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  • Words, Music, and the Popular

    Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations

    Edited by Thomas Gurke, Susan Winnett ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relationsopens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens of the interaction between words and music. This collection of essays explores the relation of words and music to issues of the popular. It asks: What is popularity or ‘the’ popular and what role(s) ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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    Lines on a New-Born Infant (Unabridged)

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    by SUSANNA MOODIE ...
    Narrated by Thomas Gurke, Angie Adams, Paul Cooper, Cynthia Fields ...

    Unabridged

    29 min

    A tiny soul enters a world of joy and sorrow. In "Lines on a New-Born Infant," Susanna Moodie crafts a poignant poem reflecting on the innocence of a newborn child. Hear Moodie's evocative language as she contemplates the challenges that lie ahead for this unknowing babe. Will hope persevere through the coming storms? Lend an ear to this beautiful and bittersweet exploration of life's beginnings, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music

    A Critical History of Industrial Music

    by S. Alexander Reed ...
    Noisy, confrontational, and controversial, industrial music first emerged in the mid-1970s around bands and performance groups that combined avant-garde electronic music with the provocative attitude and abrasive style of punk rock. In Assimilate, S. Alexander Reed provides the first ever critical history of this fascinating and enigmatic genre, charting its trajectory from Throbbing Gristle's ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Audio Culture, Revised Edition

    Readings in Modern Music

    Edited by Daniel Warner, Professor Christoph Cox ...
    The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Art of Nick Cave

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by John H. Baker ...
    Known for his work as a performer and songwriter with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Australian artist Nick Cave has also pursued a variety of other projects, including writing and acting. Covering the full range of Cave's creative endeavours, this collection of critical essays provides a comprehensive overview of his multifaceted career. The contributors, who hail from an array ... Read more

    $28.99 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

    $13.99 USD

  • Music and Sound in Documentary Film

    Edited by Holly Rogers ...
    Series series Routledge Music and Screen Media Series
    This collection of fourteen essays provides a rich and detailed history of the relationship between and music and image in documentary films, exploring the often overlooked role of music in the genre and its subsequent impact on an audience’s perception of reality and fiction. Exploring examples of documentary films which make use of soundtrack music, from an interdisciplinary perspective, Music ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Global Metal Music and Culture

    Current Directions in Metal Studies

    Edited by Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris, Niall Scott, Andy Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Popular Music
    This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology, ... Read more

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  • Essays on the Essay Film

    Edited by Nora M. Alter, Timothy Corrigan ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    The essay—with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements—has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cultural Study of Music

    A Critical Introduction

    Edited by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton ...
    What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the years since the book’s initial publication. Including contributions from scholars of music, cultural ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

    Edited by Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing of memory new questions about the cultural dimensions of memory arise: How do art objects and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD