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Wild colonial boys
In this compelling memoir, Thomas Paul Burgess recounts his time as a member of Ruefrex, one of Northern Ireland’s most successful punk rock bands. Through a series of revealing vignettes, he traverses strife-torn Belfast and bohemian London, revealing another side of the punk rock story.
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Throbbing Gristle
This book situates the British band Throbbing Gristle as both a lens and critical tool for England during the punk years and the Winter of Discontent. Using detailed archival research and testimony from key performances, it plots the impact and affective reach of the band. 20 b/w illus.
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Mathias Spahlinger
A critical introduction to the music and thought of the German composer Mathias Spahlinger. Explored from his own perspective and discussed critically in relation to the work of French philosopher Jacques Ranciére and the continuing discourses of modernism. The first study on Spahlinger to be pub...
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Discusses the use of music in a well-loved and culturally significant game – Ocarina of Time. Examining music in different contexts, it identifies music’s role and function within the game and in gameplay overall, and uses this to investigate wider issues in music and media studies and fan cultur...
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Anthem Quality
Anthem Quality is a book about the lyrics of national anthems. In this theoretical survey, Christopher Kelen deals with the general meaning of an inter-national social phenomenon – the words we sing together with our compatriots when we assert ourselves to be national subjects.
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The Punk Reader
The first offering in Intellect’s new Global Punk series, The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global is the first edited volume to explore and critically interrogate punk culture in relation to contemporary, radicalized globalization.
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Brit Wits
Through a compilation of essays and profiles, Brit Wits shows how and why humour has been such a powerful catalyst and expressive force in rockers' work. Ellis trains his attention on those whose music and persona exude defiance to investigate the nature of rock humour and how these groups have u...
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Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory
Kate Bush as you have never seen her before. Through in-depth readings of the often critically neglected works of Bush’s career – The Kick Inside, Lionheart, The Dreaming, The Red Shoes and her film The Line, the Cross and the Curve – Withers guides the reader through the complexity of Bush’s art...
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Pop Fiction
Pop Fiction's unique essays individually consider one song within a cinematic context. Unlike previous collected volumes about pop music in film, where a generalised approach has been adopted, this offers instead a close examination of two pervasive and significant mediums in combination. The ...
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Brian Ferneyhough
One of contemporary music's most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's music draws inspiration from painting, literature, philosophy and more. This book balances critical analysis of the music and close scrutiny of its aesthetic and philosophical contexts, also examining the ...
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Approaches To The American Musical
Most books on the American musical are little more than exercises in nostalgia. The specially commissioned essays that make up Approaches to the American Musical take a different view of the form, going beyond the common assertion that musicals are simply escapist.
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Distillation of Sound
Distillation of Sound traces the beginnings of dub music in Jamaica and how the culture is distilled throughout the world. It focuses on the analysis of some of the most famous full-length albums of dub music and how the engineers, producers, and musicians created a new sound that changed the way...
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Ars musice
Composed in Paris during the late thirteenth century, reflects Johannes de Grocheio's awareness of the complexity of the task of describing music.
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IB Music Revision Guide, 3rd Edition
The ‘IB Music Revision Guide 3rd Edition’ includes analyses of all the prescribed works of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme music course through to 2021. It also includes a comprehensive overview of all the musical styles and cultures that are examined during the course, practice...
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How Belfast Got the Blues
Highly original, fascinating cultural and political history told through Belfast’s popular music scene in the 1960s in the context of Northern Ireland’s sociopolitical milieu. With particular emphasis on Van Morrison, Them, and Ottilie Patterson, also features the Peter Whitehead film of The Roll...
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Sounding Prose
This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compellin...
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Remembering Popular Music’s Past
‘Remembering Popular Music’s Past’ focuses on the transformation of popular music into heritage, and the role of history and memory in this process. The book interrogates diverse examples of the way popular music’s past is remembered, with particular emphasis on precarity in the construction, cur...
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Living Metal
This collection of thirteen essays is an exploration of metal scenes throughout the world, from Dayton to Hull, from Copenhagen to Osaka. Unique portrayal of how these scenes developed, are experienced by fans, and are influenced by the contexts in which they are embedded. Foreword by Henkka Sepp...
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Singing for Our Lives
Exploring the role of street choirs in political culture, and based on oral histories from more than 40 members of UK street choirs, this book introduces this neglected world to a wider public, including activists and academics. The title is taken from a song by musician and activist Holly Near, ...
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Transforming folk
From musicological and historical perspectives, this book maintains that folk music continues to be influenced by rock and other popular music styles, and is performed in musical settings representing new cultures and ethnicities now present in the United Kingdom.
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Connecting sounds
An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores the doing and meanings of music, as well as its interface with economic, political and wider social structures.
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Punk Identities, Punk Utopias
This new volume in the acclaimed Global Punk series extends the critical enquiry to reflect broader social, political and technological concerns impacting punk scenes around the world, with international contributors, ranging through topics from digital technology and new media to gender, ethnici...
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The Art of Nick Cave
Illuminating the remarkable scope of Nick Cave's achievements, this collection of essays explores his career as a composer of film scores, scriptwriter, and performer, his work in theatre and his literary output. Together, the resulting volume provides a lucid overview of Nick Cave's work that wi...
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Music Scenes and Migrations
‘Music Scenes and Migrations’ brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe, with particular attention to the role of the city in producing, signifying and med...
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Building Community Choirs in the Twenty-First Century
This book explores how five diverse community choirs build their collective identity within the complex setting of Northern Ireland. The case studies investigate the ways in which singers engage in their choral practice and demonstrates how this engagement can move beyond sectarian identity const...
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IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition
IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition analyses the prescribed works for IB Diploma Programme music through to 2019 – broken down into individual segments on the elements of music. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of musical styles and cultures and contains revision tips and advice on ex...
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The Key to Music’s Genetics
Christian Lehmann brings his experience as a musicologist, singer and academic to this fascinating journey through the origins of music and its role in human development, culture and society.
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Music Making and Civic Imagination
This book explores the idea of music making (musicing) - the ‘performance’ of human relationships through music - as a resource for imagining possible futures. Through practical examples, it highlights the value of musicing as a resource for human evolution and sustainable development, through th...
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Hip-Hop Archives
Explores multiple aspects of hip-hop archives in a global context, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation, and digitization. This collection critically analyzes institutional power, geopolitical influences and the ideological implications associated with hip-hop culture’s tensi...
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Heavy Metal and Disability
A groundbreaking collection that examines the relationship between heavy metal and disability. The authors, some of whom define themselves as disabled, discuss a wide range of issues, including how people with disabilities engage with metal as musicians, fans, and how heavy metal constructs the d...
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Sight Readings
Discussion of jazz as a visual subject and analysis of how photographers approached their subject. Includes work often overlooked – from African American photojournalists, studio photographers, early twentieth-century émigrés, Jewish exiles of the 1930s and vernacular snapshots. 135 halftones ...
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Decolonial Metal Music in Latin America
Nelson Varas-Díaz engages in ethnographic work throughout Latin America to explore how heavy metal music is used to challenge the region’s colonial past and present. Through extensive research in nine countries, his work documents how this musical genre allows listeners and musicians to engage in...
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How Belfast Got the Blues
Highly original and fascinating cultural and political history told through Belfast’s popular music scene in the 1960s in the context of Northern Ireland’s sociopolitical milieu. With particular emphasis on Van Morrison, Them, and Ottilie Patterson; also features the Peter Whitehead film of The R...
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Scream for Me, Africa!
Discusses African metal scenes and conversations around the presence of heavy metal in the continent, and how acts in Africa are changing the conversation of what is possible. Looks at the continent's blossoming scenes through themes including hybridity, othering and how scenes have collided with...
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Serbian & Greek Art Music
The music of Serbia and Greece has long been a vital part of Balkan culture, but it has been excluded from the academic canon of Western music history. Katy Romanou corrects this oversight with Serbian and Greek Art Music, the first book in English on the subject. Written by seven renowned music...
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Englishness, Pop and Post-War Britain
English pop music served a key role in defining, constructing and challenging various ideas about Englishness after World War II. Kallioniemi covers a range of styles of pop as he explores the question of how various artists, genres and pieces of music contributed to the developing understanding ...
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Anthem Quality
Anthem Quality is a book about the lyrics of national anthems. In this theoretical survey, Christopher Kelen deals with the general meaning of an inter-national social phenomenon – the words we sing together with our compatriots when we assert ourselves to be national subjects.
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Memory, Space and Sound
Memory, Space and Sound presents a collection of essays from scholars in a range of disciplines that together explore the social, spatial and temporal contexts that shape different forms of music and sonic practice. The contributors deploy different theoretical perspectives and methodological app...
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