long before its listeners had any idea of what these techniques were. Ignored for decades, the Workshop has in recent years been recognized as one of the most influential forebears of electronica, psychedelia, ambient music and synth pop.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 160 pages PB 9781501389153 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501389160 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501389177 • £10.18 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic Kimberly Mack, University of Toledo, USA The iconic black rock band Living Colour’s Time’s Up, released in 1990, was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial success of their debut record Vivid. Their sophomore effort holds great relevance in light of its forward-thinking politics and lyrical engagement with racism, classism, police brutality, and other social and political issues of great importance. Through interviews with members of Living Colour and others involved in the making of Time’s Up, Kimberly Mack explores the creation of this artistically challenging, yet surprisingly underrated, album, while exploring the legacy of this groundbreaking Black American rock band.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 152 pages PB 9781501377518 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501377525 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501377532 • £10.18 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
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South African Popular Music
Lior Phillips, Music Journalist, USA From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the ‘40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the house explosion of the ‘00s, this book explores vignettes taken from across South Africa’s popular music history. In a country with 11 official languages, music had the power to unite South Africans in protest. Artists bloomed a new idyll from the branches of countless storied musical traditions, and in turn found themselves banned or exiled—the profoundly foolish epiphany that music can exist both within the pleasure of itself and for serving a far greater purpose.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 192 pages PB 9781501383427 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9781501383434 • £13.10 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501383441 • £13.10 / $17.95 Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic Larissa Wodtke, University of Winnipeg, Canada Beginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define. This book explores the historical and cultural conditions of the genre as it appeared in its first years and then again in the early 2000s and illuminates what is at stake in delineating dance-punk as a genre. Looking at bands such as Gang of Four, ESG, Public Image Ltd., LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, and Le Tigre, this book examines the tensions between and blurring of the rhetoric and emotion in dance music and the cynical and ironic intellectualizing associated with postpunk.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 192 pages PB 9781501381867 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9781501381874 • £13.10 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501381881 • £13.10 / $17.95 Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic
33 1/3 Oceania
Jon Stratton, University of South Australia; Jon Dale, writer and researcher, Melbourne, Australia
Alastair Riddell’s Space Waltz
Ian Chapman, University of Otago, New Zealand Alastair Riddell’s band Space Waltz was a onealbum New Zealand glam rock act. While this feat may have reduced their relevance in the eyes of some, their impact has endured, not least due to Riddell's radically expansive vision of Kiwi masculinity. The scant attention paid to this album is rectified with this new study of the band's history, starting with their discovery on a television talent show. Featuring exclusive conversations with the original band members, Alastair Riddell, Peter Cuddihy, Tony (Eddie) Raynor, Brent Eccles, and Greg Clark and album producer Alan Galbraith, this is the conclusive history of Space Waltz.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 144 pages PB 9781501389511 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501389504 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501389528 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501389535 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic
Bic Runga's Drive
Henry Johnson, University of Otago, New Zealand From entering a high-school music competition to being honoured with the New Zealand Order of Merit, Bic Runga has an established place within contemporary popular music. Focusing on her iconic album, Drive, and including informative case studies of representative tracks on the album, this book provides not only an in-depth study of one album, but skillfully navigates Runga’s creative work over three decades to illuminate some of the key stages of her career. The book offers comprehension of the performer’s rise to stardom, musical style, accolades, and performance achievements.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 144 pages PB 9781501390036 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501390043 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501390050 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501390067 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic
The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn
Matthew Bannister, Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand Songs From The Front Lawn documents a distinctively '80s New Zealand alternative variety act in a tradition of New Zealand duos who combine music, comedy and film, with classic songs like “Andy,” “How You Doing,” “When You Come Back Home” and “Claude Rains.” This book begins with a sociocultural background of late 1970s' New Zealand, including band members Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair’s upbringings on Auckland’s North Shore, then studies the group’s formation, philosophy and early performances as well as a track-by-track analysis of each of the album's 10 songs, ending with the group’s dissolution and each member's subsequent career.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 128 pages PB 9781501390098 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501390081 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501390104 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501390111 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic
Kylie Minogue's Kylie
Adrian Renzo, Macquarie University, Australia & Liz Giuffre, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Kylie Minogue’s self-titled debut album produced hits, controversy and a perfect mainstream storm. The then soap and children’s television star ‘crossed over’ to music with hit writer/producers SAW — and the shamelessly commercial approach of all involved saw the ‘real’ music industry get its back up. This book interrogates the way that commercial pop albums are remembered in both the popular music press and in academic research. The authors shed light on the way that notions of ‘mainstream’ and ‘other’ play out in a local context— specifically, Australia and New Zealand music on a global stage.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 136 pages PB 9781501382970 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501382987 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501382994 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501383007 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic
Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano's Bella Ciao
Jacopo Tomatis, University of Torino, Italy Bella Ciao is the album that kick-started the Italian folk revival in the mid-1960s, made by Il Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, a group of researchers, musicians, and radical intellectuals. Based on a contested music show that debuted in 1964, Bella Ciao also featured a double version of the popular song of the same title, an anti-Fascist anthem from World War II, which was destined to become one of the most sung political songs in the world. The book reconstructs the history and the reception of the Bella Ciao project and explores the origins and distinctive development of the Italian folk revival.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 152 pages PB 9781501372612 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501372629 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501372636 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501372643 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi
Maria Sonevytsky, Bard College, NY, USA In the 1980s, underground recordings, traded by fans at listening parties and through tape-dubbing collectives, activated networks of late-Soviet citizens who imagined other worlds. This book revels in Tantsi (Dances) (1989), an unofficial cassette release by the now-legendary Ukrainian punk band Ve-Ve, whose disruptive musical sounds, often ironic lyrics, and propulsive performances toyed with the distinctions between official and unofficial Soviet culture. Tantsi exemplifies how Soviet musical cultures existed within an ecosystem of contradictions as entrenched state infrastructures collided with emergent youth subcultures. Today, Tantsi invites us to dance while we laugh (or cry) at the absurdities of life.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 152 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781501363115 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501363122 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501363139 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501363146 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
Pearl Jam and Philosophy
Edited by Stefano Marino, University of Bologna, Italy & Andrea Schembari, University of Szczecin, Poland The first scholarly collection on the band, Pearl Jam and Philosophy examines both the songs (music and lyrics) and the activities (live performances, political commitments) of one of the most celebrated and charismatic rock bands of the last 25 years. The book investigates the philosophical aspects of their music at various levels: existential, spiritual, ethical, political, and aesthetic. Through this widespread philosophical examination, the book further looks into the band’s immense popularity and commercial success, their deeply loyal fanbase and genuine sense of community surrounding their music, and the pivotal place the band holds within popular music culture.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 280 pages PB 9781501385797 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501362781 ePub 9781501362798 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501362804 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Popular Music, Power and Play
Reframing Creative Practice
Marshall Heiser, Independent Scholar, Australia The advent of the DIY project studio and internet downloading has revolutionized popular music creative practice. For the current generation of popular musicians with the means of production and distribution firmly in their grasp, the possibilities seem endless, but so too are the formidable multiskilling and project management challenges to be faced. In order to better understand popular music and record production’s myriad processes – as well as interactions between collaborators, technology, and the wider domain/field – this book presents psychological and sociocultural theory-research that draws together the phenomenology of play, confluence approaches to creativity and cultural psychology.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 248 pages PB 9781501385421 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501362743 ePub 9781501362750 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501362767 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Music City Melbourne
Urban Culture, History and Policy
Shane Homan, Monash University, Australia, Seamus O’Hanlon, Monash University, Australia, Catherine Strong, RMIT University, Australia & John Tebbutt, RMIT University, Australia Beginning with the arrival of rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s, this book explores the development of different sectors of Melbourne’s popular music ecosystem in parallel with broader population, urban planning and media industry changes in the city. Interviews with Melbourne musicians, venue owners and policy-makers chart ambition with spotlights on the gendered, multicultural and indigenous experiences of playing and recording in Melbourne. This is the first book to provide an extensive historical lens of popular music within an urban cultural economy that in turn investigates the contemporary nature and challenges of urban music activities and policy.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 224 pages PB 9781501369643 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501365706 ePub 9781501365713 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501365720 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
The Blues Through the Beatles to Beyoncé
Walter Everett, University of Michigan, USA This multidisciplinary study of Anglo-American rock and pop music following the 1960s’ sexual revolution explores how this music has mapped a societal understanding of sexuality, feminism, and gender studies. Although scholarship has well established how early rock music impacted issues of sex in the Baby Boomer generation, this book studies how subsequent pop music has maintained that tradition. Walter Everett analyzes the gendered performances, biographical experiences, and lyrics of artists including Prince, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Zappa, and Patti Smith, and how their invented personae contribute to musical representations of sexuality and reflect the diversity of human sex and gender.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 224 pages PB 9781501345951 • £23.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501345968 • £88.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501345975 • £19.65 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501345982 • £19.65 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
Uncurating Sound
Knowledge with Voice and Hands
Salomé Voegelin, London College of Communication, UK Continuing on the concepts that have developed in through Salome Voegelin’s other field-defining works on sound (Listening to Noise and Silence, Sonic Possible Worlds), Uncurating Sound engages with the themes of curation, geography, and the condition of material and immaterial production. The book serves as an invitation to consider the score for music/sound making in relation to writing - highlighting the ideological and aesthetic hierarchies and authorities involved in scored work, and practicing their disruption through text and event scores applied to the method of academic writing.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 160 pages PB 9781501345401 • £19.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781501345418 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501345425 • £16.74 / $22.45 ePdf 9781501345432 • £16.74 / $22.45 Bloomsbury Academic Music Media in the Pre-Digital Era
Jens Gerrit Papenburg, Humboldt University, Germany In the second half of the 20th century, listening to music in the Western world became increasingly organized as listening to records became popular and accessible. Making use of four case studies from the history of popular music, this book examines aspects of the cultivation and technologization of listening by applying concepts and methods of sound studies, media theory and musicology. It shows that records and the devices which play them are not playback technologies or passive intermediaries but active mediators and listening technologies which are involved in the constitution of the listener and the music listened to.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 304 pages HB 9781501346705 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501346712 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501346729 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen
Edited by Nathalie Aghoro, Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices, group associations, and socio-cultural tensions audible. The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen unites interdisciplinary perspectives on the social dimensions of sound in audiovisiual and literary environments. The essays in the collection discuss soundtracks for shared values, group membership, and collective agency, and engage with the subversive functions of sound and sonic forms of resistance in American literature, film, and TV.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 216 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781501383410 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501361388 ePub 9781501361395 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501361401 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
