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 …

Description: New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.| Includes bibliographical
references and index.| Summary:“Music videos promote popular artists in cultural forms that …

This chapter shows how the tools of contemporary music theory can provide a context for
sound qualities particularly common in film music since the early 1980s. It considers pairs of …

ABSTRACT In May 2015 radio consultant Keith Hill revealed that country radio programmers
have strict rules on how many female artists can be included in airplay rotation. Referring to …

This article examines the contested issue of defining the genre of bluegrass music.
Interpreting this debate as a subjective negotiation and renegotiation of a category, it …

The Dixie Chicks have claimed a prominent place in country music video while at the same
time confronting the normative values of the traditional country music genre. Their 2003 …

Issues related to gender equality have been at the fore of public and scholarly discourse
surrounding the popular music industry for at least the last five years. A number of critical …

Introduction: situating country msuic studies/Travis D. Stimeling--Country music studies and
folklore/Erika Brady--The" southerness" of country music/Patrick Huber--The Country Music …

Recent years have witnessed numerous instances of celebrities caught up in nationalist
arguments within East Asia's highly sensitive media environment. In this chapter I consider …

This study examines the forms and understanding of resistance in the Syrian uprising by
analyzing the popular songs of Ibrahim Qashoush—songs that he performed at the advent of …