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  • The Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song

    Vivid Versions and Musical Subjectivities

    Edited by Mike Alleyne, Lori Burns ...
    Series series Routledge Music Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song: Vivid Versions and Musica Subjectivities examines histories, contexts, and critical perceptions of cover song practices that manifest in mimetic homages, nuanced reinterpretations, or radical transformations. Aimed at exploring genre variations, gendered and intersectional expressions, political implications, and international dimensions, the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination

    Edited by Chris Anderton, Lori Burns ...
    Series series Routledge Music Handbooks
    This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres and their literary connections: from ancient times to the modern world, from children’s literature to epic poetry, from mythology to science fiction, and from ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition

    Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production

    Edited by Lori Burns, Ciro Scotto ...
    Series series Routledge Music Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production examines metal music composition as a distinct practice that combines a complex array of formal musical, expressive, and technological elements. Reaching beyond the limitations of applying common-practice theories of tonality to metal, this volume brings together a wide range of established and ... Read more

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  • Analyzing Recorded Music

    Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks

    Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music, with the aim of exploring "how the record shapes the song" (Moylan, Recording Analysis, 2020) from a variety of perspectives. Introduced with a Foreword by Paul Théberge, the distinguished editorial team has brought together a group of reputable ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom

    Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube

    Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music classroom. The cultural prevalence and the students' familiarity with recorded music, videos, games, and other increasingly accessible multimedia materials help enliven course content and foster interactive learning and participation. Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom: ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Pop Palimpsest

    Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music

    Series series Tracking Pop
    Within popular music there are entire genres (jazz “standards”), styles (hip hop), techniques (sampling), and practices (covers) that rely heavily on references between music of different styles and genres. This interdisciplinary collection of essays covers a wide range of musical styles and artists to investigate intertextuality—the shaping of one text by another—in popular music. The Pop ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Disruptive Divas

    Feminism, Identity and Popular Music

    Series series Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture
    Disruptive Divas focuses on four female musicians: Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Me'Shell Ndegéocello and P. J. Harvey who have marked contemporary popular culture in unexpected ways have impelled and disturbed the boundaries of "acceptable" female musicianship. ... Read more

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    Heart and Mind United

    Series Book 57 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The progressive/hard rock band Rush has never been as popular as it is now. A documentary film about the band, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, which was released in the summer of 2010 has been universally well received. They had a cameo in the movie I Love You Man. Their seven-part song 2112” was included in a version of Guitar Hero” released in 2010. The group even appeared on The Colbert Report ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Running with the Devil

    Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

    by Robert Walser ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    Winner of the 1994 Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American MusicDismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the Devil, Robert Walser explores how and why heavy metal works, both musically and ... Read more

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  • Rocking the Classics : English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture

    English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture

    by Edward Macan ...
    Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction mythology and fantasy literature and above all for its attempts to combine classical music's sense of space and monumental scope with rock's raw power and energy. Its dazzling ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Producer as Composer

    Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music

    The evolution of the record producer from organizer to auteur, from Phil Spector and George Martin to the rise of hip-hop and remixing.In the 1960s, rock and pop music recording questioned the convention that recordings should recreate the illusion of a concert hall setting. The Wall of Sound that Phil Spector built behind various artists and the intricate eclecticism of George Martin's recordings ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Brian Eno

    Oblique Music

    Edited by David Pattie, Dr. Sean Albiez ...
    On the back of his published diary Brian Eno describes himself variously as: a mammal, a father, an artist, a celebrity, a pragmatist, a computer-user, an interviewee, and a 'drifting clarifier'. To this list we might add rock star (on the first two Roxy Music albums); the creator of lastingly influential music (Another Green World; Music for Airports); a trusted producer (for Talking Heads, U2, ... Read more

    $30.79 USD