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Camp has been an inescapable part of popular culture for at least the last 150 years. Famously unrestrained and ever evolving, it has not only captured the cultural imagination, but also played an important role as a form of protest and resistance. Paul Baker takes us through camp's rebellious and revolutionary past with warmth, humour and sensitivity, starting with the court of Louis XIV and the dandies of the eighteenth century through to Showgirls, Harlem's drag balls and Columbian telenovelas.

In more than 40 stories from the glory days of rock’n’roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash, Allan Jones remembers a world that once was – one of dark excess and excitement, outrageous deeds and extraordinary talent, featuring legends at both the beginnings and ends of their careers.

Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest ancestors to today’s mass-produced songs. This is a truly global story. Looking to Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and beyond, Philip reveals how musicians have been brought together by trade and migration and examines the vast impact of colonialism.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time—intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more. The...

Rock & Roll Nightmares, Volume 1 scratched the sinister surface with tales of the 27 Club, rock ‘n’ roll suicides, plane crashes, curses, and more. Now the award-winning series continues with concert mayhem, a look at the “baby groupie” trend of the 1970s, Satanic panic, horrific home invasions, musicians who’ve died on stage, rockers who lived on borrowed time, gun-toting music producers, deadly DJs, and much more.

Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz’s post-war styles. Rich with the voices of musicians, producers, promoters, and others on the scene during the decades following World War II, this book views jazz’s evolution through the prism of technological advances, social transformations, changes in the law, economic trends, and much more.

Rock stars who "went disco" crossed a musical rubicon and forever smashed cultural conformity. The ongoing dance-rock phenomenon demonstrates the impact of this unique place and time. The disco crossover forever changed rock.

Jens Balzer, einer der profiliertesten deutschen Kulturjournalisten, zeichnet ein farbiges Panorama der Siebziger, von der Mondlandung und Woodstock über die Ölkrise und den Deutschen Herbst bis hin zum Nihilismus des Punk. Ein Jahrzehnt, in dem sich so ziemlich alles ändert: Die Hippies erproben unerhörte Lebensweisen, die antiautoritäre Erziehung und die Emanzipationsbewegung ordnen die Familien- und Geschlechterverhältnisse neu, weltumspannender Idealismus trifft auf apokalyptische Weltuntergangsängste, und spätestens als Hacker den ersten "Personal Computer" bauen, wird deutlich: Genau hier beginnt unsere Gegenwart.

Seis músicos imprescindibles para comprender la compleja evolución de la historia del rock -Bowie, Cohen, Mercury, Cash, Harrison y Zevon-, en la medida que sus influyentes obras evidencian extraordinarias cualidades artísticas, tan originales como contrapuestas.

Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever been told from the perspectives of the women who were integral to Factory's cultural significance. Told entirely in their voices, I Thought I Heard You Speak is an oral history that reveals the true cultural reach of the label and its staying power in the twenty-first century.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of techno music from its inception in the 1980s to the present day. It discussed the various styles and genres that have emerged within techno, and the key artists and tracks that have helped shape the genre. The book also includes details about some of techno's most prominent producers and DJs, offering listeners insight into their creative process and the inspiration behind their music.

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen’s career—now with a new afterword Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) “Brilliant . . . For fans of American music...

Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for best biography The mysterious true story of Connie Converse—a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition—and one writer’s quest to understand her life This is the mesmerizing story of...

Was ist noch Musik und was bloß ein Geräusch? Musikwissenschaftlerin Prof. Dr. Melanie Unseld erklärt anschaulich, was eine Oper von Kammermusik unterscheidet und zeigt, wie sich unsere Musikkultur entwickelt hat. Spannende Interviews im Anschluss an jede Lektion mit renommierten Musik-Akteuren geben zudem exklusive Einblicke hinter die Kulissen. Warum klingen dieselben Stücke immer wieder anders? Lernen Sie wie Interpreten arbeiten und wie die Töne in der neuen Musik anders gedacht werden.

Die Radio-Legende und Stimme des ESC: Seit Jahrzehnten prägt Peter Urban die deutsche Radiolandschaft - als legendär trockener Kommentator des Eurovision Song Contests, als Moderator verschiedener Musiksendungen, inzwischen auch als Podcaster. Offen und unprätentiös beobachtet er seit fast 50 Jahren als Popexperte die nationale und internationale Musikszene und hat in seiner langen Laufbahn unzählige Popgrößen getroffen, interviewt und porträtiert - von Keith Richards über Yoko Ono zu David Bowie, Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Harry Belafonte und Eric Clapton.

The 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. Bob Beatty dives deep into the motivations of band founder Duane Allman to tell the story of what made this album one of the most important live rock albums in history.

José Agustín capturó en sus letras la voz de una época marcada por el rock, la psicodelia y el relajo, pero además de un excelente narrador es también un melómano incansable que durante años compartió con sus lectores diversas anécdotas, ensayos y reseñas musicales que hoy se recuperan en este volumen. Del blues del Misisipi a las tornamesas de Tijuana, de la melancolía de José Alfredo al cine de Orson Welles, de las caderas de Elvis a la poesía de Bob Dylan, José Agustín explora con su desparpajo y jovialidad característicos los derroteros de la música, las letras y el cine.

Kerrang! has an unparalleled reputation as one of the world's best-loved rock-focused publications. It continues to be at the forefront of alternative music, flying the flag for metal, hardcore, punk and beyond, introducing millions to their new favourite bands. Anyone who's anyone in the metal scene has featured Kerrang!'s hallowed pages and this unique book chronicles these appearances. If it happened in metal, Kerrang! covered it, as confirmed in this year-by-year survey of alternative music.

When blues master Robert Johnson's recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. Biography of a Phantom is musicologist Mack McCormick's search, from the late 1960s until McCormick's death in 2015, to uncover Johnson's life story. McCormick spent decades reconstructing Johnson's mysterious life and developing theories about his untimely death at the age of 27, but never made public his discoveries. Biography of a Phantom publishes his compelling work for the first time.

Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly series, were fondly remembered but not considered much more culturally significant than commercial jingles. Yet noted composers like John Williams, Henry Mancini, and Jerry Goldsmith learned and/or honed their craft in television before going on to major success in feature films.