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Sound Studies
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production
Edited by Simon Zagorski-Thomas, University of West London, UK & Andrew Bourbon, Huddersfield University, UK The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production provides a detailed overview of current research on the production of mono and stereo recorded music. The handbook consists of 33 chapters, each written by leaders in the field of music production. Examining the technologies and places of music production as well the broad range of practices – organization, recording, desktop production, post-production and distribution – this edited collection looks at production as it has developed around the world. In addition, rather than isolating issues such as gender, race and sexuality in separate chapters, these points are threaded throughout the entire text.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 432 pages PB 9781501393426 • £39.99 / $54.95 Previously published in HB 9781501334023 ePub 9781501334030 • £36.39 / $49.45 ePdf 9781501334047 • £36.39 / $49.45 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Lori A. Burns, University of Ottowa, Canada & Stan Hawkins, University of Oslo, Norway Music videos promote popular artists in cultural forms that circulate widely across social media networks.This volume of essays serves as a foundational handbook for the study and interpretation of the popular music video, with the specific aim of examining the industry contexts, cultural concepts, and aesthetic materials that videos rely upon in order to be both intelligible and meaningful. The study develops a deeper understanding of the intersecting and interdisciplinary approaches that are invoked in the analysis of this popular and influential musical form.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 464 pages • 117 PB 9781501393273 • £39.99 / $54.95 Previously published in HB 9781501342332 ePub 9781501342349 • £36.39 / $49.45 ePdf 9781501342356 • £36.39 / $49.45 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art
Edited by Sanne Krogh Groth, Lund University, Sweden & Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen, Denmark The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art presents an overview of the contemporary and future developments in Sound Art. Over the past three decades, Sound Art has been a frequent field of analysis and discussion within academia and in the areas of musicology, visual arts, and later, sound studies. This volume represents the historical shifts and contemporary appearance of Sound Art in a series of six sections, each with four chapters: an introductory chapter, a chapter discussing theoretical background, a chapter discussing historical predecessors and contemporary approaches, and a chapter offering broader exploration and discussion of various conflicting examples in this field.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 592 pages PB 9781501393112 • £39.99 / $54.95 Previously published in HB 9781501338793 ePub 9781501338809 • £36.39 / $49.45 ePdf 9781501338816 • £36.39 / $49.45 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Ian Peddie, Sul Ross State University, USA The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class is the first extensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field. Encompassing contemporary research in ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, history, and race studies, the volume explores the intersections between music and class, and how the meanings of class are asserted and denied, confused and clarified, through music. With chapters on key genres, traditions, and subcultures, as well as fresh and engaging directions for future scholarship, the volume considers how music has thought about and articulated social class. It consists entirely of original contributions written by internationally renowned scholars, and provides an essential reference point for scholars interested in the relationship between popular music and social class.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 616 pages PB 9781501393433 • £39.99 / $54.95 Previously published in HB 9781501345364 ePub 9781501345371 • £36.39 / $49.45 ePdf 9781501345388 • £36.39 / $49.45 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies
Edited by Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK & Marcel Cobussen, Leiden University, Netherlands
This is the first resource to provide a wide ranging, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary investigation and analysis of the ways in which researchers use a broad range of methodologies in order to pursue their sonic investigations. The volume recognizes that researchers of sound use both traditional (non- sonic) methodologies to study sound such as the investigation of written records whereby the sonic is translated into the ‘textual,’ and new sonically based methodologies that treat sound as sound, such as in the use of sound walks, field recordings, and sound mapping.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 848 pages PB 9781501393501 • £39.99 / $54.95 Previously published in HB 9781501338755 ePub 9781501338762 • £112.10 / $153.00 ePdf 9781501338779 • £112.10 / $153.00 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen, Denmark The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound provides a comprehensive and fully upto-date overview of the key themes and debates relating to the academic study of sound within an anthropological context. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in our everyday lives? This fundamental question drives research in this broad and interdisciplinary area of sound studies. Every section contains chapters that explore exemplary research objects and puts them in the context of methodological approach and research practice.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 576 pages PB 9781501372223 • £39.99 / $54.95 Previously published in HB 9781501335396 ePub 9781501335426 • £112.10 / $153.00 ePdf 9781501335419 • £112.10 / $153.00 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær, Aalborg University, Denmark Spectator sounds in football (soccer) settings are often highlighted – by spectators, tourists, commentators, journalists, scholars, media producers, etc. – as crucial for the experience of football. These sounds are often said to contribute significantly to the production (at the stadium) and conveyance (in televised broadcast) of “atmosphere.” This book addresses why and how spectator sounds contribute to the experience of watching in these environments and what characterizes spectator sounds in terms of their structure, meaning, and function. Based on an examination of empirical materials – including the sounds of football matches from the English Premier League as they emerge both at the stadium and in mediated settings (television, radio, video games) – this book systematically dissects the sounds of football watching.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 176 pages HB 9781501363740 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501363757 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501363764 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Sonic Phantoms
Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence
Barbara Ellison, Independent Scholar & Artist, The Netherlands & Thomas Bey William Bailey, Independent Scholar & Artist, USA Edited by Francisco López, Independent Scholar & Artist, The Netherlands Structured around a large body of compositional work over the past decade, this volume illustrates the presence of sonic phantoms through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques and compositional tools including: voices—real and synthetic, field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation and recording studio techniques. It outlines and emphasizes the role of sonic illusions in their larger musical context and their presence in a number of disparate musical traditions, while defining a dedicated compositional realm that considers auditory illusions as essential and intentional components of the work and not simply as mere side effects.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 248 pages PB 9781501391767 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501347023 ePub 9781501347030 • £26.20 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501347047 • £26.20 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic Performing with Gestural Systems in Live Electronic Music
Mary Mainsbridge, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia Motion tracking technology can aid creativity and inventiveness by translating rich information from subtle facial expressions and muscular activity into sonic and musical processes. Body as Instrument explores how musicians navigate these unique musical environments, appropriating and inventing new instruments and energetic forms of bodily communication. Through a series of case studies exploring current practitioners’ experiences and author-composed works, the book examines the transformational impact of motion sensors on musicians’ physical awareness and abilities, evolving musician and instrument relationships, and distinctions between audience and performer.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 232 pages • 16 bw illus HB 9781501368547 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501368554 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501368561 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
