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The B-52s' Cosmic Thing
Pete Crighton, Freelance writer, Canada
The B-52s fifth record Cosmic Thing took the world by storm in 1989 in the wake of the band’s single greatest tragedy: losing guitarist Ricky Wilson to complications from AIDS in 1985 Cosmic Thing is a celebration of queer joy in the face of that seismic setback Not only did the B-52s have to fight through their pain and grief to make Cosmic Thing, they were up against a conservative government under Reagan (then Bush), a misunderstood virus still ravaging the queer community and the expectations of what ‘serious’ artists were supposed to look like
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 128 pages
PB 9798765133125 • £10 99 / $14 95
ePub 9798765133156 • £11 17 / $13 45
ePdf 9798765133149 • £11 17 / $11 17
Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic World English
Smooth Music That Is Easy to Listen to, from the Middle of the Road to Everywhere
Paul Hegarty, University of Nottingham, UK
Smooth explores the ways in which music has sought to be easy, approachable, comforting and beguiling in its accessibility From easy listening and exotica in the 1950s through jazz fusion, new age music, ambient and chill out, K-Pop, AOR and MOR, Japanese city pop and performance of high emotion alongside the warm and mellow bath of adult contemporary, Smooth analyses what easy listening can be across a range of often very poorly-defined genres. Global in scope, Smooth covers the music of the culture industry as aspiring to the universal and timeless, and evaluates how easy (and eased) listening works and how it affects the listener
UK August 2025 • 256 pages
PB 9798765104361 • £17 99 / $24 95 • HB 9798765104378 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9798765104385 • £18 35 / $22 45
ePdf 9798765104392 • £18 35 / $18 35
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silverchair's Frogstomp
Jay Daniel Thompson, RMIT University, Australia
Australian rock band Silverchair released Frogstomp in 1995, and it became a global sensation Its success has often been attributed to an imitation of North American grunge bands and its capitalization of Gen X angst This book argues that Frogstomp is culturally significant on its own terms due to its reflection of the impact of globalization on Australian music in the late 20th century and because of its eclectic, and little discussed, array of pop culture influences. Engaging with Australian 1990s popular culture and grunge music and analyzing Silverchair’s performance at the MTV and ARIA Music Awards in 1995, Frogstomp is seen here in a distinctive new light
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 152 pages
PB 9798765113349 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9798765113332 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9798765113356 • £16 76 / $20 65
ePdf 9798765113363 £16 76 / $16 76
Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Bloomsbury Academic
Beatles Real Person Fiction
The Role of Fiction in 21st-century
Beatles Fandom
Bethany Easton, Cumbria University, UK 21st-century Beatles fans continue to find new ways to access the group and view new content Interviews with and surveys of authors and readers alongside textual analysis of BRPF texts provide insight into the fandom and creation of fanfiction. This analysis ultimately demonstrates that all generations of Beatles fans desire belonging to a community in which their fandom can be shared and Beatles knowledge celebrated For newer generations of fans who were not present during the Beatles active period, BRPF offers a way to learn more about the group whilst gaining an intimacy with them
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 208 pages
HB 9798765109250 • £90 00 / $120 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765109267 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765109274 • £87 01 / $87 01
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David Bowie and the Moving Image
A Standing Cinema
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 July 2025 • US July 2025 • 248 pages • 17 bw illus
PB 9781501371400 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501371257
ePub 9781501371264 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501371271 • £87 01 / $87 01
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Serge Gainsbourg
An International Perspective
Edited by Olivier Julien, Universite ParisSorbonne, France & Olivier Bourderionnet, University of New Orleans, USA
Bringing together a large selection of established scholars from across the world Serge Gainsbourg: An International Perspective emphasizes his unique position in French popular culture The 27 chapters address issues such as his musical influences and collaborations, esthetics and form, his experimentations with disciplines other than music (mainly film and literature) and his multifaceted identity, not to mention the relationship between highbrow and lowbrow culture in the French context The interdisciplinary approach of the volume engages in a dialogue between musicology, film and media studies, literature, cultural studies, gender studies, and more, revealing the broad scope of Gainsbourg’s impact in and outside of France, from the early 1960s through today
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 280 pages
PB 9798765113172 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501365669
ePub 9781501365676 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501365683 • £87 01 / $87 01
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The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason
Dispatches from the Front
Don Armstrong, Independent Scholar, USA
Ralph J Gleason worked behind the scenes as well as in print From John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie to Bob Dylan and the Fillmore’s Bill Graham, Gleason acted as their confidant and advisor. This book tells the story of Ralph J Gleason, the trailblazing music writer who created the first popular music newspaper column, and cofounded Rolling Stone magazine Gleason covered the remarkable succession of musicians who innovated popular music from the 1930s to the 1970s It draws on never-before-published letters, anecdotes, family accounts and exclusive interviews to reveal one of the 20th century’s most fascinating individuals; one who not only reported on but shaped the direction of popular music
UK August 2025 US August 2025 304 pages
PB 9781501393525 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501366987
ePub 9781501366994 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501367007 • £87 01 / $87 01 Bloomsbury Academic
Performing Folk Songs Affect, Landscape and Repertoire
Elizabeth Bennett, University of Essex, UK
Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore folk singing from the perspective of performance studies Using archival sources, family repertoire, and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied encounters Autoethnography, sensory ethnography, life-writing and landscape writing are used to explore the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs ‘by heart ' Drawing on her experience as a folk singer, Bennett contributes to discourse on British folk traditions in the 21st century and brings performance scholarship to the contemporary folk song resurgence
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages
PB 9781501390227 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501390180
ePub 9781501390197 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501390203 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
The Musical Lives of Charles Manson
The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Invention of the Sixties —or, No Sense Makes Sense
Nicholas Tochka, University of Melbourne, Australia
Nicholas Tochka analyzes the role of rock music in the life of Charles Manson, the Family, and the August 1969 Tate-LaBianca killings, which also gives larger insights into Sixties counterculture Did the guitar-playing guru personify the violence that the rock counterculture had inflicted on American society? Or did his music diagnose the dehumanizing effects of that society’s broken institutions? For nearly five years, commentators debated the meaning of Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca killings The key thread linking these narratives was rock music
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages
PB 9781501384554 • £17 99 / $24 95 • HB 9781501384561 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9781501384578 • £18 35 / $22 45
ePdf 9781501384585 • £18 35 / $18 35
Bloomsbury Academic
Listen to Jazz!
Exploring a Musical Genre
Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith, Westfield State University, USA, and Springfield College, USA
Providing an introductory overview of jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchange, Listen to Jazz! explores the diversity of jazz's sounds, compositions, recordings, and styles Surveying the sounds, concepts, performances, and production of jazz, this work includes A-to-Z entries on recent jazz musicians from around the world, jazz musicians and recordings that have been marginalized, and musicians, songs, and albums that have contributed to the defining aspects of specific jazz styles. Chapters on the impact of jazz on popular culture and its legacy, as well as a bibliography, enhance the historical and analytical content of the work
UK July 2025 US July 2025 320 pages 15 bw photos
HB 9781440875519 £55 00 / $75 00
ePub 9798765110782 £54 28 / $67 50
ePdf 9781440875526 • £54 28 / $54 28
Series: Exploring Musical Genres • Bloomsbury Academic
Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences
Popular Music Autobiographies
Edited by Tom Attah, Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK & Christian Lloyd, Queen's University, Canada
Popular musicians' autobiographies are one of the most important ways that stars create, negotiate and perpetuate the realities and myths of their lived experiences for fans Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, this collection explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated in print, on stage, and through various expressive media as a dynamic factor in contemporary culture These narratives function beyond thrilling fans with a sense of intimacy, as they attempt to create a narrative or reclamation on the musician's terms
UK July 2025 US July 2025 288 pages
HB 9798765108413 £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9798765108420 • £79 83 / $99 00
ePdf 9798765108437 • £79 83 / $79 83
Bloomsbury Academic
James Tenney
Writings and Interviews on Experimental Music
Edited by Robert Wannamaker, California Institute of the Arts, USA, Lauren Pratt, James Tenney Estate, Canada & Tashi Wada, Independent Scholar, USA
The eminent American-Canadian composer James Tenney (1934–2006) made groundbreaking contributions to sampling culture, digital sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, minimalism, spectral music, music in non-standard tuning systems, contemporary theories of form and harmony, and the consolidation of an American experimental-music tradition. This volume collects, for the first time, essential interviews and aesthetic writings from throughout his five-decade artistic career. These document both his own work and his involvements with influential figures in mid-century American music, film, art, and technology. The writings are accompanied by a wealth of photographs, artworks, compositional sketches, archival documents, and previously unpublished scores
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 320 pages
HB 9798765121320 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765121337 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765121344 • £87 01 / $87 01
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NOFX
Forty Years of "Problematic" Punk Provocations
Edited by David Pearson, Lehman College, USA, Stefano Morello, CUNY Graduate Center, USA & Ellen Bernhard, Georgian Court University, USA
This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX’s aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band’s listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum NOFX’s aesthetics of provocation and discomfort force us to think about the positive value and problems caused by a longstanding attitude within punk Their music challenges notions of punk as simplistic, stripped-down rock requiring little musical skill, as the band has incorporated virtuosic guitar and bass playing, an array of chords and harmonic approaches, borrowings from various musical styles, and song structures of considerable complexity, broadening punk’s expressive possibilities in the process
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 248 pages
HB 9798765128619 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765128626 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765128633 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
The Music Industry in the Digital Age
How Platforms are Redefining Pop, DIY and Participatory Culture
Richard Frenneaux, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Today’s music artists are expected to adapt to a rapidly shifting market, where networked music and social media platforms effect constant change in consumption patterns Not only is it prudent to explore the impact of digital culture on the contemporary music creator, but also to understand how co-creation has impacted the creator’s relationship with their audience Through an ethnographic approach, interviewing participants within key areas of the music industry, this book explores what competencies artists need to develop for success in the digital age, as well as what it means to be an artist working within the ‘new’ music industry
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages
HB 9798765113455 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765113462 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765113479 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Listening to Landscape
Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion
Phil Hubbard, Kings College London, UK
Moving deftly between cultural theory, musicology and geography, Listening to Landscape serves as a primer on hauntronica that defines the genre as uniquely concerned with questions of landscape and Englishness However, it argues that 21stcentury hauntronica is not mere nostalgia, but should be considered a provocation that helps us imagine a new radical politics for the Anthropocene In making this argument, it speaks to urgent questions of national identities in the post-Brexit era, offering a distinctive take on the way contemporary culture deals with the ghosts and memories of Albion
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages
HB 9798765112922 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765112939 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765112946 £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Bowie, Beckett, and Being The Art of Alienation
Rodney Sharkey, Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar
An exploration of the artistic practices of Samuel Beckett and David Bowie illustrates how both artists articulate shared forms of human experience otherwise silenced by normative modes of representation By documenting their shared passion for literature, art, and music, the book shows how Beckett and Bowie used the arts in all forms (painting, drama, film etc.) to produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs Through the creation of alternative theatrical, musical, and philosophical spaces, their work demonstrates how individuals are disciplined and punished by an implicitly repressive social order, which Beckett and Bowie transgress, opening up new spaces beyond conventional identities
UK September 2025 US September 2025 256 pages 2 bw illus
PB 9781501391286 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501391248
ePub 9781501391255 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501391262 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Disruptive Frequencies in Experimental Sound
Black and South Asian Artists in Their Own Words
Edited by Amit Dinesh Patel, University of Greenwich, UK, Gabrielle Messeder, SOUND/ IMAGE Research Group, UK & Andrew KnightHill, University of Greenwich, UK
Black and South Asian artists are some of the least represented within the genre of experimental sound Ethnically diverse artists have been excluded from the traditional discourse Their experiences, therefore, provide a valuable counterpoint to the normalized white majority This volume presents the voices of these diverse and often marginalized practitioners, seeking to celebrate Black and South Asian experimental sound musicians and their underrepresented music practice Bringing together a diverse array of international artists and practitioners this book challenges the white norm in the field of experimental sound.
UK September 2025 US September 2025 288 pages
HB 9798765105108 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765105115 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765105122 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Literature as Sound Studies
Edited by yasser elhariry, Dartmouth College, USA & Liesl Yamaguchi, UC Berkeley, USA
Sound has always played a crucial role in literature and literary study The literary category has often hinged on the particular attention that literary works draw to their own sound, whether that sound be psychologically rehearsed, as in silent reading, or acoustically realized, as in a theatrical performance Considering literary works drawn from a range of traditions, this text brings out the ways that literary writers and commentators have used and studied sound from antiquity to the present The authors posit literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration and an opportunity to enrich the field of sound studies.
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9798765121375 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765121382 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765121399 • £87 01 / $87 01
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