Popular Music Books

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1. Popular Culture

   Edited by Chris Rojek

   Research in and around popular culture continues to flourish. And its study is, more than ever, a key component of Media and Communications Studies courses, and a vital part of Cultural Studies and Cultural Sociology curricula. The sheer scale of the available research exploring popular...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57704-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. The Music Industry Handbook

   By Paul Rutter

   The Music Industry Handbook unpacks the complex structures contained in the current music industry and maps the industry as it exists today. Drawing from a range of music industry research sources, personal experience and consultation with key industry professionals, Paul Rutter explains how...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-58681-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Sound Handbook

   By Tim Crook

   The Sound Handbook is an essential practice and theory guide that sets out the best methods in producing sound for multimedia, and the academic theories that underpin the history and analysis of sound expression. The Sound Handbook teaches how qualitative sound can be produced for drama,...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-55152-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond

   By Gay Breyley, Sasan Fatemi

   This book provides broad coverage of popular music in Iran in the twentieth century right up to the present day. It includes an examination of the role of popular music in Iranian society and culture as well as its ongoing development and genres....

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-57512-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

   By Eduardo De La Fuente

   In the first decade of the twentieth century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism,...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-96208-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Xenakis: His Life in Music

   By James Harley

   Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-88538-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Sporting Sounds: Relationships Between Sport and Music

   Edited by ANTHONY Bateman, John Bale

   Music and sport are both highly significant cultural forms, yet the substantial and longstanding connections between the two have largely been overlooked. Sporting Sounds addresses this oversight in an intriguing and innovative collection of essays. With contributions from leading international...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-56613-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Music Business: The Key Concepts

   By Richard Strasser

   Music Business: The Key Concepts is a comprehensive guide to the terminology commonly used in the music business today. It embraces definitions from a number of relevant fields, including: general business marketing e-commerce intellectual property law economics...

   August 2009 | 978-0-415-99535-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Club Cultures: Boundaries, Identities and Otherness

   By Silvia Rief

   This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices of clubbing help cultivate particular forms of reflexivity and modes of experience, and how these shape new devices for reconfiguring...

   June 2009 | 978-0-415-95853-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    Japanese Popular Music: Culture, Authenticity and Power

    By Carolyn Stevens

    Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. Based both on extensive...

    January 2009 | 978-0-415-49221-8 | Paperback (Routledge)