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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nabeel zuberi”
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  • Off the Planet

    Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema

    by Rebecca Leydon, Shuhei Hosokawa, Nabeel Zuberi, Neil Lerner, Rebecca Coyle, Paul Théberge, Michael Hannan, Melissa Carey, Karen Collins, Mark Evans ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    Essays on the use of music and sound in films from Godzilla to Star Wars and beyond.In recent years, music and sound have been increasingly recognized as an important, if often neglected, aspect of film production and film studies. Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating, and diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound, and science fiction cinema.Following a detailed historical ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Synth-Pop and Its Repercussions

    Edited by Geoff Stahl, Dr. Nabeel Zuberi, Professor Holly Kruse ...
    This collection explores synth-pop's sounds and its hooks, new technologies and production techniques, its media and imagery, its ideologies and discourses about art and culture, society and politics.Synth-pop is a loose rubric that includes DIY electronic music, post-punk and sounds shot through with the tropes of futurism and dystopia during the Cold War and early neoliberalism that Mark Fisher ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945

    by Jon Stratton, Nabeel Zuberi ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945 provides the first broad scholarly discussion of this music since 1990. The book critically examines key moments in the history of black British popular music from 1940s jazz to 1970s soul and reggae, 1990s Jungle and the sounds of Dubstep and Grime that have echoed through the 2000s. While the book offers a history it also discusses the ways black musics ... Read more

    $104.99 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

  • Rush and Philosophy

    Heart and Mind United

    by Jim Berti, Durrell Bowman ...
    Series Book 57 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The progressive/hard rock band Rush has never been as popular as it is now. A documentary film about the band, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, which was released in the summer of 2010 has been universally well received. They had a cameo in the movie I Love You Man. Their seven-part song 2112” was included in a version of Guitar Hero” released in 2010. The group even appeared on The Colbert Report ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Electronic Music

    by Nick Collins, Margaret Schedel, Scott Wilson ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Music
    This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental manifestations of electronic music. From early recording equipment to the most recent multimedia performances, the history of electronic music is full of interesting characters, fascinating and unusual music, and radical technology. Covering many different eras, genres and media, analyses of works appear alongside critical ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Rocking the Classics

    English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture

    by Edward Macan ...
    Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock, a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows, its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction, mythology, and fantasy literature, and above all for its attempts to combine classical music's sense of space and monumental scope with rock's raw power and energy. Its dazzling ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Running with the Devil

    Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music

    by Robert Walser ...
    "A solid, scholarly analysis of the power, meaning, musical structure, and sociopolitical contexts of the most popular examples of heavy metal." — Library JournalDismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kraftwerk

    from Dusseldorf to the Future With Love

    by Tim Barr ...
    The future of modern music began in Dusseldorf in 1970, when an avant-garde German band, the Organisation re-invented themselves as Kraftwerk and set in motion a train of events which introduced a whole new language into popular culture. By pre-dating electro, house, ambient and techno by more than two decades, they are quite simply the most influentual band of the late 20th century. Having ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Are We Not New Wave?

    Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s

    by Theodore Cateforis ...
    Series series Tracking Pop
    “Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music.”—Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out PopNew wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cast in the image of punk rock’s sneering demeanor, yet rendered more accessible and sophisticated. Artists such as the Cars, Devo, the Talking Heads, and the Human League leapt into the Top 40 with a novel ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Death Metal and Music Criticism

    Analysis at the Limits

    by Michelle Phillipov ...
    Death metal is one of popular music's most extreme variants, and is typically viewed as almost monolithically nihilistic, misogynistic, and reactionary. Michelle Phillipov's Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits offers an account of listening pleasure on its own terms. Through an analysis of death metal's sonic and lyrical extremity, Phillipov shows how violence and aggression ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Global Metal Music and Culture

    Current Directions in Metal Studies

    Edited by Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris, Niall Scott, Andy Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Popular Music
    This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology, ... Read more

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