Global Repertoires

Andreas Gebesmair, Alfred Smudits

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• With just four record companies controlling nearly 80 per cent of the world market in popular music, issues of globalization are evidently significant... Lees meer

Heavy Metal Music in Britain

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer-good in the early twenty-first ... Lees meer

The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume III, 1985-2015

Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan, Emma Webster

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• To date there has been a significant gap in existing knowledge about the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three vo... Lees meer

The Singer-Songwriter in Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The Singer-Songwriter in Europe is the first book to explore and compare the multifaceted discourses and practices of this figure within and across li... Lees meer

Brazilian Popular Music

Lorraine Leu

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Brazilian Popular Music, or Mðsica Popular Brasileira (MPB), developed in the mid 1960s as a response to the re-thinking of Brazilian national identi... Lees meer

As Heard on Tv: Popular Music in Advertising

Bethany Klein

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The use of popular music in advertising represents one of the most pervasive mergers of cultural and commercial objectives in the modern age. Steady p... Lees meer

Blixa Bargeld and Einstürzende Neubauten: German Experimental Music

Jennifer Shryane

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• At the end of his life, Pierre Schaeffer commented that his musical and sound experiments had attempted to go beyond 'do-re-mi'. This had a direct bea... Lees meer

Punk Rock Warlord: The Life and Work of Joe Strummer

Barry J Faulk, Brady Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Punk Rock Warlord explores the relevance of Joe Strummer within the continuing legacies of both punk rock and progressive politics. It is aimed at sch... Lees meer

Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice

Annette Davison

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Relatively little has been written about film scores and soundtracks outside of Hollywood cinema. Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice addresses t... Lees meer

The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and Its Diaspora

David Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• For at least two centuries, and arguably much longer, Ireland has exerted an important influence on the development of the traditional, popular and ar... Lees meer

Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain

William Washabaugh

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain explores the efforts of the current government in southern Spain to establish flamenco music as a signif... Lees meer

This Is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture

Katherine L Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, list... Lees meer

Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The intense and continuing popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and ... Lees meer

Women in the Studio

Paula Wolfe

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The field of popular music production is overwhelmingly male dominated. Here, Paula Wolfe discusses gendered notions of creativity and examines the si... Lees meer

The Art of Record Production

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The playback of recordings is the primary means of experiencing music in contemporary society, and in recent years 'classical' musicologists and popul... Lees meer

Death and the Rock Star

Catherine Strong, Barbara Lebrun

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the 'resurrection' of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella musi... Lees meer

Death and the Rock Star

Catherine Strong, Barbara Lebrun

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the 'resurrection' of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella musi... Lees meer

Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music

Ralf Von Appen, André Doehring, Allan F Moore

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Existing books on the analysis of popular music focus on theory and methodology, and normally discuss parts of songs briefly as examples. The impressi... Lees meer

The Rock Canon

Caryswyn Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Canons are central to our understanding of our culture, and yet in the last thirty years there has been much conflict and uncertainty created by the i... Lees meer

Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction presents new insights into the study of musical rhythm through investigations of the micro-rhythmic ... Lees meer

The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain During the First World War

John Mullen

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Using a collection of over one thousand popular songs from the war years, as well as around 150 soldiers' songs, John Mullen provides a fascinating in... Lees meer

The Defence of Tradition in Brazilian Popular Music

Sean Stroud

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Sean Stroud examines how and why Mðsica Popular Brasileira (MPB) has come to have such a high status, and why the musical tradition (including MPB) w... Lees meer

The Sociology of Wind Bands

Vincent DuBois, Jean-Matthieu Méon, Jean-Yves Bart

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The Sociology of Wind Bands provides a sociological account of this musical universe. Based on a qualitative and quantitative survey conducted in nort... Lees meer

Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives

Martin Dowling

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Written from the perspective of a scholar and performer, Traditional Music and Irish Society investigates the relation of traditional music to Irish m... Lees meer