Music & The Arts Books

New and Published Books

1. The Music Documentary

   Acid Rock to Electropop

   Edited by Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art

   Performing Migration

   Edited by Rocío G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Johanna C. Kardux

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Music in Science Fiction Television

   Tuned to the Future

   Edited by K.J. Donnelly, Philip Hayward

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   The music for science fiction television programs, like music for science fiction films, is often highly distinctive, introducing cutting-edge electronic music and soundscapes. There is a highly particular role for sound and music in science fiction, because it regularly has to expand the vistas...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Music, Sound and Filmmakers

   Sonic Style in Cinema

   Edited by James Wierzbicki

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema is a collection of essays that examine the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye, but also for the ear. The bulk of the text focuses on the work of directors Wes Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, the Coen brothers, Peter Greenaway,...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Bodily Expression in Electronic Music

   Perspectives on Reclaiming Performativity

   Edited by Deniz Peters, Gerhard Eckel, Andreas Dorschel

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   In this book, scholars and artists explore the relation between electronic music and bodily expression from perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance and interactive performance arts, sociology, computer music and sonic arts, and music theory, transgressing...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
6. In The Space Of A Song

   The Uses of Song in Film

   By Richard Dyer

   Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs themselves, the nature of the feelings they present, and who is allowed to present feelings how, when and...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
7. Music in the Western

   Notes From the Frontier

   By Kathryn Kalinak

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier presents essays from both film studies scholars and musicologists on core issues in western film scores: their history, their generic conventions, their operation as part of a narrative system, their functioning within individual filmic texts and their...

   Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook

   Edited by James Wierzbicki, Nathan Platte, Colin Roust

   The Routledge Film Music Source Book is an annotated, thematically organized collection of approximately eighty source readings pertaining to film music dating from its beginnings to the present, from the US and other select countries around the globe. The documents represent a wide variety of...

   Published August 28th 2011 by Routledge
9. Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets

   Cinemajazzamatazz

   By Morris Holbrook

   Series: Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research

   Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets focuses on macromarketing-related aspects of film music in general and on the cinemusical role of ambi-diegetic jazz in particular. The book examines other work on music in motion pictures which has dealt primarily with the traditional distinction between...

   Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Musical

    A Research and Information Guide, 2nd Edition

    By William Everett

    Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

    The musical, whether on stage or screen, is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable musical genres, yet one of the most perplexing. What are its defining features? How does it negotiate multiple socio-cultural-economic spaces? Is it a popular tradition? Is it a commercial enterprise? Is it a...

    Published April 20th 2011 by Routledge