project collections

Dance

photo of belly dancer in a seated pose, hands above head

Belly Dance

The Dance of Mother Earth

Tina Hobin, Author, Performer and Teacher
photo collage of various Bikutsi music album covers

Bikutsi

A Beti Dance Music on the Rise, 1970–1990

Anja Brunner, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
covers shows, a painting called the Jazz Party by William Roberts from the mid-1920s, showing a group of around 18 people dancing energetically in a bar, to music from a gramophone.'

Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs

From the Pleasure Garden to the Discotheque

Bruce J. Lindsay, Music Journalist and Social Historian
period photograph of Dora Bright writing at a desk

Dora Bright

Her Life and Works in the Public Eye

Anthony Bilton, Independent Scholar
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Rock

DIY

The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture

Amy Spencer, Bath Spa University
digitally altered photo of Hendrix close up at microphone

Hear My Train A Comin’

The Songs of Jimi Hendrix

Heavy Metal

Controversies and Countercultures

Titus Hjelm, University College London, Keith Kahn-Harris, Birkbeck College, Mark LeVine, University of California, Irvine, (Volume Editors)
photo of the group outside a studio in West London

Long Agos and Worlds Apart

The Definitive Small Faces Biography

Sean Egan, author, journalist, editor and television screenwriter
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Ethnomusicology

graphic design incorporating colours of the spectrum in vertical stripes

Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity

Britta Sweers, University of Bern, Sarah M. Ross, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (Volume Editors)

Dragon Headz

Welshness, Identity, and the Hidden Histories of Hip Hop in Wales

Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Plymouth

Irish Traditional Music in Germany

Nationalism, Nostalgia, and Intercultural Transactions

Felix Morgenstern, University of Vienna

Journal of World Popular Music

João Silva, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Journal Editor)
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Music & Place

Collage of jazz memorabilia related to New Orleans

Bill Russell and the New Orleans Jazz Revival

Ray Smith, Musician and Writer, Mike Pointon, Musician and Writer
graphic design incorporating colours of the spectrum in vertical stripes

Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity

Britta Sweers, University of Bern, Sarah M. Ross, Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (Volume Editors)
covers shows, a painting called the Jazz Party by William Roberts from the mid-1920s, showing a group of around 18 people dancing energetically in a bar, to music from a gramophone.'

Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs

From the Pleasure Garden to the Discotheque

Bruce J. Lindsay, Music Journalist and Social Historian

Dragon Headz

Welshness, Identity, and the Hidden Histories of Hip Hop in Wales

Adam de Paor-Evans, University of Plymouth
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Music Business

design using a drawing of a fragmented vinyl record

Beyond 2.0

The Future of Music

Steve Young, Macquarie University, Sherman Young, Macquarie University
forthcoming music

Composer

The Changing Face of Music

Anna Beer, Oxford University

DIY

The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture

Amy Spencer, Bath Spa University
photo of author standing holding a sax and wearing a hat

Hidden Man

My Many Musical Lives

John Altman, Film composer, music arranger, orchestrator, conductor and saxophonist
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Folk & Revivals

Irish Traditional Music in Germany

Nationalism, Nostalgia, and Intercultural Transactions

Felix Morgenstern, University of Vienna

Music, Meaning and Value in Paraguayan Song

Alfredo C. Colman, Baylor University, Simone Krüger Bridge, Liverpool John Moores University, Timothy D. Watkins, Texas Christian University, (Volume Editors)
graphic showing a row of Baglama, a traditional Turkish stringed instrument

Turkish Folk Music between Ghent and Turkey

Context, Performance, Function

Liselotte Sels, AP University College Antwerp
two photo portraits of Larner and Cox as older men

Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival

The Lives, Song Traditions and Legacies of Sam Larner and Harry Cox

Bruce J. Lindsay, Music Journalist and Social Historian
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Film & Moving Image

Our film studies list is headlined by the works of the ground-breaking American film critic Pauline Kael, who wrote for the New Yorker for more than 20 years and who has been credited with re-inventing the genre.

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

Stephen Rebello, Screen Writer and Author

Consuming Passions

Judith Williamson, Cultural Critic and Author

Deadline at Dawn

Film Writings 1980-1990

Judith Williamson, Cultural Critic and Author

Dogville Vs Hollywood

The War Between Independent Film and Mainstream Movies

Jake Horsley, Journalist and Podcaster
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Drama, Fiction, Poetry, Belles Lettres

This includes novels, short stories, literary essays and criticism. See separate listings for film studies and screenplays.

A Year from Monday

John Cage (1912-1992), Composer and Music Theorist

Berji Kristin

Latife Tekin, Novelist
cover features billiard balls at close quarters

Billiards at Half Past Nine

Heinrich Boll, Novelist (1917-1985)

Brother Jacob

Henrik Stangerup, Novelist (1937-1998)
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