Music & Sound Studies New Books October-December 2021
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Music & Sound Studies New Books Catalogue October-December 2021 BLOOMSBURY AND RED GLOBE PRESS In June 2021 Bloomsbury acquired Red Globe Press from Macmillan Education Limited, strengthening Bloomsbury’s commitment to provide quality textbooks and resources to students worldwide. Red Globe Press specialises in publishing for Higher Education students globally in Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Management, and Study Skills. Here are just a few highlights: 9781137610874 9781352005059 9781352005455 9781137550507 9781352004229 9781352005134 9781137606013 9781352010275 9781137029966 9781137504036 9781352012262 9781137380449 Distribution of Red Globe Press books will be managed from the MDL warehouse (UK/ROW) from 1st July 2021, and the MPS (US) warehouse later in 2021. Books will join bloomsbury.com in the second half of 2021. Booksellers please speak to your local agent (see p.143-144) Contents EBooks 331/3 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 2 ePub and ePdf availability is listed under each book entry. See the website for details of vendors, or to purchase individual ebooks direct. Popular Music. 3 Music & Culture / Sound Studies . 5 Review Copies Representatives, Agents & Distributors . 7 Email [email protected] (Americas) / [email protected] (outside Americas). Standing Orders Many series are available on standing order. Please contact our trade ordering departments (see pages 7 and 8). Translation Rights Available unless otherwise indicated. Key to Symbols Available on inspection / as exam copies: order online at www.bloomsbury.com. To request any other PB or eBook, email [email protected] (Americas) / [email protected] (outside Americas). Companion website or online resources available. 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Registered in England No. 01984336. 33 1/3 Maria Callas's Lyric and John Prine's John Prine Coloratura Arias Erin Osmon, University of Southern California, Ginger Dellenbaugh, The New School, USA USA Marking the 50th anniversary of the album’s Much has been written about Callas's sensational release, John Prine offers a chronicle of the singer- opera career and fraught private life, from her songwriter’s roots in Middle America, a soulful clashes with other artists, affair with billionaire framework filled with rich imagery and unique playboy Aristotle Onassis, to her tragic death perspectives. John Prine’s time in Chicago is often in 1977. And yet, the fascination with Callas's regarded as a footnote in his larger biography, which discounts its biography tends to overshadow her most seemingly superhuman deep and lasting influence. Through a series of original interviews, qualities – her astounding voice and masterful technique. Using one exhaustive research and personal insight, author Erin Osmon, for of Callas’s first recital recordings from 1954 as a foundation, this book the first time, paints an in-depth portrait of Prine’s beginnings in the envisions each song, each aria, as a lens to examine phenomena as Chicago folk music scene, and the history and impact of his childhood diverse as the operatic screaming point, feminism and the voice, and in Western Kentucky and suburban Maywood, Illinois. music and violence. UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 160 pages UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 152 pages PB 9781501379239 • £9.99 / $14.95 PB 9781501379024 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501379260 • £10.73 / $13.45 ePub 9781501379031 • £10.73 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501379253 • £10.73 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501379048 • £10.73 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES – 33 1/3 MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES – 33 Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything Heiner Müller and Heiner András Rónai, Independent Scholar, Hungary Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker & Anna Szemere, Central European University, Hungary Chaussee Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago, USA For decades, the state-run music industry in Hungary has artificially isolated musical worlds. I’ll By gathering historical and musical fragments Be Your Plaything is a concept album comprising from a Europe torn apart by World War II and the at times drastically re-imagined cover versions Cold War, the East German playwright, Heiner of Hungary’s most popular hits from the socialist era. The album Müller, and the West German composer, Heiner exemplifies how rich and appealing synthesis of sounds and traditions Goebbels, created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama can be concocted when folk, classically trained, rock and jazz musical that stretched across modern European history at a moment of artists collaborate. Along with this freedom to blend and synthesize, international crisis. The question at the heart of the recording was the album opens up some long overdue space for women; playing prescient in the waning years of the Cold War, but it remains no less with personas, voices and singing styles, Palya reflects on issues of critical for the “crisis of Europe” today: Is it possible for Europe to be femininity, maternity, sexuality, and coupledom across generations. unified? UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 128 pages UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 144 pages PB 9781501354427 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501354434 • £60.00 / $80.00 PB 9781501346149 • £18.00 / $22.95 • HB 9781501346156 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501354441 • £16.10 / $20.65 ePub 9781501346163 • £16.10 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501354458 • £16.10 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501346170 • £16.10 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic Modeselektor’s Happy Birthday Naná Vasconcelos’s Saudades Sean Nye, University of Southern California, USA Daniel B. Sharp, Tulane University, USA Modeselektor, the notorious Berlin duo consisting The berimbau, a one-stringed musical instrument, of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, released is customarily strung with the wire found within a Happy Birthday! in 2007. Engaging with this car tire. When Afro-Brazilian percussionist Naná album, this book provides a unique lens through Vasconcelos set out to build his own, however, he which to examine current trends in European pop strung it instead with a single Steinway piano string, and electronic music history beyond standard signaling his desire to take the instrument beyond examples of German pop and electronic music, such as Kraftwerk its traditional settings. and Rammstein. Employing theories of popular culture and electronic This book revolves around Naná's 1980 album Saudades, released on music in the 2000s, especially Simon Reynolds’s books Retromania ECM records. It traces his early work between 1969-1979 as he lived and Energy Flash,Happy Birthday! argues for an updated study of in New York, Europe and Brazil, as he developed his approach to electronic music and rave culture in twentieth-first century Europe, music-making that culminated in Saudades. with specific focus on German studies. UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 256 pages UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 128 pages PB 9781501345708 • £18.00 / $22.95 • HB 9781501345715 • £64.00 / $80.00 PB 9781501346255 • £18.00 / $22.95 • HB 9781501346248 • £64.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501345722 • £16.10 / $20.65 ePub 9781501346262 • £16.10 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501345739 • £16.10 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501346279 • £16.10 / $20.65 Series: 33 1/3 Brazil • Bloomsbury Academic Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic 2 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES – Popular Music MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES – Popular The Velvet Underground Beyond and Before, Updated What Goes On and Expanded Edition Edited by Sean Albiez, London South Bank Progressive Rock Across Time and Genre University, UK & David Pattie, University of Paul Hegarty, University of Nottingham, UK & Chester, UK Martin Halliwell Though The Velvet Underground were critically and Beyond and Before extends an understanding of commercially unsuccessful in their time, in ensuing “progressive rock” by providing a fuller definition decades they have become a constant touchstone of what progressive rock, is, was and can be. With a brand new in art rock, punk, post-punk, indie, avant pop and alternative rock. chapter “The Concept beyond Concept” focusing on the 2010s, this In 17 collected essays, Pattie and Albiez present the first academic 10-year revised edition expands discussion of the crossover musical book length collection on The Velvet Underground. The book covers influence of Radiohead, the return of Kate Bush, the many variants of a range of topics including the band’s relationship to US literature,