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Cocteau Twins' Blue Bell Knoll
Chris Tapley, Writer, UK
This book examines Blue Bell Knoll to dive deep on the value of artistic ambiguity, the limits of language, and what we can learn about creative practice from this once-in-a-lifetime band
Throughout the 80s and 90s Cocteau Twins defined dream pop and opened the door for shoegaze Robin Guthrie’s reverb-soaked guitar sound and production set the template for a generation, while Elizabeth Fraser’s mesmerising voice and mysterious lyricism beguiled listeners Blue Bell Knoll was their fifth album and their first to be released on a major label in the US.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 128 pages
PB 9781501390449 • £9 99 / $14 95
ePub 9781501390456 • £11 17 / $13 45
ePdf 9781501390463 • £11 17 / $11 17
Series: 33 1/3 Bloomsbury Academic
Ministry's The Land of Rape and Honey
Jason Pettigrew, Freelance journalist, USA
This deeply sourced book traces back the music-biz climates surrounding Ministry’s first two full-length releases before exploring the vision, methods and controversies that helped ascend LORAH to its rightful legend status In the years following the record’s release, Ministry has been embraced by the world’s heavy metal community, thanks to the music’s continued extremity But LORAH may be the one common title members of Nine Inch Nails, Anthrax and ZZ Top have in their collections, be it phonograph or phone And the story behind it remains fascinating
UK May 2025 US May 2025 144 pages
PB 9798765106839 £9 99 / $14 95
ePub 9798765106846 • £11 17 / $13 45
ePdf 9798765106853 • £11 17 / $11 17
Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
1970s Jazz Fusion
Matthew Reed Baker, Writer, USA
From the earliest glimmers of America’s Music going electric, traditional fans accused such legends as Miles Davis and Donald Byrd of contaminating an art form so rich in history and complex in structure with the brazen commercialism and seeming simplicity of new genres like rock, soul, and funk The accusations of selling out were only compounded by the fact that artists like Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea sold far more records and reached more non-jazz fans in the 1970s with their fusion records than with their straight-ahead jazz records Find out more about the musical hybrid that has become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 160 pages
PB 9798765119525 • £14 99 / $19 95
ePub 9798765119532 • £14 36 / $17 95
ePdf 9798765119549 • £14 36 / $14 36
Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic
John Cale's Paris 1919
Mark Doyle, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
In this vivid, wide-ranging book, Mark Doyle hunts down the ghosts haunting Cale’s most enduring solo album There is the ghost of the Velvet Underground, whose abrasive sound and ethos Cale nearly managed to exorcise There is the ghost of Dylan Thomas, a fellow Welshman who haunts not just Paris 1919 but much of Cale’s life and art There are the ghosts of history, of a failed peace and a cold war, and of Christmas, a surprising visitor who lends the proceedings a nostalgic, childlike air With erudition and wit, Doyle offers new ways to listen to an old album whose mysteries will never fully be resolved
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 144 pages
PB 9798765106792 • £9 99 / $14 95
ePub 9798765106808 • £11 17 / $13 45
ePdf 9798765106815 • £11 17 / $11 17
Series: 33 1/3 Bloomsbury Academic
Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Elliott Simpson, Freelance writer, UK
Hailed as a “quiet masterpiece” upon release, Yo La Tengo’s And Then Nothing Turned Itself InsideOut proposed a radical new future for rock music
Released at a time when the music industry was changing dramatically thanks to the rise of online file sharing, it suggested that the only way for a band to survive was to listen to themselves
The book argues that great art does not come from suffering, but instead, steady, unglamorous work It is an album that helped forge a new mythology for rock and roll: one not built on sex, drugs and debauchery, but instead the quiet lives of people living in peaceful suburban homes From the nothingness of the everyday, something incredible can emerge
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 128 pages
PB 9798765106679 • £9 99 / $14 95
ePub 9798765106686 • £11 17 / $13 45
ePdf 9798765106693 • £11 17 / $11 17
Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
Tropicália
Ana Leorne, Writer, France
This comprehensive portrait of Tropicália, from influences to results, from context to main players, and everything in between also explores how Tropicália helped reinvent Brazil's cultural identity in a post-colonial world While post-colonialism remains a vital concept to understand the movement, the genre's conceptual core comes from a unique mix of native and foreign influences: Tropicália doesn't repudiate the international pop panorama, instead choosing to align with the era by assuming itself as its undeniable product The genre also reveals an enthusiastic desire for propelling culture (and counterculture in particular) forward, repudiating senseless conservatisms and niche intellectualisms in favour of a broader reach of Brazilian music
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 176 pages
PB 9798765119068 • £14 99 / $19 95
ePub 9798765119044 • £14 36 / $17 95
ePdf 9798765119037 • £14 36 / $14 36
Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Jon Stratton, University of South Australia & Jon Dale, Independent Scholar, Australia
Crowded House's Together Alone
Barnaby Smith, Independent Scholar, Australia
Together Alone holds a special place in the hearts of Crowded House fans and remains one of Neil Finn’s boldest musical statements – and his favourite Crowded House album Recorded amid the isolated Karekare wilderness, the album is drenched in mystery and atmosphere, with songs possessing special qualities that those on other Crowded House albums – as good as they are – do not But why exactly are they so hypnotizing? Featuring first-hand accounts, from Finn and others, the book also explores the intense circumstances of its recording, its major players, and other factors including the influence of Maori culture.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 144 pages
PB 9798765105153 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9798765105160 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9798765105177 • £16 76 / $20 65
ePdf 9798765105184 • £16 76 / $16 76
Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic
TISM's Machiavelli and the Four Seasons
Tyler Jenke, Freelance journalist, Australia
TISM’s third full-length album was almost destined to fly under the radar. A noted sonic shift from a band whose very existence seemed based around pushing the limit and avoiding the spotlight, the record would ultimately storm the charts, be certified Gold, and go so far as to win Best Independent Release at the 1995 ARIA Awards The group eschewed popular rock trends as they adopted their unique brand of dance music, which in turn translated to greater success. Using first-hand accounts and cultural analysis, this book charts how one of the country’s most enigmatic rock outfits managed to become one of its most noted success stories
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 152 pages
PB 9798765114094 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9798765114087 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9798765114100 £16 76 / $20 65
ePdf 9798765114117 £16 76 / $16 76
Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic
John Sangster's The Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3
Bruce Johnson, University of Turku, Finland
The Lord of the Rings suite, produced during the 1970s, based on the Tolkien books, is the most ambitious compositional oeuvre ever undertaken in Australian jazz Its composer John Sangster's career embraced the entire historical spectrum of jazz styles from traditional to the avant-garde One of the most complex figures in Australian music, in both temperament and musical style, nothing in the recording history of Australian jazz, and perhaps Australian music in general, matches the monumental stature of this suite, which he called his musical autobiography
UK January 2025 US January 2025 144 pages
PB 9798765121122 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9798765121115 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9798765121139 • £16 76 / $20 65
ePdf 9798765121146 • £16 76 / $16 76
Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic
Eyeliner's Buy Now
Michael Brown, Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand
Brimming over with fake wind-chimes, dreamy synth pads, and hyperactive slap-bass, Eyeliner’s Buy Now is an ebullient homage to the kitsch sounds of the 80s and 90s It epitomizes a new kind of album for our times: DIY, all-digital, free, licensed as Creative Commons, and belonging to a “virtual” genre, an internet-based scene without geographic center Drawing on the album’s production archive and interviews with Rowell, this book argues that Buy Now offers both musical pleasure and mental survival-training for an era when sincerity and irony can appear dangerously indistinguishable
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 144 pages
PB 9781501394997 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9781501395000 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9781501397837 • £16 76 / $20 65
ePdf 9781501397820 • £16 76 / $16 76
Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Bloomsbury Academic
Taco Hemingway's Jarmark
Kamila Rymajdo, Journalist, UK
Jarmark is Taco Hemingway’s fifth album, and his most political to date, coming soon after he became the first Polish artist to be streamed a billion times on Spotify Previously described as the voice of a generation with nothing to say, Hemingway’s political turn can be read as an intervention, not least because Jarmark was released two days before the presidential election in 2020, which had the potential to end PiS (Law and Justice)’s reign As such, the book examines the album as a response to a crisis point in Polish society, with a country divided about its future
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 136 pages
PB 9798765103067 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9798765103050 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9798765103074 • £16 76 / $20 65
ePdf 9798765103081 • £16 76 / $16 76
Series: 33 1/3 Europe Bloomsbury Academic
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Sorrow Tears and Blood
Stephanie Shonekan, University of Maryland, USA
Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social, cultural, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria The text explores the album in the context of a wider look at how colonialism and its aftermath impacted the social, political, and economic environment in Nigeria, and how Western imperialism continues to affect Nigerian identity and life. Reflecting on the Nigerian presidential elections of February 2023, and on the tense political climate before and after the elections, this album offers a rich sonic and lyrical landscape in which to interrogate the potency of Fela’s message for future generations
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 128 pages
PB 9798765113097 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9798765113080 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9798765113103 • £16 76 / $20 65
ePdf 9798765113110 • £16 76 / $16 76
Series: 33 1/3 Africa • Bloomsbury Academic
Lata Mangeshkar: My Favourites, Vol. 2
Anirudha Bhattacharjee, Business Consultant and Writer, India & Chandrashekhar Rao, Writer, India
Lata Mangeshkar: My Favourites, Vol. 2 is the story of 50 songs the songstress chose as her favourites among her own work, from a repository of over 5,000 The book covers an expanse of nearly forty years, connecting the reader to the real-life events behind the songs, going back to the times when music listening in India was limited to the radio, the 78 RPM shellac, and the occasional visit to the cinema, and later, the vinyl records, cassettes, the 30 minutes Chitrahaar on television every week, and VHS systems which were finding a place in middle-class homes
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 168 pages
PB 9798765107812 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9798765107805 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9798765107829 • £16 76 / $20 65
ePdf 9798765107836 • £16 76 / $16 76
Series: 33 1/3 South Asia • Bloomsbury Academic
The Beatles and Black Music
Post-Colonial Theory, Musicology and Remix Culture
Richard Mills, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK
The Beatles and Black Music discusses the influence that Black music and culture had over the Beatles The book adopts a musicological and historiographic account to demonstrate the extent to which Liverpool’s colonial history influenced the Beatles’ music. From the Beatles teenage years in the 1950s, their association with Lord Woodbine, and their love of American R&B in the mid-1960s to postcolonial British identity and the lasting effect Black music has had on the Beatles’ legacy, this book is the first to explore the Beatles from this important cultural lens
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American Rap Scenes
An Analysis of 25 Locations
Lavar Pope
American Rap Scenes examines the factors of geography, migration, movements, music, and technology on the origins, persistence, and legacy of rap music in 25 local music scenes By studying how each of these micro units developed, we can better understand how each scene interacts, collaborates, and engages with the others Across seven themed chapters, this book explores the evidence of these factors on 25 scenes through both systematic evaluation of themes and data analysis By providing areacentered analysis of a culture many see as monolithic, Lavar Pope highlights the unique histories of rap and hip-hop music in mid-size and major cities across the country
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 272 pages
PB 9798765118962 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9798765118931 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9798765118948 • £21 55 / $26 95
ePdf 9798765118924 • £21 55 / $21 55
Bloomsbury Academic
Listen to Jazz!
Exploring a Musical Genre
Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith, Westfield State University, USA, and Springfield College, USA
Providing an introductory overview of jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchange, Listen to Jazz! explores the diversity of jazz's sounds, compositions, recordings, and styles Surveying the sounds, concepts, performances, and production of jazz, this work includes A-to-Z entries on recent jazz musicians from around the world, jazz musicians and recordings that have been marginalized, and musicians, songs, and albums that have contributed to the defining aspects of specific jazz styles. Chapters on the impact of jazz on popular culture and its legacy, as well as a bibliography, enhance the historical and analytical content of the work
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages • 15 bw photos
HB 9781440875519 • £55 00 / $75 00
ePub 9798765110782 • £54 28 / $67 50
ePdf 9781440875526 • £54 28 / $54 28
Series: Exploring Musical Genres • Bloomsbury Academic
Daft Punk and the Legacy Album
A Vision of Ambition
Sébastien Lebray, University of Strasbourg, France
Random Access Memories (Daft Life/Columbia, 2013) will remain the very last Daft Punk album
Often understood as an expression of nostalgia towards the music of the 1970s-1980s, this work should not be reduced to a simple tribute to the masters of disco Beyond their "retro" airs, their interest in old studios and their preference for analog equipment, Daft Punk invent new creative approaches in the continuity of the history of electronic music, leaving more room for humanity and collective performance
The band claims audacity and ambition in a way that is reminiscent of the spirit (more than in the style) of the 1970s progressive rock, with characteristics such as the expansion of the instrumentarium, experimentation in the recording studio, and the development of structures
UK June 2025 US June 2025 288 pages
HB 9798765121634 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765121641 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765121658 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Diva
Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop
Edited by Benjamin Halligan, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Shara Rambarran, University of Brighton, UK, Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, USA & Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Female R&B and hip-hop artists have redefined contemporary popular music, and wider culture and politics, in the West – from the banlieues to the White House, from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo, from Bette Davis to Neneh Cherry, TLC to Aaliyah, Alicia Keys to Iggy Azalea, Beyoncé to Ariana Grande, and all points in between The first academic book to focus on divas, this book considers areas such as trans cultures and fierceness and diva-ism, media around diva superstars, and all other cultural practices that resonate with this development
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 296 pages • 27 bw illus
PB 9781501369667 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501368257
ePub 9781501368264 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501368271 • £87 01 / $87 01 Bloomsbury Academic
Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Edited by James Grande, King's College London, UK & Brian H. Murray, King's College London, UK
As composers and performers drew inspiration from the Bible and new historical sciences called into question the historicity of Scripture, controversies raged over the performance, publication and censorship of old and new musical forms Both elite and popular music came to play a significant role in the formation, regulation and contestation of religious and cultural identity and were used to address questions of class, nation and race, leading to the beginnings of ethnomusicology This richly interdisciplinary volume brings together musicologists, historians, literary and art historians and theologians to reveal points of intersection between music, religion and cultural history
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 248 pages
PB 9781501376412 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501376375
ePub 9781501376382 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501376399 £87 01 / $87 01
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