Matthew Worley 
No Future [EPUB ebook] 
Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984

The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture. This is the first book to examine the concept of attention in …

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 …

By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates how music reflects and deepens both individual and cultural understandings. Mu …

Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of compositi …

Made in Italy serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Italian popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Italian …

First Published in 1995. Il primo libro delle musiche (Venice, 1618) …

The musical tradition of Ma”luf is believed to have come to North Africa with Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping the Christian reconquista of Spain between the tenth and seventeenth centuries. Alth …

Eroticism in Early Modern Music contributes to a small but significant literature on music, sexuality, and sex in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Its chapters have grown from a long dialog …

As Robert Schumann put it, ”Only few works are as clearly stamped with their author”s imprint as his”. This book explores Schubert”s stylistic traits in a series of chapters each discussing an in …

The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse relationships between opera and First Nations and Indigenous cultures, ho …