Musik

PUNK ROCK PICTURES ON MY WALL captures the vibrant and rebellious essence of the punk rock scene through vivid artwork and personal anecdotes. This book is a testament to the creativity and spirit of punk culture.

LISTEN UP PUNK! is a vivid exploration of the punk scene through the eyes of MAL-ONE. It captures the raw spirit, energy, and influence of punk music and culture, revealing personal stories and insights that resonate with fans and newcomers alike.

Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance, in ethnography, and in institutional and disciplinary settings.

Recording technologies shaped the sound and meaning of 20th-century folk music in Britain, constructing a sonic aesthetics of authenticity in an era of rapid technological and social transformation.The folk revival that changed the sound of 20th century British popular music was sustained by a varied and innovative recording culture. For many listeners, the sound of folk on record presented a 'real' sound in an age of studio artifice, asserting the value of face-to-face performance over technologically mediated consumption. At the same time, the folk movement benefitted from rapid advances in recording and media technology, encompassing a range of sonic practices including radio documentary, commercial studio production and field recording. Within the revival as a cultural movement, recordings and the act of recording itself reflected and shaped the meaning of the music for musicians and their audiences as they developed new aesthetic practices and explored the expressive potential of recorded sound.Sound Recording in Post-War British Folk traces how folk's recording culture was shaped by beliefs about music, technology and society, becoming a key site for the articulation of aesthetic, cultural and political values. Ord brings together theoretical approaches from musicology, social semiotics and science and technology studies and draws upon interviews with musicians and producers to explore the place of recording in 20th-century folk and popular music and raise larger questions about the relationship between music, recording technologies and cultural-political movements.

This is the definitive chronicle of Ministry's 1988 industrial rock release, The Land of Rape and Honey, that details the zeitgeist where post-punk, metal, funk and straight-up noise converge. Ministry mainstay Al Jourgensen got a taste of bitter record-biz backwash early on with his first major label bow for Arista (1983's With Sympathy), and then vowed never to drink from that cup again. His pursuit of artistic freedom culminated in Ministry's 1988 release, the record that left an entry wound on the world's assorted underground scenes while helping to foment the industrial rock revolution that inspired a countless number of bands across all sonic frontiers.Featuring interviews with Al Jourgensen, Paul Barker, Chris Connelly, Jello Biafra, Adrian Sherwood, deadmau5, Fear Factory, and many more famous fans and pundits, this deeply sourced book traces back the climate surrounding Ministry's first two full length releases before examining the vision, methods, and controversies that helped ascend The Land of Rape and Honey to its rightful legend status. The Land of Rape and Honey may be the one common album members of Nine Inch Nails, AFI, and ZZ Top have in their collections, be it phonograph or phone. And the story behind it remains fascinating.

This book examines the entirety of The Cure's quixotic catalogue, from the surly departures of Three Imaginary Boys (1979) to the triumphant return of Songs Of S Lost World (2024) and all days in between. For every mood, there's a Cure song to match, and you'll find it here.

Inspired by bands like The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith became master arbiters of 'blooze rock', in the process inspired legions of bands in their wake. This is the story of every officially released Aerosmith song, interwoven with biographical information and key chapters in their career, showing, that Aerosmith are one of the most important American rock bands ever.

A biography of the legendary American rapper Tupac Shakur, his personal politics and position as a symbol for revolution

An illuminating account of Ismaili music, spiritual poetry and social change in Badakhshan.

A collection of letters written through the ages from musicians of all genres, from Mozart to Freddie Mercury.

The Music Performers' Lived Experiences seeks to widen this research area through close investigations of a variety of rich, and nuanced experiences classical music performers have qua performers, as they interact with musical scores and wider artistic and cultural discourses, norms and beliefs.

Pierre Boulez's career as composer, conductor, recording artist, writer, teacher and systems builder was both influential and controversial. This book explores his early life, education, engagements with his modernist predecessors and contemporaries, and the importance for him of literature, visual art, mathematics, philosophy and technology.

THE LOUDER THAN WAR #1 BOOK OF THE YEARA ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, MOJO, UNCUT, THE HERALD BOOK OF THE YEARThis is not a book about a rock band. This is not even a book about Mark E Smith. This is a book about The Fall group - or more precisely, their world. 'To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations.'DAVID PEACE'Mind blowing . . . there is so much to enjoy in this brilliant book.'TIM BURGESS'A container sized treasure trove . . . I strongly advise you to buy it.'MAXINE PEAKE'The most wonderful, unashamedly intellectual, pretentious, ridiculous, exciting hymn to this incredible group.'ANDY MILLER, BACKLISTEDOver a prolific forty-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original - and defied simple categorisation.Their frontman and lyricist Mark E. Smith spun opaque tales that resisted conventional understanding; the Fall's worldview was an education in its own right. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M. R. James, shipping-dock procedures, contemporary dance, Manchester City and Can? The group inspired and shaped the lives of those who listened to and tried to make sense of their work.Bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans, EXCAVATE! is a vivid, definitive record - an illumination of the dark corners of the Fall's wonderful and frightening world.

A stunning book profiling the 100 most exclusive, rare and seminal guitars ever made, with beautiful, exclusive photography.

An invaluable history of spiritual singing groups and how their tours helped build historically Black colleges and universities in the South