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Chapter 2.1 - Taking the Initiative: An Introduction to Musical Power Analysis
Chapter 2.2 - Power and Agency in Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love'
Chapter 2.3 - What is Music? (Three Deterritorialisations)
Chapter 2.4 - The Problem of the Vocal-Subject (Three Reterritorialisations)
Chapter 2.5 - Sonic Bodies, Vocal-Objects and the Aural Gaze
Chapter 2.6 - Encountering the Vocal-Subject
Chapter 2.7 - Song Acts
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(Chapters 3-6 coming soon...)
Chapter 2.2 - Power and Agency in Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love'
Chapter 2.3 - What is Music? (Three Deterritorialisations)
Chapter 2.4 - The Problem of the Vocal-Subject (Three Reterritorialisations)
Chapter 2.5 - Sonic Bodies, Vocal-Objects and the Aural Gaze
Chapter 2.6 - Encountering the Vocal-Subject
Chapter 2.7 - Song Acts
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(Chapters 3-6 coming soon...)
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Bibliography (to be expanded as new chapters are posted):
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Abebe, Nitsuh, 'Twee as Fuck: The Story of Indie Pop' (Pitchfork, published 24/10/2005)
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Adorno, Theodor W., Philosophy of New Music (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
Almén, Byron, A Theory of Musical Narrative (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008)
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Badiou, Alain, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (London: Verso, 2012)
Baker, Jr., Houston A., Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Baraka, Amiri (published as LeRoi Jones), Blues People (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1963)
Barker, Chris (ed.), The SAGE Dictionary of Cultural Studies (SAGE, 2004)
Barthes, Roland, Music-Image-Text (London: Fontana, 1977)
Bevan, David, 'New Vocabulary' (Pitchfork, published 15/11/2010)
Borkowski, Alex, 'Song Of The Digital Flesh: Vocal Manipulation And Our Cyborg Selves' (The Quietus, published 15/5/2014)
Bradby, Barbara, 'Sampling Sexuality: Gender, Technology and the Body in Dance Music', in Popular Music, Vol. 12, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp.155–176
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Chion, Michel, Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994)
Clément, Catherine, Opera, or the Undoing of Women (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988)
Cone, Edward T., The Composer's Voice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974)
Connor, Steven, Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Crenshaw, Kimberlé W., 'Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Anti-Racist Politics', in University of Chicago Legal Forum (1989)
Currid, Brian, '"We Are Family": House Music and Queer Performativity', in Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett and Susan Leigh Foster, Cruising the Performative (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995)
Davies, Stephen, 'Why Listen to Sad Music If It Makes One Feel Sad?', in Jenefer Robinson (ed.), Music and Meaning (New York: Cornell University Press, 1997)
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Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983
Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari, Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986)
Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013)
Derrida, Jacques, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International (New York: Routledge, 1994)
Ellis, Warren, 'Burial: "Untrue"' (Warren Ellis Dot Com, published 12/11/2007)
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Fisher, Mark, 'The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology', in Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (2013)
Floyd, Jr., Samuel A., 'Ring Shout! Literary Studies, Historical Studies, and Black Music Inquiry', in Gena Dagel Caponi (ed.), Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999)
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Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)
Giddens, Anthony, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration (Oxford: Polity Press, 1984)
Gilbert, Jeremy, 'More than a Woman', in Rosa Reitsamer & Rupert Weinzierl (eds.), Female Consequences (Vienna: Löcker, 2006)
Gilbert, Jeremy & Ewan Pearson, Discographies: Dance Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound (London: Routledge, 1999)
Gilroy, Paul, Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures (London: Serpent's Tail, 1993)
Goodman, Steve, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010)
Gramit, David, 'Lieder, Listening, and Ideology: Schubert's "Alinde" and Opus 81', in Adam Krims (ed.), Music/Ideology: Resisting the Aesthetic (Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 1998)
Graver, David, 'The actor's bodies', in Text and Performance Quarterly, Vol. 17, Issue 3 (1997)
Griffiths, Dai, ‘From lyric to anti-lyric: analyzing the words in pop song’, in Allan F. Moore (ed.), Analyzing Popular Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Guck, Marion A., 'Analytical Fictions', in Adam Krims (ed.), Music/Ideology: Resisting the Aesthetic (Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 1998)
Haraway, Donna, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991)
Harper, Adam, 'The Premature Burial: Burial the Pallbearer vs Burial the Innovator' (Rouge's Foam, published 3/12/2009)
Harper, Adam, Infinite Music: Imagining the New Millennium of Human Music-Making (Zero Books, 2011)
Harper, Adam, 'Vaporwave and the pop-art of the virtual plaza' (Dummy, published 12/7/2012)
Harper, Adam, 'Pattern Recognition Vol. 3: The Fantasy behind Veiled Musicians' (Electronic Beats, published 9/7/2013)
Harper, Adam, 'Modules in Machine Modernism with Oneohtrix Point Never' (Dummy, published 18/10/2013)
Harper, Adam, 'Pattern Recognition Vol. 9: Cold Forecast' (Electronic Beats, published 9/1/2014(a))
Harper, Adam, 'System Focus: The Evolution of the Voice in the Digital Landscape' (Fader, published 2/7/2014(b))
Hebdige, Dick, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (London: Routledge, 1979)
Hemment, Drew, 'e is for Ekstasis', in New Formations (Spring/Summer, 1997)
Henriques, Julian, 'Sonic Dominance and the Reggae Sound System', in Michael Bull & Les Back (eds.), The Auditory Culture Reader (Oxford: Berg, 2003)
Henriques, Julian, Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (New York: Continuum, 2011)
Jaffe, Sarah, 'Music Matters: Robyn, Janelle Monae, & Fembot/Android/Cyborg Feminism' (Bitch Media, 2/11/10)
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Kretowicz, Steph, 'Gendered production and the artists who are vocal about it' (Dummy, published 18/12/12)
Kretowicz, Steph, 'Trends of 2013: Let's talk about gendered production, baby' (Dummy, published 11/12/13)
Kretowicz, Steph, 'Feminine Appropriation Was 2014's Biggest Electronic Music Trend' (The Fader, published 31/12/14)
Krims, Adam, Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Kriss, Sam, 'Guest column: the ghost of Theodor Adorno reviews Sepulcure's self-titled album' (Idiot Joy Showland, published 24/12/2011)
Kristeva, Julia, Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980)
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Lefebvre, Henri, The Production of Space (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991)
Lévinas, Emmanuel, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991)
Littlefield, Richard, 'The Silence of the Frames', in Adam Krims (ed.), Music/Ideology: Resisting the Aesthetic (Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 1998)
Loza, Susana, 'Sampling (Hetero)Sexuality: Diva-ness and Discipline in Electronic Dance Music', in Popular Music Vol. 20, No. 3 (Oct., 2001) pp. 349–357
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Mannie, Sierra, ‘Dear White Gays: Stop Stealing Black Female Culture’ (Time, 9/7/14)
Manuel, Peter, ‘Modernity and Musical Structure: Neo-Marxist Perspectives on Song Form and Its Successors’, in Regula Burkhardt Qureshi (ed.), Music and Marx (New York: Routledge, 2002)
Marcuse, Herbert, One-Dimensional Man (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964)
Maróthy, Janós, Music and the Bourgeois; Music and the Proletarian (Akadémiai Kiadó, 1974)
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Maus, John, +1 Interview for Pitchfork TV (YouTube, uploaded by pitchforktv on 19/1/2012)
McClary, Susan, Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001)
McClary, Susan, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002)
Middleton, Richard, Studying popular music (Open University Press: Buckingham, 1990)
Middleton, Richard, Voicing the Popular: On the Subjects of Music (New York: Routledge, 2006a)
Middleton, Richard, '"Last Night a DJ Saved My Life": Avians, Cyborgs and Siren Bodies in the Era of Phonographic Technology', in Radical Musicology, Volume 1 (2006b)
Moten, Fred, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003)
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Poizat, Michel, The Angel's Cry: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera (New York: Cornell University Press, 1992)
Reynolds, Simon, 'Wargasm: Militaristic imagery in popular culture', in Frieze, Issue 28 (May 1996)
Reynolds, Simon, Energy Flash (London: Picador, 2008)
Reynolds, Simon, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past (London: Faber & Faber, 2011)
Ricoeur, Paul, Time and Narrative (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984/1985/1988)
Robinson, Paul, Review of Catherine Clément's Opera, or the Undoing of Women, in The New York Times, 1st January 1989
Rosenberg, Alyssa, 'Electric Ladies and Fembots: Janelle Monáe, Robyn, and Why Robots Rule Today's Best Pop Music' (Think Progress, 10/09/13)
Rowe, Sian, 'From Robyn to Janelle Monae: 2010 & the Rise of the Fembots' (The Quietus, 20/12/10)
Said, Edward, Orientalism (London: Penguin, 2003)
Schmitt, Carl, Concept of the Political (1927)
Shepherd, John & Peter Wicke, Music and Cultural Theory (Polity, 1997)
Simon, AbdouMaliq, 'On the Worlding of African Cities', in African Studies Review, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Sep. 2011)
Small, Christopher, Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1999)
Tagg, Philip, ‘Subjectivity and Soundscape, Motorbikes and Music’, in Andy Bennett et al. (eds.), The Popular Music Studies Reader (Routledge: New York, 2006)
Tagg, Philip, Music's Meanings: A Modern Musicology for Non-Musos (MMMSP, 2013) [Download as e-book]
Virno, Paulo, Grammar of the Multitude (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2004)
Walser, Robert, Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1993)
Willis, Paul, Profane Culture (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1978)
Witkin, Robert W., Adorno on Music (New York: Routledge, 1998)
Žižek, Slavoj, Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences (New York: Routledge, 2004)
Žižek, Slavoj, Commentary in Sophie Fiennes (dir.), The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
Abbate, Carolyn, Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991)
Abebe, Nitsuh, 'Twee as Fuck: The Story of Indie Pop' (Pitchfork, published 24/10/2005)
Adorno, Theodor W., Essays on Music (ed. Richard Leppert) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002)
Adorno, Theodor W., Philosophy of New Music (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
Almén, Byron, A Theory of Musical Narrative (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008)
Althusser, Louis, 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' (on www.marxists.org, 1971)
Attali, Jacques, Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1985)
Austin, J. L., How to Do Things with Words (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975)
Badiou, Alain, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (London: Verso, 2012)
Baker, Jr., Houston A., Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Baraka, Amiri (published as LeRoi Jones), Blues People (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1963)
Barker, Chris (ed.), The SAGE Dictionary of Cultural Studies (SAGE, 2004)
Barthes, Roland, Music-Image-Text (London: Fontana, 1977)
Bevan, David, 'New Vocabulary' (Pitchfork, published 15/11/2010)
Borkowski, Alex, 'Song Of The Digital Flesh: Vocal Manipulation And Our Cyborg Selves' (The Quietus, published 15/5/2014)
Bradby, Barbara, 'Sampling Sexuality: Gender, Technology and the Body in Dance Music', in Popular Music, Vol. 12, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp.155–176
Burial/Martin Clark, Interview for Blackdown (Blackdown, published 21/3/2006)
Burial/Mark Fisher, Unedited transcript of interview (The Wire, published Dec. 2012)
Chion, Michel, Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994)
Clément, Catherine, Opera, or the Undoing of Women (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988)
Cone, Edward T., The Composer's Voice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974)
Connor, Steven, Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Crenshaw, Kimberlé W., 'Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Anti-Racist Politics', in University of Chicago Legal Forum (1989)
Currid, Brian, '"We Are Family": House Music and Queer Performativity', in Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett and Susan Leigh Foster, Cruising the Performative (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995)
Davies, Stephen, 'Why Listen to Sad Music If It Makes One Feel Sad?', in Jenefer Robinson (ed.), Music and Meaning (New York: Cornell University Press, 1997)
Debord, Guy, Society of the Spectacle (www.marxists.org, 1967)
Deleuze, Gilles, 'Postscript on the Societies of Control', in October, Vol. 59 (Winter, 1992)
Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983
Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari, Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986)
Deleuze, Gilles & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013)
Derrida, Jacques, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International (New York: Routledge, 1994)
Ellis, Warren, 'Burial: "Untrue"' (Warren Ellis Dot Com, published 12/11/2007)
Eshun, Kodwo, More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (London: Quartet Books, 1998)
Fink, Robert, Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)
Fisher, Mark, 'London after the rave' (K-Punk, published 14/4/2006 (2006a))
Fisher, Mark, 'Dub housing' (K-Punk, published 16/4/2006 (2006b))
Fisher, Mark, 'The signal is still out there' (K-Punk, published 11/10/2007)
Fisher, Mark, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Zero Books, 2009)
Fisher, Mark, 'The Metaphysics of Crackle: Afrofuturism and Hauntology', in Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (2013)
Floyd, Jr., Samuel A., 'Ring Shout! Literary Studies, Historical Studies, and Black Music Inquiry', in Gena Dagel Caponi (ed.), Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999)
Forster, E. M., Howard's End (Project Gutenberg, 2008 (1910)) [Access e-book]
Foucault, Michel, Society Must be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France 1975-76 (London: Penguin, 2004)
Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)
Giddens, Anthony, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration (Oxford: Polity Press, 1984)
Gilbert, Jeremy, 'More than a Woman', in Rosa Reitsamer & Rupert Weinzierl (eds.), Female Consequences (Vienna: Löcker, 2006)
Gilbert, Jeremy & Ewan Pearson, Discographies: Dance Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound (London: Routledge, 1999)
Gilroy, Paul, Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures (London: Serpent's Tail, 1993)
Goodman, Steve, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010)
Gramit, David, 'Lieder, Listening, and Ideology: Schubert's "Alinde" and Opus 81', in Adam Krims (ed.), Music/Ideology: Resisting the Aesthetic (Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 1998)
Graver, David, 'The actor's bodies', in Text and Performance Quarterly, Vol. 17, Issue 3 (1997)
Griffiths, Dai, ‘From lyric to anti-lyric: analyzing the words in pop song’, in Allan F. Moore (ed.), Analyzing Popular Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Guck, Marion A., 'Analytical Fictions', in Adam Krims (ed.), Music/Ideology: Resisting the Aesthetic (Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 1998)
Haraway, Donna, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991)
Harper, Adam, 'The Premature Burial: Burial the Pallbearer vs Burial the Innovator' (Rouge's Foam, published 3/12/2009)
Harper, Adam, Infinite Music: Imagining the New Millennium of Human Music-Making (Zero Books, 2011)
Harper, Adam, 'Vaporwave and the pop-art of the virtual plaza' (Dummy, published 12/7/2012)
Harper, Adam, 'Pattern Recognition Vol. 3: The Fantasy behind Veiled Musicians' (Electronic Beats, published 9/7/2013)
Harper, Adam, 'Modules in Machine Modernism with Oneohtrix Point Never' (Dummy, published 18/10/2013)
Harper, Adam, 'Pattern Recognition Vol. 9: Cold Forecast' (Electronic Beats, published 9/1/2014(a))
Harper, Adam, 'System Focus: The Evolution of the Voice in the Digital Landscape' (Fader, published 2/7/2014(b))
Hebdige, Dick, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (London: Routledge, 1979)
Hemment, Drew, 'e is for Ekstasis', in New Formations (Spring/Summer, 1997)
Henriques, Julian, 'Sonic Dominance and the Reggae Sound System', in Michael Bull & Les Back (eds.), The Auditory Culture Reader (Oxford: Berg, 2003)
Henriques, Julian, Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (New York: Continuum, 2011)
Jaffe, Sarah, 'Music Matters: Robyn, Janelle Monae, & Fembot/Android/Cyborg Feminism' (Bitch Media, 2/11/10)
James, Robin, '"Robo-Diva R&B": Aesthetics, Politics, and Black Female Robots in Contemporary Popular Music', Journal of Popular Music Studies Volume 20, Number 4 (Dec., 2008) pp. 402–423 James, Robin, Resilence & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism (Winchester: Zero Books, 2015) Jameson, Fredric, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991)
Koestenbaum, Wayne, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire (New York: Da Capo Press, 2001)
Kretowicz, Steph, 'Gendered production and the artists who are vocal about it' (Dummy, published 18/12/12)
Kretowicz, Steph, 'Trends of 2013: Let's talk about gendered production, baby' (Dummy, published 11/12/13)
Kretowicz, Steph, 'Feminine Appropriation Was 2014's Biggest Electronic Music Trend' (The Fader, published 31/12/14)
Krims, Adam, Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Kriss, Sam, 'Guest column: the ghost of Theodor Adorno reviews Sepulcure's self-titled album' (Idiot Joy Showland, published 24/12/2011)
Kristeva, Julia, Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980)
Lacasse, Serge, 'The Phonographic Voice: Paralinguistic Features and Phonographic Staging in Popular Music Singing', in Amanda Bayley (ed.), Recorded Music: Society, Technology and Performance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Lefebvre, Henri, The Production of Space (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991)
Lévinas, Emmanuel, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991)
Littlefield, Richard, 'The Silence of the Frames', in Adam Krims (ed.), Music/Ideology: Resisting the Aesthetic (Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 1998)
Loza, Susana, 'Sampling (Hetero)Sexuality: Diva-ness and Discipline in Electronic Dance Music', in Popular Music Vol. 20, No. 3 (Oct., 2001) pp. 349–357
Lynskey, Dorian, 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs (London: Faber & Faber, 2010)
Mannie, Sierra, ‘Dear White Gays: Stop Stealing Black Female Culture’ (Time, 9/7/14)
Manuel, Peter, ‘Modernity and Musical Structure: Neo-Marxist Perspectives on Song Form and Its Successors’, in Regula Burkhardt Qureshi (ed.), Music and Marx (New York: Routledge, 2002)
Marcuse, Herbert, One-Dimensional Man (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964)
Maróthy, Janós, Music and the Bourgeois; Music and the Proletarian (Akadémiai Kiadó, 1974)
Maus, Fred E., 'Music as Drama', in Jenefer Robinson (ed.), Music and Meaning (New York: Cornell University Press, 1997)
Maus, John, +1 Interview for Pitchfork TV (YouTube, uploaded by pitchforktv on 19/1/2012)
McClary, Susan, Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001)
McClary, Susan, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002)
Middleton, Richard, Studying popular music (Open University Press: Buckingham, 1990)
Middleton, Richard, Voicing the Popular: On the Subjects of Music (New York: Routledge, 2006a)
Middleton, Richard, '"Last Night a DJ Saved My Life": Avians, Cyborgs and Siren Bodies in the Era of Phonographic Technology', in Radical Musicology, Volume 1 (2006b)
Moten, Fred, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003)
Penman, Ian, '[the Phantoms of] TRICKNOLOGY [versus a Politics of Authenticity]', in The Wire, March 1995
Poizat, Michel, The Angel's Cry: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera (New York: Cornell University Press, 1992)
Reynolds, Simon, 'Wargasm: Militaristic imagery in popular culture', in Frieze, Issue 28 (May 1996)
Reynolds, Simon, Energy Flash (London: Picador, 2008)
Reynolds, Simon, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past (London: Faber & Faber, 2011)
Ricoeur, Paul, Time and Narrative (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984/1985/1988)
Robinson, Paul, Review of Catherine Clément's Opera, or the Undoing of Women, in The New York Times, 1st January 1989
Rosenberg, Alyssa, 'Electric Ladies and Fembots: Janelle Monáe, Robyn, and Why Robots Rule Today's Best Pop Music' (Think Progress, 10/09/13)
Rowe, Sian, 'From Robyn to Janelle Monae: 2010 & the Rise of the Fembots' (The Quietus, 20/12/10)
Said, Edward, Orientalism (London: Penguin, 2003)
Schmitt, Carl, Concept of the Political (1927)
Shepherd, John & Peter Wicke, Music and Cultural Theory (Polity, 1997)
Simon, AbdouMaliq, 'On the Worlding of African Cities', in African Studies Review, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Sep. 2011)
Small, Christopher, Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1999)
Tagg, Philip, ‘Subjectivity and Soundscape, Motorbikes and Music’, in Andy Bennett et al. (eds.), The Popular Music Studies Reader (Routledge: New York, 2006)
Tagg, Philip, Music's Meanings: A Modern Musicology for Non-Musos (MMMSP, 2013) [Download as e-book]
Virno, Paulo, Grammar of the Multitude (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2004)
Walser, Robert, Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1993)
Willis, Paul, Profane Culture (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1978)
Witkin, Robert W., Adorno on Music (New York: Routledge, 1998)
Žižek, Slavoj, Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences (New York: Routledge, 2004)
Žižek, Slavoj, Commentary in Sophie Fiennes (dir.), The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
