Matt Brennan: 3 books
When Genres Collide
Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the new music called rock...
The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967
From Dance Hall to the 100 Club
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The social history of music in Britain since 1950 has long been the subject of nostalgic articles in newspapers and magazines, nostalgic programmes on radio and television and collective memories on music websites, but to date there has been no proper scholarly study. The three volumes of The History...
The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume II, 1968-1984
From Hyde Park to the Hacienda
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
To date, there has been a significant gap in work on the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so through a unique prism—that of live music. The key theme of the books is the changing nature of the live...