Product Description: The EPMOW Biography volumes contain entries on biographies of key popular music personnel worldwide. Included are entries on record producers and engineers; technological innovators; record company heads and other industry figures; important journalists, critics and scholars; individual songwriters, composers, lyricists, performers and groups...read more

Product Description: The EPMOW Biography volumes contain entries on biographies of key popular music personnel worldwide.

Product Description: A comprehensive, authoritative reference to a huge range of musical styles, from Bailanta to Bossa Nova and from Salsa to Ska.

Product Description: When Grimes received a CBE for the discovery of the Temple of Mithras, he remarked that he was proud but wished that it had been in recognition for his work at Cripplegate - the discovery of the Mithraeum was "a fluke". His initial objective at Cripplegate was to understand more about the dating sequence of the city's defences...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive and authoritative reference to a huge range of American musical styles, from Barbershop to Bluegrass and from Ragtime to Rockabilly.

Product Description: Britain's second Labour government 1929-31: a reappraisal is a timely collection of essays on Labour's second period in office during the international financial crisis of 1929-1931. Contributions by leading historians and younger academics bring fresh perspectives to Labour's domestic problems, electoral and party matters, relations with the Soviet Union and ideological questions...read more

Product Description: The 1970s is remembered as a decade of punk rock, the Winter of Discontent, Bloody Sunday and The Female Eunuch. The iconic images of the 70s, from the break-up of the Beatles to the striking Merseyside graveyard diggers and mountains of municipal rubbish in Leicester Square, provide a glimpse into the extraordinary contrasts of the decade...read more

Product Description: The EPMOW Genre volumes contain entries on the genres of music that have been or currently are popular in countries and communities all over the world. Included are discussions on cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics (melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, amplitude); characteristic instrumentation and use of voice; lyrics and use of language; typical features of performance and presentation (including imagery, iconography and fashion); characteristic affiliations to class, gender, and ethnic, language and age groups; historical development and paths and modes of dissemination; influence of technology, the music industry and political and economic circumstances; changing stylistic features; notable and influential performers and their international influence; and relationships to other genres and sub-genres...read more

Product Description: How does a society recover from a devastating war? This was the question posed in the 1920s as people searched for normality in the aftermath of terrible trauma. Written from the perspective of those who lived, worked and played in the metropolis of greater London, 1920s Britain uncovers the hardships and stresses of the age, strains which manifested in the general strike of 1926...read more

Product Description: Recycling may be a topical subject today, but it is an ancient practice. Glass was regularly recycled to make new vessels during the Roman period and important new evidence for glass working in London came from 35 Basinghall Street in the City, with the discovery, in 2005, of over 70kg of broken vessel glass and production waste...read more

'This book provides comprehensive description and analysis into the use of music information retrieval from the data management perspective, and thus provides libraries in academic, commercial, and other settings with a complete reference for multimedia system applications'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Valuable information on training for athletes and coaches at all levels of competition. Outside of professional sports, the quality of athletic training is dangerously inconsistent. Most athletes who compete on school teams, in community sports programs or just on their own do not receive the training needed to improve their performance and prevent serious game-ending injuries...read more

Product Description: Eighty years ago Ramsay MacDonald took office as the first British Labour Prime Minister, the placards announcing LENIN DEAD, RAMSAY MACDONALD PREMIER. The judgement of historians on this short-lived minority administration in 1924, dependant on Liberal parliamentary votes, has often been 'in office, but not in power'...read more

Product Description: "EPMOW lives music. Put another way, it does for popular music what Grove has done for classical"David Brackett 'Excellent, readable and thoroughly useful...While some previous single-volume and multivolume works have addressed the development and current state of popular music, none has done so with this work's depth of scholarship and global reach...read more

Product Description: In this major new biography, John Shepherd draws on an impressive range of research in Britain, Australia, and the USA to reconstruct the life of George Lansbury, a charismatic Labour pioneer, and to estimate his importance in British politics...read more

Product Description: 'This is an extraordinary achievement and it will become an absolutely vital and trusted resource for everyone working in the field of popular music studies. Even more broadly, anyone interested in popular music or popular music culture more generally will enjoy — and find many uses for — the wealth of information and insight captured in this volume...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 'I did not think the second volume could possibly be as good as the first. I was wrong. So browse, read it through, or just use it as a reference - you will find there is always more to learn. It is a wonderful accomplishment. Anyone who cares about popular music should have this book...read more

Britain is no longer the sole organizing centre for cultural studies. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how cultural studies has diffused into other English-speaking countries and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. The result is a landmark book which provides students with an unrivalled guide to the international phenomenon of cultural studies.

Product Description: Results of important excavations at London's Walbrook Mithraeum, a temple built around AD 240-50 dedicated to Mithras, ancient Persian god of light. The report is based on work carried out by the late Professor W. F. Grimes, and includes a history of the public debate inspired by archaeological finds-particularly sculpture such as heads of Mithras, Minerva and Serapis ...read more

Product Description: In this book Shepherd and Wicke make a bold and original contribution to the understanding of music as a form of human expression. They argue that music is fundamental to social life. Music is not merely a form of leisure or entertainment: it is central to the very formation and reproduction of human societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From advertising to zydeco, this volume provides a guide to scholarly literature on the popular music of the world. It covers non-biographical aspects of the field, including genres, the industry, social and cultural contexts, musical practices, geographical locations and theory and method...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of lectures by the secretary and friend of Karl Barth establishes her as a theologian in her own right. She addresses important early feminist issues such as the divinely ordained nature of relationships between the sexes and the rights of women to lay and ordained ministry in the church...read more