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27,157 titles

Practical Musicology

Practical Musicology

Zagorski-Thomas, Professor Simon · Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

New £108.99

Music Composition in the 21st Century: A Practical Guide for the New Common Practice

Music Composition in the 21st Century: A Practical Guide for the New Common Practice

Carl, Professor of Composition Robert · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £85.99

Music Composition in the 21st Century: A Practical Guide for the New Common Practice

Music Composition in the 21st Century: A Practical Guide for the New Common Practice

Carl, Professor of Composition Robert · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £34.99

Over and Over: Exploring Repetition in Popular Music

Over and Over: Exploring Repetition in Popular Music

Levaux, Christophe, Julien, Dr Olivier · Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New £48.99

Media Narratives in Popular Music

Media Narratives in Popular Music

James, Martin, Anderton, Chris · Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

New £108.99

The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music

The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music

Çamci, Professor or Dr. Anil · Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

New £108.99

Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision

Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision

Kara, Selmin, Leal, Dr. Jonathan, Rogers, Professor Holly, Vernallis, Professor Carol · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £133.99

Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound

Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound

Bates, Eliot, Bennett, Dr Samantha · Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New £48.99

Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid

Favreau, Alyssa · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £79.99

Suicide's Suicide

Suicide's Suicide

Coulter, Andi · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £85.99

Carole King's Tapestry

Carole King's Tapestry

Glass, Loren · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £23.99

Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

Fleming, Colin · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £79.99

Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time

Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time

Jeffery, Dr Alex · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £23.99

Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis

Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis

Wolfson, Eric · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £79.99

Roxy Music's Avalon

Roxy Music's Avalon

Morrison, Simon A. · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £79.99

Pearl Jam's Vs.

Pearl Jam's Vs.

Brownlee, Clint · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £23.99

Duran Duran's Rio

Duran Duran's Rio

Zaleski, Annie · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £85.99

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads

Holley, Santi Elijah · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £79.99

Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Padgett, Ray · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £23.99

Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope

Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope

Dozier, Ayanna · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £79.99

Re-Making Sound: An Experiential Approach to Sound Studies

Re-Making Sound: An Experiential Approach to Sound Studies

Porcello, Professor or Dr. Thomas, Patch, Professor Justin · Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

New £138.99

Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music

Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music

Hibbett, Ryan · Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

New £108.99

Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life

Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life

Fairclough, Dr. Kirsty, Alleyne, Professor or Dr. Mike · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £126.99

Electro Rap: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Reality in the Circuitry of Hip Hop

Electro Rap: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Reality in the Circuitry of Hip Hop

de Paor-Evans, Adam · Bloomsbury Academic, 2026

New £98.99

Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything

Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything

Szemere, Professor or Dr. Anna, Rónai, Dr. András · Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

New £124.99

Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath

Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath

Marstal, Professor or Dr. Henrik · Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

New £109.99

Darkthrone’s A Blaze in the Northern Sky

Darkthrone’s A Blaze in the Northern Sky

Hagen, Ross · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £114.99

Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road

Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road

Slethaug, Gordon E. · Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New £48.99

Creative Activism: Conversations on Music, Film, Literature, and Other Radical Arts

Creative Activism: Conversations on Music, Film, Literature, and Other Radical Arts

Rubin, Rachel Lee · Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New £48.99

Lipsynching

Lipsynching

Snell, Dr. Merrie · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £126.99

Lipsynching

Lipsynching

Snell, Dr. Merrie · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £40.99

Immanence and Immersion: On the Acoustic Condition in Contemporary Art

Immanence and Immersion: On the Acoustic Condition in Contemporary Art

Schrimshaw, Will · Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New £48.99

Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identities

Mad Dogs and Englishness: Popular Music and English Identities

Mills, Dr Richard, Donnelly, Mark, Brooks, Lee · Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New £48.99

Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967

Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967

Renza, Emeritus Professor Louis A. · Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New £48.99

Nenes' Koza Dabasa: Okinawa in the World Music Market

Nenes' Koza Dabasa: Okinawa in the World Music Market

Johnson, Professor Henry · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £118.99

Wild Sound

Wild Sound

Pigott, Michael · Bloomsbury Academic, 2026

New £35.99

Australian Music and Modernism, 1960-1975

Australian Music and Modernism, 1960-1975

Hooper, Dr. Michael · Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New £144.99

The Clash Takes on the World: Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters

The Clash Takes on the World: Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters

Peacock, Dr James, Cohen, Samuel · Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

New £48.99

A Women’s History of the Beatles

A Women’s History of the Beatles

Feldman-Barrett, Prof Christine · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £126.99

Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll

Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour: Food, Gender, Rock and Roll

McCorkle Okazaki, Prof Brooke · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £121.99

Sonic Phantoms: Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence

Sonic Phantoms: Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence

López, Francisco, Bailey, Thomas Bey William, Ellison, Dr Barbara · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £126.99

Musical Bows of Southern Africa

Musical Bows of Southern Africa

Dlamini, Dr Sazi · Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New £108.99

Listening Devices: Music Media in the Pre-Digital Era

Listening Devices: Music Media in the Pre-Digital Era

Papenburg, Dr Jens Gerrit, Papenburg, Jens Gerrit · Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

New £103.99

The Beatles and Fandom: Sex, Death and Progressive Nostalgia

The Beatles and Fandom: Sex, Death and Progressive Nostalgia

Mills, Dr Richard · Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New £144.99

Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identities

Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identities

Dias, Dr José · Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

New £144.99

Ivo Papazov’s Balkanology

Ivo Papazov’s Balkanology

Silverman, Carol · Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

New £76.99

Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia

Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia

Gray, Prof Lila Ellen · Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

New £76.99

Heiner Müller and Heiner Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Chaussee

Heiner Müller and Heiner Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Chaussee

Bohlman, Prof Philip V. · Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

New £112.99

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