Kevin Dettmar & Jonathan Lethem 
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z 

This book presents a varied and nuanced analysis of the dynamics of the printing, publication, and trade of music in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries across Western and Northern Europe. …

What does it mean, in a polarized political climate, that feminism was popular in mainstream popular music of the 2010s? Engaging with feminist theory and previous research about gender and music, …

How does popular music influence the culture and reputation of a city, and what does a city do to popular music? Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments …

______________________________________ ”Engaging, entertaining, brilliantly recounted” Mirror ”Captivating . . . an incredible story” i paper __________________________________ MUSIC, FAME AND A …

Since the release of her debut album Whatever's For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has, across a fifty-year career, traversed styles and genres to create a monumental body of work. Acknowledged as …

This is an approachable, easy-to-use guide to improving one”s singing voice. It takes a similar approach used in other Idiot”s Guide music books to guide the reader step-by-step through the process …

This book provides an interdisciplinary focus on music, memory, and ageing by examining how they intersect outside of a formal therapeutic context or framework and by offering a counter-narrative to …

Finding the Beat explores humankind”s ability, propensity, and enjoyment in finding the beat in live and recorded experiences of music-making through the lens of entrainment, the human capacity to …

Alastair Riddell’s band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New Zealand rock act who hit gold with a #1 hit single in October 1974 with the song ‘Out On The Street’ but thereafter failed to …

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. In Bach s Architecture of Gratitude James …