The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock

Author: Simon Frith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556606
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
This 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. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to Public Enemy, Nirvana to the Spice Girls. They trace the way new technologies - from the amplifier to the internet - have changed the sounds and practices of pop and they analyse the way maverick entrepreneurs have given way to multimedia corporations. In particular they focus on the controversial issues concerning race and ethnicity, politics, gender and globalisation. Contains full profiles of a selection of figures from the pop and rock world.

The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music

Author: Nicholas Cook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521865824
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
Featuring fascinating accounts from practitioners, this Companion examines how developments in recording have transformed musical culture.

The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles

Author: Kenneth Womack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828061
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection of essays tells the fascinating story of the Beatles – the creation of the band, their musical influences, and their cultural significance, with emphasis on their genesis and practices as musicians, songwriters, and recording artists. Through detailed biographical and album analyses, the book uncovers the background of each band member and provides expansive readings of the band's music. • Traces the group's creative output from their earliest recordings through their career • Pays particular attention to the social and historical factors which contributed to the creation of the band • Investigates the Beatles' unique enduring musical legacy and cultural power • Clearly organized into three sections, covering Background, Works, and History and Influence, the Companion is ideal for course usage, and is also a must-read for all Beatles fans

The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones

Author: Victor Coelho
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author: Nathan Waddell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108841090
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.

The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone

Author: Richard Ingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494052
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone, first published in 1999, tells the story of the saxophone, its history and technical development from Adolphe Sax (who invented it c. 1840) to the end of the twentieth century. It includes extensive accounts of the instrument's history in jazz, rock and classical music as well as providing practical performance guides. Discussion of the repertoire and soloists from 1850 to the present day includes accessible descriptions of contemporary techniques and trends, and moves into the electronic age with midi wind instruments. There is a discussion of the function of the saxophone in the orchestra, in 'light music' and in rock and pop studios, as well as of the saxophone quartet as an important chamber music medium. The contributors to this volume are some of the finest performers and experts on the saxophone.

Analyzing Popular Music

Author: Allan F. Moore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139435345
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
How do we know music? We perform it, we compose it, we sing it in the shower, we cook, sleep and dance to it. Eventually we think and write about it. This book represents the culmination of such shared processes. Each of these essays, written by leading writers on popular music, is analytical in some sense, but none of them treats analysis as an end in itself. The books presents a wide range of genres (rock, dance, TV soundtracks, country, pop, soul, easy listening, Turkish Arabesk) and deals with issues as broad as methodology, modernism, postmodernism, Marxism and communication. It aims to encourage listeners to think more seriously about the 'social' consequences of the music they spend time with and is the first collection of such essays to incorporate contextualisation in this way.

The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

Author: Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521886945
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
A lively set of new essays on Dylan's work as a writer and composer and on his place in American culture.

The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm

Author: Russell Hartenberger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492924
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 371

Book Description
An exploration of rhythm and the richness of musical time from the perspective of performers, composers, analysts, and listeners.

The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

Author: Robin Stowell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826549
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 672

Book Description
This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.