MUSIC & SOUND STUDIES NEW BOOKS CATALOGUE 2017-18 Provides unrivalled scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, from the mid-20th century to the present day. Explore the historical origins and cultural impact of popular music from almost every country in the world. Discover more about influential artists and albums, local music scenes, and subcultures. Learn about musical form, instruments, and the workings of the music industry and research the social, political, and economic context of different musical genres. CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS FEATURES • 14-volume Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World • Artist pages offer curated links to relevant content for leading artists • All current volumes of the 33 1/3 book series with annual updates, providing in-depth analysis of influential albums • The interactive world map enables users to navigate to books and articles covering a • Scholarly books from Bloomsbury’s Popular Music Studies list country or region • The interactive timeline of popular music includes the dates of albums covered in the 33 1/3 series, plus an overview of contextual events in musical and political history, with links to relevant articles • Related content links on every content page makes it easy to discover relevant material • Personal account feature enables users to save books, chapters, or other items to view later, organize saved items into folders, e-mail and export citations, and save searches To register your interest for a free institutional trial, or for further information email: Americas: [email protected] UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia: [email protected] Australia and New Zealand: [email protected] www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com PopularMusic_advert.indd 1 28/07/2017 15:30 Contents 33 1/3 ....................................................................... 2 Popular Music ............................................................ 3 Music, Media & Technology ........................................ 5 Sound Studies & Sound Art ........................................ 6 Representatives, Agents & Distributors ...................... 9 Editorial Contacts ....................................................10 EBooks Proposals EBook availability is indicated under each book entry: If you have a book proposal, please contact one of the editors listed on page 10 or submit your proposal using forms available at Individual eBook: available for your e-reader www.bloomsbury.com/academic/forauthors Library eBook: available for institution-wide access Inspection / Exam Copies See the website for details of vendors, or to purchase individual eBooks direct. 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Dettmar, Pomona College, USA, Björk's Homogenic Amanda Petrusich, New York University, USA, Gayle Wald, Emily Mackay, Independent Scholar, UK 33 1/3 Adapted by adaptor George Washington University, USA & Daphne Brooks, Princeton In recent years, Björk’s artistry has become University, USA ever more ambitious and ever more respected. “The series is probably the most remarkable regular event in rock The album that made all this possible, is 1997’s journalism today.” New York Times Homogenic, a turning point in Björk’s career and still among her finest musical achievements. 33 1/3 is a series of short books about popular music, focusing on Produced under great strain, it moves beyond the individual albums by a wide range of artists from Celine Dion to stylistic magpie rush of Debut and the urbanophile Neutral Milk Hotel. With over 100 volumes available, it has recently future-pop of Post, to something darker, stronger and braver, full expanded to cover music from soundtracks and video game scores. of dramatic assertions of independence, sharp, stuttering beats, rich strings and raw outbursts of noise. It created, as the Alexander McQueen designed sleeve clearly asserted, a new Björk, one who Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs would never stop hunting. Eric Eidelstein, Independent Scholar, USA UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 160 pages Adapted by adaptor PB 9781501322747 • £9.99 / $14.95 The Suburbs made a heavy impact on fans and – to Individual eBook 9781501322754 • £9.99 / $12.99 the surprise of many – won Album of the Year at Library eBook 9781501322730 the 2011 Grammy’s. Eric Eidelstein’s The Suburbs Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic explores the weird, utopic recollection of youth represented in the album by comparing it to suburban scenes in film and television, such as Blue Velvet, Mad Men, The Americans, and Scenes Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night from the Suburbs. Through the close examination of film depictions Patrick Rivers, University of New Haven, USA & of the suburbs Eidelstein delves into the societal factors and William Fulton, LaGuardia Community College, artistic depictions that make the suburbs such a fascinating cultural USA construct, and uncovers why the album creates such a universal sense Adapted by adaptor of reminiscence. As a tapestry of 1970s black popular culture, this volume details how the fantastic musical world UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 152 pages of Uptown Saturday Night was borrowed from the PB 9781501336461 • £11.99 / $14.95 films of that era—particularly the Sidney Poitier Individual eBook 9781501336478 • £9.99 / $12.99 Library eBook 9781501336485 film from which the album’s name is derived—and Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic positions the album as an essential example of Mark Anthony Neal’s post-soul aesthetic. The book is informed by interviews of Camp Lo, album producer Ski, autobiographical accounts by A&R/co-author Will Fulton, and musical and cultural analyses that details the Bob Mould's Workbook development of the album and how its contents instigated a “re- membering” of black culture. Walter Biggins, Independent Scholar, USA & Daniel Couch, Chemeketa Community College, UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 160 pages USA PB 9781501322723 • £9.99 / $14.95 Adapted by adaptor Individual eBook 9781501322709 • £9.99 / $12.99 Workbook serves its title in two ways—as a map Library eBook 9781501322693 for musicians to follow into a new mode, and as Series: 33 1/3 • Bloomsbury Academic a journal of Mould’s struggle toward adulthood. It opens conversations about rock, identity, spirituality, authenticity, and the perils and promises of mainstream culture. Walter Biggins and Daniel Couch, The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride II two critics who grew up with Workbook, extend these conversations— through letters and emails to each other, and through correspondence the Pharcyde with Mould and Workbook’s musicians and producers. That crosstalk Andrew Barker, Independent Scholar, USA leads to, through this seminal album, a deeper understanding of Adapted by adaptor As much an inner city cipher as a suburban boys “alternative rock” at the moment of its inception, just before it took gang, the foursome that made up The Pharcyde over the radio. were the most relatable MCs to ever pass the mic. Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde represents the sound of UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 160 pages PB 9781501321351 • £9.99 / $14.95 four restless man-children fresh out of their teens, Individual eBook 9781501321375 • £9.99 / $12.99 finding a perfect outlet in a form of music that was just as young Library eBook 9781501321368 and fertile. A touchstone for Kanye