Music Sound Studies New Books July-Sept 2023

MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES NEW BOOKS

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Madonna's Erotica

Michael Dango, Beloit College, USA

Erotica is more sentimental than sexual At a time when sex was deadly, this sentimentality was not kitsch, but a way of sustaining a sexual culture

In this book, Michael Dango shows how Erotica marks an inflection point in multiple narratives. It is the album in which Madonna began more directly addressing her gay audience, at the same time that gay politics was transitioning from a sexual liberation framework to a rights-based framework that would ultimately culminate in same-sex marriage

To tell this story, Dango draws on his own experiences positioned between two generations of gay people—between a generation decimated by AIDS and a generation that grew up assuming they would be able to get married—as well as works of queer theory, which emerged in the academy at the same time as Madonna emerged on the music scene

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 144 pages

PB 9781501388996 • £9 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781501389009 • £11 57 / $13 45

ePdf 9781501389016 • £11 57 / $13 45

Series: 33 1/3 Bloomsbury Academic

Body Count's Body Count

Ben Apatoff, Journalist, USA

Years before movements like Black Lives Matter and Afropunk became world-changing political and cultural forces, a band of punk and metal dissidents made a record that confronted white supremacy and police brutality while shattering musical boundaries Body Count tracks how a team of LA misfits released a musically and thematically defiant album that still sounds revolutionary today In the 2020s, Body Count is releasing some of their most acclaimed music, playing to large audiences and even winning a Grammy This is the story of how an underappreciated band overcame powerful adversaries to reshape America’s cultural conversation

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 176 pages

PB 9781501389078 £9 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781501389085 £11 57 / $13 45

ePdf 9781501389092 £11 57 / $13 45

Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury

k.d. lang's Ingénue

Joanna McNaney Stein, CUNY, Kingsborough Community College, USA

As both a songwriter and performer, k d lang’s interpretations of love, loss, and longing on her 1992 album, Ingénue, earned her critical acclaim and lifelong fans in both the LGBTQ community and beyond Ingénue is about her experience with unrequited love, and each track gives listeners a chance to bear witness to the artist’s vulnerability just as stardom was about to strike Beyond k d ’s sudden embrace by ‘90s pop culture, and the whirlwind of press that went along with coming out, she is an artist that has broken boundaries of both gender and genre

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 152 pages

PB 9781501389191 £9 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781501389207 £11 57 / $13 45

ePdf 9781501389214 £11 57 / $13 45

Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic

The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat

Lisa Whittington-Hill, Freelance Writer, Canada

The Go-Go’s were the first all-girl group that wrote their own music and played their own instruments to have a number one album Their debut album Beauty and the Beat spent six weeks in the number one spot and is one of the best-selling debut albums of all time It's a ground-breaking album, but the Go-Go’s are often overlooked when we talk about influential female musicians. The Go-Go’s were a feminist band and Beauty and the Beat a call to arms that inspired generations of women Girls making music on their own terms didn’t start with Courtney Love or Beyonce or Billie Eilish, it started with the Go-Go’s It started with Beauty and the Beat

33 1/3 Europe

33 1/3 Oceania

Jon Stratton, University of South Australia & Jon Dale, Independent Scholar, Australia

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, 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 August 2023 • US August 2023 • 144 pages

PB 9781501346194 • £18 00 / $22 95 • HB 9781501346200 • £64 00 / $80 00

ePub 9781501346217 £17 36 / $20 65

ePdf 9781501346224 £17 36 / $20 65

Series: 33 1/3 Europe Bloomsbury Academic

Ed Kuepper's Honey Steel's Gold

John Encarnação, Western Sydney University, Australia

Featuring his signature “The Way I Made You Feel,” Ed Kuepper performs in Honey Steel’s Gold a beguiling blend of song and soundscape, blues and folk Though often overlooked, Honey Steel’s Gold is a masterpiece of Australian rock Released in 1991, a time when the independent sphere erupted into the mainstream with Nirvana and, in Australia, Ratcat, it helped to usher in a new era for the record industry Through penetrating analysis of Kuepper’s music and its context, the book provides crucial insight into Australian music of the late 20th century

UK September 2023 • US September 2023

PB 9781501373343 • £16 99 / $22 95

• 144 pages

• HB 9781501373350 • £60 00 / $80 00

ePub 9781501373367 • £17 36 / $20 65

ePdf 9781501373374 • £17 36 / $20 65

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic

Hunters & Collectors's Human Frailty

Jon Stratton, University of South Australia

Hunters & Collectors’ album Human Frailty (1986) is one of the most important Australian albums of the 1980s and '90s In this book, the collaboration in creating Human Frailty is detailed as a pivotal moment in the group's history and the trajectory of its individual contributors Jon Stratton studies the album's lyricsmore personal and political than later albums - and its confrontation with traditional Australian masculinity, plus the band's grappling with and positioning of their genre identity as they moved into pub rock, demonstrating how the album transcended the critical categories of its time

UK April 2023 US April 2023 136 pages

• £16 99 / $22 95

PB 9781501397844

ePub 9781501397868

ePdf 9781501397875

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania

Chain's Toward the Blues

Peter Beilharz, Sichuan University, China

Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam war and consumerism

The birth of Oz blues rock Interesting times: the emergence of prog rock and the consolidation of blues rock globally In this moment Chain, four regional white boys with jazz cred and blues licks recorded the classic Oz Blues single Black and Blue and its bedrock LP, Toward the Blues. Fifty years later it remains a monument in Australian rock history Based on interviews, scholarly research and memoir this book tells the story and seeks to capture the magic of the moment What makes an album really special, in this way?

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 144 pages

PB 9781501390142 £16 99 / $22 95 HB 9781501390135 £60 00 / $80 00

ePub 9781501390159 £17 36 / $20 65

ePdf 9781501390166 £17 36 / $20 65

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic

Hilltop Hoods' The Calling

Dianne Rodger, University of Adelaide, Australia

The success of the hip-hop album The Calling (2003) by the Hilltop Hoods was a major event on the timeline of hip-hop in Australia that launched a formerly ‘underground’ scene into the spotlight Each chapter closely examines specific tracks from the album, unpacking their sound, structure and lyrics, providing broader discussions of the social context that shaped the production of the album This is an engaging and informative look at the immediate and longer-term impacts of a musical release so significant that people now use it explain two distinct periods in Australian hip-hop: pre- or post-The Calling

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 128 pages

PB 9781501392672 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9781501392665 • £60 00 / $80 00

ePub 9781501392689 • £17 36 / $20 65

ePdf 9781501392696 • £17 36 / $20 65

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Bloomsbury Academic

The Dead C’s Clyma est mort

Darren Jorgensen, University of Western Australia, Australia

Leading a second wave of music from Dunedin, New Zealand, The Dead C were an assault against the kind of jangly pop that had made the Dunedin Sound famous during the 1980s This book uses The Dead C and in particular their album Clyma est mort (1993) to offer insights into the way the best of rock music plays vertigo with our senses, illustrating a sonic picture of freedom and energy It places the album into the history of independent music in New Zealand, and into an international context of independent labels posting, faxing and phoning each other

UK July 2023 US July 2023 144 pages

PB 9781501386961 £16 99 / $22 95 HB 9781501386954 £60 00 / $80 00

ePub 9781501386978

• £17 36 / $20 65

• £60 00 / $80 00

• HB 9781501397851

• £17 36 / $20 65

• £17 36 / $20 65

• Bloomsbury Academic

ePdf 9781501386985

• £17 36 / $20 65

Series: 33 1/3 Oceania • Bloomsbury Academic

Fabian Holt

Diva

Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop

Edited by Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Benjamin Halligan, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Shara Rambarran, University of Brighton, UK & Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, USA

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

Rock and Roll Vs. Modern Life

Seth Kim-Cohen, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Amidst the societal rubble of the Second World War, a mythical order was restored in the form of tract housing, the 9-to-5 job, and the immaculate framing of the TV screen But by the late-1960s, the edges had begun to fray Rock and roll liberated a generation to challenge the borders between inside and out, us and them, might and right This book tells the story of this cultural confrontation, arguing that rock and roll was not the soundtrack of this turbulence, but its motor Rock and roll blurred the color line, expanded the generation gap, and amplified calls for new ways of being and thinking What emerges is a new understanding of the radical shifts in postwar culture in which rock and roll plays a decisive role as cultural critic, agent provocateur, philosopher, teacher, spirit guide, and brat

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9798765101322 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9798765101315 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9798765101308 £20 67 / $24 25

ePdf 9798765101339 £20 67 / $24 25

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 has had over the Beatles throughout their career The book adopts a musicological and historiographic account to demonstrate the extent to which Liverpool’s colonial history has influenced the Beatles’ music. Beginning with the grand narrative British colonial history pre-Beatles, it moves through the influence on the Beatles teenage years in the 1950s, through their association with Lord Woodbine, the Beatles love of American Rhythm and Blues in the mid-1960s, a discussion of post-colonial British identity to the lasting effect black music has for the Beatles’ legacy and still has on the solo careers of Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney Tracing the history from the Slave Trade in 1795 to the nascent Mersey Beat scene in the early 1960s, this book is the first to explore the Beatles from this important cultural lens.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

HB 9781501366949 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501366956 • £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501366963 • £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

• 256 pages • 2 bw illus

Media Narratives in Popular Music

Edited by Chris Anderton & Martin James, both Southampton Solent University, UK

The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed

It considers the typically linear narratives that are based on simplifications, exaggerations, and omissions and the histories they construct - an approach that leads to totalizing “official” histories that reduce otherwise messy narratives to one-dimensional interpretations of a heroic and celebratory nature

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781501387715

The Beatles and Humour Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play

Edited by Katie Kapurch, Texas State University, USA, Richard Mills, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK & Matthias Heyman, Erasmus Brussels University, Belgium

The Beatles’ shared sense of humour helps explain their appeal during the 1960s and endurance in the following decades Each member was skilled in irony, sarcasm, wordplay, and other nonsense Their songs consistently show how the music itself is informed by comedic genres, including parody, satire, surrealism, and observational humour The Beatles and Humour explores the band’s humour, comedy, and other forms of play in both music and non-musical discourse Chapters situate the Beatles within the history of British arts, while also considering the diverse components and effects of their output and reception from the 1960s to today

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9781501379345 £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501379383 £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501379376 £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy

Edited by Shane Homan, Monash University, Australia

This is the first thorough analysis of how policy frames the behavior of audiences, industries, and governments in the production and consumption of popular music Covering a range of industrial and national contexts, this collection assesses how music policy has become an important arm of government, and a contentious arena of global debate across areas of cultural trade, intellectual property, and mediacultural content A diverse range of researchers reveals how histories of music policy development continue to inform contemporary policy and industry practice, offering insight into global debates about popular music within broader social, economic, and geopolitical contexts

UK August 2023 US August 2023 496 pages

PB 9781501389917 £39 99 / $54 95

• 256 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

• 6 images

Previously published in HB 9781501357275

ePub 9781501357282

• £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501357299 £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Previously published in HB 9781501345326

ePub 9781501345333

ePdf 9781501345340

• £149 70 / $180 00

• £149 70 / $180 00

Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Popular Music Autobiography

The Revolution in Life-Writing by 1960s' Musicians and Their Descendants

Oliver Lovesey, University of British Columbia, Canada

The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing This book situates these works within the context of the recent expansion of interest in autobiography, disability, and celebrity studies These works often constitute a meditation on the nature of postmodern fame within a celebrityobsessed culture, and paradoxically they aim to regain the private self in a public forum

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 264 pages

PB 9781501385919 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501355837

ePub 9781501355844 • £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501355851 £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Musical Intimacy

Construction, Connection, and Engagement

Zack Stiegler, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA & Todd Campbell, Frederick Community College, USA

Discourse on popular music frequently describes artists’ recordings and performances as “intimate ” Yet that discourse often stops short of elucidating how a massproduced commodity such as popular music is able to elicit feelings of intimacy with and among its audience Through detailed analysis of popular music’s composition, performance, production, and promotion, Musical Intimacy examines how intimacy is constructed and perceived in popular music via its affective and technological affordances From the recording studio to the concert stage, from collective experience to individual listening and perception, this book presents a working understanding of what musical intimacy is

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 176 pages

HB 9781501372254 • £80 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781501372261 • £82 70 / $99 00

ePdf 9781501372278 £82 70 / $99 00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store

A Global History

Edited by Gina Arnold, Evergreen State College, USA, John Dougan, Middle Tennessee State University, USA, Christine Feldman-Barrett, Griffith University, Australia & Matthew Worley, University of Reading, UK

Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways This book takes a comprehensive look at what individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in general What was their role in shaping social practices, aesthetic tastes, and even, loosely put, ideologies? It collects stories and memories, and facts about a variety of local stores that not only re-center the record store as a marketplace of ideas, but also explore and celebrate a neglected personal history of many lives

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 304 pages

PB 9781501384516 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9781501384509 • £75 00 / $100 00

ePub 9781501384523 • £22 32 / $26 95

ePdf 9781501384530 • £22 32 / $26 95

Bloomsbury Academic

Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Edited by James Grande & Brian H. Murray, both 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 September 2023

HB 9781501376375

Music, City and the Roma under Communism

Anna G. Piotrowska, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Against the backdrop of a complex existence

starkly affected by the Communist regime, this book engages with Romani musician Stefan Dymiter (known as Corroro) as the leader of his own street band: unwelcome in the public space by the authorities, merely tolerated by others, but admired by many passers-by and respected by his peer Romani musicians and international music stars It emphasizes the role of Romani musicians in Krakow in shaping the soundscape of the city while also demonstrating their collective and individual strategies to adapt to the new circumstances via preferred performative techniques, repertoire, and overall lifestyle

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781501380853

• 232 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501380815

ePub 9781501380822

ePdf 9781501380839

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

• US September 2023

• £95 00 / $130 00

ePub 9781501376382

ePdf 9781501376399

Bloomsbury Academic

• £97 59 / $117 00

• £97 59 / $117 00

• 288 pages

New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media

Carol Vernallis, Stanford University, USA, Lisa Perrott, University of Waikato, New Zealand & Holly Rogers, Goldsmiths University of London, UK

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 September 2023

• US September 2023

• 224 pages

PB 9781501335921 £21 99 / $29 95 HB 9781501335143 £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501335150 £22 32 / $26 95

ePdf 9781501335167 £22 32 / $26 95

Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media

• Bloomsbury Academic

Haunted Soundtracks

Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape and Sound

Edited by Kevin J. Donnelly, Staffordshire University, UK & Aimee Mollaghan, Queen's University, Belfast, UK

This collection of essays focuses on audiovisual forms that foreground landscape, sound and memory The scope of inquiry emphasises the ghostly qualities of a certain body of soundtracks, extending beyond merely the idea of 'scary films' or 'haunted houses.' Rather, the notion of sonic haunting is tied to ideas of trauma, anxiety or nostalgia associated with spatial and temporal dislocation in contemporary society Touchstones for the approach are the concepts of psychogeography and hauntology, pervasive and established critical strategies that are interrogated and refined in relation to the reification of the spectral within the soundtracks under consideration here

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 224 pages

HB 9781501389559 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501389566 • £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501389573 • £90 15 / $108 00

Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Remediating Sound

Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music

Edited by Holly Rogers, Goldsmiths University of London, UK, Joana Freitas, NOVA FCSH, Portugal & João Francisco Porfírio

This second volume on YouTube and music scrutinizes the phenomena of remixing, mashup and remediation: forms of reuse and sampling that have come to characterise much of the platform’s audiovisual content Observing the reciprocal flow of influence that runs between various platforms in cybermedia, this volume explores how transmedial and networked creativity has alighted on YouTube as a central hub for the exploration of digital sound, music and audiovisuality

UK October 2023 • US October 2023

• 320 pages

HB 9781501387326 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501387333 £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501387340 £90 15 / $108 00

Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media Bloomsbury Academic

Small Venues

Precarity, Vibrancy, and Live Music

Sam Whiting, University of South Australia

This book focusses on the role of small live music venues as incubators for emerging talent and social hubs for music scene participants Such venues are grassroots spaces of cultural labor and production that often struggle with issues of financial precarity yet are fundamental to the live music ecology of a city, acting both as platforms for emergent performers and spaces of sociality for local music scenes

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 224 pages

HB 9781501379888 • £80 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781501379925

ePdf 9781501379918

Bloomsbury Academic

• £82 70 / $99 00

• £82 70 / $99 00

The Birth of Breaking

Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Dancer and scholar Serouj "Midus" Aprahamian offers a detailed look into the African American beginnings of breaking in the Bronx, New York He draws on untapped archival material, primary interviews, and descriptions of early breaking to bring this buried history to life, with a focus on the early aesthetics of the dance, the institutional settings in which hip-hop was conceived, and the movement’s impact on sociocultural conditions in New York in the 1970s. By featuring the overlooked first-hand accounts of over 50 founding b-boys and b-girls, this book shows how indebted breaking is to African American culture

UK August 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9781501394300 £17 99 / $24 95 HB 9781501394317 £60 00 / $80 00

ePub 9781501394324 £19 02 / $22 45

ePdf 9781501394331 £19 02 / $22 45

Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions • Bloomsbury Academic

Dance Music

A Feminist Account of Ordinary Culture

Tami Gadir, University of Oslo, Norway

Utopian dance floors are the exception, not the rule Clubbers physically harass other clubbers based on gender and racial prejudices Booking agents use myths about merit and masculine artistry to justify their under-booking of women, transgender, and nonbinary DJs And DJ technology corporations contribute to an inequitable labor market by outsourcing their manufacturing to free-trade zones Grounded in global research, this book argues that dance music—like all culture—is bound up with the realities of everyday life

UK September 2023 US September 2023 224 pages

• £22 99 / $27 95

PB 9781501346408

ePub 9781501346422

ePdf 9781501346439

• £72 00 / $90 00

• HB 9781501346415

• £21 50 / $25 15

• £21 50 / $25 15

Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music

• Bloomsbury Academic

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy

Adeshina Afolayan, University of Ibadan, Nigeria & Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Afrobeat and the philosophy of blackism that Fela enunciated place him right beside Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Garvey, and all the others who champion a black and African mode of being in the world This book traces the emergence of Fela on the music scene, the cultural and political backgrounds that made Afrobeat possible, and the philosophical elements that not only contributed to the formation of Fela’s blackism, but what constitutes Fela’s philosophical sensibility too

UK August 2023 US August 2023 288 pages

PB 9781501374753 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501374715

ePub 9781501374722

ePdf 9781501374739

Bloomsbury Academic

Afrosonic Life

Mark V. Campbell

Developing and extending debates on Afrosonic cultures, the book attends to the ways in which sonic innovations complement and interrupt the intellectual project of modernity Music making processes such as dub, turntablism, hip-hop dj techniques and the remix, innovate methods of expressing subjecthoods beyond the dominant language of Western “Man” and the market These sonic innovations utilize sound as a methodology to institute a rehumanizing subjectivity in which sound dislodges the hierarchical ordering of racial schemas Afrosonic Innovations is invested in excavating and elaborating the nuanced and novel ways of music making and sound creation found in the African diaspora

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 160 pages

PB 9781501379338 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501379291

ePub 9781501379307 £75 26 / $90 00

ePdf 9781501379314 • £75 26 / $90 00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music

Anil Çamci, University of Michigan, USA

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the cognitive processes involved in the experience of electronic music Structured around a cognitive investigation of electronic music on both practical and conceptual levels, this book addresses the following questions: How do we experience electronic music? How does electronic music operate on perceptual, cognitive, and affective levels? What are the common concepts activated in the listener’s mind when listening to electronic music? Why and how are these concepts activated? It argues that our experience of electronic music is guided by a cognitive continuum rooted in our everyday experiences

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 216 pages • 19 bw illus and 11 tables

PB 9781501388071 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501357121

ePub 9781501357138 £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501357145 • £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Hearing Maskanda

Musical

Epistemologies in South Africa

Barbara Titus, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Through its focus on maskanda, this book provides insight into how people understand the world and themselves through aural experience and sensitivity

This focus constitutes the book’s main question: how do all those involved in maskanda (performers, audiences, producers, organizers, politicians, and researchers) foreground their aural experiences? In what ways do we musically and performatively adapt and appropriate sounding and stage material that we encounter in our lives and careers? The book examines how we use our voices, bodies and musical instruments to signify, evoke, invoke, present, produce, interpret and comment on the world in which we live

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

• 280 pages

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

PB 9781501377808

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501377761

ePub 9781501377778

ePdf 9781501377785

Bloomsbury Academic

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Radiophilia

Carolyn Birdsall, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

This book introduces the concept of radiophilia as a way to understand the introduction of radio and diverse responses to its new, modern sounds In treating a diversity of responses and practices around radio, the book engages in debates about media fandom, audience participation, listening attention, sensorybodily engagement, affect, and the public’s emotions Taking radiophilia as a transnational and dynamic cultural phenomenon across 100 years of radio, the book traces how we have come to listen to, respond to, and use radio sound, from the earliest radio transmissions and broadcast systems through to digital audio formats like podcasting today

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Sound, Text and the Idea of Birdsong

Seán Street, Bournemouth University, UK

Wild Track is an exploration of birdsong and the ways in which that sound was conveyed, described and responded to through text, prior to the advent of recording and broadcast technologies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries It creates an awareness of sound through the tuned attention of the senses, learning from sound texts of the natural world that sought – and seek – to convey the intensity of the sonic moment and fleeting experience

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Listening, Belonging, and Memory

Abigail Gardner, University of Gloucestershire, UK

Listening is giving attention to something, a sound, a story, a person This book takes this idea of "giving attention" to argue that this process is complicated by who, where and when we listen Using examples from community media projects, film-making, digital storytelling and creative music practice, it argues that listening might be done with age, in place, in time and as witness. With reflections on how listening may be changed by where we listen, when and who to, it argues for the importance of understanding the crucial role that listening has in contemporary media and sound cultures

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Body as Instrument

Performing with Gestural Systems in Live Electronic Music

Mary Mainsbridge, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia

Motion tracking technology can aid creativity and inventiveness by translating rich information from subtle facial expressions and muscular activity into sonic and musical processes Body as Instrument explores how musicians navigate these unique musical environments, appropriating and inventing new instruments and energetic forms of bodily communication Through a series of case studies exploring current practitioners’ experiences and author-composed works, the book examines the transformational impact of motion sensors on musicians’ physical awareness and abilities, evolving musician and instrument relationships, and distinctions between audience and performer

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Sonic Identity at the Margins

Edited by Joanna Love & Jessie Fillerup, both University of Richmond, USA

Sonic Identity at the Margins examines the role played by music and sound in articulating the identities of individuals and communities

17 interdisciplinary scholars, performers, and composers study identity in real and imagined spaces Their case studies, interviews, and personal essays explore challenging, timely topics, including the legacy of slavery, indigeneity, immigration, colonial expansion, and Confederate monument removal Heeding recent calls to decolonize music studies, the authors revisit the hegemonic structures and privileged perspectives embedded in creating, performing, and listening to sound, and the methods used to analyze these experiences

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