{"title":"Routledge Music Handbooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the world of music scholarship with Routledge Music Handbooks. From performance practice to music theory, explore comprehensive resources for students and researchers alike. Your essential guide to musical understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-women-s-work-in-music-book-rhiannon-mathias-9781032162041","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Women's Work in Music","description":"The Routledge Handbook of Womens Work in Music presents a unique collection of core research, engaging with wide range of topics on womens contributions (both historical and present-day) to Western and Eastern art music, popular music, world music, music education, ethnomusicology, music technology as well as in the music industries.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50698758193425,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50698760126737,"sku":"NGR9781032162041","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/103216204X.jpg?v=1751268770"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-popular-music-and-politics-of-the-balkans-book-catherine-baker-9781032357157","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans","description":"The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region.  The vibrant growth of this subject area since the 1990s has been intertwined with the region’s political and socio-economic transformations, including the collapse of state socialism in much of the region, the break-up of Yugoslavia, the advent of neoliberal capitalism, the rise of Romani activism, the complex politics of ‘Europeanization’ before and after the global financial crisis, and the region’s relationship to the European Union border regime. The handbook illustrates the wide range of disciplines and methods that contribute to this field’s interdisciplinary dialogue and highlights emerging approaches such as the study of Black diasporas in the region, popular music’s links with LGBTQ+ communities, and the impact of digital technologies on musical cultures.  This volume will benefit specialist researchers, tutors creating or refreshing courses on popular music in the region, and students interested in these topics, especially those who are at the point of developing their own independent research projects.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50699009818897,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50699010572561,"sku":"NGR9781032357157","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52486392807697,"sku":"NLS9781032357157","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53080728633617,"sku":"NIN9781032357157","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032357150.jpg?v=1751367120"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-to-sociology-of-music-education-book-ruth-wright-9780367704162","title":"The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education","description":"The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education is a comprehensive, authoritative and state-of-the-art review of current research in the field. The opening introduction orients the reader to the field, highlights recent developments, and draws together concepts and research methods to be covered. The chapters that follow are written by respected, experienced experts on key issues in their area of specialisation. From separate beginnings in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom in the mid-twentieth century, the field of the sociology of music education has and continues to experience rapid and global development. It could be argued that this Handbook marks its coming of age. The Handbook is dedicated to the exclusive and explicit application of sociological constructs and theories to issues such as globalisation, immigration, post-colonialism, inter-generational musicking, socialisation, inclusion, exclusion, hegemony, symbolic violence, and popular culture. Contexts range from formal compulsory schooling to non-formal communal environments to informal music making and listening. The Handbook is aimed at graduate students, researchers and professionals, but will also be a useful text for undergraduate students in music, education, and cultural studies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51001659719953,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001662603537,"sku":"NIN9780367704162","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52531823870225,"sku":"NLS9780367704162","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0367704161.jpg?v=1751228417"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-to-music-under-german-occupation-1938-1945-book-david-fanning-9781032082653","title":"The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945","description":"Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II. Almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under direct German control or were subject to severe scrutiny and censorship, the prime objective being to change the musical fabric of these nations and force them to submit to the strictures of Nazi ideology.     This pioneering collection of essays is the first in the English language to look in more detail at the musical consequences of German occupation during a dark period in European history. It embraces a wide range of issues, presenting case studies involving musical activity in a number of occupied European cities, as well as in countries that were part of the Axis or had established close diplomatic relations with Germany. The wartime careers and creative outputs of individual musicians who were faced with the dilemma of either complying with or resisting the impositions of the occupiers are explored. In addition, there is some reflection on the post-war implications of German occupation for the musical environment in Europe.     Music under German Occupation is written for all music-lovers, students, professionals and academics who have particular interests in 20th-century music and\/or the vicissitudes of European cultural life during World War II.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51017455075601,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51017457172753,"sku":"NIN9781032082653","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52454343541009,"sku":"NLS9781032082653","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032082658.jpg?v=1750950841"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-to-spanish-film-music-book-laura-miranda-9781032006345","title":"The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music","description":"The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music provides a significant contribution to the research and history of Spanish film music, exploring the interdependence and ways in which discourses of sound and vision are constructed dialogically in Spanish cinema, with contributions from leading international researchers from Spain, the USA, the UK, France and Germany.  Offering a multifocal and multidisciplinary study between related areas such as music studies, film studies and Spanish cultural studies, this book is divided into four sections, covering the early years of Spanish cinema; the 1940s and 1950s in Spanish cinema—the first decades of the Franco dictatorship; the importance of Fraga Iribarne’s slogan, “Spain is different,” to promote Spain’s new openness to the world in the 1960s and 1970s; and Spanish cinema since the arrival of democracy in 1978, including discussion of contemporary Spanish cinema.  The growing interest in Spanish cinema calls for the publication of studies about the role of music in its political and socio-cultural framework. This is therefore a valuable text for music and film scholars and professionals, university undergraduates and music conservatory students.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51017665184017,"sku":"NIN9781032006345","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52583758201105,"sku":"NLS9781032006345","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/103200634X.jpg?v=1751268495"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-pink-floyd-book-chris-hart-9781032335438","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd","description":"The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of one of the world’s most important and successful bands. For the first time, this Handbook will ‘tear down the wall,’ examining the band’s collective artistic creations and the influence of social, technological, commercial and political environments over several decades on their work. Divided into five parts, the book provides a thoroughly contextualised overview of the musical works of Pink Floyd, including coverage of performance and sound; media, reception and fandom; genre; periods of Pink Floyd’s work; and aesthetics and subjectivity. Drawing on art, design, performance, culture and counterculture, emergent theoretical resources and analytical frames are evaluated and discussed from across the social sciences, humanities and creative arts. The Handbook is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals. It will appeal across a range of related subjects from music production to cultural studies and media\/communication studies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51017983721745,"sku":"NIN9781032335438","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51215777104145,"sku":"NGR9781032335438","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52595847528721,"sku":"NLS9781032335438","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032335432.jpg?v=1751399852"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-music-signification-book-esti-sheinberg-9780815376453","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification","description":"The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international experts that reflect current interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject.  Examinations of music signification have been an essential component in thinking about music for millennia, but it is only in the last few decades that music signification has been established as an independent area of study. During this time, the field has grown exponentially, incorporating a vast array of methodologies that seek to ground how music means and to explore what it may mean. Research in music signification typically embraces concepts and practices imported from semiotics, literary criticism, linguistics, the visual arts, philosophy, sociology, history, and psychology, among others. By bringing together such approaches in transparent groupings that reflect the various contexts in which music is created and experienced, and by encouraging critical dialogues, this volume provides an authoritative survey of the discipline and a significant advance in inquiries into music signification.   This book addresses a wide array of readers, from scholars who specialize in this and related areas, to the general reader who is curious to learn more about the ways in which music makes sense.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51219150733585,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51219151814929,"sku":"NIN9780815376453","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52522315579665,"sku":"NLS9780815376453","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0815376456.jpg?v=1751139311"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-pink-floyd-book-chris-hart-9780367338275","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd","description":"The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of one of the world’s most important and successful bands. For the first time, this Handbook will ‘tear down the wall,’ examining the band’s collective artistic creations and the influence of social, technological, commercial and political environments over several decades on their work. Divided into five parts, the book provides a thoroughly contextualised overview of the musical works of Pink Floyd, including coverage of performance and sound; media, reception and fandom; genre; periods of Pink Floyd’s work; and aesthetics and subjectivity. Drawing on art, design, performance, culture and counterculture, emergent theoretical resources and analytical frames are evaluated and discussed from across the social sciences, humanities and creative arts. The Handbook is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals. It will appeal across a range of related subjects from music production to cultural studies and media\/communication studies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51295512789265,"sku":"NIN9780367338275","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52485269586193,"sku":"NLS9780367338275","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0367338270.jpg?v=1750813544"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-music-and-migration-book-wolfgang-gratzer-9781032313726","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration","description":"The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies is a progressive, transdisciplinary paradigm-shifting core text for music and migration studies. Conceptualized as a comprehensive methodological and theoretical guide, it foregrounds the mobile potentials of music and presents key arguments about why musical expressions matter in the discussion of migration politics.  24 international specialists in music and migration set methodological and theoretical standards for transdisciplinary collaborations in the field of migration studies, discussing 41 keywords, such as mobility, community, research ethics, human rights, and critical whiteness in the context of music and migration. The authors then apply these terms to 16 chapters, which deal with ethnomusicological, musicological, sociological, anthropological, geographical, pedagogical, political, economic, and media-related methodologies and theories which reflect and contest current discourses of migration. In their interdisciplinary focus, these chapters advance interrelations between music and migration as enabling factors for socio-cultural studies. Furthermore, the authors tackle crucial questions of agency, equality, and equity as well as the responsibilities and expectations of writers and artists when researching migration phenomena as innate human experience. As a result, this handbook provides scholars and students alike with relevant and applicable methodological and theoretical tools in addition to an extensive literature and research review for further research.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51302996508945,"sku":"NIN9781032313726","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52451028238609,"sku":"NLS9781032313726","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032313722.jpg?v=1750951216"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-to-metal-music-composition-book-lori-burns-9781032407203","title":"The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition","description":"The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production examines metal music composition as a distinct practice that combines a complex array of formal musical, expressive, and technological elements. Reaching beyond the limitations of applying common-practice theories of tonality to metal, this volume brings together a wide range of established and emerging scholars to address the building blocks of metal composition in the context of metal’s subgenres and evolution over time. Together, the chapters provide a holistic theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive compositional features of metal.  With contributions from an international group of experts, the handbook is organized into four parts around major themes:  • Structures, including form, riff, harmony, rhythm, and meter • Expressions and Techniques: Instruments • Expressions and Techniques: Voices • Productions, addressing the role of gear, capturing, processing, and mixing technologies.  The contributors examine and discuss these elements with the goal of building an understanding of metal music composition that can also function as a manual for composing metal music. Providing a comprehensive overview of the unique musical elements of metal, this handbook is an essential resource for scholars and students across popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, and production studies, as well as for anyone interested in understanding metal from the perspective of composition.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51599472853265,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51599472984337,"sku":"NGR9781032407203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52591067169041,"sku":"NLS9781032407203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52745738387729,"sku":"NIN9781032407203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032407204.jpg?v=1750791075"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-music-and-migration-book-wolfgang-gratzer-9781032313740","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration","description":"The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies is a progressive, transdisciplinary paradigm-shifting core text for music and migration studies. Conceptualized as a comprehensive methodological and theoretical guide, it foregrounds the mobile potentials of music and presents key arguments about why musical expressions matter in the discussion of migration politics.  24 international specialists in music and migration set methodological and theoretical standards for transdisciplinary collaborations in the field of migration studies, discussing 41 keywords, such as mobility, community, research ethics, human rights, and critical whiteness in the context of music and migration. The authors then apply these terms to 16 chapters, which deal with ethnomusicological, musicological, sociological, anthropological, geographical, pedagogical, political, economic, and media-related methodologies and theories which reflect and contest current discourses of migration. In their interdisciplinary focus, these chapters advance interrelations between music and migration as enabling factors for socio-cultural studies. Furthermore, the authors tackle crucial questions of agency, equality, and equity as well as the responsibilities and expectations of writers and artists when researching migration phenomena as innate human experience. As a result, this handbook provides scholars and students alike with relevant and applicable methodological and theoretical tools in addition to an extensive literature and research review for further research.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51631137521937,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51631137653009,"sku":"NGR9781032313740","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52592649208081,"sku":"NLS9781032313740","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52745727279377,"sku":"NIN9781032313740","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032313749.jpg?v=1751268966"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-to-rethinking-the-history-of-technology-based-music-book-jran-rudi-9781032554204","title":"The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking the History of Technology-Based Music","description":"This Handbook explores and critiques a new sonic reality – one which unearths new narratives that chart embryonic practices from the early twentieth century that have developed in parallel with accepted narratives of electronic music.  Today’s musical and artistic practices within technology-based music represent radical changes in production, engagement and dissemination of all sonic arts for composers, musicians, listeners, media content creators and casual music users. Constant everyday exposure to electronic or processed sounds influences our listening skills and listening intentionality, and our ideas of what constitutes valuable sound experiences have expanded radically. What are we listening to? How and why? This new reality is also more inclusive, and technology-borne music now appears as the new folk music – unwritten, improvised and finding its own relevance unfettered by the traditional hierarchies of taste. It is also where black and Asian technology-based experimental music is emerging with its own sonic genealogy, where music is no longer limited to sound only but can be more fruitfully seen as a branch of media arts, combining diverse materials, techniques and tools into more holistic experiences.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51690629726481,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51690629759249,"sku":"NGR9781032554204","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52970536370449,"sku":"NLS9781032554204","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53222954467601,"sku":"NIN9781032554204","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1032554207.jpg?v=1765014854"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-music-signification-book-esti-sheinberg-9781032172798","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification","description":"The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international experts that reflect current interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject.    Examinations of music signification have been an essential component in thinking about music for millennia, but it is only in the last few decades that music signification has been established as an independent area of study. During this time, the field has grown exponentially, incorporating a vast array of methodologies that seek to ground how music means and to explore what it may mean. Research in music signification typically embraces concepts and practices imported from semiotics, literary criticism, linguistics, the visual arts, philosophy, sociology, history, and psychology, among others. By bringing together such approaches in transparent groupings that reflect the various contexts in which music is created and experienced, and by encouraging critical dialogues, this volume provides an authoritative survey of the discipline and a significant advance in inquiries into music signification.     This book addresses a wide array of readers, from scholars who specialize in this and related areas, to the general reader who is curious to learn more about the ways in which music makes sense.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52431780512017,"sku":"NLS9781032172798","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53035979637009,"sku":"NIN9781032172798","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781032172798.jpg?v=1759173516"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-progressive-rock-metal-and-the-literary-imagination-book-chris-anderton-9781032340739","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination","description":"This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.  The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres and their literary connections: from ancient times to the modern world, from children’s literature to epic poetry, from mythology to science fiction, and from esoteric fantasy to harsh political criticism. The musical treatments of these literary materials span the continents from South and North America through Europe and Asia. The collection presents critical perspectives on the enduring and complex relationships between words and music as these are expressed in progressive rock and metal.  The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second- through final-year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music, and society.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52591401763089,"sku":"NLS9781032340739","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52777291612433,"sku":"NIN9781032340739","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781032340739.jpg?v=1761063906"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-to-music-under-german-occupation-1938-1945-book-david-fanning-9781138713888","title":"The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945","description":"Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II. Almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under direct German control or were subject to severe scrutiny and censorship, the prime objective being to change the musical fabric of these nations and force them to submit to the strictures of Nazi ideology.   This pioneering collection of essays is the first in the English language to look in more detail at the musical consequences of German occupation during a dark period in European history. It embraces a wide range of issues, presenting case studies involving musical activity in a number of occupied European cities, as well as in countries that were part of the Axis or had established close diplomatic relations with Germany. The wartime careers and creative outputs of individual musicians who were faced with the dilemma of either complying with or resisting the impositions of the occupiers are explored. In addition, there is some reflection on the post-war implications of German occupation for the musical environment in Europe.   Music under German Occupation is written for all music-lovers, students, professionals and academics who have particular interests in 20th-century music and\/or the vicissitudes of European cultural life during World War II.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52614586728721,"sku":"NLS9781138713888","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53014335881489,"sku":"NIN9781138713888","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781138713888.jpg?v=1761521638"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-to-spanish-film-music-book-laura-miranda-9781032006390","title":"The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music","description":"The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music provides a significant contribution to the research and history of Spanish film music, exploring the interdependence and ways in which discourses of sound and vision are constructed dialogically in Spanish cinema, with contributions from leading international researchers from Spain, the USA, the UK, France and Germany.  Offering a multifocal and multidisciplinary study between related areas such as music studies, film studies and Spanish cultural studies, this book is divided into four sections, covering the early years of Spanish cinema; the 1940s and 1950s in Spanish cinema—the first decades of the Franco dictatorship; the importance of Fraga Iribarne’s slogan, “Spain is different,” to promote Spain’s new openness to the world in the 1960s and 1970s; and Spanish cinema since the arrival of democracy in 1978, including discussion of contemporary Spanish cinema.  The growing interest in Spanish cinema calls for the publication of studies about the role of music in its political and socio-cultural framework. This is therefore a valuable text for music and film scholars and professionals, university undergraduates and music conservatory students.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53371470414097,"sku":"NGR9781032006390","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53595565719825,"sku":"NLS9781032006390","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781032006390.jpg?v=1775156132"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-progressive-rock-metal-and-the-literary-imagination-book-chris-anderton-9781032340777","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination","description":"This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes.  The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres and their literary connections: from ancient times to the modern world, from children’s literature to epic poetry, from mythology to science fiction, and from esoteric fantasy to harsh political criticism. The musical treatments of these literary materials span the continents from South and North America through Europe and Asia. The collection presents critical perspectives on the enduring and complex relationships between words and music as these are expressed in progressive rock and metal.  The book is aimed primarily at an academic market, valuable for second- through final-year students on undergraduate courses devoted to both popular music and to literary studies, and to postgraduate programs and researchers in a range of fields, including popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, literary studies, narrative studies, folklore studies, science fiction studies, cultural studies, liberal studies, and sociology, and for media and history courses that have an interest in the intersection of narratives, music, and society.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53480131133713,"sku":"NGR9781032340777","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53656533303569,"sku":"NIN9781032340777","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53698653946129,"sku":"NLS9781032340777","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-popular-music-and-politics-of-the-balkans-book-catherine-baker-9781032357164","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans","description":"The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region.  The vibrant growth of this subject area since the 1990s has been intertwined with the region’s political and socio-economic transformations, including the collapse of state socialism in much of the region, the break-up of Yugoslavia, the advent of neoliberal capitalism, the rise of Romani activism, the complex politics of ‘Europeanization’ before and after the global financial crisis, and the region’s relationship to the European Union border regime. The handbook illustrates the wide range of disciplines and methods that contribute to this field’s interdisciplinary dialogue and highlights emerging approaches such as the study of Black diasporas in the region, popular music’s links with LGBTQ+ communities, and the impact of digital technologies on musical cultures.  This volume will benefit specialist researchers, tutors creating or refreshing courses on popular music in the region, and students interested in these topics, especially those who are at the point of developing their own independent research projects.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53595564638481,"sku":"NLS9781032357164","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53656543658257,"sku":"NIN9781032357164","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781032357164.jpg?v=1779749584"},{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-the-sex-pistols-book-mike-dines-9781032788371","title":"The Routledge Handbook of the Sex Pistols","description":"The Routledge Handbook of the Sex Pistols offers a dramatic new perspective on the cultural significance and legacies of an iconic punk band. In the early-mid 1970s, punk and the Pistols were instrumental in creating a cultural transition from the staid ‘black-and-white’ authorized era of post-war austerity to what was to become a more radical and creative future in which everybody had agency and a do-it-yourself ethos that transformed social norms. This book investigates how this transition occurred, and why the Sex Pistols were so influential in reshaping public life at this critical time in cultural history. On the occasion of the band’s 50th anniversary, the book reflects critically upon their influence, and why it has persisted.   With 33 original, in depth, and often highly-charged contributions from across five continents, and spanning multiple disciplines, perspectives, and areas of practice, the book draws out the band’s relevance and legacies through a diversity of topics arranged under four thematic headings: global geographies, style and media, sociological perspectives, and heritage and influence. Following a growth in punk writing over recent years, this book goes back to the roots, using the thematic approach to investigate one of punk’s formative and best-known proponents, and arguably the most controversial band ever to grace a stage: the Sex Pistols.   This valuable collection will appeal to those interested in and working across Music, Sociology, Media Studies, Cultural Geography, Social and Cultural Anthropology; Archaeology and Critical Heritage Studies; Fashion and Design, Politics and Communication Studies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53607884488977,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53607884718353,"sku":"NGR9781032788371","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/routledge-music-handbooks-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}