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    The Complete Collection

    by Joel Meadows ...
    Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders is an epic alternate world sci fi adventure featuring The World’s Greatest Detective as people have never seen him before.When Watson leaves Holmes to help Crick unravel the DNA helix and finds himself in the employ of England’s most evil man, Holmes is forced to team up with an unlikely group to defeat this monstrous figure and return England to its status ... Read more

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  • Pub Rock in the UK and Australia

    From the 1970s to the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Andy Bennett, Jon Stratton ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    This book critically examines two versions of the genre identified as pub rock as they evolved in the UK and Australia. Both developed in the communal spaces of pubs and both had their heyday in the mid‑ to‑late 1970s. Indeed, the two have so much in common that AC/DC, sometimes thought of as the quintessential Australian pub rock group, became hugely popular in the UK, while other Australian ... Read more

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  • Music, Space and Place

    Popular Music and Cultural Identity

    by Andy Bennett ...
    Music, Space and Place examines the urban and rural spaces in which music is experienced, produced and consumed. The editors of this collection have brought together new and exciting perspectives by international researchers and scholars working in the field of popular music studies. Underpinning all of the contributions is the recognition that musical processes take place within a particular ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Popular Music Heritage

    Places, Objects, Images and Texts

    by Andy Bennett ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book critically discusses the significance of popular music heritage as a means of remembering and re-presenting rock and pop artists, their music and their place in the culture of contemporary society. Since the mid-1990s, the contribution of popular music to the shaping of contemporary history and heritage has increasingly been acknowledged. In the same period, exhibitions of popular music ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Music Sociology

    Value, Technology, and Identity

    Music Sociology critically evaluates current approaches to the study of music in sociology and presents a broad overview of how music is positioned and represented in existing sociological scholarship. It then goes on to offer a new framework for approaching the sociology of music, taking music itself as a starting point, and considering what music sociology can learn from related disciplines such ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture

    Edited by Professor Andy Bennett ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture provides a comprehensive and fully up-to-date overview of key themes and debates relating to the academic study of popular music and youth culture. While this is a highly popular and rapidly expanding field of research, there currently exists no single-source reference book for those interested in this topic. The handbook is comprised of ... Read more

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  • Popular Music Scenes

    Regional and Rural Perspectives

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines regional and rural popular music scenes in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. The book is divided into four parts.Part 1 will focus on the spatial aspects of regional popular music scenes and how place and locality inform the perceptions and discourses of those involved in such scenes.Part 2 focuses on the technologies and forms of distribution whereby regional and rural ... Read more

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  • The Canterbury Sound in Popular Music

    Scene, Identity and Myth

    Series series Emerald Studies in Popular Music and Place
    This collection is a unique exploration of the heritage and legacy of the Canterbury Sound: a signature style emerging in the 1960s that draws upon psychedelic music, progressive rock, jazz and pop to capture the real and imagined interactions between people, place and music.The volume recounts the stories, and explores the significance, of the Canterbury Sound as heritage, ongoing legacy and ... Read more

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  • Culture and Everyday Life

    by Andy Bennett ...
    ′Bennett provides a well organized, very readable and interesting discussion of a number of significant everyday cultural forms and I am confident student readers will find the book very valuable′ - Barry Smart, University of PortsmouthCulture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical models, issues and examples of contemporary cultural practice.Bennett ... Read more

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    Positioned between the psychedelic and counter-cultural music of the late 1960s and the punk and new wave styles of the late 1970s, early 1970s British popular music is often overlooked in pop music studies of the late 20th century, but it was, in fact, highly diverse with many artists displaying an eclecticism and flair for musical experimentation. 'Progressive pop' artists such as Roxy Music, ... Read more

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  • Guitar Cultures

    Edited by Andy Bennett, Kevin Dawe ...
    The guitar is one of the most evocative instruments in the world. It features in music as diverse as heavy metal, blues, indie and flamenco, as well as Indian classical music, village music making in Papua New Guinea and carnival in Brazil. This cross-cultural popularity makes it a unique starting point for understanding social interaction and cultural identity. Guitar music can be sexy, soothing, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Ageing and Youth Cultures

    Music, Style and Identity

    Edited by Andy Bennett, Paul Hodkinson ...
    What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research on spectacular 'youth cultures' has understood such groups as adolescent phenomena and assumed that involvement ceases with the onset of adulthood. In an age of increasingly complex life trajectories, Ageing and Youth Cultures is the first anthology to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD