Genre Books

New and Published Books

1. Club Cultures

   Boundaries, Identities and Otherness

   By Silvia Rief

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices of clubbing help cultivate particular forms of reflexivity and modes of experience, and how these shape new devices for reconfiguring...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Making Music in Japan’s Underground

   The Tokyo Hardcore Scene

   By Jennifer Milioto Matsue

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   Grounded in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Popular Music Studies, and Japanese Studies, this book explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, ultimately asking what play as resistance through performance of the scene tells us about Japanese society in general. Matsue highlights the...

   Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
3. Japanese Popular Music

   Culture, Authenticity and Power

   By Carolyn Stevens

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. Based both on extensive...

   Published January 30th 2009 by Routledge
4. Popular Music Genres

   An Introduction

   By Stuart Borthwick, Ron Moy

   An accessible introduction to the study of popular music, this book takes a schematic approach to a range of popular music genres, and examines them in terms of their antecedents, histories, visual aesthetics, and sociopolitical contexts. Within this interdisciplinary and genre-based focus, readers...

   Published November 8th 2004 by Routledge