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Art Into Pop Simon Frith 9781138652682
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.80This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock by Simon Frith
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.43This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form... -
On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word by Simon Frith
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.96Classic sociological analyses of 'deviance' and rebellion; studies of technology; subcultural and feminist readings, semiotic and musicological essays and close readings of stars, bands and the fans... -
Performing Rites: Evaluating Popular Music by Simon Frith 9780192880604
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £37.98Who's better? Billie Holiday or P.J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they... -
Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader Simon Frith 9780415094306
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £119.27Sound and Vision is the first significant collection of new and classic texts on video and brings together some of the leading international cultural and music critics writing today. Addressing one... -
Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music Simon Frith 9781032161976
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, politics, culture, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music... -
Popular Music Matters: Essays in Honour of Simon Frith by Lee Marshall 9780367669201
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Simon Frith has been one of the most important figures in the emergence and subsequent development of popular music studies. From his earliest academic publication, The Sociology of Rock (1978),... -
The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume II, 1968-1984: From Hyde Park to the Hacienda by Simon Frith 9780367660536
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80To date, there has been a significant gap in work on the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so through... -
The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume III, 1985-2015: From Live Aid to Live Nation by Simon Frith
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37To date there has been a significant gap in existing knowledge about the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap... -
Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition and Policy by Simon McKerrell 9780367884192
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Scottish traditional music has been through a successful revival in the mid-twentieth century and has now entered a professionalised and public space. Devolution in the UK and the surge of political... -
Music and Ideology by Mark Carroll
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.58This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and... -
Music and Ideology Mark Carroll 9781032918204
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.18This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and... -
British Academy Lectures, 2016-17 by Janet Carsten 9780197266236
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.60This volume publishes British Academy's public lectures from the 2016 and 2017 programmes, which were posted to the Journal of the British Academy in 2017. The subjects covered include: penal power... -
The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture Jon Lewis 9780415726801
Booksplease Price: £78.42This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and... -
The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture Jon Lewis 9781138989863
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £30.76This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and... -
British Academy Lectures 2012-13 by Janet Carsten 9780197265666
Booksplease Price: £42.30British Academy lectures have previously been published in the Proceedings of the British Academy. Lectures are now made available in the new open access Journal of the British Academy and are also... -
Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things by Dick Hebdige
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.79Dick Hebdige looks at the creation and consumption of objects and images as diverse as fashion and documentary photographs, 1950's streamlined cars, Italian motor scooters, 1980's 'style manuals',... -
The Rock History Reader Theo Cateforis 9781138227712
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.59This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. This third edition includes... -
Why Study the Media? by Roger Silverstone
Booksplease Price: £116.81"It's easy to be snobbish about media culture; the great merit of Roger Silverstone's book is to make the reader understand just how important that culture is." - Richard Sennett, New York... -
Photography: A Middle-Brow Art Pierre Bourdieu (College de France) 9780745617152
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.26The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers - the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits - may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity... -
Discographies: Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound by Jeremy Gilbert
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems... -
Dancing In The Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture by Andrew Goodwin 9780816620630
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Cultural Studies"Entertaining proof that good sense means good theory, this book is the first to treat music TV as vision and sound. Academically, I had most fun applauding Andrew Goodwin's elegant... -
The International Recording Industries by Lee Marshall 9781138822856
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content industry to have its production and distribution... -
The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies by Michael Berube 9780631223054
RRP: £97.95Booksplease Price: £85.56The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies is a timely and authoritative collection of essays that analyze the... -
The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies by Michael Berube 9780631223061
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.02The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies is a timely and authoritative collection of essays that analyze the... -
Icelandic Pop: Then, Today, Tomorrow, Next Week Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen 9781836391142
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Iceland punches well above its weight in the world of music, producing global icons like Bjoerk, Sigur Ros, Of Monsters and Men, and Laufey, while at the same time nurturing a vibrant local scene... -
Sentimental Education: Schooling, Popular Culture and the Regulation of Liberty by James Donald 9780860915553
Booksplease Price: £22.73What sort of institution is education? In this iconoclastic study, James Donald restores the school to its proper place at the heart of post-Enlightenment culture and politics. He traces the... -
Like Punk Never Happened by Dave Rimmer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club, and British pop music in the 1980s.NEW EXPANDED EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY NEIL TENNANTFEATURES A BONUS CHAPTER ON... -
The Bowie Companion by David Gutman 9780306807077
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Despite his vast influence and perennial popularity, David Bowie remains one of the most elusive figures in rock, and few books have taken a serious look at his remarkable career. The Bowie... -
The Musicology of Record Production by Simon Zagorski-Thomas 9781107428348
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35Recorded music is as different to live music as film is to theatre. In this book, Simon Zagorski-Thomas employs current theories from psychology and sociology to examine how recorded music is made... -
Institutional Economics and the Formation of Preferences: The Advent of Pop Music by Wilfred Dolfsma 9781843762331
Booksplease Price: £106.02The formation of preferences is an elusive subject that many social scientists, and especially economists, have tended to avoid. In this original new book, Wilfred Dolfsma combines institutional... -
Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929 Barry Kernfeld (Independent Scholar) 9780226431833
Booksplease Price: £31.37The music industry's ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers' efforts to stamp... -
Sounds English: TRANSNATIONAL POPULAR MUSIC by Nabeel Zuberi 9780252026201
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Popular music culture serves as an arena for debates on English and British national identity in this lively discussion of English popular music of the 1980s and 1990s. Against the background of his... -
Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music by Mavis Bayton 9780198166153
Booksplease Price: £104.97This is the first ethnographic study of women's popular music-making. It is based on over 100 in-depth interviews as well as participant observation by the author, a sociologist, who has herself... -
Researching Live Music: Gigs, Tours, Concerts and Festivals by Chris Anderton
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Researching Live Music offers an important contribution to the emergent field of live music studies.Featuring paradigmatic case studies, this book is split into four parts, first addressing... -
Popular Musicology and Identity: Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins by 9780367503239
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Popular Musicology and Identity paves new paths for studying popular music's entwinement with gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, locality, and a range of other factors. The book consists of... -
Living Politics, Making Music: The Writings of Jan Fairley by Jan Fairley
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.37The late Jan Fairley (1949-2012) was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and an influential contributor to such world music magazines as fRoots and... -
An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal by John Richardson 9780195367362
Booksplease Price: £56.80The music we hear is always inhabited by voices of previous performances. Because listening is now so often accompanied by moving images, this process is more complex than ever. Music videos,... -
After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture by Andrew Bennett 9780333977125
Booksplease Price: £45.42The concept of 'subculture' has long been of significant importance in research on youth, style, deviance and popular culture. Although in more recent years subculture has been the subject of... -
An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal by John Richardson 9780195367379
RRP: £44.49Booksplease Price: £33.98The music we hear is always inhabited by voices of previous performances. Because listening is now so often accompanied by moving images, this process is more complex than ever. Music videos,...