Publication: The Artistry and Legacy of Queen

Tony Rigg, Ewa Mazierska (2024) The Artistry and Legacy of Queen
Bloomsbury Academic.
Series: Popular Music

Over a career spanning six decades, Queen have become one of the most successful music artists in the history of the recorded music industry. Their consumption on digital platforms towers above other classic bands and artists of their generation and even many contemporary artists, attesting to the substantial and transgenerational appeal of Queen. This collection offers insights into the Queen phenomenon through considering their artistry, influences, sound, singing style, use of instruments and technology, composition, live performance, as well as their impact on other music makers and fandom. Bringing together academics from a range of disciplines in music studies, including musicology, composition, performance, film and media studies, sociology, queer studies and business studies, the book examines the many dimensions of Queen and lessons we can learn from them to inform future practice in popular music

Editors: 

Tony Rigg is a music industry advisor, practitioner, and academic in the UK. Key texts include the co-edited Popular Music in the Post-digital Age: Politics, Economy, Culture and Technology (Bloomsbury, 2018), The Future of Live Music (Bloomsbury, 2020), The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music (Bloomsbury, 2021) and The Present and Future of Music Law (Bloomsbury, 2021). 

Ewa Mazierska is a Professor at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections concerning popular culture and music, including Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990-2015: A Cultural History (2019). Mazierska’s work has been translated into over twenty languages

ISBN: 9798765103258