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Music & Sound Studies New Books July Music & Sound Studies New Books Catalogue July-September 2021 Listen Now Podcast The Bloomsbury Academic Podcast is more than just a book talk. Each episode is its own unique forum, bringing Bloomsbury authors and experts to the front of the conversation and tackling key issues in today’s culture, both in academia and beyond. This show is for everyone interested in expanding their learning outside the classroom and exploring the dif cult discussions taking place in society every day. Season two is forthcoming in May 2021 on our website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Contents EBooks Music & Sound Studies. 2 ePub and ePdf availability is listed under each book entry. See the website for details of vendors, or to purchase individual ebooks direct. Representatives, Agents & Distributors . 6 Review Copies Email [email protected] (Americas) / [email protected] (UK / Rest of World). Standing Orders Many series are available on standing order. Please contact our trade ordering departments (see pages 6 and 7). 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] (UK / Rest of World). Companion website or online resources available. Available for institutions to purchase as Title by Title, discrete discipline modules, or via Evidence Based Acquisition. Now available via GOBI. www.bloomsburycollections.com. Bloomsbury Open Access Selected research publications are available on open access. For our policy or to publish OA, see www.bloomsbury.com/openaccess. Proposals See www.bloomsbury.com/academic/forauthors. Pricing and Availability Whilst we try to ensure that prices, publication dates and other details are correct on going to press, they are subject to change without further notice. Your Data For information on how we process your personal data please read our Privacy Policy located at www.bloomsbury.com/privacy-policy. You can unsubscribe or manage your preferences at any time via www.bloomsbury.com/newsletter or by emailing us at [email protected]. Bloomsbury Academic is a division of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Registered in England No. 01984336. 33/3 Duran Duran's Rio Roxy Music's Avalon Annie Zaleski Simon A. Morrison, Princeton University, USA In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture Duran became closely associated with new wave, suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music music and culture. No album represented this ever dreamier and mellower—reaching back to rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than sadly beautiful chivalric romances. The production the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. Via extensive and engineering imposed on Avalon confi scates new interviews with band members and other fi gures who helped Rio emotion and replaces it with an acoustic simulacrum of courtliness, succeed, this book explores how and why Rio became a landmark polished manners, and codes of etiquette. The seducer sings pop-rock album, and examines how the LP was both a musical seductive music about seduction, but decorum is retained, as amour inspiration—and a refl ection of a musical, cultural, and technology courtois insists. The backbeat cannot beat back nostalgia; it remains zeitgeist. part of the architecture of Avalon, an album that creates an allusive sheen. UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 176 pages • PB 9781501355189 £9.99 / $14.95 UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 152 pages • MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES ePub 9781501355196 £11.36 / $13.45 PB 9781501355349 • £9.99 / $14.95 • ePdf 9781501355202 £11.36 / $13.45 ePub 9781501355363 • £11.36 / $13.45 • Series: 33 1/3 Bloomsbury Academic ePdf 9781501355356 • £11.36 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic Goldie’s Timeless Janelle Monáe’s The Martyn Deykers, DJ, Promoter and Music Archandroid Producer, The Netherlands Alyssa Favreau, Independent Scholar Timeless describes how the album came to be: This book studies the literary merit of Monáe’s A short description of the sparkling drum ‘n bass multimedia body of work, the political relevance of scene of the time, and Goldie’s unlikely personal her science-fi ctional themes and aesthetics, and her journey as a graffi ti writer turned music wunderkind. role as an Atlanta-based pop icon. The exploration It digs deeper into the music itself, uncovering of the lavish world-building present in Cindi’s story, highly autobiographical lyrical content and analyzing sonic references and the many literary, cinematic, and musical infl uences brought to Goldie’s previous music and contemporary culture. From the together to create it, will blend with a history of Monáe’s career, beautifully epic radio hit “Innercity Life” to the darker, grimier including the trials of developing of a full-length concept album in textures of “Jah the Seventh Seal”, the album covers a wide array of an industry overwhelmingly devoted to the production of marketable emotions and musical ideas. singles. The stories of Cindi and Janelle are inextricably entwined, each making the other more compelling, fantastical, and deeply felt. UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 160 pages PB 9781501339776 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501339783 • £11.36 / $13.45 UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 152 pages ePdf 9781501339790 • £11.36 / $13.45 PB 9781501355707 • £9.99 / $14.95 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic ePub 9781501355721 • £11.36 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501355714 • £11.36 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic Read Music 9781501355622 9781501355301 9781501355349 9781501355189 9781501355462 9781501355707 Visit our 33 1/3 blog, at 333sound.com, to discover more about the series. There you'll nd author interviews, unpublished content, music videos, and so much more! www.bloomsbury.com • 33 1/3 • @333books • 333sound.com 2 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Modeselektor’s Happy Birthday Square Club, 1963 Sean Nye, University of Southern California, USA Colin Fleming, Journalist, USA Modeselektor, the notorious Berlin duo consisting of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, released This book covers Cooke’s days with the Soul Happy Birthday! in 2007. Engaging with this Stirrers, the gospel unit that was inventing a strand album, this book provides a unique lens through of soul in the 1950s, and continues on to his string which to examine current trends in European pop of hit singles as a solo artist that reveal far more and electronic music history beyond standard about this complex man. We’ll stop and consider examples of German pop and electronic music, such as Kraftwerk how, as a writer and an agent of social change, the differences and Rammstein. Employing theories of popular culture and electronic between Cooke’s true identity and what various factions of his music in the 2000s, especially Simon Reynolds’s books Retromania audience wanted from him, this towering soul artist came to reconcile and Energy Flash, Happy Birthday! argues for an updated study of so many disparate elements on a stage in Florida on a winter night electronic music and rave culture in twentieth-fi rst century Europe, in 1963—a stage that extended well into the future, beyond Cooke’s with specifi c focus on German studies. own life, beyond the 1960s, and into a perpetual here-and-now. UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 128 pages UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 152 pages PB 9781501346255 • £18.00 / $22.95 • HB 9781501346248 • £64.00 / $80.00 PB 9781501355547 • £9.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781501346262 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePub 9781501355554 • £11.36 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501346279 • £17.04 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501355561 • £11.36 / $13.45 Series: 33 1/3 Europe • Bloomsbury Academic Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic The Evolution of Electronic Naná Vasconcelos’s Saudades Dance Music Daniel B. Sharp, Tulane University, USA Edited by Ewa Mazierska, University of Central The berimbau, a one-stringed musical instrument, Lancashire, UK, Tony Rigg, University of Central is customarily strung with the wire found within a Lancashire, UK & Les Gillon, University of car tire. When Afro-Brazilian percussionist Naná Central Lancashire, UK Vasconcelos set out to build his own, however, he The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes strung it instead with a single Steinway piano string, EDM’s place on the map of popular music. The signaling his desire to take the instrument beyond book accounts for various ambiguities, variations, transformations, its traditional settings. and manifestations of EDM, pertaining to its generic fragmentation, This book revolves around Naná's 1980 album Saudades, released on large geographical spread, modes of consumption and, changes in ECM records. It traces his early work between 1969-1979 as he lived technology. It focuses especially on its current state, its future, and in New York, Europe and Brazil, as he developed his approach to its relationship to other forms of popular music as well as the rise of music-making that culminated in Saudades. EDM in places that are overlooked by the existing literature, such as Russia and Eastern Europe, and examines the multi-media and visual UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 128 pages aspects of the genre. PB 9781501345708 • £18.00 /
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