Description
This Companion explores the historical and theoretical contexts of the singer-songwriter tradition, and includes case studies of singer-songwriters from Thomas d'Urfey through to Kanye West.
About the Author
Katherine Williams is Lecturer in Music at the University of Plymouth. Her monograph Rufus Wainwright is forthcoming in 2016 and she has published in Jazz Perspectives, the Jazz Research Journal and the Journal of Music History Pedagogy. She was awarded the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation/Jazz Education Network Research Fellowship 2015 to conduct research on Duke Ellington. She is active as a saxophonist, and regularly works with contemporary composers to create and perform new music for saxophone and electronics. Justin A. Williams is Lecturer in Music at the University of Bristol, author of Rhymin' and Stealin': Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop (2013) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop (Cambridge, 2015). As a professional trumpet and piano player in California, he ran a successful jazz piano trio and played with the band Bucho!, who won a number of Sacramento Area Music Awards and were signed to two record labels.
Reviews
'... lead[s] the reader to analyse big themes in music: genre, race, gender, societal trends and industry machinations.' Jeanette Leach, Shindig!
'There is emphasis on singer-songwriters from the LGBTQ community. Including detailed notes, this fascinating survey will have something for anyone interested in the topic.' R. D. Cohen, Choice
'The editors are clear in their introduction that this companion is aimed both at readers who like and perform and engage with popular music and also at students and teachers and researchers involved with formal (and informal) study of popular music. By this token, implied themes such as gender and sexuality, race and politics emerge regularly throughout the work, and these are used to explain and illuminate the singing-songwriting creative act itself.' Stuart Hannabuss, Reference Reviews
Book Information
ISBN 9781107063648
Author Katherine Williams
Format Hardback
Page Count 386
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1120g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 22mm