Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
About the Book Series
Popular musicology embraces the field of musicological study that engages with popular forms of music, especially music associated with commerce, entertainment and leisure activities. The Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series aims to present the best research in this field. Authors are concerned with criticism and analysis of the music itself, as well as locating musical practices, values and meanings in cultural context. The focus of the series is on popular music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a remit to encompass the entirety of the world’s popular music.
Critical and analytical tools employed in the study of popular music are being continually developed and refined in the twenty-first century. Perspectives on the transcultural and intercultural uses of popular music have enriched understanding of social context, reception and subject position. Popular genres as distinct as reggae, township, bhangra, and flamenco are features of a shrinking, transnational world. The series recognizes and addresses the emergence of mixed genres and new global fusions, and utilizes a wide range of theoretical models drawn from anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, media studies, semiotics, postcolonial studies, feminism, gender studies and queer studies.
Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Peddie
November 21, 2012
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human ...
Michael Jackson: Grasping the Spectacle
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher R. Smit
September 19, 2012
Throughout his 40-year career, Michael Jackson intrigued and captivated public imagination through musical ingenuity, sexual and racial spectacle, savvy publicity stunts, odd behaviours, and a seemingly apolitical (yet always political) offering of popular art. A consistent player on the public ...
Peter Gabriel, From Genesis to Growing Up
1st Edition
By Sarah Hill, Michael Drewett
July 10, 2012
Ever since Peter Gabriel fronted progressive rock band Genesis, from the late 1960s until the mid 1970s, journalists and academics alike have noted the importance of Gabriel's contribution to popular music. His influence became especially significant when he embarked on a solo career in the late ...
Bruce Springsteen, Cultural Studies, and the Runaway American Dream
1st Edition
By Jerry Zolten, Kenneth Womack
March 28, 2012
There is little question about the incredible power of Bruce Springsteen's work as a particularly transformative art, as a lyrical and musical fusion that never shies away from sifting through the rubble of human conflict. As Rolling Stone magazine's Parke Puterbaugh observes, Springsteen 'is a ...
Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song
1st Edition
By Allan F. Moore
March 28, 2012
The musicological study of popular music has developed, particularly over the past twenty years, into an established aspect of the discipline. The academic community is now well placed to discuss exactly what is going on in any example of popular music and the theoretical foundation for such ...
She's So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurie Stras
September 28, 2011
She's So Fine explores the music, reception and cultural significance of 1960s girl singers and girl groups in the US and the UK. Using approaches from the fields of musicology, women's studies, film and media studies, and cultural studies, this volume is the first interdisciplinary work to link ...
Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Peddie
August 28, 2011
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human ...
Popular Music and Human Rights: 2 volume set
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Peddie
August 17, 2011
Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular music's approach to human ...
The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and its Diaspora: Community and Conflict
1st Edition
By David Cooper
August 28, 2010
For at least two centuries, and arguably much longer, Ireland has exerted an important influence on the development of the traditional, popular and art musics of other regions, and in particular those of Britain and the United States. During the past decade or so, the traditional musics of the ...
Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics
1st Edition
By Benjamin Halligan, Michael Goddard
May 28, 2010
This volume offers a comprehensive range of approaches to the work of Mark E. Smith and his band The Fall in relation to music, art and politics. Mark E. Smith remains one of the most divisive and idiosyncratic figures in popular music after a recording career with The Fall that spans thirty years....
As Heard on TV: Popular Music in Advertising
1st Edition
By Bethany Klein
April 28, 2010
The use of popular music in advertising represents one of the most pervasive mergers of cultural and commercial objectives in the modern age. Steady public response to popular music in television commercials, ranging from the celebratory to the outraged, highlights both unresolved tensions around ...
Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet K. Halfyard, Paul Attinello, Vanessa Knights
February 28, 2010
The intense and continuing popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and depth of the academic critical response. This volume, the first devoted to the show's imaginative and widely varied use of music, sound, and silence,...