Arts Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. Music Education

   Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today, 4th Edition

   Edited by Michael Mark

   Music Education: Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today is a collection of thematically organized essays that illuminate the importance of music education to individuals, communities and nations. The fourth edition has been expanded to address the significant societal changes that have...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Understanding Society through Popular Music

   2nd Edition

   By Joe Kotarba, Bryce Merrill, J Patrick Williams, Phillip Vannini

   Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music courses, the second edition of Understanding Society through Popular Music uses popular music to illustrate fundamental social institutions, theories, sociological concepts, and processes. The authors use music, a social phenomenon...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Grammar of the Shot, Motion Picture and Video Lighting, and Cinematography Bundle

   By Roy Thompson, Blain Brown, Christopher Bowen

   Published December 11th 2012 by Focal Press
4. An Introduction to Design and Culture

   1900 to the Present, 3rd Edition

   By Penny Sparke

   This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design. New for this edition is a chapter which covers key changes in design culture. Design culture has changed...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. Cities and Photography

   By Jane Tormey

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. From Organisation to Decoration

   An Interiors Reader

   Edited by Graeme Brooker, Sally Stone

   From Organisation to Decoration: An Interiors Reader is a reader for students, scholars and practitioners interested in the theories, processes and principles of the aspects of the theory and practice of interior architecture, interior design and interior decoration. The book is divided into three...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Planning Process Drama

   Enriching teaching and learning, 2nd Edition

   By Pamela Bowell, Brian S. Heap

   Process drama is now firmly established, internationally, as a powerful and dynamic pedagogy. This clear and accessible book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to the planning of process drama. Grounded in theory and illustrated in practice, it identifies and explains the principles of...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
8. Image Studies

   Theory and Practice

   By Sunil Manghani

   Image Studies offers an engaging introduction to visual and image studies. In order to better understand images and visual culture the book seeks to bridge between theory and practice; asking the reader to think critically about images and image practices, but also simultaneously to make images and...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Theatre in Practice

   A Student's Handbook

   By Nick O'Brien, Annie Sutton

   Theatre in Practice provides students with all of the ‘must have’ Drama skills required for A-Level, International Baccalaureate, BTEC and beyond. Practical, step-by-step exercises and diagrams give access to the key figures and processes central to drama, including: Stanislavski, Brecht, Lecoq...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
10. Understanding Popular Music Culture

    4th Edition

    By Roy Shuker

    This extensively revised new edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music and the difficulties and debates that surround the analysis of popular culture and popular...

    Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge