Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies
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We're attending the SEM 2025 annual conference! Head to our stand to browse a selection of our recently published books, available 35% off with our conference discount, and explore our digital platform. Plus, our Editors are on hand to discuss your book projects and proposals.
October 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We're attending the SEM 2025 annual conference! Head to our stand to browse a selection of our recently published books, available 35% off with our conference discount, and explore our digital platform. Plus, our Editors are on hand to discuss your book projects and proposals.
Discover music resources that resonate: Join our webinar walkthrough on November 13th and find out how our digital platforms optimize teaching, learning and research: attendee.gototraining.com/r/5359452981...
Can’t make the date? Register and we’ll email you a link to the recording!
Can’t make the date? Register and we’ll email you a link to the recording!
October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Discover music resources that resonate: Join our webinar walkthrough on November 13th and find out how our digital platforms optimize teaching, learning and research: attendee.gototraining.com/r/5359452981...
Can’t make the date? Register and we’ll email you a link to the recording!
Can’t make the date? Register and we’ll email you a link to the recording!
Did Charles Manson personify the violence that rock counterculture inflicted on American society? Or did his music diagnose the dehumanizing effects of society’s broken institutions? Discover more in The Musical Lives of Charles Manson.
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
September 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Did Charles Manson personify the violence that rock counterculture inflicted on American society? Or did his music diagnose the dehumanizing effects of society’s broken institutions? Discover more in The Musical Lives of Charles Manson.
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
“They are afraid of it, because it tells the truth,” - Charles Manson
What truths did the Manson Family's music tell? And how did stories about their music help Americans understand the meaning of the Sixties?
Pre-order The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
What truths did the Manson Family's music tell? And how did stories about their music help Americans understand the meaning of the Sixties?
Pre-order The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
September 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“They are afraid of it, because it tells the truth,” - Charles Manson
What truths did the Manson Family's music tell? And how did stories about their music help Americans understand the meaning of the Sixties?
Pre-order The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
What truths did the Manson Family's music tell? And how did stories about their music help Americans understand the meaning of the Sixties?
Pre-order The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
Our Back to School sale is now live on our website with 30% off academic books until Sunday 5th October!
Shop music & sound studies books: www.bloomsbury.com/academic/mus...
Shop music & sound studies books: www.bloomsbury.com/academic/mus...
September 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Our Back to School sale is now live on our website with 30% off academic books until Sunday 5th October!
Shop music & sound studies books: www.bloomsbury.com/academic/mus...
Shop music & sound studies books: www.bloomsbury.com/academic/mus...
Ethnomusicology is now live on our digital platform Bloomsbury Music & Sound.
Discover eBooks spanning 30+ countries & regions, plus key topics such as folk song, ethnic heritage, music in diaspora and the landmark reference work Music Around the World: bit.ly/3VkEckG
Discover eBooks spanning 30+ countries & regions, plus key topics such as folk song, ethnic heritage, music in diaspora and the landmark reference work Music Around the World: bit.ly/3VkEckG
September 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Ethnomusicology is now live on our digital platform Bloomsbury Music & Sound.
Discover eBooks spanning 30+ countries & regions, plus key topics such as folk song, ethnic heritage, music in diaspora and the landmark reference work Music Around the World: bit.ly/3VkEckG
Discover eBooks spanning 30+ countries & regions, plus key topics such as folk song, ethnic heritage, music in diaspora and the landmark reference work Music Around the World: bit.ly/3VkEckG
Did Charles Manson personify the violence that rock counterculture inflicted on American society? Or did his music diagnose the dehumanizing effects of society’s broken institutions? Discover more in The Musical Lives of Charles Manson.
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
August 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Did Charles Manson personify the violence that rock counterculture inflicted on American society? Or did his music diagnose the dehumanizing effects of society’s broken institutions? Discover more in The Musical Lives of Charles Manson.
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
Headed back to university? We're running a #BackToSchool sale on our website until October 5th. Get 30% off hundreds of our books ahead of the next semester.
Shop Music & Sound Studies books: bit.ly/4fHGHqO
Shop Music & Sound Studies books: bit.ly/4fHGHqO
August 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Headed back to university? We're running a #BackToSchool sale on our website until October 5th. Get 30% off hundreds of our books ahead of the next semester.
Shop Music & Sound Studies books: bit.ly/4fHGHqO
Shop Music & Sound Studies books: bit.ly/4fHGHqO
“They are afraid of it, because it tells the truth,” - Charles Manson
What truths did the Manson Family's music tell? And how did stories about their music help Americans understand the meaning of the Sixties?
Pre-order The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
What truths did the Manson Family's music tell? And how did stories about their music help Americans understand the meaning of the Sixties?
Pre-order The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
August 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“They are afraid of it, because it tells the truth,” - Charles Manson
What truths did the Manson Family's music tell? And how did stories about their music help Americans understand the meaning of the Sixties?
Pre-order The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
What truths did the Manson Family's music tell? And how did stories about their music help Americans understand the meaning of the Sixties?
Pre-order The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
Currently in our summer sale 🌞
A candid reevaluation of dance music as an everyday culture that reproduces social inequalities.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/dance-music-...
A candid reevaluation of dance music as an everyday culture that reproduces social inequalities.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/dance-music-...
July 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Currently in our summer sale 🌞
A candid reevaluation of dance music as an everyday culture that reproduces social inequalities.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/dance-music-...
A candid reevaluation of dance music as an everyday culture that reproduces social inequalities.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/dance-music-...
Currently in our summer sale 🌞
This book takes a comprehensive look at what individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in general.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/life-death-a...
This book takes a comprehensive look at what individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in general.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/life-death-a...
July 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Currently in our summer sale 🌞
This book takes a comprehensive look at what individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in general.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/life-death-a...
This book takes a comprehensive look at what individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in general.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/life-death-a...
Currently in our summer sale 🌞
The first book-length study of filmmaker and video artist Kahlil Joseph's transmedia work on Afrodiasporic music in relation to a transcontinental, interdisciplinary framework.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/kahlil-josep...
The first book-length study of filmmaker and video artist Kahlil Joseph's transmedia work on Afrodiasporic music in relation to a transcontinental, interdisciplinary framework.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/kahlil-josep...
July 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Currently in our summer sale 🌞
The first book-length study of filmmaker and video artist Kahlil Joseph's transmedia work on Afrodiasporic music in relation to a transcontinental, interdisciplinary framework.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/kahlil-josep...
The first book-length study of filmmaker and video artist Kahlil Joseph's transmedia work on Afrodiasporic music in relation to a transcontinental, interdisciplinary framework.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/kahlil-josep...
Currently in our summer sale 🌞
Written by a composer long immersed in new and experimental music, this book provides a tour of the music, technologies and people that have transformed how we make, hear and think about sound over the past fifty years.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/semiconducti...
Written by a composer long immersed in new and experimental music, this book provides a tour of the music, technologies and people that have transformed how we make, hear and think about sound over the past fifty years.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/semiconducti...
July 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Currently in our summer sale 🌞
Written by a composer long immersed in new and experimental music, this book provides a tour of the music, technologies and people that have transformed how we make, hear and think about sound over the past fifty years.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/semiconducti...
Written by a composer long immersed in new and experimental music, this book provides a tour of the music, technologies and people that have transformed how we make, hear and think about sound over the past fifty years.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/semiconducti...
Currently in our summer sale 🌞
This book explores gender-based violence within the music industry, and how women who have experienced violence represent it in their music.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/unsilenced-9...
This book explores gender-based violence within the music industry, and how women who have experienced violence represent it in their music.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/unsilenced-9...
July 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Currently in our summer sale 🌞
This book explores gender-based violence within the music industry, and how women who have experienced violence represent it in their music.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/unsilenced-9...
This book explores gender-based violence within the music industry, and how women who have experienced violence represent it in their music.
Shop: www.bloomsbury.com/unsilenced-9...
There are currently hundreds of books available 33% off in our summer sale. Want some inspiration? We've picked out a handful of our bestsellers: www.bloomsbury.com/discover/sal...
July 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There are currently hundreds of books available 33% off in our summer sale. Want some inspiration? We've picked out a handful of our bestsellers: www.bloomsbury.com/discover/sal...
Now in Paperback!
Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. This book explores the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs 'by heart'.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lB3eHK
Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. This book explores the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs 'by heart'.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lB3eHK
July 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Now in Paperback!
Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. This book explores the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs 'by heart'.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lB3eHK
Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. This book explores the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs 'by heart'.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lB3eHK
David Bowie and the Moving Image is now in paperback! Analyzing Bowie’s music videos, planned film projects, acting roles, and depictions in film, this book provides a comprehensive view of Bowie’s use of the moving image.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lUXZm2
Learn more: bit.ly/4lUXZm2
July 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
David Bowie and the Moving Image is now in paperback! Analyzing Bowie’s music videos, planned film projects, acting roles, and depictions in film, this book provides a comprehensive view of Bowie’s use of the moving image.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lUXZm2
Learn more: bit.ly/4lUXZm2
We're having a week-long summer sale! 🌞
Save up to 33% on hundreds of our music and sound studies books until midnight on Sunday 3rd August.
Shop music & sound books: bit.ly/44JK7Fx
Save up to 33% on hundreds of our music and sound studies books until midnight on Sunday 3rd August.
Shop music & sound books: bit.ly/44JK7Fx
July 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We're having a week-long summer sale! 🌞
Save up to 33% on hundreds of our music and sound studies books until midnight on Sunday 3rd August.
Shop music & sound books: bit.ly/44JK7Fx
Save up to 33% on hundreds of our music and sound studies books until midnight on Sunday 3rd August.
Shop music & sound books: bit.ly/44JK7Fx
Considering literary works drawn from a range of traditions, Literature as Sound Studies identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and methods for attending to sound.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lMbBQM
Learn more: bit.ly/4lMbBQM
July 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Considering literary works drawn from a range of traditions, Literature as Sound Studies identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and methods for attending to sound.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lMbBQM
Learn more: bit.ly/4lMbBQM
Did Charles Manson personify the violence that rock counterculture inflicted on American society? Or did his music diagnose the dehumanizing effects of society’s broken institutions? Discover more in The Musical Lives of Charles Manson.
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
July 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Did Charles Manson personify the violence that rock counterculture inflicted on American society? Or did his music diagnose the dehumanizing effects of society’s broken institutions? Discover more in The Musical Lives of Charles Manson.
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
Pre-order now: bit.ly/4l8mFXH
This collection of scholarly essays analyses how NOFX’s aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum.
Find out more: bit.ly/4f2R1te
Find out more: bit.ly/4f2R1te
July 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This collection of scholarly essays analyses how NOFX’s aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum.
Find out more: bit.ly/4f2R1te
Find out more: bit.ly/4f2R1te
Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated in print, on stage, and through various media as a dynamic factor in contemporary culture.
Learn more: bit.ly/4mmcvUn
Learn more: bit.ly/4mmcvUn
July 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated in print, on stage, and through various media as a dynamic factor in contemporary culture.
Learn more: bit.ly/4mmcvUn
Learn more: bit.ly/4mmcvUn
Are you an early career researcher looking to get published?
Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists.
Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists.
Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
July 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Are you an early career researcher looking to get published?
Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists.
Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists.
Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
Want to see everything we're publishing July-September this year? Our new books catalogue is now available to read online. Check it out on the Bloomsbury website: bit.ly/3HA9qRh
June 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Want to see everything we're publishing July-September this year? Our new books catalogue is now available to read online. Check it out on the Bloomsbury website: bit.ly/3HA9qRh
Are you an early career researcher looking to get published?
Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists.
Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists.
Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
June 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Are you an early career researcher looking to get published?
Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists.
Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists.
Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn