The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock
The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock

Author: Uwe Schütte

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1009041592

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This Companion is the first academic introduction to the 1960s/70s 'Krautrock' movement of German experimental music that has long attracted the attention of the music press and fans in Britain and abroad. It offers a structured approach to this exceptionally heterogeneous and decentralized movement, combining overviews with detailed analysis and close readings. The volume first analyzes the cultural, historical and economic contexts of Krautrock's emergence. It then features expert chapters discussing all the key bands of the era including Can, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Neu!, Faust, Ash Ra Tempel, Cluster and Amon Düül II. The volume concludes with essays that trace the varied, wide-ranging legacy of Krautrock from a variety of perspectives, exploring in particular the impact of German experimental music in the Anglosphere, including British post-punk and Detroit Techno. A final chapter examining the current bands that continue the Krautrock sound closes this comprehensive overview of the Krautrock phenomenon.

The Cambridge Companion to Tango
The Cambridge Companion to Tango

Author: Kristin Wendland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1108838472

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An innovative resource which shatters tango stereotypes to account for the genre's impact on arts, culture, and society around the world. Twenty chapters by North and South American, European, and Asian contributors, some publishing in English for the first time, collectively cover tango's history, culture, and performance practice.

The Cambridge Companion to Serialism
The Cambridge Companion to Serialism

Author: Martin Iddon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-02-16

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1108492525

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An authoritative guide to the multi-faceted compositional approach that underpinned twentieth-century art music from Schoenberg to Babbitt and beyond.

The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop
The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop

Author: Suk-Young Kim

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1108837050

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Probes the complexities of this vibrant global phenomenon, its infrastructure, idols, dance practices, and transnational community building.

The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach
The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach

Author: E. Douglas Bomberger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1108845843

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The first book in twenty-five years to survey the life and music of America's pioneering female composer of concert works.

The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music

Author: Jan-Peter Herbst

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-09-14

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1108997910

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Since its beginnings over fifty years ago, metal music has grown in popularity worldwide, not only as a musical culture but as a recognised field of study. This Companion, grounded in recent research, explores the various musical styles and cultures of metal, providing a reliable resource for students and researchers.

The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers
The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers

Author: Matthew Head

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-05-30

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 110880439X

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Moving beyond narratives of female suppression, and exploring the critical potential of a diverse, distinguished repertoire, this Companion transforms received understanding of women composers. Organised thematically, and ranging beyond elite, Western genres, it explores the work of diverse female composers from medieval to modern times, besides the familiar headline names. The book's prologue traces the development of scholarship on women composers over the past five decades and the category of 'woman composer' itself. The chapters that follow reveal scenes of flourishing creativity, technical innovation, and (often fleeting) recognition, challenging long-held notions around invisibility and neglect and dismissing clichés about women composers and their work. Leading scholars trace shifting ideas about composers and compositional processes, contributing to a wider understanding of how composers have functioned in history and making this volume essential reading for all students of musical history. In an epilogue, three contemporary composers reflect on their careers and identities.

The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute
The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute

Author: Jessica Waldoff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-11-02

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1108426891

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A comprehensive, up-to-date, resource providing an essential framework for understanding Mozart's most-performed opera and its extraordinary afterlife.

Perspectives on German Popular Music
Perspectives on German Popular Music

Author: Michael Ahlers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1317081722

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In this book, native popular musicologists focus on their own popular music cultures from Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the first time: from subcultural to mainstream phenomena; from the 1950s to contemporary acts. Starting with an introduction and two chapters on the histories of German popular music and its study, the volume then concentrates on focused, detailed and yet concise close readings from different perspectives (including particular historical East and West German perspectives), mostly focusing on the music and its protagonists. Moreover, these analyses deal with very original specific genres such as Schlager and Krautrock as well as transcultural genres such as Punk or Hip Hop. There are additional chapters on characteristically German developments within music media, journalism and the music industry. The book will contribute to a better understanding of German, Austrian and Swiss popular music, and will interconnect international and especially Anglo-American studies with German approaches. The book, as a consequence, will show close connections between global and local popular music cultures and diverse traditions of study.