The Book I Wish I’d Had When I Was New To The Guitar PDF This is the book that would have saved me countless hours of aggravation and frustration had it been available when I started playing the guitar over forty years ago. I was asked to teach a relative the rudiments of guitar, and as I was… Read More »
The Oxford Handbook of Music & Queerness PDF Music and queerness interact in many different ways. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness brings together many topics and scholarly disciplines, reflecting the diversity of current research and methodology. Each of the book’s six sections exemplifies a particular rhetoric of queer music studies. The section “Kinds of Music” explores… Read More »
The Oxford Handbook of Music & Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, scholarly interest in music flourished in fields as disparate as philosophy and natural science, dramatically shifting the relationship between music and the… Read More »
The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical, curated by editor Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, reflects and expands on current scholarship on the film musical in a handbook that mixes new discoveries through archival research with new perspectives on familiar titles. It addresses issues such as why audiences accept people bursting into song in… Read More »
The Ultimate Music Quiz Book: Over 500 Music Trivia Quiz Questions including Pop, Rock, Classical, Country, Hip Hop & More For rockers, queens of pop and toe tappers, the ultimate in music quizzes is here. This fun and informative book has a wide range of questions all about music. From collaborations to misheard lyrics, pop, jazz and classical.… Read More »
Legacies of Power in American Music PDF This volume honors and extends the contributions of educator and scholar Dr. Michael J. Budds to the field of musicology, particularly the study of American music. As the longtime editor of two book series for the College Music Society, Budds nurtured a wide range of scholarship in American music and had… Read More »
Paul Weller & Popular Music Identity, Idiolect & Image PDF Using research, analysis and a range of historical sources, Paul Weller and Popular Music immerses the reader in the excitement of Paul Weller’s unique creative journey, covering topics such as the artist’s position within his field; his creative processes; the contexts in which the music was made; the… Read More »
Popular Music & Parenting PDF Popular Music and Parenting explores the culture of popular music as a shared experience between parents, carers and young children. Offering a critical overview of this topic from a popular music studies perspective, this book expands our assumptions about how young audiences and caregivers engage with music together. Using both case studies and… Read More »
A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds EPUB PDF This book presents accounts of creative processes and contextual issues of current-day and early-twentieth century women composers. This collection of essays balances narratives of struggle, artistic prowess, and of “breaking through” the obstacles in the profession. Part I: Creative Work – Then and Now illuminates historical… Read More »
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century [Audiobook] A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to… Read More »
Flourishing in Music Education: Lessons from Positive Psychology (Routledge New Directions in Music Education Series) Flourishing in Music Education: Lessons from Positive Psychology presents research, theory, and best practices about potential pitfalls, as well as strategies for how successful music teachers can negotiate issues in the wake of the COVID-19 climate, both on a daily and long-term basis.… Read More »
Electronic Sound Issue 92 PDF Blimey. We like to think we’ve had some pretty striking covers over the years, but the photo of Röyksopp on the front of this month’s Electronic Sound really is something else. We have a weighty interview with the unorthodox Norwegian group inside the magazine, plus loads more to entertain you. Röyksopp’s massively popular… Read More »
Computer Music – October 2022 PDF CREATE A PRO SOUND DELAY TACTICS The best (and cheapest) plugins plus step-by-step delay workshop CM/interview CHICANE Nick Bracegirdle – aka Chicane – made his name in the ’90s with songs like Offshore, Sunstroke and Saltwater. After experimenting with all sorts of different genres, his new album returns to the sound that… Read More »
BEAT Magazine September 2022 Beat 09/22: 111 Producer Tips for better and more finished tracks How much content does a track need? Am I investing too little time? Am I too cerebral in my approach? Why can‘t my sound keep up with Spotify and Beatport? These are questions that everyone has asked themselves at some point. But now… Read More »
Asian Sound Cultures Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology PDF This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the historical processes of… Read More »