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Sound Studies
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 • £9000 / $12000 ePub 9781501371264 • £7934 / $10800 ePdf 9781501371271 • £7934 / $10800 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 • £2499 / $3495 • HB 9781501387067 • £7500 / $10000 ePub 9781501387074 • £2329 / $3145 ePdf 9781501387081 • £2329 / $3145 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 • £2199 / $2995 • HB 9781501368455 • £9000 / $12000 ePub 9781501368479 • £1965 / $2695 ePdf 9781501368486 • £1965 / $2695 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 • £15000 / $20000 ePub 9781501333705 • £13176 / $18000 ePdf 9781501333712 • £13176 / $18000 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 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781501367779 ePub 9781501367786 • £7934 / $10800 ePdf 9781501367793 • £7934 / $10800 Bloomsbury Academic
