Popular Music

David Bowie and the Moving Image

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 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.

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

Popular Culture in a Global Market

Edited by Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester School of Art, 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 November 2022 • US November 2022 • 240 pages HB 9781501372513 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501372520 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501372537 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic An Oblique History of Popular Music

Edited by Sarah Hill, Oxford University, UK The one-hit wonder has a long and storied history in popular music, exhorting listeners to dance, to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, to ponder mortality, to get a job, to bask in the sunshine, or just to get up and dance again. Catchy, memorable, irritating, or simply ubiquitous, one-hit wonders capture something of the mood of a time. This collection provides a series of short, sharp chapters on one-hit wonders from the 1950s to the present day, with a view toward understanding both the mechanics of success and the socio-musical contexts within which such songs became hits.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 296 pages PB 9781501368417 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781501368400 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501368424 • £18.19 / $24.25 ePdf 9781501368431 • £18.19 / $24.25 Bloomsbury Academic

Dancing to the Drum Machine

How Electronic Percussion Conquered the World

Dan LeRoy, Independent Scholar, USA This is a history of perhaps the most controversial musical instrument: the drum machine. Author Dan Leroy reveals the untold story of how their digital pulse became the new heartbeat of popular music. He traces the drum machine from its low-tech beginnings in the Fifties and Sixties to its evolution in the Seventies and its ubiquity in the Eighties, when it infiltrated every genre of music. Drum machines changed composition, recording, and performance habits, and anticipated virtually every musical trend of the last 40 or so years: sequencing, looping, sampling, and all forms of digital music creation.

UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 336 pages PB 9781501367267 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781501367274 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781501367281 • £18.19 / $24.25 ePdf 9781501367298 • £18.19 / $24.25 Bloomsbury Academic

The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music

Edited by Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire, UK, Tony Rigg, University of Central Lancashire, UK & Les Gillon, University of Central Lancashire, UK The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes EDM’s place on the map of popular music. The book accounts for various ambiguities, variations, transformations, and manifestations of EDM, pertaining to its generic fragmentation, large geographical spread, modes of consumption and, changes in technology. It focuses especially on its current state, its future, and its relationship to other forms of popular music as well as the rise of EDM in places that are overlooked by the existing literature, such as Russia and Eastern Europe, and examines the multi-media and visual aspects of the genre.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 304 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781501379598 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501366369 ePub 9781501366376 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501366383 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Prince and Popular Music

Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life

Edited by Mike Alleyne, Middle Tennessee State University, USA & Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester School of Art, UK Prince’s position in popular culture has undergone only limited academic scrutiny. This book provides an academic examination of Prince, encompassing the many layers of his cultural and creative impact. It assesses Prince’s life and legacy holistically, exploring his multiple identities and the ways in which they were manifested through his recorded catalogue and audiovisual personae. In 17 essays organized thematically, the anthology includes a diverse range of contributions - taking ethnographic, musicological, sociological, gender studies and cultural studies approaches to analysing Prince’s career.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 232 pages PB 9781501391750 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501354656 ePub 9781501354663 • £26.20 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501354687 • £26.20 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic

The Future of Live Music

Edited by Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire, UK, Les Gillon, University of Central Lancashire, UK & Tony Rigg, University of Central Lancashire, UK What 'live music' means for one generation or culture does not necessarily mean 'live' for another. This book examines how changes in economy, culture and technology pertaining to post-digital times affect the production, performance and reception of live music. Considering established examples of live music, such as music festivals, alongside practices influenced by developments in technology, including live streaming and holograms, the book examines whether new forms stand the test of 'live authenticity' for their audiences. It also speculates how live music might develop in the future, its relationship to recorded music and mediated performance and how business is conducted in the popular music industry.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 248 pages PB 9781501391743 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501355875 ePub 9781501355882 • £26.20 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501355899 • £26.20 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic