Rock & Pop Music

Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and contin...

When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record ...

Quincy Jones: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and discography on one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, and c...

The theme of this Research Companion is 'connectivity and the global reach of electroacoustic music and sonic arts made with technology'. The possi...

This volume examines the location of memories and histories of popular music and its multiple pasts, exploring the different places in which popula...

With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw f...

Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier presents essays from both film studies scholars and musicologists on core issues in western film scor...

This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal...

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...

Ewan MacColl is widely recognized as a key figure in the English folk revival, who tried to convey traditional music to a mass audience. Dominant i...

Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with...

How has the history of rock n roll been told? Has it become formulaic? Or remained, like the music itself, open to outside influences? Who have bee...

Simon Frith has been one of the most important figures in the emergence and subsequent development of popular music studies. From his earliest acad...

'What is the real hip hop?''To whom does hip hop belong?''For what constructive purposes can hip hop be put to use?'These are three key questions p...

It has taken Liverpool almost half a century to come to terms with the musical, cultural and now economic legacy of the Beatles and popular music. ...

The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2023 gives biographical information and contact details for some of the most talented and influential ...

The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environme...

The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environme...