Popular Music

Popular Music in Japan

Transformation Inspired by the West Toru Mitsui, Kanazawa University, Japan Popular music in Japan has long been under the overwhelming influence of American and Latin American popular music since 1945 when Japan was defeated in World War II. Beginning with gunka and enka, and tracing the birth of hit songs in the record industry, the adoption of western genres, the rise of Japanese folk and rock, domestic exoticism as a new trend, and J-Pop, Popular Music in Japan is a comprehensive discussion of the evolution of popular music in Japan. In eight revised and updated essays written in English by renowned Japanese scholar Toru Mitsui, this book tells the story of popular music in Japan since the beginning of the 20th century with a focus on the years since the Meiji Restoration when Japan began positively embracing the West.

UK August 2020 • US August 2020 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781501363863 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501363870 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501363887 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Virtual Music

Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era Shara Rambarran, Queen’s University, Canada This book explores the interactive relationship of digital virtual music and its users. Areas involving the historical, technological, and creative practices of digital virtual music are surveyed including its connection with musicians, performers, audience and consumers. Shara Rambarran looks at the fascination and innovations surrounding digital virtual music, and illustrates key artists, creators, audiences, and consumers that contribute in making this musical experience a phenomenon. Whether it is interrogating the (un)realness of performers, modified identities of artists, technological manipulation of the Internet and music industry, or accessible opportunities in creativity, the book offers a fresh critical understanding of digital virtual music and appeals to readers who have an interest in this cultural revolution. Bloomsbury Academic

Popular Music and Narrativity

A Theory and History of Pop Storyworlds Alex Jeffery, Independent Scholar, UK While music’s role as soundtrack for other narrative media has been extensively theorised, relatively little attention has been paid to how narrativity works within popular music itself. By building on writing around narrativity from popular music scholars, applying concepts from the storyworlds literature to music and vice versa, this book connects these two disciplines. It provides fresh takes on well-known case studies from David Bowie and The Beatles to Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of War of the Worlds, while introducing the reader to lesser known examples from global popular music culture. Providing a long overdue overview of narrativity in popular music culture, this book connects the dots between innovative and exciting examples across its history.

Piano, Toys, Music and Noise

Conversations with Steve Beresford Andy Hamilton, Durham University, UK In this book, Beresford is heard in his own words through first-hand interviews with the author. Beresford provides compelling insight into an extensive range of topics, displaying the broad cultural context in which music is embedded. The volume combines chronological and thematic chapters, with topics covering improvisation and composition in jazz and free music; the connections between art, entertainment and popular culture; the audience for free improvisation; writing music for films; recording improvised music in the studio; and teaching improvisation. It places Beresford in the context of improvised and related musics in which there are considerable and growing interest, including jazz, free music, free improvisation, and free jazz.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 288 pages HB 9781501366444 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501366451 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501366468 • £88.50 / $108.00

UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 224 pages PB 9781501336379 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501333606 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501333613 • £21.92 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501333620 • £21.92 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic

New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media

Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific

Music, Media, and Technology Edited by Lonán Ó Briain, University of Nottingham, UK & Min-Yen Ong, University of Cambridge, UK The popularization of radio, television, and the Internet radically transformed musical practice in the Asia Pacific. These technologies bequeathed media broadcasters with a profound authority over the ways we engage with musical culture. With original contributions by leading scholars in anthropology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and media and cultural studies, the 15 essays in this book investigate the processes of broadcasting musical culture in the Asia Pacific. We shift our gaze to the mechanisms of cultural industries in eastern Asia and the Pacific islands to understand how oft-invisible producers, musicians, and technologies facilitate, frame, reproduce, and magnify the reach of the local culture.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 272 pages HB 9781501360053 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501360060 • £95.81 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501360077 • £95.81 / $117.00

Bloomsbury Academic

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 288 pages • 45 bw illus HB 9781501343254 • £96.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501343261 • £87.69 / $107.99 ePdf 9781501343278 • £87.69 / $107.99 Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Resonant Matter

Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality Lutz Koepnick, Vanderbilt University, USA In Resonant Matter, Lutz Koepnick considers contemporary sound and installation art as a unique laboratory of hospitality amid inhospitable times. Inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson’s nine-channel video installation The Visitors (2012), the book explores resonance—as a model of art’s fleeting promise to make us coexist with things strange and other. The book’s nine chapters approach The Visitors from everdifferent conceptual angles while bringing it into dialogue with the work of other artists and musicians such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Guillermo Galindo, Mischa Kuball, Philipp Lachenmann, Alvien Lucier, Teresa Margolles, Carsten Nicolai, Camille Norment, Susan Philipsz, David Rothenberg, Juliana Snapper, and Tanya Tagaq.

UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 272 pages • 40 bw illus PB 9781501343674 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501343377 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501343384 • £21.92 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501343391 • £21.92 / $26.95 Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media • Bloomsbury Academic