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Nick Cave is widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. This book presents ways of seeing and understanding Cave's contributions to contemporary culture, and sets up a dialog between fields all-too-often separated in the academy and in the media.
Harriet J. Manning argues that the nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy's legacy is nowhere more evident than with Michael Jackson, in whom minstrelsy's gestures and tropes are embedded. The author further contends that minstrelsy's assumptions and uses have been fundamental to the troubles and controversies with which Jackson was beset.
Electro swing is a relatively recent musical style and scene which combines the music of the swing era with that of the age of electronic dance music.
Using research, analysis and a range of historical sources, Paul Weller and Popular Music immerses the reader in the excitement of Paul Weller's unique creative journey, this book offers an in-depth critical analysis of music written, recorded and performed between 1977 and the present day.
This book examines the community-based learning and teaching of 'traditional' music in contemporary Scotland, with implications for transnational theoretical issues. The book draws on a broad range of scholarship and a local case study of a large organisation.
This book contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the importance of Ewan MacColl to the English folk revival. MacColl gave two extended interviews with co-editor Giovanni Vacca in 1987 and 1988 and these provide the impetus for a re-examination of his methods, his politics and his aesthetic aims.
Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Leo Ferre are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with each other by the public and the media. They have been described as the epitome of chanson, and of 'Frenchness'. But there is more to the trio than a musical trinity.
Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Beginning with 1970s Socialist Yugoslavia, Uro' ?voro explores the cultural and political paradoxes of turbo-folk. Taking as its starting point turbo-folk's popularity across national borders.
Simon Frith has been one of the most important figures in the emergence and subsequent development of popular music studies. The contributions to this volume of essays and memoirs seek to honour Frith's achievements, but they are not merely 'about Frith'. Rather, they are important interventions by leading scholars in the field.
Bringing together in twelve focused case studies, this book explores both instrumental and operatic art music in the first section and devotes the second section to popular music in film, showing how very similar the functions of popular music in film are to the supposedly more 'elite' classical music and opera.
Examines the cultural and musical antecedents of jazz, including minstrel shows and musical theatre, within the context of musical life in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book concludes in 1930s by which time the availability of records enabled the spread of hot music, affecting the repertoire in Britain.
Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the question: how has writing past and present been influenced by popular music, and vice versa? Contributions explore how various forms of writing have had a crucial role to play in making popular music what it is.
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