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Sound Tracksby John Connell; Chris Gibson
Routledge 2002; US$ 65.95Sound Tracks traces the relationships between music, space and identity from inner city 'scenes' to the music of nations, to give a wide-ranging perspective on popular music. more...
Music Cultures in the United Statesby Ellen Koskoff
Routledge 2005; US$ 66.95The first major textbook to explore US music cultures, it takes a new look at the subject by focussing on cultural-historical issues. Expert writers and pedagogic material ensure the most knowledgeable account of America's musical identity. more...
Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890-1939by Len Platt
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 116.00This work offers an historical treatment of a music theatre that was once at the centre of London's West End. It establishes musical comedy as one of the first industrial cultures and offers fascinating insights into how it functioned ideologically as a celebrated embracing of the modern condition. more...
Jesus Dubby Robert Beckford
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 39.95Explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. This book highlights how Dub - one of the central features of dancehall culture - can be mobilized as a framework for re-evaluating theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the influence of a guiding theme. more...
Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieuby Victoria Johnson; Jane F. Fulcher; Thomas Ertman
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 38.00A study of opera in Italy and France from the 1600s to the present day. more...
Consuming Music Togetherby Kenton O'Hara; Barry Brown
Springer 2006; US$ 149.00Collects together the studies of music consumption, and developments in music technology. This book combines the perspectives of both social scientists and technology designers, uncovering how music technologies are actually being used. It is useful for those designing new music technologies, and those working in the music industry. more...
Music in Youth Cultureby jan jagodzinski
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 23.00"Music in Youth Culture" examines the fantasies of post-Oedipal youth cultures as displayed on the landscape of popular music from a post-Lacanian perspective. jagodzinski, an expert on Lacan, psychoanalysis, and education's relationship to media, maintains that a new set of signifiers is required to grasp the sliding signification of contemporary "youth." He discusses topics such as the figurality of noise, the perversions of the music scene by boyz/bois/boys and the hysterization of it by gurlz/girls/grrrls. "Music in Youth Culture "also examines the postmodern "fan(addict)," techno music, and pop music icons. jagodzinski raises the Lacanian question of "an ethics of the Real" and asks... more...
National Acousticsby Brian Currid
University of Minnesota Press 2006; US$ 69.00In A National Acoustics, Brian Currid investigates the transformations of music in mass culture from the Weimar Republic to the end of the Nazi regime. Currid illustrates the contradictions between Germany's social and cultural histories and how the technologies of recording were vital to the emergence of a national imaginary and exposed the fault lines in the contested terrain of mass communication. more...
Making Music in Los Angelesby Catherine Parsons Smith
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton 2007; US$ 21.95In this fascinating social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, Catherine Parsons Smith ventures into an often neglected period to discover that during America's Progressive Era, Los Angeles was a center for making music long before it became a major metropolis. She describes the thriving music scene over some sixty years, including opera, concert giving and promotion, and the struggles of individuals who pursued music as an ideal, a career, a trade, a business--or all those things at once. Smith demonstrates that music making was closely tied to broader Progressive Era issues, including political and economic developments, the new roles played by women, and issues of race, ethnicity, and class. more...
Mystic Chordsby Soni Manish
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 26.95Rock N roll and archetypal symbolism? Citing baby-boomer favorites including Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, the Beatles and other Rock greats, the author shows that they have drawn on the same primal source from which mythology, dreams, and poetic insight arise. more...









