Who are pop dandies? Why are stars like David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Doherty and
Robbie Williams so dandified? Taking up a wide range of British pop stars, Hawkins seeks …

This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting
the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms. The focus falls on artists, such as Lady …

How are national identities constructed and articulated through music? Popular music has
long been associated with political dissent, and the nation state has consistently …

Recording Analysis: How the Record Shapes the Song identifies and explains how the
sounds imparted by recording processes enhance the artistry and expression of recorded …

In the past two decades digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we think
about, make and use popular music. From the production of multimillion selling pop records …

Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction presents new insights into the study of
musical rhythm through investigations of the micro-rhythmic design of groove-based music …

Popular song is one of a handful of unsubsidised populist art forms (other examples being
mainstream cinema or video games) that could be described as truly marketdriven. The …

The music we hear is always inhabited by voices of previous performances. Because
listening is now so often accompanied by moving images, this process is more complex than …

This study investigates the correlations between theories of intense emotional experiences
and production techniques used in the electronic dance music (EDM) sections “build-up” …

What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so,
how might that creativity inform their practice and that of others in related artistic spheres …