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Series: Routledge Research in Music
This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and epistemology has pervaded cultural and sociological studies since the late 1980s, and masculinity has...
To Be Published May 28th 2013 by Routledge
As a coherent field of research, the field of music and visual culture has seen rapid growth in recent years. The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture serves as the first comprehensive reference on the intersection between these two areas of study, an ideal introduction for those coming...
To Be Published September 5th 2013 by Routledge
Soho: The Rise and Fall documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York became, through one of the accidents of history, a nexus of creative activity for a brief but intensive period. Such an ideal situation--entirely unplanned--could not last forever; the author shows how market...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
For fans of musicals, singing, Hollywood history, and the lives of stars, no other work equals this new three-volume reference to the on- and off-camera careers of more than 100 performers who made major contributions to the American screen musical. From June Allyson to Mae West, Hollwood Songsters...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Since the late 1980s, the boundaries between the ‘musicologies’ have become increasingly blurred. Most notably, a growing number of musicologists have become interested in the ideas and methodologies of ethnomusicology, and in particular, in applying one of the central methodological tools of...
To Be Published October 7th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Music
This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day, ranging from historical epics such as Joan the Woman (1917) to medievalist stories such as The Lord of the Rings (2001-3). Haines focuses on the...
To Be Published October 7th 2013 by Routledge
America’s Songs II: Songs from the 1890's to the Post-War Years continues to tell the stories behind popular songs in our country’s history, serving as a sequel to the bestselling America’s Songs: Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley. Beginning in 1890 and ending in...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
In this volume, Zangwill develops a view of the nature of music and our experience of music that foregrounds the aesthetic properties of music. He focuses on metaphysical issues about aesthetic properties of music, psychological issues about the nature of musical experience, and philosophy of...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
This book is a study of how popular music has participated in the cinematic construction of gender, with a special focus on the action genre and films that share action cinema's interest in spectacularly violent masculinities. Particularly concerned with the aesthetic and ideological work of...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Music
This book contributes to film music studies by examining the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance, highlighting the power of music in film to engage with our everyday world. By investigating these scenes, wherein the...
To Be Published January 1st 2014 by Routledge
