A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood Production Code.
Identifies how "dangerous" 1980s heavy metal can be analyzed through literary criticism, how heavy metal helps us understand what's dangerous about literature, and why metal music matters.
An exploration of the volatile years of England’s Tudor dynasty (1485–1603), using the art of the era – both images and objects – to investigate every facet of a period that continues to exert a remarkable allure.
This book depicts the life and career of Scott Hoying, Grammy Award-winning cofounder of Pentatonix, as seen by his mother Connie. More than just a close-up look at Scott’s life and the meteoric rise of Pentatonix, Connie tells a heartfelt story of perseverance, dedication to music, LGBTQ+ acceptance, and supportive parenting.
From comedian, actor and screenwriter Ben Bailey Smith comes the biggest middle grade debut of the year – a blazingly funny, big-hearted story about family, friendship and how far one boy will go to get a laugh
Guides readers through the enigmatic genre of shoegaze—a subgenre of 90s indie rock defined by dreamy melodies and obscured vocals and made popular by bands like My Bloody Valentine, Ride, and Slowdive.
Guides readers through dance-punk, a sub-genre of post-punk, drawing from the historical and cultural conditions surrounding the genre in the 1970s and early 1980s, and then again in the early 2000s.
Examines the flash-in-the-pan Neue Deutsche Welle movement—its history, importance to youth rebellion in Germany and beyond, and ultimate (re)appropriation by the mainstream establishment.
Demonstrates the split personalities of South African popular music, and how it spread around the world and yet retained a full suite of unique and original languages, both literally and figuratively.
Guides readers through an overview of death metal, broken down to explore its foundations, tropes and myriad microgenres, presented for an outsider with a morbid curiosity but little experience.
