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The traditional approach to the study of Goethe and Schubert is to place them in opposition to one another, both in terms of their life experiences and in relation to the nineteenth-century Lied. In …

When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain”s most prolific female composers. Her creative output spanned some seventy years and includes symphonies, tone poems, concertos, string …

In France during the 1960s and 1970s, popular music became a key component of socio-cultural modernisation as the music/record industry became increasingly important in both economic and cultural ter …

Why does poetry appeal to music? Can music be said to communicate, as language does? What, between music and poetry, is it possible to translate? These fundamental questions have remained obstinately …

This title was first published in 2003. This work considers the post-war folk revival in Britain from a popular music studies perspective. Michael Brocken provides a historical narrative of the folk …

Over the first four decades of the Reformation, hundreds of songs written in popular styles and set to well-known tunes appeared across the German territories. These polemical songs included satires …

This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi’s attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdi’s professional and personal relationship with …

Few American superstar stories are richer, wilder, or more excessive than Rick James”s. He played in a band with Neil Young, spent years in jail, produced his first album (which was then picked up b …

HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism explores a fast-growing and transnational movement of street bands—particularly brass and percussion ensembles—and examines how this exciting phe …

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of DIY (‘do- it- yourself’) music venues and events in the United States, such as warehouses …