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Music & Sound Studies
Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle
Selena Chambers, Writer, USA Babes in Toyland insisted their music wasn’t a political statement but a personal expression. They would dismiss labeling their act as feminist, but their actions sent a positive message of what a matriarchal system within music could look like. They let the patriarchy in via their major label contract with Warner Bros., and their unique frission would never be the same again. Now, almost 30 years after their most seminal record, Fontanelle was released, the legend of the band is being resurrected and respun to reclaim their proper space and context in the history of music and women in rock.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 152 pages PB 9781501377556 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501377563 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501377570 • £10.18 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
ESG's Come Away with ESG
Cheri Percy, Freelance Writer, UK ESG were one of the first bands to sign to British indie label Factory Records, working with famed producer Martin Hannett on their early EPs. Through interviews with founding member Renee Scroggins, alongside cult-figures from 1980s New York and North England, this book follows the story of a group of sisters who made it out of the New York projects and into the heart of the dancefloor. Come Away With ESG repositions ESG in their rightful place as punk pioneers and explains how their primal beats have paved the way for modern dance music today.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 144 pages PB 9781501379192 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501379222 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501379215 • £10.18 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
Madvillain's Madvillainy
Will Hagle, Freelance journalist, USA This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM’s resurgence and Madlib’s reluctant return from avant-garde jazz to rap. With DOOM tragically passing away at the end of 2020, Madvillainy remains the cornerstone of his extensive legacy. It contextualizes Madvillainy throughout the years before and after its existence, delving into its intertwined relationship with the rise of the social media era.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 152 pages PB 9781501389238 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501389245 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501389252 • £10.18 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
Marvin Gaye's I Want You
Derrais Carter, University of Arizona, USA Marvin Gaye sang like he lived in bed. He could croon, deliver a political commentary, and sing to you like you were the only other soul on this earth. And in 1976 he gave us a taste of his erotic imagination with I Want You. Using interviews, visual art, poetry, criticism, and gossip, this book explores ecstasy, funk, sensation, and a host of other delicious and fleshy concerns that animate I Want You. This book seeks fidelity to the album by centering Gaye’s fantasies, his engagement with Ernie Barnes’ painting Sugar Shack, and sonic expression of desire for Jan.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 152 pages PB 9781501379062 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501379079 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501379086 • £10.18 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
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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 March 2023 • US March 2023 • 160 pages PB 9781501365751 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9781501365768 • £13.10 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501365775 • £13.10 / $17.95 Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia
Lila Ellen Gray, Dickinson College, USA The voice of Amália Rodrigues, the “Queen of Fado” and Portugal’s most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach. Amália at the Olympia (1957), a recording of her concert at the fabled Olympia Theater in Paris in 1956, an album issued for multiple markets, from France to Japan, catapulted her into the international limelight. This book unpacks this iconic album and the voice, sound, style, and celebrity of Amália Rodrigues. In so doing, it examines processes which shaped the internationalization of local popular musics and the making of musical stardom in the 20th century.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 128 pages PB 9781501346194 • £18.00 / $22.95 • HB 9781501346200 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501346217 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501346224 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
Iannis Xenakis’ Persepolis
Aram Yardumian, Bryn Athyn College, USA Iannis Xenakis’s Persepolis stood as witness to one of the most important events in modern human history, the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Its existence is owed to an invitation to participate in the 1971 Shiraz Arts Festival, which was overseen by Empress Farah Pahlavi. This book tells the story of how Xenakis’s early history and involvement in the Resistance against the Axis occupation of Greece during the Second World War; escape and re-settlement in Paris; work as an architect with Le Corbusier; and distinct views on world history and politics all led to his 1972 electroacoustic album Persepolis.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 128 pages PB 9781501381508 • £18.00 / $22.95 • HB 9781501381515 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501381522 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501381539 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
Édith Piaf's Récital 1961
David L. Looseley From the beginning of her career in 1935, beyond her death in 1963, and right up to the present day, Piaf has been recognized as a unique global icon. And she remains France’s most famous singing star across the world. Récital 1961 explores the content, context, and significance of the 1960 concert and the ensuing album, in relation to Piaf’s career, her life, and her celebrity. Looseley discusses the enraptured reception of concert, album and song and, at a deeper level, their place in the invention of the public Piaf we know today.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 128 pages PB 9781501362101 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501362118 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501362125 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501362132 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
Choral Voices
Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality
Sebanti Chatterjee, Christ University, India Drawing from sociology, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and history, Choral Voices adopts a multi-sited ethnography across churches, seminaries, schools, university auditoriums, state auditoriums, privately managed auditoriums, classrooms, reality TV shows, festivals, and recording studios. It offers a fresh perspective in delineating a self-conscious sense of indigenousness in constructing choral voices, offering an interplay of standardization, and speaks to questions such as who are the rightful heirs of this musical tradition? How does one distinguish one musical genre from another? And how does one factor in the visual and the aural in the process of musical exhibition?
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 208 pages HB 9781501379833 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501379840 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501379857 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
David Bowie and the Moving Image
Katherine Reed, California State University, Fullerton, USA David Bowie’s audio-visual work remains relatively unexplored. More narrowly focused studies address the artist’s music videos or film roles, but none provide a comprehensive view of the two-way street that was Bowie’s work with film, theorizing the way he engaged with the medium throughout his 50-year career. David Bowie and the Moving Image is just such a comprehensive study. Analyzing Bowie’s music videos, planned film projects, acting roles, and musical works included in films, this monograph provides an intervention in Bowie scholarship. This study of Bowie’s multimedia projects informs our understanding of all areas of his work, from music to fashion to visual art. It enters the debate about Bowie’s artistic legacy and fills an important gap by addressing Bowie as musician, actor, and auteur.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 240 pages • 17 bw illus HB 9781501371257 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501371264 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501371271 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Long and Winding Roads, Revised Edition
The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles
Kenneth Womack, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, USA Kenneth Womack brings the Beatles' story vividly to life in Long and Winding Roads, Revised Edition. In this updated second edition, Womack addresses new insights in Beatles-related scholarship since the original publication of Long and Winding Roads, along with hundreds of the group’s outtakes released in the intervening years. The updated edition also affords attention to the Beatles’ musical debt to African-American Rhythm and Blues, as well as to key recent discoveries that vastly shift our understanding of formative events in the band’s timeless story.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 368 pages PB 9781501387050 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781501387067 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781501387074 • £23.29 / $31.45 ePdf 9781501387081 • £23.29 / $31.45 Bloomsbury Academic Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis
Kenneth Smith, University of Liverpool, UK & Stephen Overy, Newcastle University, UK What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The unconscious works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage with. Theories on the psychological complexity of popular music are demonstrated through close readings of songs, albums, artists, genres, and practices. Listening to the Unconscious draws from a number of artists, from Prince to Sufjan Stevens, Robyn to Xiu Xiu, Joanna Newsom to Arcade Fire, Joy Division to LCD Sound System, each of whom offer exciting inroads into the fascinating worlds of our unconscious musical minds.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages PB 9781501368462 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501368455 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501368479 • £19.65 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501368486 • £19.65 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Andy Bennett, Griffith University, Australia This handbook provides a comprehensive and fully up-to-date overview of key themes and debates relating to the academic study of popular music and youth culture. While this is a highly popular and rapidly expanding field of research, there currently exists no singlesource reference book for those interested in this topic. The volume is comprised of 35 original chapters written by leading authors in the field of popular music and youth culture and covers a range of topics including: theory; method; historical perspectives; genre; audience; media; globalization; ageing and generation.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 688 pages HB 9781501333699 • £150.00 / $200.00 ePub 9781501333705 • £131.76 / $180.00 ePdf 9781501333712 • £131.76 / $180.00 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
The Present and Future of Music Law
Edited by Ann Harrison, London College of Music/University of West London, UK & Tony Rigg, University of Central Lancashire, UK The music business is a multifaceted, transnational industry that operates within complex and rapidly changing political, economic, cultural and technological contexts. The Present and Future of Music Law presents thirteen case studies written by experts in their fields, examining a range of key topics at the points where music law and the post-digital music industry intersect, offering a timely exploration of the current landscape and insights into the future shape of the interface between music business and music law.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 304 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781501369674 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501367779 ePub 9781501367786 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501367793 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Evolutions and Augmentations
Edited by Rich Perks & John McGrath In the 21st century the guitar takes more physical forms than ever before. Ranging from relatively simple adaptions/modifications of existing instruments to custom-made specialist models; from multiple necks and additional strings to the removal or supplementation of frets; from on-board processing units to external synergies with technology, the guitar’s physical identity is in an exponential state of flux, raising many important questions: What are the reasons behind such myriad preparations, evolutions and augmentations? Is musicianship at the epicentre of developments; do trends in fashions, idiomatic conventions, and/or ‘gimmicks’ have a role to play? This collection comprises an assortment of contributions from performers, academics, and practitioners which examine the diverse physical manifestations of the guitar across the modern performative landscape and explore the creative possibilities these new forms afford.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 288 pages • 104 bw illus HB 9781501373299 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501373305 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501373312 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Becoming Noise Music
Style, Aesthetics, and History
Stephen Graham Becoming Noise Music uses a broad and agile music-analytical lens to dive deep into noise music; in doing this, it is the first book to focus exclusively and comprehensively on the music of noise music, as opposed to contextual questions of politics, history or sociology. Using technical description and a range of visualization tools in analyzing musical shape and organization, this book applies various hermeneutical lenses to draw meaning out of that analysis.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages HB 9781501378669 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501378676 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501378683 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic Michael B. MacDonald, MacEwan University, Canada Using cine-ethnomusicology as a focus, Cineworlding introduces readers to ways of thinking eco-cinematically. Screens are omnipresent, we carry digital cinema production equipment in our pockets, but this screen-based technological revolution has barely impacted social science scholarship. Mixing existential phenomenological fiction about social science digital cinema research practice followed by theoretical reflection and discussion of methods, this book has emerged from a decade-long inquiry into cineworlding and a desire to help others produce digital media to engage creatively with the digital networks that surround us.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 288 pages HB 9781501369391 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501369407 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501369414 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Silent Films/Loud Music
New Ways of Listening to and Thinking about Silent Film Music
Phillip Johnston, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Australia Silent Films/Loud Music discusses contemporary scores for silent film as a rich vehicle for experimentation in the relationship between music, image, and narrative. Johnston offers an overview of the early history of music for silent film paired with his own first-hand view of the craft of creating new original scores for historical silent films: a unique form crossing musical boundaries of classical, jazz, rock, electronic, and folk. It tells the story of the historical and creative evolution of this art form and features an extended discussion and analysis of some of the most creative works of contemporary silent film scoring.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 248 pages PB 9781501369582 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501366406 ePub 9781501366413 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501366420 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
David Bowie and the Art of Music Video
Lisa Perrott, University of Waikato, New Zealand From the kooky original Space Oddity to the disturbingly sublime Lazarus, this book charts the course of David Bowie’s collaborative process, across five decades of music videos. Revealing Bowie’s playful energy and visionary influence, the book shows how he consistently expanded the possibilities of music video as an art form. By examining Bowie’s collaborative process, his use of performative gesture, and his integration of avant-garde art with popular music and media, the book provides a history of music video in relation to the broader field of audiovisual media and popular music.
UK March 2023 • US April 2023 • 224 pages PB 9781501335921 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501335143 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501335150 • £19.65 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501335167 • £19.65 / $26.95 Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media • Bloomsbury Academic
More Than Illustrated Music
Aesthetics of Hybrid Media between Pop, Art and Video
Edited by Kathrin Dreckmann, Heinrich Heine University, Germany & Elfi Vomberg, Heinrich Heine University, Germany This book explores processes of hybridization between music video, film, and video art by presenting current theoretical discourses and engaging them through interviews with well-known artists and directors, bringing to the surface the crucial questions of art practice. The collection discusses topics including postcolonialism, posthumanism, gender, race and class and addresses questions regarding the hybrid media structure of video, the diffusion between content and form, art and commerce as well as pop culture and counterculture. The book builds on and moves beyond earlier aesthetics-driven perspectives on music video.
YouTube and Music
Online Culture and Everyday Life
Edited by Holly Rogers, Goldsmiths University of London, UK, Joana Freitas, NOVA FCSH, Portugal & João Francisco Porfírio As the main platform for video sharing since its launch back in 2005, YouTube has amassed unquantifiable amounts of audiovisual content that have been produced, shared, transformed, downloaded and consumed by billions of users worldwide, making YouTube as a central hub for contemporary media. As an online space that provides new formats for content production and sharing, the platform operates as a portal into the social, political and cultural spectra of everyday life, creating new work logics and forms of labour (from DIY to self-made YouTube celebrities), creative communities and social bubbles in cyberspace.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 304 pages HB 9781501387272 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501387289 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501387296 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media • Bloomsbury Academic
The Sounds of Spectators at Football
Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær, Aalborg University, Denmark The sounds of spectators at football (or soccer) are often highlighted as crucial for the experience of football. These sounds are often said to contribute significantly to the production (at the stadium) and conveyance (in televised broadcast) of ‘atmosphere.’ This book addresses why and how spectator sounds contribute to the experience of watching in these environments and what characterizes spectator sounds in terms of their structure, distribution and significance. Based on an examination of empirical materials, this book systematically dissects the sounds of football watching.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages HB 9781501381232 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501381249 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501381256 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media • Bloomsbury Academic UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 176 pages HB 9781501363740 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501363757 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501363764 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Sounding Conflict
From Resistance to Reconciliation
Fiona Magowan, Pedro Rebelo, Stefanie Lehner, all of Queen's University Belfast, UK, Julie M. Norman, University College London, UK & Ariana Phillips-Hutton Sound, music and storytelling are important tools of resistance, resilience and reconciliation in creative practice from protracted conflict to post-conflict contexts. Based on original research in three continents, this book advances an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to exploring the role of sonic and creative practices in addressing the effects of conflict. Each case study illustrates how participatory arts genres are variously employed by musicians, arts facilitators, theatre practitioners, community activists and other stakeholders as a means of ‘strategic creativity’ to transform trauma and promote empowerment. This research highlights the dynamics of delivering creativity among those who have experienced violence, as they seek opportunities to generate alternative arenas for engagement, healing and transformation.
The Sonic Experience of World War One
Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK This study investigates the sounds of war as experienced by those who participated in it by drawing upon a wide range of written testament of the time. Michael Bull filters these accounts through an understanding of the transformation of spaces engendered by the technologies of "total war" through which the war was experienced, from the trench whistle to the tank, from the newly developed airplane to the submarine. How did the wartime population experience these sounds and what were the consequences? This book re-evaluates how to understand the sounds of World War One and the sounds of war more generally.
UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 224 pages • 3 bw illus PB 9781501366277 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501366284 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501366291 • £19.65 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501366307 • £19.65 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 224 pages HB 9781501383021 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501383038 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501383045 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
