This book provides a definitive account of the intersection between music, wellness, and aging from the perspective of gerontology, psychology, health, music therapy, and music education. Undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and the general reader will find useful case studies of how people confront adversity through music.

This essential and highly acclaimed guide, now updated and revised in its eighth edition, explains the business of the British music industry. Drawing on her extensive experience as a media lawyer, Ann Harrison offers a unique, expert opinion on the deals, the contracts and the business as a whole.

Talking about music psychology, this work examines how music can be used to communicate and the biological, cognitive, social, and cultural processes that underlie such communication. Looking at all aspects of communication, it is suitable for those who are involved in music cognition, music education, and communication studies.

This text builds on the foundations of "Music since the First World War" (first published 1977, revised edition 1988). It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of 20th-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975.

This book explores the social and the cultural contexts in which creativity in music occurs. It considers what constitutes creativity, taking a cross cultural view of music, and investigating creative processes far beyond just the classical music genre - including electronic media, popular music, and improvised music.

Offers performers, teachers, and researchers practical guidance for enhancing performance and managing the stress that typically accompanies performance situations. Drawing together the findings of pioneering initiatives from across the arts and sciences, this book is useful for those involved in music research, education, and performance.

Music can have a profound influence on our own developing sense of identity. This book explores the powerful effect that music can have as we develop our sense of identity, from adolescence through to adulthood. Bringing together leading experts from psychology and music, it is useful for music psychologists and developmental psychologists.

Musical imagination and creativity are amongst the most abstract and complex aspects of musical behaviour. This book is a wide ranging, multidisciplinary review of the latest theory and research on musical creativity, performance and perception by some of the most eminent scholars in their respective disciplines.

This book explores several musical styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene that has emerged in the western Canadian province of Manitoba. Focusing on fiddling, country music, and Christian hymnody, as well as step dancing and the pow-wow, author Byron Dueck advances a groundbreaking new performative theory of music culture that acknowledges tradition without losing sight of the dynamic negotiations that bring it into being.

Suitable for student musicians, practising musicians, and instrumental and vocal teachers, this book aims to help them to begin to understand how and why their bodies function as they do when they perform. It also aims to teach them how they may avoid professionally related illness or injury and achieve the highest standards of performance.

A unique composition book, this distinctive volume is the perfect gift for any seasoned songwriter or budding music expressionist. Quotes from legendary musicians on inspiration, the creative process, and the thrill of performance enhance the pages, which alternate between staves for writing music, tablatures for recording chords, and space for writing lyrics.

In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein draws on the latest research and his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Written in a conversational style, the text articulates landmark strategies that equip readers to advance their musical abilities and succeed as performing artists.

Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology.

From the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen

Tracey Thorn, musician and author of the bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, offers a unique insider's take on the art of singing: why and how we sing, and the voice's power to captivate

Tracey Thorn, musician and author of the bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, offers a unique insider's take on the art of singing: why and how we sing, and the voice's power to captivate

This is a memoir by the iconic singer-songwriter chronicling her story from her beginnings in Brooklyn through her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed musical talents, to her present day as a leading performer and activist.

Neil Young's "Harvest" is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Inglis here explores the creation of the album and its lasting appeal.

A highly personal narrative on the evolution of the field

The first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music.

The story of The Jesus and Mary Chain by the two founding members