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Women and Jazz: European Perspectives from Researchers and Artists is an edited volume bringing together the work of female researchers exploring the complex relationship between jazz and gender. Who are the European and Europe‐based women in jazz, and do they perceive jazz as still being a male‐dominated world? Women and Jazz encompasses a broad range of views and themes, including the role of women in European jazz history, their daily lives, motherhood, music education, festivals, and live performance. This volume features interviews with 26 female European or Europe‐based jazz artists, which serve as tangible illustrations of the female experience in professional jazz. This work al...
The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed. It considers the typically linear narratives that are based on simplifications, exaggerations, and omissions and the histories they construct - an approach that leads to totalizing “official” histories that reduce otherwise messy narratives to one-dimensional interpretations of a heroic and celebratory nature. This book questions the basis on which these mediated histories are constructed, highlights other, hidden, histories that have otherwise been neglected, and explores a range of topics including consumerism, the production pressure behind documentaries, punk fanzines, Rolling Stones covers, and more.
Nurse Raine Hart has a painful secret, and the only person she can tell is her ex, Dr Caleb Stewart. Now Caleb wants another chance, but first he must convince Raine that he's a man a girl can rely on – because if anyone can give her the happiness she truly deserves, it's Caleb...
Guarding Raine by Kylie Brant released on Dec 25, 1995 is available now for purchase.
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