The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research

Zusatztext Over the last 40 years or so, rock scholarship has (like rock itself) diversified enormously, incorporating historiography, musicology, creativity studies, sociology, song analysis, production techniques, the music industry, and music pedagogy. Here, for the first time, researchers and music students can read contributions from some of the world’s finest writers in all of these fields, collected in a single volume. The book serves both as an introduction to rock music studies, and as a resource for current and future researchers. Informationen zum Autor Allan Moore is Professor of Popular Music and Head of the Department of Music and Sound Recording at the University of Surrey, UK. Paul Carr is Professor Emeritus in Popular Music Analysis at the University of South Wales, UK. His research interests focus on musicology, the music industry and pedagogical frameworks for music related education. His most recent publications include co-editing The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research (2020), an economic assessment of the Welsh Music Industry (2022) and editorship of a special double edition of the Journal of World Popular Music on the impacts of Covid-19 (2022). He is also an experienced performing musician, having toured and recorded with artists as diverse as The James Taylor Quartet and ex-Miles Davis saxophonist Bob Berg. Klappentext The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Researchis the first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. More than 50 years into its life and we still ask - what is rock music, why is it studied, and how does it work, both as music and as cultural activity? This volume draws together 37 of the leading academics working on rock to provide answers to these questions and many more. The text is divided into four major sections: practice of rock (analysis, performance, and recording); theories; business of rock; and social and culture issues. Each chapter combines two approaches, providing a summary of current knowledge of the area concerned as well as the consequences of that research and suggesting profitable subsequent directions to take. This text investigates and presents the field at a level of depth worthy of something which has had such a pervasive influence on the lives of millions. Zusammenfassung The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research is the first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. More than 50 years into its life and we still ask - what is rock music! why is it studied! and how does it work! both as music and as cultural activity? This volume draws together 37 of the leading academics working on rock to provide answers to these questions and many more. The text is divided into four major sections: practice of rock (analysis! performance! and recording); theories; business of rock; and social and culture issues. Each chapter combines two approaches! providing a summary of current knowledge of the area concerned as well as the consequences of that research and suggesting profitable subsequent directions to take. This text investigates and presents the field at a level of depth worthy of something which has had such a pervasive influence on the lives of millions. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Rock Music's Emergence, Censorship and Perceived Death (Paul Carr, University of South Wales, UK, and Allan Moore, University of Surrey, UK) PREFATORY 2. Rock Historiography: Music, Artists, Perspectives, and Value (John Covach, University of Rochester, USA) 3. Serious Writing About Rock (Sarah Hill, Cardiff University, UK) 4. The Definition of 'Rock' and Stylistic Overlaps (Taylor Myers, Rutgers University, USA, and Brad Osborn,University of Kansas, USA...

Product details

• Authors: Paul Carr, Allan Moore
• Assisted by: Paul Carr (Editor), Allan Moore (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781501330452
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-3045-2
• No. of pages: 656
• Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries