Music & Culture

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 • £1499 / $1995 ePub 9781501365768 • £1310 / $1795 ePdf 9781501365775 • £1310 / $1795 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 • £1800 / $2295 • HB 9781501346200 • £6400 / $8000 ePub 9781501346217 • £1528 / $2065 ePdf 9781501346224 • £1528 / $2065 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 • £1800 / $2295 • HB 9781501381515 • £6400 / $8000 ePub 9781501381522 • £1528 / $2065 ePdf 9781501381539 • £1528 / $2065 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 • £1699 / $2295 • HB 9781501362118 • £6000 / $8000 ePub 9781501362125 • £1528 / $2065 ePdf 9781501362132 • £1528 / $2065 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 • £9000 / $12000 ePub 9781501379840 • £7934 / $10800 ePdf 9781501379857 • £7934 / $10800 Bloomsbury Academic