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  • Writing for College and Beyond

    by James Rovira ...
    Writing for College and Beyond prepares students for their future college classes by covering the strategies common to most college writing. In the process of being prepared for college writing, however, students are also taught chapter by chapter how these writing skills will carry forward into their future professional lives beyond college. One of the least expensive first year writing textbooks ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • David Bowie and Romanticism

    Edited by James Rovira ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie’s music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists. These chapters expand our understanding of both the literature studied as well as Bowie’s music, exploring the boundaries of reason and imagination, and of identity, gender, and genre. This collection uses the conceptual apparata and historical ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Rock and Romanticism

    Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms

    Edited by James Rovira ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms explores the relationships among the musical genres of post-punk, goth, and metal and American and European Romanticisms traditionally understood. It argues that these contemporary forms of music are not only influenced by but are an expression of Romanticism continuous with their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century influences. ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism

    Edited by James Rovira ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men. The music and videos of contemporary musicians including Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, The Carters, Hélène Cixous, Missy Elliot, the Indigo Girls, Janet Jackson, Janis Joplin (and Big ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Reading as Democracy in Crisis

    Interpretation, Theory, History

    by James Rovira, Cassandra Falke, Meredith N. Sinclair, Aglaia Maretta Venters, Steve Wexler, Roger Whitson, Philip Goldstein, Darcie Rives-East ...
    Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. Chapters covering Plato and Derrida; G.W.F. Hegel; Karl Marx; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Robert Penn Warren; Louise Rosenblatt; Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida; Judith Butler; and Object Oriented Ontology and Digital ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Rock and Romanticism

    Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2

    by David Boocker, Lisa Plummer Crafton, Rachel Feder, David S. Hogsette, Nicole Lobdell, Ronald D. Morrison, Douglas T. Root, Lorenzo Sorbo, Gary L. Tandy, Janneke van der Leest, Luke Walker ...
    Series series For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
    Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present. This anthology allows Byron and Wollstonecraft to speak back to contemporary theories of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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    A Critical History of Industrial Music

    by S. Alexander Reed ...
    Noisy, confrontational, and controversial, industrial music first emerged in the mid-1970s around bands and performance groups that combined avant-garde electronic music with the provocative attitude and abrasive style of punk rock. In Assimilate, S. Alexander Reed provides the first ever critical history of this fascinating and enigmatic genre, charting its trajectory from Throbbing Gristle's ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Art of Nick Cave

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by John H. Baker ...
    Known for his work as a performer and songwriter with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Australian artist Nick Cave has also pursued a variety of other projects, including writing and acting. Covering the full range of Cave's creative endeavours, this collection of critical essays provides a comprehensive overview of his multifaceted career. The contributors, who hail from an array ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • David Bowie in Darkness

    A Study of 1. Outside and the Late Career

    by Nicholas P. Greco ...
    As an artist, David Bowie was widely considered a "chameleon," shedding one persona to create another and thus staying popular, relevant and compelling. In reality, Bowie was able to work with the resources around him to create something new, causing many to see him as a sort of lone artist rather than a collaborator in the creation of his own celebrity.Mid-career, Bowie began presenting himself ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Lyre of Orpheus

    Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane

    by Christopher Partridge ...
    The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of particular social and cultural significance. Christopher Partridge explores this significance, analyzing its complex relationships with the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Future Nostalgia

    Performing David Bowie

    by Professor of English Shelton Waldrep ...
    Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a "leper messiah," a more appropriate moniker might be "rock god": someone whose influence has crossed numerous sub-genres of popular and classical music and can at times seem ubiquitous. By looking at key moments in his career (1972, 1977-79, 1980-83, and 1995-97) through several lenses-theories of sub-culture, gender/sexuality studies, ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics

    by Benjamin Halligan ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    This volume offers a comprehensive range of approaches to the work of Mark E. Smith and his band The Fall in relation to music, art and politics. Mark E. Smith remains one of the most divisive and idiosyncratic figures in popular music after a recording career with The Fall that spans thirty years. Although The Fall were originally associated with the contemporaneous punk explosion, from the ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD