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

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

Blixa Bargeld and Einstürzende Neubauten

Jennifer Shryane

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Jennifer Shryane provides a much-needed analysis of EinstÃ1/4rzende Neubauten's important place in popular/experimental music history. She illustrates... Lees meer

As Heard on TV

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

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

Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan

• 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

Punk Rock Warlord

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

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

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

This is the Sound of Irony

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

Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain

William Washabaugh

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

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

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

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 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

Popular Music and Human Rights

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, th... 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 Rock Canon

Carys Wyn Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The canon is usually considered to be an inherently elitist concept. However, Carys Wyn Jones here explores the symptomatic reflections of canonical v... 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

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

The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-67) has had an immense impact on popular culture throughout the world. His folk music brought traditional song from the r... Lees meer

Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles

Sara Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• How is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? How, for example, did the Beatles emerge in Liverpool, how did th... Lees meer