Katherine Reed, California State University, Fullerton, USA
David Bowie’s audio-visual work remains relatively unexplored. More narrowly focused studies address the artist’s music videos or film roles, but none provide a comprehensive view of the two-way street that was Bowie’s work with film, theorizing the way he engaged with the medium throughout his 50-year career. David Bowie and the Moving Image is just such a comprehensive study. Analyzing Bowie’s music videos, planned film projects, acting roles, and musical works included in films, this monograph provides an intervention in Bowie scholarship. This study of Bowie’s multimedia projects informs our understanding of all areas of his work, from music to fashion to visual art. It enters the debate about Bowie’s artistic legacy and fills an important gap by addressing Bowie as musician, actor, and auteur. UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 240 pages • 17 bw illus HB 9781501371257 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501371264 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501371271 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
British Progressive Pop 19701980 Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia
Positioned between the psychedelic and countercultural music of the late 1960s and the punk and new wave styles of the late 1970s, early 1970s British popular music is often overlooked. However British popular music in the early 1970s was, in fact, highly diverse with many artists arguably displaying an eclecticism and flair for musical experimentation.This book considers the significance of early 1970s British pop-rock as a period during which the boundaries between pop and rock were periodically relaxed providing a platform for musical creativity less confined by genre and branding. UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 176 pages PB 9781501385995 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501336638 ePub 9781501336645 • £26.20 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501336652 • £26.20 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
Finding the Beat
Entrainment, Rhythmic Play, and Social Meaning in Rock Music Nathan Hesselink, University of British Columbia, Canada As humans, we spend a lot of time taking pleasure in matching our bodily movements with a perceived beat. What lies behind these related activities? The simple answer is found in the concept of entrainment, the human ability to perceive a beat and to synchronize to it. Drawing upon diverse examples from North American and British rock, this book demonstrates that when musicians play with or against the expectations set up by entrainment that listeners are gripped in deep and compelling ways. Understanding such rhythmic play opens windows onto worlds of pleasure and wonder brought about by experiencing time together. UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 208 pages • 45 bw illus HB 9781501392979 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501392986 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501392993 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Popular Music in Japan
Transformation Inspired by the West Toru Mitsui, Kanazawa University, Japan Popular music in Japan has long been under the overwhelming influence of American and Latin American popular music since 1945 when Japan was defeated in World War II. Beginning with gunka and enka, and tracing the birth of hit songs in the record industry, the adoption of western genres, the rise of Japanese folk and rock, domestic exoticism as a new trend, and J-Pop, Popular Music in Japan is a comprehensive discussion of the evolution of popular music in Japan. In eight revised and updated essays written in English by renowned Japanese scholar Toru Mitsui, this book tells the story of popular music in Japan since the beginning of the 20th century with a focus on the years since the Meiji Restoration when Japan began positively embracing the West.
M U S I C & S O U N D S T U D I E S – Popular Music
David Bowie and the Moving Image
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781501391774 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501363863 ePub 9781501363870 • £26.20 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501363887 • £26.20 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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