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Retromania - Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past

The first book to make sense of 21st century pop, exploring rock's nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes and arg...

Sighing For The Silvery Moon - English Music Hall Songs Reexamined

English music hall songs, often comic in essence, were omnipresent in the United Kingdom from around 1850 until after 1918. Reflecting so...

Parlez-moi d'amour - Themes in French Popular Song from the Commune to World War II

French popular songs from 1870 to 1940 dynamically epitomize anguished eras of upheaval. Boldly advancing views on societal, political, e...

Beyond Style and Genre - Aesthetic Concepts in Popular Culture

Popular culture today manifests itself in a dense network of styles and genres, while the aesthetic preferences of the Audience are highl...

Prehistory of Jazz

This publication follows the history of discoveries pertaining to Portuguese travel to the New World, from the 15th century to the 1920s,...

Der Streichinstrumentenbau im sächsischen Vogtland

Im sächsischen Vogtland entwickelte sich seit der Markneukirchener Innungsgründung im Jahre 1677 ein außerordentlich bedeutsames Zentrum ...

Alpine Vibes - The Musical Connection between the Alphorn and Yodeling - Fact or Ideology? Translated by Gary Martin

Alphorn playing and yodeling are an integral part of traditional cultural events in Switzerland. Questions about musical contexts inevita...

"God Is In the House" - A Biography of Art Tatum

Ever since his first appearance in New York City in 1932, Art Tatum has been regarded as the most important pianist in the history of jaz...

A History of Western Music

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it...

Americana - Aesthetics, Authenticity, and Performance in US Popular Music

The essay collection Americana poses the basic question of how American music can be described and analyzed as such, as American music. S...

Dire Straits: Every Album, Every Song

Dire Straits On Track revisits, re-evaluates and contextualises the band's six studio albums and two live albums, as well as EPs and arch...

Rasa - Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics

Rasa is the most thorough treatment to date of this all-important concept at the heart of Javanese aesthetics. Rasa encompasses not only ...

Music in the Late Twentieth Century - The Oxford History of Western Music

Music in the Late Twentieth Century is the final installment of the set, covering the years from the end of World War II to the present. ...

All Things Must Pass Away - Harrison, Clapton, and Other Assorted Love Songs

"Womack and Kruppa present a thorough history of Harrison and Clapton's songmaking and recording sessions." --Booklist Newly revised and ...

Every Song Ever - Twenty Ways to Listen to Music Now

Ben Ratliff has been a music critic for The New York Times since 1996. His book Coltrane: The Story of a Sound was a finalist for the Nat...

Norton Anthology of Western Music

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it...

Shock and Awe - Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century

As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most de...

Major Labels - A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

From his allegiance to punk rock in his adolescence to becoming an essential voice on music and culture, Kelefa Sanneh makes a deep study...

Sweet Dreams - From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics

Prince - Purple Rain - Rock Classics

In a year containing groundbreaking releases from the likes of Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, and Van Halen, 1984 also saw Prince...

Lou Reed 1989-2011 - Every Album, Every Song

The Stranglers - Every Album, Every Song

Nirvana - Every Album, Every Song

Despite only being active for less than a decade and releasing just three studio albums during their short tenure, Nirvana's overwhelming...

The Clash - Every Album, Every Song

David Bowie 1964 to 1982 - Every Album, Every Song

When David Bowie died in 2016 some people say the world went to hell in a handcart. It seems that while Bowie was alive his songs and the...

Soul-Folk

Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the so...

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

ONE OF PITCHFORK'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2023 Now in paperback, a companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers thr...

Room 100 - Sid, Nancy, and the Night Punk Rock Died

The gripping first account of one of the darkest days in pop music history: the murder of Nancy Spungen.

The Sounds of Spectators at Football

"Discusses how, when and why football spectators produce sound, and it examines the structures, meanings and functions of these sounds an...

Youtube and Music - Online Culture and Everyday Life

YouTube has afforded new ways of documenting, performing and circulating musical creativity. This first open access sustained exploration...

Cranking Up Rush - Their Musical Legacy in 11 Songs

CANKING UP THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF RUSH IN 11 SONGS

Mixing Pop and Politics - A Marxist History of Popular Music

From rock’n’roll to contemporary pop, Mixing Pop and Politics is a provocative and entertaining mash-up of music and Marxist theory. A ra...

Longing for Lo-Fi - Glimpsing Back Through Technology

An academic analysis of the internet's favorite music genre Popular among YouTube-browsing students looking for a study soundtrack, lo-fi...

On Record - Vol. 7: 1979: Images, Interviews & Insights from the Year in Music

Vol. 7: 1979 of the comprehensive On Record series captures the resurgence of rock (“My Sharona” by the Knack; Pink Floyd’s release of Th...

On Record - Vol. 8: 1986: Images, Interviews & Insights from the Year in Music

Vol. 8: 1986 of the comprehensive On Record series captures the British synth-pop duos (Pet Shop Boys) and bombastic hard-rock acts (Euro...

Down on the Corner - Adventures in Busking & Street Music

Aqua's Aquarium

"This book unwraps a bubblegum pop, "Euro-trash" classic to offer the first in-depth examination of what lies beneath Aqua's sticky-sweet...

Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell - Rock Classics

Released in 1977 during the height of disco fever and punk rock, Bat Out of Hell is an ambitious debut album that bucked the trend and co...

Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narrative look at the Allman Brothers' most ...

Musical Guide to Red by King Crimson

The Sound of Seattle - 101 Songs That Shaped a City

"This colorful illustrated paperback explores the musical evolution of Seattle, looking at (about) 75 songs from 75 artists over 75 years...

Cranking Up Pink Floyd - Their Musical Legacy in 11 Songs

IF PINK FLOYD STARTS PLAYING 11 DIFERENT TUNES