The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research (Bloomsbury Handbooks)

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. Bloomsbury Music and Sound - The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Figures Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Tables Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Contributors Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Acknowledgments Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Introduction_ Rock Music’s Emergence, Censorship, and Perceived Death Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Rock Historiography_ Music, Artists, Perspectives, and Value Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Serious Writing about Rock Bloomsbury Music and Sound - The Definition of “Rock” and Stylistic Overlaps Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Rock Voice Bloomsbury Music and Sound - “The Rock Instrumentarium” Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Analyzing and Interpreting Song Forms Bloomsbury Music and Sound-Convention and Invention in Harmonic and Melodic Theories for Rock Mus Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Rhythmic and Metric Theorization in Rock Music Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Computational Musicology in Rock Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Function and Construction of Rock Lyrics Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Rock Music Engineering and Production Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Sonic Space and Texture in Rock Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Authenticity, Creativity, Originality Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Categorization_ Genre, Style, Idiolect, and Beyond Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Personas in Rock_ “We Will, We Will Rock You” Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Rock Hermeneutics Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Narrativity and Rock Music Bloomsbury Music and Sound-Sliding Scales and Slippery Slopes_ Representations of Autonomy and Me Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Studio Practice and Organization in Rock Music Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Rock Music Pedagogy in the UK and USA_ Ignorance or Elitism_ Bloomsbury Music and Sound - The Rock Press Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Rock and Time-Based Visual Media Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Rock in Time-Based Events Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Rock Live Performance Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Marketing and Commodification of Rock Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Rock, Popular Culture, and Power_ Politics and Policy Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Understanding Gender and Sexuality in Rock Music Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Race and Racialism in Rock Bloomsbury Music and Sound - In the World_ Beyond the English-Speaking West Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Global Rock as Postcolonial Soundtrack Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Rock Music and Place Bloomsbury Music and Sound - Fans and Consumption "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock 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"-- Provided by publisher