Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 2: Performance and Production

by John Shepherd (Editor), David Horn (Editor), Dave Laing (Editor), Paul Oliver (Editor), Peter Wicke (Editor)

Overview

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 2 explores elements of production and performance and their relationship to popular music. This second volume consists of 460 entries by 130 contributors from around the world and is arranged in four parts: Part I: Performers and Performing; Part II: Musical Production and Transmission; Part III: Musical Instruments; and Part IV: Musical Forms and Practice. Entries include musical examples, bibliographies, discographies and filmographies.

This and all other volumes of the Encyclopedia are now available through an online version of the Encyclopedia: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/encyclopedia-work?docid=BPM_reference_EPMOW. A general search function for the whole Encyclopedia is also available on this site. A subscription is required to access individual entries. Please see: https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/for-librarians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826463227
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/08/2003
Series:	Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World
Edition description:	Continuum Encyclopedias
Pages:	712
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

John Shepherd is a Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus at Carleton University, Canada. He has been a member of EPMOW's editorial board since 1990 and has published widely in the sociology and aesthetics of music and popular music studies.

David Horn was a founding editor of the jourbanal Popular Music and a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). He proposed the idea of EPMOW with blues scholar Paul Oliver in the 1980s and has worked on the project since then.

Dave Laing is the author of several books on popular music and a former editor of Music Week. Former Research Fellow at the University of Westminster where he conducted research on the music industry.

Paul Oliver is a Fellow of Oxford Brookes University.

Center for Popular Music Research, The Humboldt Univeristy, Berlin

Table of Contents

Preface
Part I: Performers and Performing Groups
Individuals
Performance Techniques
Part II: Musical Production and Transmission
Personnel
Processes: Interpretative/Technological
Technologies
Part III: Musical Instruments
Found Instruments
Guitars
Keyboard Instruments
Mechanical Instruments
Percussion Instruments
Stringed Instruments
Voice
Wind Instruments
Part IV: Musical Form and Practice
Form
Harmony
Melody
Rhythm
The Piece
Timbre
Words, Images and Movement
Index

Editorial Reviews

These first two volumes (of a projected 12) portend great things for the set. Among the 250 contributors are most of the leading scholars, musicians, and jourbanalists in popular music studies. Nearly 20 years in the making, the encyclopedia responds to a need for a comprehensive approach to popular music, one that would give due attention to non-Anglo-American musics. To that end, much thought was devoted to the taxonomy and layout of each volume. Rather than simply listing entries alphabetically, each volume presents broad topics in some detail, with indexes in each volume to bring subjects together. An important ... addition to the canon of popular music studies. Highly recommended.” —Reprinted with permission from CHOICE http://www.choicereviews.org, copyright by the American Library Association, CHOICE

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