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  • - A Way Ahead for Music Education
    von Lucy Green
    68,00 €

    Comparing the characteristics of informal popular music learning and those of formal music education, this study is based on the outcomes of research from interviews which took place between October 1998 and May 1999 with 14 popular musicians living in and around London, aged from 15 to 50.

  • - Mystery Dances in the Magic Theater
    von Canada) Wood & Brent (University of Toronto at Mississauga
    71,00 - 215,00 €

  • - History, Place and Time
     
    76,00 €

    Explores the influence of the emergence of rock'n'roll in the early 1950s in the way it shaped the subsequent trajectory and development of popular music. It considers the history, place and time of each event, locates the performances within their social and professional contexts, and considers their immediate and long-term musical consequences.

  • von Dr Sarah Hill
    77,00 €

  • von Kevin Holm-Hudson
    71,00 €

    In 1974, the British progressive rock group Genesis released their double concept album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". This study analyses "The Lamb" both within the context of progressive rock, examining its special place in Genesis' recorded output and in the progressive rock genre as a whole.

  • von Lucy Green
    64,00 €

    Reveals how the music classroom can draw upon the world of popular musicians' informal learning practices, so as to recognize and foster a range of musical skills and knowledge that have long been overlooked within music education. This book investigates how far informal learning practices are possible and desirable in a classroom context.

  • - The Everyday Sounds That We Don't Always Notice
     
    227,00 €

    Ubiquitous Musics offers a multidisciplinary approach to the pervasive presence of music in everyday life. The essays address a variety of situations in which music is present alongside other activities and does not demand focused attention from (sometimes involuntary) listeners.

  • - The Everyday Sounds That We Don't Always Notice
     
    72,00 €

    Ubiquitous Musics offers a multidisciplinary approach to the pervasive presence of music in everyday life. The essays address a variety of situations in which music is present alongside other activities and does not demand focused attention from (sometimes involuntary) listeners. The contributors present different theoretical perspectives on the increasing ubiquity of music and its implications for the experience of listening.

  • von Sarah Hill
    226,00 €

    By surveying the development of Welsh-language popular music from 1945-2000, this work examines those moments of crisis in Welsh cultural life which signalled a burgeoning sense of national identity, which challenged paradigms of linguistic belonging, and out of which emerged different expressions of Welshness.

  • - Culture, Trade or Industry?
    von Professor Martin Cloonan
    226,00 €

    Traces the development of government attitudes and policies towards popular music. This book examines the development of policy under New Labour; numerous reports which have charted the economics of the industry; and the Deal for Musicians scheme and the impact of devolution on music policy in Scotland.

  • - The French Singer-Songwriter from Aristide Bruant to the Present Day
    von Peter Hawkins
    85,00 €

    A song tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages and troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries, chanson is part of the texture of everyday life in France - a part of the national identity and a barometer of popular taste. This study examines the background and development of the genre.

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    226,00 €

    Focusing on four principal areas in which TV organizes and presents popular music, this book investigates a diverse range of musical genres and styles, factual and fictional programming, historical and geographical demographics, and the constraints of commerce and technology to give an account of the place of popular music on British television.

  • - Canonical Values in the Reception of Rock Albums
    von Carys Wyn Jones
    89,00 - 227,00 €

    Explores the symptomatic reflections of canonical values, terms and mechanisms from the canons of literature and classical music in the reception of rock music. This book examines the concept of the canon as theorized by scholars in the fields of literary criticism and musicology.

  • - Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia since 1991
    von Catherine Baker
    86,00 - 238,00 €

    A study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia's war of independence from Yugoslavia. It extends cultural studies literature on music, politics, and the state, which has largely been grounded in Western European and North American political systems.

  • - Developing a Musicology of Rock
    von Allan F Moore & Remy Martin
    69,00 €

  • - Community and Conflict
    von Mr David Cooper
    76,00 €

    With the espousal of a discrete Ulster Scots tradition since the signing of the Belfast (or 'Good Friday') Agreement in 1998, the characteristics of the traditional music performed in Northern Ireland, and the place of Protestant musicians within popular Irish culture, clearly require a thoroughgoing analysis. This book provides such analysis.

  • von Joost de Bruin
    85,00 - 239,00 €

    This volume brings together original studies from international scholars to identify and evaluate the productive dimensions of Idols. As one of the world's most successful television formats, Idols offers a unique case for the study of cultural globalization.

  • - Politics, Culture and the Creation of Musica Popular Brasileira
    von Sean Stroud
    85,00 €

    Examines how and why Musica Popular Brasileira (MPB) has come to have such a high status, and why the musical tradition (including MPB) within Brazil has been defended with such vigour for so long. This title emphasizes the importance of musical nationalism as an underlying ideology to discussions about Brazilian popular music since the 1920s.

  • - The Writings of Jan Fairley
    von Jan Fairley & Ian Christie
    227,00 €

    The late Jan Fairley was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and this book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most important work together in a single place.

  • von Catherine Strong
    88,00 - 227,00 €

    Grunge has been perceived as the music that defined 'Generation X'. This book explores how grunge has been remembered by the fans that grew up with it, and asks how memory is both formed by and forms popular culture. It demonstrates how different groups can use and shape memory as part of a struggle for power in society.

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    85,00 €

    Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity focuses on the new and emerging synergies of music and digital technology within the new knowledge economies. Eighteen scholars representing six international perspectives explore the global and local ramifications of rapidly changing new technologies on creative industries, local communities, music practitioners and consumers. Diverse areas are considered, such as production, consumption, historical and cultural context, legislation, globalization and the impact upon the individual. Drawing on a range of musical genres from jazz, heavy metal, hip-hop and trance, and through several detailed case studies reflecting on the work of professional and local amateur artists, this book offers an important discussion of the ways in which the face of music is changing. Approaching these areas from a cultural studies perspective, this text will be a valuable tool for anyone engaged in the study of popular culture, music or digital technologies.

  • von Michael Brocken
    90,00 €

    At times it appears that a whole industry exists to perpetuate the myth of origin of the Beatles. This book tells the history of the disparate and now partially hidden musical strands that contributed to Liverpool's musical countenance. It is also a critique of Beatles-related institutionalized popular music mythology.

  • - State, Markets, Musicians
    von Michael Scott
    227,00 €

    Michael Scott argues that New Zealand's pop music renaissance of the early 2000s was supported by state policies. He shows how the state built market opportunities for popular musicians through public-private partnerships and organisational affinity with existing music industry institutions.

  • - Music, Meaning, and Morality in a Muslim Society
    von Pierre Hecker
    88,00 - 239,00 €

    Journeys deep into the heart of the Turkish heavy metal scene, uncovering the emergence, evolution, and especially the social implications of this controversial musical genre in a Muslim society. This book explores how Turkish metalheads, against all odds, manage to successfully claim public spaces of their own.

  • von Doris Leibetseder
    86,00 - 239,00 €

    Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade, mimesis/mimicry, cyborg, transsexuality.

  • von Sophy Smith
    227,00 €

    This is the first book to explore the creative and collaborative processes of groups of DJs working together as hip-hop turntable teams. Focusing on a variety of subjects - from the history of turntable experimentation and the development of innovative sound manipulation techniques, to turntable team formation.

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    227,00 €

    The cover phenomenon may be viewed as a postmodern manifestation in music as artists revisit, reinterpret and re-examine a significant cross section of musical styles, periods, genres, individual records and other artists and their catalogues of works. This title offers critical perspectives on the many facets of cover songs in popular music.

  • - From Dance Hall to the 100 Club
    von Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Emma Webster & usw.
    85,00 - 239,00 €

    To date there has been a significant gap in existing knowledge about the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of The History of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so from the unique perspective of the music promoter. The books offer new insights into a variety of issues.

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