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Music & Sound Studies
Britney Spears's Blackout
Natasha Lasky, Independent Scholar, USA Blackout turned out to be one of the most influential albums of the aughts. It not only brought glitchy digital noise and dubstep into the Top 40, but also transformed Britney into a new kind of pop star, one who shrugged off mainstream ubiquity for the devotion of smaller groups of fans who worshipped her idiosyncratic sound. This book returns to the grimy clubs and paparazzi hangouts of LA in the 2000s as well as the blogs and forums of the early internet to show how Blackout was a crucial hinge between twentieth and 21st-century pop.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 152 pages PB 9781501377594 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501377600 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501377617 • £10.18 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
Marvin Gaye's I Want You
Derrais Carter, University of Arizona, USA Marvin Gaye sang like he lived in bed. He could croon, deliver a political commentary, and sing to you like you were the only other soul on this earth. And in 1976 he gave us a taste of his erotic imagination with I Want You. Using interviews, visual art, poetry, criticism, and gossip, this book explores ecstasy, funk, sensation, and a host of other delicious and fleshy concerns that animate I Want You. This book seeks fidelity to the album by centering Gaye’s fantasies, his engagement with Ernie Barnes’ painting Sugar Shack, and sonic expression of desire for Jan.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 152 pages PB 9781501379062 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501379079 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501379086 • £10.18 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
Chico Buarque's First Chico Buarque
Charles A. Perrone, University of Florida, USA First Chico Buarque comprises a critical appreciation of the self-titled album (1978), which is one of the Brazilian artist’s most representative. This vibrant collection displays the singer-songwriter’s singular talents as a composer/poet of songs with both popular appeal and keen analytical skills. The 11 tracks include both up-beat sambas and lyrical compositions. The album embodies Chico Buarque's affective sensibilities and sociopolitical engagement, situating the album in inter-related contexts: the artist's own career; the evolution of the current he represents MPB (Brazilian Popular Music); and, especially, historical conjuncture—the period of military dictatorship in Brazil, 1964-85.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 160 pages PB 9781501379789 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501379796 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501379802 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501379819 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Brazil • Bloomsbury Academic
Yuming's The 14th Moon
Lasse Lehtonen, University of Tokyo, Japan A singer-songwriter recognized globally for her songs used in Miyazaki Hayao’s beloved animations, Yuming has captured the hearts of listeners of different generations since her debut in the early 1970s. Her fourth album, The 14th Moon (1976), was a milestone in establishing her signature style: the posh, “city” sound that later paved the way to the 1980s City Pop and 1990s J-pop. In addition to examining the album’s astonishing stylistic versatility, this book explores how Yuming revolutionized the position of women in Japanese popular music and how her work can help us understand social changes in Japan of the 1970s.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 160 pages PB 9781501378133 • £19.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501378126 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501378140 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501378157 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Japan • Bloomsbury Academic
Regurgitator's Unit
Lachlan Goold, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia & Lauren Istvandity, Griffith University, Australia Regurgitator’s subversive attitude toward pop music, punk aesthetic, unique lyrical narratives and an ironic view on their own creative product made their music potent in an alternative market defying the prevailing music trends. Unit and Regurgitator were the focus of divisive critical reviews, yet they continue to rank highly as a quintessentially Australian band. This volume situates the development of Unit amongst the DIY culture of a politically charged Brisbane scene, and breaks down the album through the lens of recording and songwriting processes.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 160 pages PB 9781501381768 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501381775 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501381782 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501381799 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic
The Church's Starfish
Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong, Australia After a string of commercial disappointments, in 1986 Australian rock band The Church were simultaneously dropped by Warner Brothers in the US and EMI in Australasia. Seemingly from nowhere, their next record, Starfish, became an unlikely global hit. This book traces the story of Starfish, its background, composition, production and reception. Gibson brings an unusual perspective as both a musician and a geographer. Drawing upon four decades of media coverage as well as fresh interviews between the author and band members, the book delves into the mysteries of this mercurial classic, tracing its slippery cultural geography and sumptuous songcraft.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 160 pages PB 9781501387005 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501387012 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501387029 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501387036 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic
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A History of Black Musical Influence and Appropriation in the United States
Dick Weissman, University of Colorado at Denver, USA Black music has long played a dominant role in American music and has frequently been taken over and popularized by white musicians. This book discusses how white musicians, corporations and entrepreneurs appropriated, adapted and even stole this music. Examples discussed include the convoluted history of the minstrel era, Black pop and rock artists, white blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop musicians. The book highlights the prevalence and importance of Black music in virtually every American music style and the music business’s success in monetizing black musical styles to market this music to mass audiences.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 272 pages PB 9781501373657 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781501373664 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501373671 • £21.83 / $29.65 ePdf 9781501373688 • £21.83 / $29.65 Bloomsbury Academic
Lit-Rock
Literary Capital in Popular Music
Edited by Ryan Hibbett Just as soon as it had got rolling, rock music had a problem: it wanted to be art. A mere four years separate the Beatles as mere kiddy culture from the artful geniuses of Sergeant Pepper’s, meaning the very same band who represents the mass-consumed, “mindless” music of adolescents simultaneously enjoys status as among the best that Western culture has to offer. The chapters in this book track the uses of literature, specifically, in the relationship between high and low art, helping to showcase collectively its fundamental role in the emergence of the “pop omnivore.”
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781501354694 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501354700 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501354717 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Ann Werner, Södertörn University, Sweden What does it mean, in a polarized political climate, that feminism is popular in mainstream pop? This book investigates current trends relating to gender, feminism and woman-identified artists in mediated popular music today, including Beyoncé’s concert documentary Homecoming, the Swedish music industry #MeToo petition signed by 2,192 artists, the television show Star, and the functions of a music streaming service. The book also discusses the media specificity of the different examples and introduces and explains feminist theories and concepts.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 192 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781501368509 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501368516 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501368523 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Popular Culture in a Global Market
Edited by Kirsty Fairclough, University of Salford, UK & Jason Wood, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK From the early days of cinema, figures from the world of popular music have made forays into acting and contributed cameo appearances. From Little Richard and Kylie Minogue to Nick Cave and Tom Waits, Pop Stars On Film offers a collection of essays on some of the most influential international performances from a diverse range of cultural icons. The book considers industry shifts, access and diversity, but also the notion of cultural appropriation, audience appeal, marketing and demographics. Perhaps most importantly, the publication will look at what happens when cultures collide and coalesce.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781501372513 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501372520 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501372537 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic Memory, Music, and Aging
Edited by Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool, UK, Line Grenier, Université de Montréal, Canada & Ros Jennings, University of Gloucestershire, UK This book provides an interdisciplinary focus on music, memory, and ageing by examining how they intersect outside of a formal therapeutic context or framework and by offering a counter-narrative to age as decline. Using the notion of inheritance to trouble its core themes, it examines different ways in which the concept of inheritance is understood but also how it commonly refers to the practice of passing on, and the connections this establishes across time and space.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 224 pages • 16 bw illus HB 9781501369506 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501369513 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501369520 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Media Narratives in Popular Music
Edited by Chris Anderton, Southampton Solent University, UK & Martin James, Southampton Solent University, UK The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed. It considers the typically linear narratives that are based on simplifications, exaggerations, and omissions and the histories they construct - an approach that leads to totalizing “official” histories that reduce otherwise messy narratives to one-dimensional interpretations of a heroic and celebratory nature.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages • 6 images PB 9781501387715 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501357275 ePub 9781501357282 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501357299 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research
Edited by Allan Moore, University of Surrey, UK & Paul Carr, University of Glamorgan, UK The first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. The text is divided into four major sections: practice of rock (analysis, performance, and recording); theories; business of rock; and social and culture issues. Each chapter combines two approaches, providing a summary of current knowledge of the area concerned as well as the consequences of that research and suggesting profitable subsequent directions to take.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 656 pages PB 9781501393495 • £39.99 / $54.95 Previously published in HB 9781501330452 ePub 9781501330476 • £112.10 / $153.00 ePdf 9781501330469 • £112.10 / $153.00 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
Musical Nationalism, Despotism and Scholarly Interventions in Greek Popular Music
Nikos Ordoulidis, University of Ioannina, Greece During the 1940s and 1950s, a selective exoneration of urban popular music took place, one of its most popular cases being the originating relationships between two extremely popular musical pieces: Vasilis Tsitsanis’s “Synnefiasmeni Kyriaki” (Cloudy Sunday) and its descent from the hymn “Ti Ypermacho” (The Akathist Hymn). During this period the connection of these two pieces was forged in the Modern Greek conscience, led by certain key figures in the authority system of the scholarly world. Through analysis of these pieces and the surrounding contexts, Ordoulidis explores the changing role and perception of popular music in Greece.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 224 pages PB 9781501369483 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501369445 ePub 9781501369452 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501369469 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Anil Çamci, University of Michigan, USA This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the cognitive processes involved in the experience of electronic music. Structured around a cognitive investigation of electronic music on both practical and conceptual levels, this book addresses the following questions: How do we experience electronic music? How does electronic music operate on perceptual, cognitive, and affective levels? What are the common concepts activated in the listener’s mind when listening to electronic music? Why and how are these concepts activated? It argues that our experience of electronic music is guided by a cognitive continuum rooted in our everyday experiences.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 216 pages • 19 bw illus and 11 tables PB 9781501388071 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501357121 ePub 9781501357138 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501357145 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific
Music, Media, and Technology
Edited by Lonán Ó Briain, University of Nottingham, UK & Min Yen Ong, University of Cambridge, UK The popularization of radio, television, and the internet radically transformed musical practice in the Asia Pacific. These technologies bequeathed media broadcasters with an authority over the ways we engage with musical culture. With original contributions by leading scholars in anthropology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and media and cultural studies, the 15 essays in this book investigate the processes of broadcasting musical culture in the Asia Pacific. We shift our gaze to the mechanisms of cultural industries in eastern Asia and the Pacific islands to understand how oft-invisible producers, musicians, and technologies facilitate, frame, reproduce, and magnify the reach of the local culture.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 272 pages PB 9781501375743 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501360053 ePub 9781501360060 • £85.90 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501360077 • £85.90 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Sonic Identity at the Margins
Edited by Joanna Love, University of Richmond, USA & Jessie Fillerup, University of Richmond, USA Sonic Identity at the Margins examines the role played by music and sound in articulating the identities of individuals and communities. 17 interdisciplinary scholars, performers, and composers study identity in real and imagined spaces. Their case studies, interviews, and personal essays explore challenging, timely topics, including the legacy of slavery, indigeneity, immigration, colonial expansion, and Confederate monument removal. Heeding recent calls to decolonize music studies, the authors revisit the hegemonic structures and privileged perspectives embedded in creating, performing, and listening to sound, and the methods used to analyze these experiences.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 312 pages • 32 bw illus PB 9781501368820 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501368783 ePub 9781501368790 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501368806 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music
Mark Duffett, University of Chester, UK & Jon Hackett, St Mary’s University, UK Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more ‘monsters’ than might at first be imagined. Attention to such individuals and cultures can say things about the operation of genre and gender, myth and meaning. By pursuing a series of insightful case studies, Scary Monsters considers different aspects of the connection between the music, gender and monstrosity. Its argument is that attention to monstrosity provides a unique perspective on the study of masculinity in popular music culture.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages PB 9781501374760 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501313370 ePub 9781501313394 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501313387 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Half Sound, Half Philosophy
Aesthetics, Politics, and History of China's Sound Art
Jing Wang, Zhejiang University, China From the late 1990s until today, China’s sound practice has been developing in an increasingly globalized social-economic-aesthetic environment, receiving attentions and investments from the art world, music industry and cultural institutes, along with an ambiguous attitude from the public about its legitimate artistic and academic status. While sound gains its increasing philosophical and artistic importance in the West, it has always been an important aesthetic and philosophical thread in Chinese history. The book examines sound practices in China, in their historical, technological, cultural and artistic contexts, from the 1990s through the present.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 232 pages PB 9781501374777 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501333484 ePub 9781501333491 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501333507 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
