Music & Sound Studies

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

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

Kraftwerk's Computer World

Steve Tupai Francis, Independent Scholar, Australia 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.

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

The National's Boxer

Ryan Pinkard, Journalist, USA 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 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

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

Lasse Lehtonen, University of Tokyo, Japan A singer-songwriter recognized globally for her songs used in Miyazaki Hayao’s beloved animations, Yuming has captured the hearts of listeners of different generations since her debut in the early 1970s. Her fourth album, The 14th Moon (1976), was a milestone in establishing her signature style: the posh, “city” sound that later paved the way to the 1980s City Pop and 1990s J-pop. In addition to examining the album’s astonishing stylistic versatility, this book explores how Yuming revolutionized the position of women in Japanese popular music and how her work can help us understand social changes in Japan of the 1970s.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 128 pages PB 9781501378133 • £19.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501378126 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501378140 • £16.10 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501378157 • £16.10 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Japan • Bloomsbury Academic Graeme Turner, University of Queensland, Australia In 1986, Australian singer John Farnham released an album that was to transform him from a faded pop star, who no record company would touch, into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia for a period of more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by an Australian in Australia. The first single, ‘You’re the Voice,’ has achieved such iconic status that it is routinely referred to as Australia’s unofficial national anthem. This book delves into that history and into that album to recover a crucial conjuncture in the development of Australian rock and popular music.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 128 pages PB 9781501382062 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501382055 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501382079 • £16.10 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501382086 • £16.10 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic

Trip-hop

RJ Wheaton, Writer, Canada This short book seeks to dislocate "trip-hop" and instead understand this music within wider and more interesting aesthetic traditions. Traditions in which qualities of beauty, intimacy, and nostalgia sit alongside complexity, virtuosity, and furious experimentation. It places this strange, spacious, avant garde sound alongside musics of exile, loss, and the Black diaspora. Like the music, this book will both offer solace and challenge. It will ask questions about who gets to define genres, and what — and who — do such genres exclude. And it will ask, as a listener, how do you untrain your ears and escape complicity from the commercial imperatives of labels and algorithms?

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 160 pages PB 9781501373602 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9781501373619 • £13.80 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501373626 • £13.80 / $17.95 Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Vaporwave

Kirk Walker Graves, Writer, USA Vaporwave is music as Internet meme, an ironic and difficult to classify microgenre born online at the turn of the 2010s in an explosion of millennial ambivalence. This is a definitive study of a still evolving phenomenon. Profiling its key artists and producers while exploring the blurred feedback loop between music and the Internet, it makes a convincing argument for the music’s importance and relevance to the culture at large, both as an art form in its own right and as the sublimated ethos of some of Generation Z’s most successful pop stars.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 160 pages PB 9781501365751 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9781501365768 • £13.80 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501365775 • £13.80 / $17.95 Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic

Read Music

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Popular Culture in a Global Market

Edited by Kirsty Fairclough, University of Salford, UK & Jason Wood, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK From the early days of cinema, figures from the world of popular music have made forays into acting and contributed cameo appearances. From Little Richard and Kylie Minogue to Nick Cave and Tom Waits, Pop Stars On Film offers a collection of essays on some of the most influential international performances from a diverse range of cultural icons. The book considers industry shifts, access and diversity, but also the notion of cultural appropriation, audience appeal, marketing and demographics. Perhaps most importantly, the publication will look at what happens when cultures collide and coalesce.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781501372513 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501372520 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501372537 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

21st-Century Dylan

Late and Timely

Edited by Laurence Estanove, Université Paris Descartes, France, Adrian Grafe, Andrew McKeown, University of Poitiers, France & Claire Hélie, University of Lille, France Dylan has never ceased to broaden the range of his creative identity, taking in painting, film, acting, and prose writing, as well as advertising and even own-brand commercial production. The book highlights how Dylan has brought his persona(e) to different art forms and cultural arenas, and how they in turn have also created these personae. This volume consists of multidisciplinary essays written by cultural historians, musicologists, literary academics, and film experts including contributions by critics Christopher Ricks and Nina Goss.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 248 pages PB 9781501371240 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501363696 ePub 9781501363702 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501363719 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic Simon Zagorski-Thomas, University of West London, UK Practical Musicology is the—rapidly expanding— study of how music is made. The book explores various forms of practice, from performance and composition to listening and dancing, from historically informed performances of Bach in the USA to Indonesian Dubstep, from Irish traditional music played by French musicians from Toulouse to K-Pop. Drawing on neuroscience, cognitive psychology, ecological approaches in anthropology, and the social construction of technology and creativity, Zagorski-Thomas investigates how practice is already being studied and suggests a principle for how it might continue to develop, asserting that musicking cannot be treated as a culturally or ideologically neutral phenomenon.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781501357794 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501357800 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501357817 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: 21st Century Music Practices • Bloomsbury Academic

Dancefloor-Driven Literature

The Rave Scene in Fiction

Simon A. Morrison, University of Chester, UK This book conceives of a new literary genre to accommodate stories born of the dancefloor – 'Dancefloor-Driven Literature'. Using interviews with Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting (1994), alongside other dancefloor-driven authors Nicholas Blincoe and Jeff Noon as case studies, the book explores how such authors write about something so subterranean as the nightclub scene, and analyses what specifically literary techniques they deploy to write lucidly and fluidly about the metronomic beat of electronic music and the chemical accelerant that further alters that relationship.

UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 264 pages PB 9781501389924 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501357671 ePub 9781501357688 • £27.60 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501357695 • £27.60 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic

Anna G. Piotrowska, Jagiellonian University, Poland Against the backdrop of a complex existence starkly affected by the Communist regime, this book engages with Romani musician Stefan Dymiter (known as Corroro) as the leader of his own street band: unwelcome in the public space by the authorities, merely tolerated by others, but admired by many passers-by and respected by his peer Romani musicians and international music stars. It emphasizes the role of Romani musicians in Krakow in shaping the soundscape of the city while also demonstrating their collective and individual strategies to adapt to the new circumstances via preferred performative techniques, repertoire, and overall lifestyle.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 208 pages HB 9781501380815 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501380822 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501380839 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Listening After Nature

Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice

Mark Peter Wright, London College of Communication, UK Listening After Nature questions the reality of auditory natures. Bringing new insight to the field of environmental sound arts such as field recording, acoustic ecology and soundscape studies, Wright examines contemporary and archival audio works and calls for a 'post-natural' approach to sound. The book propels sounds arts discourse into critical relationship with the environmental humanities and contemporary approaches dealing with the consequences of Anthropogenic change. Critical and imaginative, this is a book that forges urgent debate between sound, ethics, aesthetics and ecology.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781501354519 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501354526 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501354533 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic Edited by Sazi Dlamini, University of KwaZuluNatal, South Africa Southern African Bow Music brings together current scholarly research that documents a rich regional diversity as well as cultural relationships in bow music knowledge and contemporary practices. The book is framed as a critical appraisal of traditional ethnomusicological studies of the region – complementing pioneering studies and charting contexts for a contemporary engagement with bow music as an exchangeable cultural practice. Each contribution is written by an expert in the field and collectively demonstrates the multidisciplinary potential of bow music, highlighting the several fields of knowledge that intersect with bow music including ethno-organology, applied ethnomusicology, composition, music literacy, social development, cultural economics, history, orality, performance and language.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 280 pages PB 9781501370328 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501346743 ePub 9781501346750 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501346767 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Timbre

Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics

Isabella Anna Maria Van Elferen, Kingston University London, UK Timbre explores not just one of the most enigmatic aspects of music – tone color – but, through that, also one of the most often-debated questions of music epistemology: the simultaneity of the material and the immaterial in musical aesthetics. In order to achieve an overview of the existing field of timbral research, assess it with critical precision, and offer a new theorization of this complex subject, the book engages with sources from a diverse range of areas including music history, psycho-acoustics, music philosophy, aesthetics, and critical theory.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 248 pages PB 9781501370649 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501365812 ePub 9781501365829 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501365836 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic