Matthew Horton, Music Journalist, UK On Saturday June 28, 1986, George Michael picked up his BSA Rockers Revenge leather jacket, walked out of London’s Wembley Stadium and cheerfully tore up five years of glittering pop history. He’d just disposed of the band Wham! and now, at 23, he knew he was all grown up. He just needed to convince everyone else. Faith is what happens when you’ve outstripped your dreams, your friends and your audience and no one’s caught up yet. It’s about pouring that confusion, insecurity and sizzling ambition into a record – and then selling 20 million copies of it. UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 152 pages PB 9781501377976 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501377983 • £10.73 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501377990 • £10.73 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
Kraftwerk's Computer World Steve Tupai Francis, Independent Scholar, Australia
Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
Sequoia L. Maner, Spelman College, USA This book dives into the sounds, images, and lyrics of To Pimp a Butterfly to suggest that Kendrick appeals to the psyche of a nation in crisis and embraces the development of a radical political conscience. Kendrick breathes life into the black musical protest tradition and cultivates a platform for loving resistance. Combining funk, jazz, and spoken word, the expansive sonic and lyrical geography brings a level of innovation to a field dominated by the predictability of trap music. More importantly, Kendrick’s introspective and philosophical songs compel us to believe in a future where we gon’ be alright! UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 144 pages PB 9781501377471 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501377488 • £10.73 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501377495 • £10.73 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
The National's Boxer Ryan Pinkard, Journalist, USA
Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, Computer World, was also their most influential album, paving the way for a range of new musical styles and genres. This book explores the band’s revolutionary sonic template, and their lyrical obsessions in detail. Movement is really a reflection of the concept of transition, through time and space, from one physical, emotional, or existential state of being to another. The book explores transition, as expressed on Computer World, via theories of post-humanism, cybernetics and the anthropology of transnationalism.
Released in May 2007, The National’s fourth fulllength is the album that saved them. It’s where the Ohio-via-Brooklyn five-piece found the sound, success and spiritual growth to become one of the most critically acclaimed bands of their time. Obsessively researched and featuring intimate interviews with the fighters who were there in the ring, Ryan Pinkard captures a transformative chapter in The National’s story, revealing how their breakthrough album is deeply intertwined with their personal lives, the New York indie rock renaissance of the early aughts and a generational experience in America.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 160 pages PB 9781501378980 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501378997 • £10.73 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501379000 • £10.73 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 176 pages PB 9781501378010 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501378027 • £10.73 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501378034 • £10.73 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
Cat Power's Moon Pix Donna Kozloskie, Writer, USA
Moon Pix was conceived during a hallucinatory waking nightmare in the South Carolina home of Chan Marshall one fateful day in 1997. Like all legends, the aura surrounding them is an impression, a sensory feeling of unreliable memories: layers of stories become histories. Through interviews with key players, audience member accounts, fictional narrative imaginings, a collection of record reviews and other explorations of truth, this book, like Moon Pix itself, is an ode to the myth within the music and the music within the myth. UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 160 pages PB 9781501377938 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501377945 • £10.73 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501377952 • £10.73 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
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George Michael's Faith
Los Rodríguez's Sin Documentos Héctor Fouce, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain & Fernán del Val, University of Porto, Portugal
Sin documentos is a landmark album in Spanish popular culture and continues to maintain considerable popularity more than two decades after its release. The characteristic guitar riff of the title song, a kind of rumba-rock, still occupies a place at every party in Spain. Los Rodriguez’s success came after a decade characterized by the rise and fall of local-language punk and new wave bands. Featuring interviews with members of the band and the album producer and analysis of the album’s media coverage, the book delves into the cultural trends of Spain in the 1990s and beyond. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 128 pages PB 9781501357893 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501357886 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501357909 • £16.10 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501357916 • £16.10 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
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