In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional
musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that …

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 …

Understanding Popular Music is a comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of
popular music. It begins with a critical assessment of the different ways in which popular …

This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book, now co-
authored with Remy Martin, incorporates new material on rock music theory, style change …

Until recently, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the lone
genius. But the last decade has witnessed a sea change: musical creativity is now …

It's just after 7 am in Auckland, New Zealand. Media and journalism student Emily Johnson
wakes and thinks about the busy day ahead in college. Before she even gets out of bed, she …

There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips,
repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia-the first history of …

It was Tristan Palmer who originally commissioned this manuscript and who helped me draw
up a plan of campaign; I would like to thank both him and Anna Wright at Berg, who took …

Popular music has always been a dynamic mediator of gender and sexuality, and a
productive site of rebellion, oddity and queerness. The transformative capacity of music …

Dress practices have played an important role in queer cultures in Western societies; visual
codes have often been used to signify sexuality and sexual preference, whether covert or …