Routledge Research in Music
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering music performance, theory, and culture alongside topics such as gender, race, ecology, film, religion, politics, and science, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Music Video After MTV: Audiovisual Studies, New Media, and Popular Music
1st Edition
By Mathias Korsgaard
February 07, 2019
Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos. However, in academia, music videos do not currently share this popularity. Music Video After MTV gives music video its due academic credit by exploring the changing ...
Music, Time, and Its Other: Aesthetic Reflections on Finitude, Temporality, and Alterity
1st Edition
By Roger Savage
February 07, 2019
Music, Time, and Its Other explores the relation between the enigmatic character of our temporal experiences and music’s affective power. By taking account of competing concepts of time, Savage explains how music refigures dimensions of our experiences through staking out the borderlines between ...
Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Baker
February 07, 2019
There is a growing awareness around the world of the pressing need to archive the material remnants of popular music so as to safeguard the national and local histories of this cultural form. Current research suggests that in the past 20 or so years there has been an expansion of DIY heritage ...
Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature
1st Edition
Edited
By Aaron S. Allen, Kevin Dawe
June 30, 2017
AWARD WINNER OF THE 2018 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE This volume is the first sustained examination of the complex perspectives that comprise ecomusicology—the study of the intersections of music/sound, culture/society, and nature/environment. Twenty-two authors provide a range of...
Liveness in Modern Music: Musicians, Technology, and the Perception of Performance
1st Edition
By Paul Sanden
May 24, 2017
This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and technological terrain is one of the more complex and timely challenges facing scholars of current music, where liveness is typically understood to represent...
Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities: Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Utz, Frederick Lau
May 24, 2017
Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the ...
Masculinity in Opera
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Purvis
February 07, 2017
This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and epistemology has pervaded cultural and sociological studies since the late 1980s, and masculinity has...
Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film: Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction
1st Edition
By Ben Winters
December 20, 2016
This book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how concert performance reflexively ...
Bodily Expression in Electronic Music: Perspectives on Reclaiming Performativity
1st Edition
Edited
By Deniz Peters, Gerhard Eckel, Andreas Dorschel
November 08, 2013
In this book, scholars and artists explore the relation between electronic music and bodily expression from perspectives including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, dance and interactive performance arts, sociology, computer music and sonic arts, and music theory, transgressing ...
Music, Science, and the Rhythmic Brain: Cultural and Clinical Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Berger, Gabe Turow
July 08, 2013
This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, music therapy, and human health. It presents aspects of musical rhythm and ...