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Concepts of Music and Copyright: How Music Perceives Itself and How Copyright Perceives Music by Andreas Rahmatian 9781783478187
Booksplease Price: $226.55Copyright specialists have often focused on the exploitation of copyright of music and on infringement, but not on the question of how copyright conceptualises music. This highly topical volume... -
Bluegrass and Religion Dr Peter Ward 9781350175686
Booksplease Price: $168.58Tracking music that first arose from a close relationship to the religion of the American South, this book explores the ways in which they have taken on new meanings in a post-religious environment... -
Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture by Simon Reynolds 9780415923736
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $73.57In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and... -
Players' Work Time: A History of the British Musicians' Union, 1893-2013 by Professor Martin Cloonan 9781526113948
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $38.10This book examines the working lives of musicians over the past 120 years via the history of the Musicians' Union. The union has been at the centre of all major agreements covering the employment of... -
Players' Work Time: A History of the British Musicians' Union, 1893-2013 by Professor Martin Cloonan
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $120.14This book examines the working lives of musicians over the past 120 years via the history of the Musicians' Union. The union has been at the centre of all major agreements covering the employment of... -
Up From the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary by Anna Szemere 9780271021331
Booksplease Price: $72.91What happens to a community of oppositional artists when the purpose and meaning of their opposition are undermined by social transformation? Such was the dilemma facing many underground artists in... -
Brimful of Asia: Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene by Rehan Hyder
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $44.75During the 1990s, Asian pop artists began entering the mainstream of the British music industry for the first time. Bands such as Black Star Liner, Cornershop, Fun Da Mental and Voodoo Queens, led... -
Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein by John Corbett
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits,... -
The Clubcultures Reader: Readings in Popular Cultural Studies by Professor Steve Redhead 9780631212164
RRP: $75.95Booksplease Price: $69.05This reader in popular cultural studies meets the need for an up-to-date collection of readings on contemporary youth cultures and youth music.About the AuthorEditors: Steve Redhead is co-director of... -
Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World? Jason Toynbee 9780745630892
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.91Is Bob Marley the only third world superstar? How did he achieve this unique status? In this captivating new study of one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, Jason Toynbee... -
Tits Up: What Our Beliefs About Breasts Reveal About Life, Love, Sex and Society by Sarah Thornton 9781035053933
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.22'Excellent' - EconomistMost women in the developed world are dissatisfied with their breasts. They dismiss them as silly boobs, lament their less-than-ideal forms, or renounce thinking about them... -
The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason: Dispatches from the Front Professor. Don Armstrong 9781501393525
Booksplease Price: $59.55Discover the enthralling world of Ralph J. Gleason, a pioneering music journalist who expanded the possibilities of the newspaper music column, sparked the San Francisco jazz and rock scenes, and... -
Practical Musicology by Professor Simon Zagorski-Thomas 9781501357794
Booksplease Price: $217.13Practical Musicology outlines a theoretical framework for studying a broad range of current musical practices and aims to provoke discussion about key issues in the rapidly expanding area of... -
Music by Numbers: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industries by Richard Osborne
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $96.25The music industries are fuelled by statistics: sales targets, breakeven points, success ratios, royalty splits, website hits, ticket revenues, listener figures, piracy abuses and big data... -
Pop Music And The Press by Steve Jones
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Since the 1950s, writing about popular music has become a staple of popular culture. Rolling Stone, Vibe, and The Source as well as music columns in major newspapers target consumers who take their... -
The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture Stan Hawkins 9781138259614
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $98.22Who are pop dandies? Why are stars like David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Doherty and Robbie Williams so dandified? Taking up a wide range of British pop stars, Hawkins seeks to find out why so many... -
This Is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at Experience Music Project by Eric Weisbard 9780674013445
Booksplease Price: $63.80A range of genres, rooted in local impulses, reaching global audiences; a main prop of commercial culture and an art form open to aspirants and fans from every background: About the vast and diverse... -
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 by Tim Lawrence
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $37.03Opening with David Mancuso's seminal "Love Saves the Day" Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s-from its subterranean roots in NoHo... -
Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit by Matt Brennan 9780190683870
RRP: $61.41Booksplease Price: $61.33The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key... -
Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960 by Alan Ainsworth 9781789384215
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $62.69Jazz photography has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Photographs of musicians are popular with enthusiasts, while historians and critics are keen to incorporate photographs as... -
Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-60 Alan John Ainsworth 9781835950562
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $45.83Jazz photography has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Photographs of musicians are popular with enthusiasts, while historians and critics are keen to incorporate photographs as...