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Cultural Studies

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Opera for Everyone

The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age

By Megan Steigerwald Ille
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Musicology, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

How one opera company represents the economic precarity and aesthetic possibilities of operatic performance in the twenty-first century U.S.

Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

Sounding Dissent

Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism

By Stephen Millar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Irish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

In Belfast’s rebel music scene, Irish republican musicians and audiences engage in ritualized resistance against the British state

Soda Goes Pop

Pepsi-Cola Advertising and Popular Music

By Joanna K. Love
Subjects: Music, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Cultural Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Pepsi turned pop music in commercials from novelty to norm—with profound effects on both American culture and commerce

The Passions of Peter Sellars

Staging the Music

By Susan McClary
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

Tracing the legendary career of Peter Sellars through his visually rich opera productions

The British Blues Network

Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

By Andrew Kellett
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, European Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s

 

Good Vibrations

Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in Critical Perspective

By Philip Lambert
Subjects: American Studies, Music, Cultural Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

An international, interdisciplinary exploration of the band that helped define 1960s America

Sounds of the Underground

A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music

By Stephen Graham
Subjects: Music, Cultural Studies, Ethnomusicology
Series: Tracking Pop

The first scholarly examination of underground music in the digital age

Rhymin' and Stealin'

Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop

By Justin A Williams
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Music
Series: Tracking Pop

The first book-length study of one of the most essential elements of hip-hop: musical borrowing

Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment

By Lily E. Hirsch
Subjects: Music, Law, Law and Society, American Studies, Cultural Studies

A critical examination of the ways in which music is understood and exploited in American law enforcement and justice

Powerful Voices

The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella

By Joshua S Duchan
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Education, Higher Education
Series: Tracking Pop

The first scholarly account of the music and culture of collegiate a cappella

Bytes and Backbeats

Repurposing Music in the Digital Age

By Steve Savage
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, Media Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

An examination of how musical activity has been transformed by contemporary production practices

Four Jazz Lives

By A.B. Spellman
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A revival of a classic oral biography of four nearly overlooked jazz giants

Are We Not New Wave?

Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s

By Theodore Cateforis
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Music
Series: Tracking Pop

The definitive musical and cultural history of new wave music

Grit, Noise, and Revolution

The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll

By David A. Carson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music

A narrative history of the birth of rock 'n' roll in Detroit

Head Hunters

The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album

By Steven F. Pond
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The story of one of the most influential and controversial jazz recordings of the twentieth century

The Aesthetics of Survival

A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music

By George Rochberg
Subjects: Music, Cultural Studies

A revised paperback edition of composer George Rochberg's landmark essays

Louie Louie

The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n Roll Song; Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, and a Cast of Millions; and Introducing for the First Time Anywhere, the

By Dave Marsh
Subjects: Music, History, American History, Cultural Studies

The fascinating story of one of the world's most famous rock 'n' roll songs

Parodies of Ownership

Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law

By Richard L. Schur
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Law, Music, Literary Studies

An intriguing interdisciplinary examination of hip hop aesthetics

Counterculture Kaleidoscope

Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco

By Nadya Zimmerman
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Music

A bold reconsideration of the meaning of 1960s San Francisco counterculture

Boogaloo

The Quintessence of American Popular Music

By Arthur Kempton
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Music

The much-anticipated paperback edition of Arthur Kempton's story on the art, influence, and commerce of Black American popular music

One Nation Under A Groove

Motown and American Culture

By Gerald Lyn Early
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Cultural Studies, African American Studies

How Motown changed the landscape of American popular culture

Elevator Music

A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong; Revised and Expanded Edition

By Joseph Lanza
Subjects: Music, Cultural Studies

Noted music historian Joseph Lanza seriously appraises an American musical tradition

Jazz Journeys to Japan

The Heart Within

By William Minor
Subjects: Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

One author's personal odyssey through the jazz scene in Japan

Flowers in the Dustbin

Culture, Anarchy, and Postwar England

By Neil Nehring
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Sociology

Explores the connection between high literary culture and popular culture and argues for cultural anarchism as a form of creative resistance.

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