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Nothing Has Been Done Before
Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Is there such a thing today as music that's meaningfully new? In our contemporary era of remixing and retro styles, cynics and romantics alike cry "It's all been done before" while record labels and media outlets proclaim that everything is new. Coded into our daily conversations about popular...
Why Write?
A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
**From one of America's great professors, author of Why Teach? and Why Read?--an inspiring study of the importance of writing well, for creators, educators, students, and anyone who writes.
Why write?
Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their...
Abbey Road
The Best Studio in the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The first photographic celebration of the most famous recording studio in the world, publishing in its 80th year. Unprecedented access to the Abbey Road archive - from Edward Elgar to the Beatles, Kate Bush to Elbow the most famous artists in the world have recorded here.
This gorgeous book...
Over and Over
Exploring Repetition in Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
From the Tin Pan Alley 32-bar form, through the cyclical forms of modal jazz, to the more recent accumulation of digital layers, beats, and breaks in Electronic Dance Music, repetition as both an aesthetic disposition and a formal property has stimulated a diverse range of genres and techniques. From...
Kerouac
Language, Poetics, and Territory
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Given Jack Kerouac's enduring reputation for heaving words onto paper, it might surprise some readers to see his name coupled with the word "poetics.†? But as a native speaker of French, he embarked on his famous "spontaneous prose†? only after years of seeking techniques to overcome...
A Romance on Three Legs
Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Glenn Gould was famous for his obsessions: the scarves, sweaters and fingerless gloves that he wore even on the hottest summer days; his deep fear of germs and illness; the odd wooden "pygmy" chair that he carried with him wherever he performed; and his sudden withdrawal from the public...
Jack Holmes and His Friend
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Many straight men and gay men are best friends, but if the phenomenon is an urban commonplace it has never been treated before as the focus of a major novel.
Jack Holmes is in love, but the man he loves never shares his bed. The other men Jack sleeps with never last long and he dallies with...
by Kembrew McLeod
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot planted firmly in the past while remaining quite forward-looking, an impulse that can be heard in its electronic dance music hit "Heart...
Magical Musical Tour
Rock and Pop in Film Soundtracks
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Winner of the Southwest Popular and American Culture Association's 2016 Peter C. Rollins Book Award in the category of Film/Television
The popular music industry has become completely interlinked with the film industry. The majority of mainstream films come with ready-attached songs that may...
by Alan Warner
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist. Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on the album, how it was composed, executed and recorded--including...
by Rib Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
A good story can easily be ruined by bad dialogue. Now in its 4th edition, Rib Davis's bestselling Writing Dialogue for Scripts provides expert insight into how dialogue works, what to look out for in everyday speech and how to use dialogue effectively in scripts. Examining practical examples from...
by Randi Reisfeld
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Ever since her police officer father was killed a few months ago, Grace Abernathy hasn't wanted to do much of anything. She's pulled away from her friends, her grades are plummeting . . . it's a problem. The last thing Grace wants is to be dragged into her older sister Regan's plan to train a shelter...
DJ Culture in the Mix
Power, Technology, and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The DJ stands at a juncture of technology, performance and culture in the increasingly uncertain climate of the popular music industry, functioning both as pioneer of musical taste and gatekeeper of the music industry. Together with promoters, producers, video jockeys (VJs) and other professionals...
Remix Multilingualism
Hip Hop, Ethnography and Performing Marginalized Voices
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
"Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes bricolage....