The British Folk Revival

Michael Brocken

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The British Folk Revival is the very first historical and theoretical work to consider the post-war folk revival in Britain from a popular music studi... Lees meer

Heavy Metal Music in Britain

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer good in the early twenty-first ... Lees meer

Popular Music Censorship in Africa

Martin Cloonan

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• In Africa, tension between freedom of expression and censorship in many contexts remains as contentious, if not more so, than during the period of col... Lees meer

Frank Zappa and the And

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• This collection of essays, documented by an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars, represents the first academically focused volume ex... Lees meer

The Music and Art of Radiohead

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The Music and Art of Radiohead provides compelling close readings of the English band's music, lyrics, album cover art and music videos as well as cri... Lees meer

Cultural Seeds

Tanya Dalziell

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Ne... Lees meer

The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume III, 1985-2015

Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• 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 vo... Lees meer

The Music and Art of Radiohead

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The Music and Art of Radiohead provides compelling close readings of the English band's music, lyrics, album cover art and music videos as well as cri... Lees meer

As Heard on TV

Bethany Klein

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The use of popular music in advertising represents one of the most pervasive mergers of cultural and commercial objectives in the modern age. Steady p... Lees meer

Grunge: Music and Memory

Catherine Strong

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Grunge has been perceived as the music that defined 'Generation X'. Twenty years after the height of the movement there is still considerable interest... Lees meer

Rock

Allan F Moore, Remy Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book, now co-authored with Remy Martin, incorporates new material on rock mu... Lees meer

The Sociology of Wind Bands

Vincent DuBois, Jean-Matthieu Méon, Jean-Yves Bart

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The Sociology of Wind Bands provides a sociological account of this musical universe. Based on a qualitative and quantitative survey conducted in nort... Lees meer

Bodies of Sound

Susan C Cook

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• From the ragtime one-step of the early twentieth century to the contemporary practices of youth club cultures, popular dance and music are inextricabl... Lees meer

The Twenty-First-Century Legacy of the Beatles

Michael Brocken

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• It has taken Liverpool almost half a century to come to terms with the musical, cultural and now economic legacy of the Beatles and popular music. At ... Lees meer

The Lost Women of Rock Music

Helen Reddington

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• In Britain during the late 1970s and early 1980s, a new phenomenon emerged, with female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers playin... Lees meer

Jews, Race and Popular Music

Jon Stratton

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Jon Stratton provides a pioneering work on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth and ... Lees meer

The Quest for the Melodic Electric Bass

Per Elias Drabløs

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The double bass - the preferred bass instrument in popular music during the 1960s - was challenged and subsequently superseded by the advent of a new ... Lees meer

Hip-Hop Turntablism, Creativity and Collaboration

Sophy Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Armed only with turntables, a mixer and a pile of records, hip-hop DJs and turntable musicians have changed the face of music. However, whilst hip-hop... Lees meer

Death and the Rock Star

Catherine Strong, Barbara Lebrun

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the 'resurrection' of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella musi... Lees meer

Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia

Uros Čvoro

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Theoretically ambitious and innovative, thi... Lees meer

Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• The intense and continuing popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and ... Lees meer

The Hallelujah Effect

Babette Babich

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube... Lees meer

Punk Aesthetics and New Folk

John Encarnacao

• Hardcover | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• Joanna Newsom, Will Oldham (a.k.a. 'Bonnie Prince Billy'), and Devendra Banhart are perhaps the best known of a generation of independent artists who ... Lees meer

Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location

Vanessa Knights

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Popular and Folk Music
• How are national identities constructed and articulated through music? Popular music has long been associated with political dissent, and the nation s... Lees meer