This month we have two new books joining Genre: A 33 1/3 Series: Soul-Folk and Shoegaze. Keep reading to find out more about each book. Liking the Genre series? Let us know what genres you’d like to see us add to the series in the comments.
This book traces the growing imprints of soul-folk and how it made its way from folk tradition to subgenre. Along the way, it explores the musicians, albums, and histories that made the genre what it is.
Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding, yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-folk, Black artists like Terry Callier and Linda Lewis began to reclaim their space in the genre, and use it to bring their own traditions to light— the jazz, the blues, the field hollers, the spirituals— and creating something wholly new, wholly theirs, wholly ours.
What the hell is shoegaze? A scene? A movement? A sound? Back in the Nineties, many would have said the so-called genre was entirely fabricated. The term itself, an offensive piss-take given by the notoriously catty and scene-obsessed British music press, was plainly rejected by the absurdly small collection of bands to which it supposedly applied.
Today shoegaze is undeniable. As a descriptor and as a source of influence, it is used in more ways and by more bands than anyone could have dreamed of 30 years ago. Ryan Pinkard unearths the first wave of shoegaze, following the core bands, their sounds, their influence, and their journeys in and out of obscurity. His analysis is woven through dozens of original interviews with artists, label heads, and critics.
Hi! I submitted my proposal for Genre: A 33 1/3 Series a while ago. Could you please provide an approximate timeframe for when I might expect to hear back from you? My email address is piper_andrew*************.
Andrew
Hi! I’m afraid we can’t supply an immediate timeline but we can check in with our editorial team for more information.
Trying to get a list of planned and published titles. Is this up to date / accurate? https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/genre-a-33-13-series/
Hello! It’s up to date in terms of published and forthcoming (within the next 6-7 months). It won’t show books that are commissioned but don’t yet have a release date though.
Vaporwave isn’t on the list of current or upcoming titles. Is there still a Vaporwave title coming out?
Hi there! Yes – Vaporwave is still coming, we just don’t have a release date for that one just yet.
Also waiting for this! Hopefully this year? 🙂