The hidden material histories of music. Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and
recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to …

“Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of
success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying …

In a country as diverse as the United Kingdom, it is no easy task to cover all forms of music-
making. Live music activity is highly varied even within specific genres or venue types. As a …

Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation is about the international diaspora of jazz, well
underway within a year of the first jazz recordings in 1917. This book studies the processes …

More than thirty years ago I stood on a London rooftop looking out over St Paul's Cathedral
and the City of London as the sun came up into a pale blue summer sky. I was not alone …

Digital Sampling is the first book about the design and use of sampling technologies that
have shaped the sounds of popular music since the 1980s. Written in two parts, Digital …

Can Music Make You Sick? Page 1 Can Music Make You Sick? A Study into the Incidence of
Musicians’ Mental Health Part 2: Qualitative Study and Recommendations Client: Help …

This Must Be The Place is the first architectural history of popular music performance space,
describing its beginnings, its different typologies, and its development into a distinctive …

To date, there has been a significant gap in work on the social history of music in Britain from
1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do …

From the BBC Proms to Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, initiatives to promote classical
music have been a pervasive feature of twentieth-century musical life. The goal of these …