Popular music on screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary developments in music television and video. Through detailed examination of films, television programmes and popular music, together with analysis of the economic, technological and cultural determinants which impact upon their production and consumption, the book argues that popular music has been increasingly influenced by its visual economy. Through engaging with the debates which surround postmodernism, the book suggests that what most...
Popular music on screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary deve...
Second edition of a book which caused huge controversy in its first printing - now completely revised and updated. Argues that research into the cultural history of music can significantly help our understanding of the evolution of English national identity. Only book of its kind to cover such a revolutionary period in British music. Looks at how music reflected the privileged elite, ignoring the vast majority of 'music lovers', and was crucial in the construction of a British national identity. The second edition features a new and expanded introduction, a new chapter on Mendelssohn's Elijah...
Second edition of a book which caused huge controversy in its first printing - now completely revised and updated. Argues that research into the cultu...
In this important new book, Peter J. Martin explores the interface between musicological and sociological approaches to the analysis of music, and in doing so reveals the differing foundations of cultural studies and sociological perspectives more generally. Building on the arguments of his earlier book "Sounds and Society," Dr Martin initially contrasts text-based attempts to develop a 'social' analysis of music with sociological studies of musical activities in real cultural and institutional contexts. It is argued that the difficulties encountered by some of the 'new' musicologists in...
In this important new book, Peter J. Martin explores the interface between musicological and sociological approaches to the analysis of music, and in ...
In this important new book, Peter J. Martin explores the interface between musicological and sociological approaches to the analysis of music, and in doing so reveals the differing foundations of cultural studies and sociological perspectives more generally. Building on the arguments of his earlier book Sounds and society, Dr Martin initially contrasts text-based attempts to develop a 'social' analysis of music with sociological studies of musical activities in real cultural and institutional contexts. It is argued that the difficulties encountered by some of the 'new' musicologists in their...
In this important new book, Peter J. Martin explores the interface between musicological and sociological approaches to the analysis of music, and in ...
Nineteenth-century England was dismissed by foreign commentators as "the land without music." Focusing on popular music in the urban and industrial areas of England between 1840 and 1914, Dave Russell shows how untrue this was. Britain was an extraordinarily musical place during the Victorian and Edwardian periods, with homes, streets, public houses, and public parks serving as musical centres to almost the same extent as concert and music halls. In the metropolis, orchestras were formed and music halls attracted crowds, but musical talent was also nurtured energetically in the industrial...
Nineteenth-century England was dismissed by foreign commentators as "the land without music." Focusing on popular music in the urban and industrial ar...
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture. -- .
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who...
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture. -- .
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who...
