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  • Popular Music Culture

    The Key Concepts

    by Roy Shuker ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Now in its fifth edition, this popular A–Z student reference book provides a comprehensive survey of key ideas and concepts in popular music culture, examining the social and cultural aspects of popular music.Fully revised with extended coverage of the music industries, sociological concepts and additional references to reading, listening and viewing throughout, the new edition expands on the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Wax Trash and Vinyl Treasures: Record Collecting as a Social Practice

    by Roy Shuker ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    The term 'record collecting' is shorthand for a variety of related practices. Foremost is the collection of sound recordings in various formats - although often with a marked preference for vinyl - by individuals, and it is this dimension of record collecting that is the focus of this book. Record collecting, and the public stereotypes associated with it, is frequently linked primarily with rock ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Understanding Popular Music Culture

    by Roy Shuker ...
    This extensively revised and expanded fifth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music, and the debates that surround popular culture and popular music.Reflecting the continued proliferation of popular music studies, the new music industry in a digital age, and the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Heavy Metal

    The Music And Its Culture

    by Deena Weinstein ...
    Few forms of music elicit such strong reactions as does heavy metal. Embraced by millions of fans, it has also attracted a chorus of critics, who have denounced it as a corrupter of youth—even blamed it for tragedies like the murders at Columbine. Deena Weinstein argues that these fears stem from a deep misunderstanding of the energetic, rebellious culture of metal, which she analyzes, explains, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Club Cultures

    Music, Media and Subcultural Capital

    by Sarah Thornton ...
    This is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves. ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

  • Banding Together

    How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music

    by Jennifer C. Lena ...
    Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Are We Not New Wave?

    Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s

    by Theodore Cateforis ...
    Series series Tracking Pop
    “Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music.”—Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out PopNew wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cast in the image of punk rock’s sneering demeanor, yet rendered more accessible and sophisticated. Artists such as the Cars, Devo, the Talking Heads, and the Human League leapt into the Top 40 with a novel ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock

    Edited by Simon Frith, Will Straw, John Street ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Rock Brands

    Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture

    by Jeremy V. Adolphson, Bob Batchelor, Charles Conaway, Daniel Cochece Davis, Bryan P. Delaney, Heidi M. Kettler, Jordan McClain, Mary Nash-Wood, Staci Parks, Heather Pinson, Dave Robinson, Alison F. Slade, Deborah Clark Vance, Hazel James Cole, Michael Bertrand, Dedria Givens-Carroll, Jacqueline Lambiase, Mary Beth Ray ...
    Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, edited by Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, is an edited collection that explores how different genres of popular music are branded and marketed today.The book's core objectives are addressed over three sections. In the first part of Rock Brands, the authors examine how established mainstream artists/bands are continuing to market themselves in ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Sexing the Groove

    Popular Music and Gender

    Edited by Sheila Whiteley ...
    Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The contributors, who include Mavis Beayton, Stella Bruzzi, Sara Cohen, Sean Cubitt, Keith Negus and Will Straw, debate how popular music performers, subcultures, fans and texts construct and deconstruct `masculine' ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Studying Popular Music Culture

    by Tim Wall ...
    That rare thing, an academic study of music that seeks to tie together the strands of the musical text, the industry that produces it, and the audience that gives it meaning... A vital read for anyone interested in the changing nature of popular music production and consumption"- Dr Nathan Wiseman-Trowse, The University of NorthamptonPopular music entertains, inspires and even empowers, but where ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Sound and Vision

    The Music Video Reader

    Edited by Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin, Lawrence Grossberg ...
    Sound and Vision is the first significant collection of new and classic texts on video and brings together some of the leading international cultural and music critics writing today.Addressing one of the most controversial forms of popular culture in the contemporary world, Sound and Vision confronts easy interpretations of music video - as promotional vehicles, filmic images and postmodern ... Read more

    $54.99 USD