New book
Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity
Motti Regev
Polity Books
Category Archives: New publications
Frank Zappa and the And
Text and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture
New book
Text and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture
Simon Warner
Bloomsbury Publishing
Text and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture considers the relationship between Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs and others and those waves of singers, songwriters and bands – from Dylan to the Beatles, Tom Waits to Patti Smith, the Clash to Kurt Cobain, and many more – who have taken inspiration from that earlier literary community.
Music, Markets and Consumption
New book
Music, Markets and Consumption
Daragh O’Reilly, Gretchen Larsen and Krzysztof Kubacki
Goodfellow Publishers
This is intended as a marketing-theoretical reading of the three areas which draws on work in consumer and cultural studies.
Dancecult Issue 5.1 / Now Live
New journal issue
Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
5.1: Doing Nightlife and EDMC Fieldwork
Guest Edited by Luis-Manuel Garcia
http://dj.dancecult.net
Dancecult issue 5.1 is now live, and is a guest-edited issue on Doing Nightlife and EDMC Fieldwork. Continue reading
Musical Performance and the Changing City
New book
Musical Performance and the Changing City
Edited by Fabian Holt and Carsten Wergin
Brazilian Journal of Song Studies #3
New journal issue
Brazilian Journal of Song Studies #3
http://rbec.ect.ufrn.br/
An online scientific journal dedicated to popular music studies, issue 3 of the Brazilian Journal of Song Studies is now available. Although most of the articles are in Portuguese, there are two in English in the current issue – one about Pink Floyd’s “Goodbye Blue Sky” and another about Iron Maiden’s songs with historical themes.
Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record
IASPM 16th International Conference Proceedings
New publication
Situating Popular Musics
IASPM 16th International Conference Proceedings
Edited by Ed Montano and Carlo Nardi
We are pleased to announce that Situating Popular Musics: IASPM 16th International Conference Proceedings is now online. Continue reading
Marabi Nights – Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society
New book
Marabi Nights – Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa
Christopher Ballantine
Marabi Nights – Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa is an updated and substantially expanded second edition of Christopher Ballantine’s classic study of the triumphs and tragedies of South Africa’s marabi-jazz tradition. New chapters extend the book’s in-depth account of the birth and development of urban-black popular music. Continue reading