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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · 26d

“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?

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our Back to School sale is now live on our website with 30% off academic books until Sunday 5th October!

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Aug 8

“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

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 30

Currently in our summer sale 🌞

A candid reevaluation of dance music as an everyday culture that reproduces social inequalities.

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 30

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.

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 30

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.

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 29

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.

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 29

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.

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 29

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.

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

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Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social · Jul 24

It’s paperback publication day! 🎉🎉

If you thought to yourself, “DB and the Moving Image sounds great, but a hardcover is too unwieldy,” today is your lucky day. Available widely, and directly from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburymus.bsky.social

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David Bowie and the Moving Image

The central image of David Bowie's “Life on Mars?” could have been ripped from his own experience: a child sits “hooked to the silver screen,” reliving fantasti…

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 26

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

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 25

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

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Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies @bloomsburymus.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · Jun 13

Today on the Academic blog we are brought to our New York office where James Eason, Editorial Assistant for Music & Sound Studies books, takes us through a day in their life working at Bloomsbury. bit.ly/43XSBY9

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · Jun 27

As Oasis embarks on their 2025 reunion tour, @alexniven.bsky.social looks back to where it all began.

Definitely Maybe check it out: bit.ly/3ZSeDud 💙📚

#MusicSky @3313books.bsky.social @bloomsburymus.bsky.social

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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · Jul 10

Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences is out today on
@bloomsburymus.bsky.social and includes my chapter on Rita Lee among loads of fantastic contributions ✨

🪐Check it out here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rereading...

hardback copy of Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences and paperback copy of Rita Lee's autobiography

paperback copy of Rita Lee's autobiography and beginning of chapter Rita Lee and the Phantom

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