DCMS:Staff_Publications
Off The Planet, Philip Hayward
Guitar Style, Denis Crowdy
Open up the Doors, Mark Evans
Perfect Beat v8n2, January 2007 Anniversary Issue
Perfect Beat v8n3, July 2007 Current Issue
Sarod, Adrian Mc Neil
Bounty Chords, Philip Hayward
Off The Planet
Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema
Philip Hayward
Off the Planet comprises a lively, stimulating and diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound and Science Fiction cinema. Following a detailed historical introduction to the development of sound and music in the genre, individual chapters analyse key films, film series, composers and directors in post-War era. The first part of the anthology profiles seminal 1950's productions such as the The day the Earth stood still, the first Godzillafilm and Forbidden Planet. Later chapters analyse the work of composer John Williams the career of director David Cronenberg, the Mad Max series, James Cameron's Terminators and other notable SF films such as Space is the Place, Blade Runner, Mars Attacks! and The Matrix.
Guitar Style, Open Tunings, and Stringband Music in Papua New Guinea
Denis Crowdy
Acoustic guitar an ukulele based ensembles, known as stringbands, developed in Papua New Guinea in the second half of the twentieth century. A variety of regional stringband styles are evident, differentiated through language, singing style, ensemble texture, and rhythm. This book examines some unique stringband guitar styles, exploring different open tunings, playing styles, and how these contribute to regional style differentiation. The study offers an insight into the innovative use of introduced instruments, overseas popular music forms, and provides and example of musical adaptation to societal change through the development of relevant, vernacular styles.
Open up the Doors
Music in the Modern Church
Mark Evans
This book surveys the music used in churches around the world today in the context of the history of western congregational song and concludes that music, like other cultural elements of contemporary Christianity, has been widely secularized. This secularization is a global phenomenon fed by the explosive growth of the contemporary church music industry (worth more than $900 million in annual sales) which has seen the large secular music companies acquiring independent labels, in many cases, to the distress of the faithful. By analyzing the tensions and controversies that are fuelling this crisis and leading to the breakdown of traditions that have been the backbone Christian tradition for centuries, the book questions whether the theoretical and
practical problems aroused by this crisis can ever be surmounted.
Perfect Beat
The Pacific Journal of Research into contemporary Music 
and Popular Culture
v8n2 January 2007
Perfect Beat's 15th anniversary issue features editorial reflections on
the journal's history, exploring trends and changes in content and
theoretical trajectories.
Perfect Beat
The Pacific Journal of Research into contemporary Music 
and Popular Culture
v8n3 July 2007
This volume focuses on various music scenes and issues in New Zealand, from ideas around nationalism, the NZ music industry, identity and narrative in rap to an examination of the place of country music.
Sarod
Adrian Mc Neil
"There are two main reasons why Adrian McNeil’s masterly study of the sarod is likely to become a standard work of reference on the subject. The first is the comprehensive range of the work: it answers, or at least addresses, most of the questions that arise in one’s mind when one considers the history of the sarod as an instrument and the development of sarod styles in the last two centuries. Secondly, it sensibly blends a number of critical approaches to the study of musical instruments and forms. In doing so, it is able to avoid the limitations of a purely organological or purely ethno-musicological approach. The impressive archival and field research that is gone into this study is demonstrated by the author’s ability to negotiate historical, ethnological, sociological and above all musical issues."
Review by: Amlan Das Gupta, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies XXVII, 3 2004
Inventing the Sarod is an important contribution to cultural organology. It shows how the study of a musical instrument can illuminate a rich musical tradition and the complex cultural world around it, in a way that is both faithful to history and relevant to the world today. It will greatly enhance the enjoyment and understanding of one of the most distinctive sounds of Indian music.
Richard Widdess
SOAS, University of London
Bounty Chords
Philip Hayward
Bounty Chords maps a rich and complex cultural history. Beginning with the Bounty mutiny in 1789, Philip Hayward analyses the establishment of the first Pitcairn Island settlement by mutineers and Tahitians in 1790, the mass relocation to Norfolk Island in 1856 and the subsequent development of the two island communities.
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