M U S I C & S O U N D S T U D I E S – 33 1/3
33 1/3
Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden Brittnay L. Proctor, The New School, USA
Come to My Garden (1970) introduced the world to Minnie Riperton, the solo artist. Minnie captivated listeners with her earth-shattering voice’s uncanny ability to evoke melancholy and exultance. Despite fairly positive reviews of the album, even in its many re-releases, it never garnered critical attention. Brittnay L. Proctor uses rare archival ephemera, the multiple re-issues of the album, interviews, cultural history, and personal narrative to outline how the revolutionary album came to be and its lasting impact on popular music of the post-soul era (the late 20th to the early 21st century). UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 176 pages PB 9781501379154 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501379161 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501379178 • £10.18 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
Los Rodríguez's Sin Documentos Héctor Fouce, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain & Fernán del Val, University of Porto, Portugal
Dwight E. Brooks, Zayad University, United Arab Emirates That's the Way of the World presents hopeful messages about the world to the people of the world. The album instilled self-pride and confidence through innovative musical approaches. TTWOTW did not tell listeners exactly how to live or love, but instead how they can live in a quest for self-actualization. The songs encouraged us to listen, see, learn, yearn, love, and have fun. If art can help mold a better future, than EWF’s musical legacy of empowerment will continue to contribute to individual growth and social change as their melodies linger. UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 152 pages PB 9781501378058 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501378065 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501378072 • £10.18 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic
Massada's Astaganaga Lutgard Mutsaers
Sin documentos is a landmark album in Spanish popular culture and continues to maintain considerable popularity more than two decades after its release. The characteristic guitar riff of the title song, a kind of rumba-rock, still occupies a place at every party in Spain. Los Rodriguez’s success came after a decade characterized by the rise and fall of local-language punk and new wave bands. Featuring interviews with members of the band and the album producer and analysis of the album’s media coverage, the book delves into the cultural trends of Spain in the 1990s and beyond.
This book explores an album of popular music with remarkable significance to a violent wave of postcolonial tensions in the Netherlands in the 1970s. Several 'actions' were claimed by a small number of first-generation descendants of more than 12,000 reluctant migrants from Indonesia (former Dutch East Indies). Transferred in 1951, their sojourn should have been temporary, but frustratingly turned out to be permanent. At the height of strained relations, Massada rose to the occasion. Astaganaga (1978) is a telling example of the will to negotiate a different diasporic Moluccan identity through uplifting contemporary sounds.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 128 pages PB 9781501357893 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501357886 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501357909 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501357916 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 128 pages PB 9781501372568 • £16.95 / $22.95 • HB 9781501372575 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501372582 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501372599 • £15.28 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
Death Metal
T Coles, Journalist, UK
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Earth, Wind & Fire's That's the Way of the World
Trip-Hop
R.J. Wheaton, Writer, Canada
Courting controversy from inception to its modern day iteration, death metal presents a number of contradictions: Driven and adventurous musicians compete to make uncomfortable noises; it is crude and far beyond parody and yet consistently popular; and the music is pigheadedly uncommercial despite making a few labels, albeit briefly, reasonably wealthy. This book explores the history and methodology of the genre, charting its aims and intentions, its crossovers to the mainstream, successes and failures, and tracks how it developed from the bedrooms of Birmingham and Florida to the near-mainstream and the murky cult status it enjoys today.
This short book seeks to dislocate "trip-hop" and instead understand this music within wider and more interesting aesthetic traditions. Traditions in which qualities of beauty, intimacy, and nostalgia sit alongside complexity, virtuosity, and furious experimentation. It places this strange, spacious, avant garde sound alongside musics of exile, loss, and the Black diaspora. Like the music, this book will both offer solace and challenge. It will ask questions about who gets to define genres, and what — and who — do such genres exclude. And it will ask, as a listener, how do you untrain your ears and escape complicity from the commercial imperatives of labels and algorithms?
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 160 pages PB 9781501381010 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9781501381027 • £13.10 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501381034 • £13.10 / $17.95 Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 176 pages PB 9781501373602 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9781501373619 • £13.10 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501373626 • £13.10 / $17.95 Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series • Bloomsbury Academic
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