DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media Ellis Jones, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo
The emergence of social media in the early 21st century promised to facilitate new “DIY” cultural approaches, emphasizing participation and democratization. However, in recent years these platforms have been criticized as domineering and exploitative. For DIY musicians in scenes with lengthy histories of cultural resistance, is social media a powerful emancipatory and democratizing tool, or a new corporate antagonist to be resisted? DIY Music explores the significant challenges faced by artists navigating this fraught cultural landscape. It shows that a platform-enabled DIY approach is now the norm for a wide array of cultural practitioners; this “DIY-as-default” landscape threatens to depoliticize the call to “do-it-yourself.” UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 192 pages • 5 black & white images PB 9781501359637 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501359644 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781501359651 • £21.92 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501359668 • £21.92 / $26.95 Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music • Bloomsbury Academic
21st-Century Dylan Late and Timely
Edited by Adrian Grafe, Claire Hélie, University of Lille, France, Andrew McKeown, University of Poitiers, France & Laurence Estanove, Université Paris Descartes, 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 December 2020 • US December 2020 • 272 pages HB 9781501363696 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501363702 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501363719 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Scary Monsters
Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music Mark Duffett, University of Chester, UK & Jon Hackett, St Mary’s University, UK Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more ‘monsters’ than might at first be imagined. Attention to such individuals and cultures can say things about the operation of genre and gender, myth and meaning. By pursuing a series of insightful case studies, Scary Monsters considers different aspects of the connection between the music, gender and monstrosity. Its argument is that attention to monstrosity provides a unique perspective on the study of masculinity in popular music culture. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 256 pages HB 9781501313370 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501313394 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501313387 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Live from the Other Side of Nowhere
Contemplating Musical Performance in an Age of Virtual Reality Sam Cleeve, Birmingham City University, UK In recent years VR has become an increasingly prevalent platform for musical performance— Björk, U2, Gorillaz, and even the LA Philharmonic all having taken to the virtual stage. These virtual encounters profoundly disrupt assumptions long held to be true of live music, undermining the necessity of physical and temporal co-presence, exploding our expectations of performance spaces, opening up new possibilities for performance involving avatars, and affording intimate encounters otherwise impossible in the physical world. Live from the Other Side of Nowhere begins to pry apart the conceptual challenges that this disruptive technology poses to our understanding of the ‘live’ as an autonomous category of musical activity. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 208 pages PB 9781501346361 • £22.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781501346354 • £72.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781501346378 • £21.10 / $25.15 ePdf 9781501346385 • £21.10 / $25.15 Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music • Bloomsbury Academic
A Women’s History of the Beatles
M U S I C & S O U N D S T U D I E S - Popular Music
Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
Christine Feldman-Barrett, Griffith University, Australia A Women’s History of the Beatles is the first book to offer a detailed presentation of the band’s social and cultural impact as understood through the experiences and lives of women. Drawing on a mix of interviews and ethnography (including autoethnography), textual analysis, and archival research, this work depicts the myriad ways that the Beatles have profoundly shaped and enriched the lives of women from the band’s 1960s heyday onward. Organized topically based on key themes important to the Beatles the book uncovers all the varied and multifaceted relationships women have had with the band, whether face-to-face and intimately or parasocially through mediated, popular culture. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 256 pages HB 9781501348037 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501348044 • £95.81 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501348051 • £95.81 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Musical Nationalism, Despotism and Scholarly Interventions in Greek Popular Music
Nikos Ordoulidis, University of Ioannina, Greece During the 1940s and 1950s, a selective exoneration of urban popular music took place, one of its most popular cases being the originating relationships between two extremely popular musical pieces: Vasilis Tsitsanis’s “Synnefiasmeni Kyriaki” (Cloudy Sunday) and its descent from the hymn “Ti Ypermacho” (The Akathist Hymn). During this period the connection of these two pieces was forged in the Modern Greek conscience, led by certain key figures in the authority system of the scholarly world. Through analysis of these pieces the surrounding contexts, Ordoulidis explores the changing role and perception of popular music in Greece. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 224 pages HB 9781501369445 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501369452 • £81.19 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501369469 • £81.19 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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