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The Beatles and Sixties Britain
In this rigorous study, Marcus Collins reconceives the Beatles' social, cultural and political impact on sixties Britain.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research is the first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. More than 50 years into its life and we still ask - what is rock music, why is it studied, and how does it work, both as music and as cultural activity? This volume draws together 37 of the leading academics working on rock to provide answers to these questions and many more. The text is divided into four major sections: practice of rock (analysis, performance, and recording); theories; business of rock; and social and culture issues. Each chapter combines two approaches, providing a summary of current knowledge of the area concerned as well as the consequences of that research and suggesting profitable subsequent directions to take. This text investigates and presents the field at a level of depth worthy of something which has had such a pervasive influence on the lives of millions.
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀ Volume 5
Inglis, once a hero-king and now a beautiful squire-in-training, is on a dangerous infiltration mission to avoid an all-out war with the snowy northern country of Alcard. As Alcard’s Prince Lahti leads the way, Inglis’s sword arm and stomach alike call out for a northern tour of engaging fights and delicious food. But with Alcard under the oppressive rule of a hieral menace named Tiffanyer, Inglis is faced with her greatest enemy—hunger! “You know, Rani, when I get mad about something, I get really mad.” The wild north stirs before her!
Jews, Race and Popular Music
Jon Stratton provides a pioneering work on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Rather than taking a narrative, historical approach the book consists of a number of case studies, looking at the American, British and Australian music industries. Stratton's primary motivation is to uncover how the racialized positioning of Jews, which was sometimes similar but often different in each of the societies under consideration, affected the kinds of music with which Jews have become involved. Stratton explores race as a cultural construction and continues discussions undertaken in Jewish Studies concerning the racialization of the Jews and the stereotyping of Jews in order to present an in-depth and critical understanding of Jews, race and popular music.
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀ Volume 4
With the hieral menace Ripple now safe and the school in a reconstruction phase, Inglis—former hero-king and current talk of the town—is summoned by the king himself to the palace, where she’s offered a promotion to captain of the Royal Guard! This leap up the ranks is as unconventional as it would be desirable to almost anyone else, but Inglis turns it down as a matter of course, preferring to someday fight on the front lines. This means turning down a celebration feast at the palace, but an eccentric man named Count Weismar is more than pleased to make a deal: they be his new pair of leading ladies in exchange for food. “Sorry, but I’m worried about Rani. I’ve gotta be somewhere I can keep an eye on her.” A beautiful dancer wipes out her foes in this fourth act!
Canuck Rock
An invaluable resource and an absorbing read, Canuck Rock spans from the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s through to today's international recording industry.
Resounding Pasts
The field of memory studies has long been preoccupied with the manner in which events from the past are commemorated, forgotten, re-fashioned, or worked through on both the individual and collective level. Yet in an age when various modes of artistic and cultural commemoration have begun to overlap with and respond to one another, the dynamics of cultural remembering and forgetting become bound up in an increasingly elaborate network of representations that operate both within and outside temporal, cultural, and national borders. As publicly circulating texts that straddle the line between cultural artifact and artistic object, both musical and literary works, both individually and often in ...
The Beatles
Of all pop music's icons, the Beatles have attracted more attention and generated more discussion than any other performers. The group's transformation from a semi-professional skiffle group in Liverpool to one of the twentieth century's key historical and cultural events has been told and re-told in numerous forms - on the cinema screen, in print, on stage, on TV and radio. Details of their personal and private histories are familiar to audiences and fans around the world. Their songs are among the best known and most critically acclaimed of the rock'n'roll era. The ways in which they dismantled many routine assumptions about the role of 'pop stars' in the 1960s helped to substantially re-d...
