New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media

Team AV. Books on Bowie, Remediation, Hauntology, Music Videos, Bjork, Kahlil Joseph, Political Videos, TikTok, Animated Music and Opera in the works for release later this year. What a time to be alive!

@filmsonwax_ Us too: Bloomsbury usually do hard copies first for libraries: this will be out in paper for around 20 quid hopefully by the end of the year.

Splendid first study of one of audiovisual culture’s biggest creative spaces: library music. Just out and ready to make waves. @johnston_nessa #librarymusic #filmmusic

The Journal of Film Music are looking for a reviewer for our YouTube and Music book! Who’s up for it? journal.equinoxpub.com/JFM

What a week! Another beauty for you! Here is James Phillips’ innovative philosophical work on Busby Berkeley films and film musicals. #busbyberkeley #musicals @wbpictures @warnerbros

Our friends at @sonic_scope have released issue 6 of their powerful intervention into music and the moving image. sonicscope.org. We love it all.

Talk about topical! Here is Juan Bermuedez’s wonderful new addition to our gang. What a splendid book.

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@mugrantel @soundmusicmedia Done! Sorry about that!

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Pink Beethoven celebrates the birth of YouTube and Music in paperback. #YouTube

Another storming foray into audiovisual newness for you! A book packed with original thought on the cultural context in which music videos are produced and the web of intertextuality that drives contemporary audiovisual culture. Just what we all need!

A book that considers the staging of opera as never before. Using new media theory to explore the work on Bellini on stage and on the cinema screen from video art to digital culture remediation, this lovely book opens a whole new era for opera studies. EXCITING. #opera #bellini

We have a new beauty for you! This time an innovative fusion of audiovisual scholarship, transmedia art, Black Atlantic Theory and the work of Kahlil Joseph. Congratulations @JosephOJackson and we love your foreword @CJNwonka!

We're so very pleased to announce that three of our books are 2024 PROSE award finalists! @FeldmanBarrett @hollymusication @jrsfreitas @jffporfirio

Our friends at Sonic Scope have just released their new issue of mixed media essays on audiovisual media and it’s a blinder. Have a look and think about contributing to issue 6, applications are now open!

They’re coming thick and fast! Our new team member is all about music video’s migrations in the digital age, from TV screen to the internet, galleries, social media and live music venues. Fresh off the press! Congratulations Mathias and Tomas! #musicvideo

@SoundonScreenOB @musicatbrookes Devastating news. If there’s a protest to be had, we are with you!

We are devastated to share this news with you all. Please read (and share as wide as possible) the statement below from our Music team at Oxford Brookes @musicatbrookes

Imagine spaces, occult sounds, haunted folk music, cries and whispers. Announcing Haunted Soundtracks edited by Aimee Mollaghan and Kevin Donnelly. This one is truly special!