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Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades.So claims Down with Childhood, as it takes in psychedelia's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617755002Author Scott CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576871997Author John CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

On a day like this, I remember - I'm the President, but he's The Boss. President Obama, commenting on Bruce Springsteen, Kennedy Center awards ceremony, 2009. Before Bruce Springsteen became The Boss, he was just a kid musician from New Jersey, playing...

The practice of blurring the line between score and sound design has transformed contemporary film soundscape by challenging not only the long-established hierarchical relationships between dialogue, music, and sound effects, but also the modes of...

Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. Now that the audience is...

From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the '40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house explosion of the '00s, this book explores vignettes taken from across South Africa's popular music history. There are moments in time where...

Women played crucial roles in the history of rock music. Without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a gospel-singing electric guitarist, rock might never have been born. Janis Joplin and Grace Slick were forefront in the growing hippie subculture that marked a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528991599Author Gillian PerrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This book is a critical history of Sub Pop, the Seattle independent rock label that launched the careers of countless influential 'grunge' bands in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It focuses in particular on the languages and personas of the 'loser', a...

Finalist, 2024 Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Award for Arts and Culture A queer, Black "biography in essays" about the performer who gave us "Hound Dog," "Ball and Chain," and other songs that changed the course of American music. Born in...

Forty years after its inception, punk has gone global. The founding scenes in the United Kingdom and United States now have counterparts all around the world. Most, if not all, cities on the planet now have some variation of punk existing in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757003332Author Elliot TiberFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Square One PublishersPublisher Square One PublishersWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm)...

Every song tells a story, but every song also has its own story - the ideas or events that inspired it, the songwriters who created it, the artists that recorded it, and the impact that it made. With extensive research, critical assessment, and the...

Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s offers a new look at the highly popular phenomenon of the televised teen dance program. These teen shows were incubators of new styles of social and popular...

In 1960s and 1970s singer-songwriter music, some artists used malleable metric settings alongside other features of self-expression in performance. This resulted in songs with extremes of self-expressive timing flexibility that cannot be accounted for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860745126Author Nick BrownleeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Sanctuary Publishing LtdPublisher Sanctuary Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 401g

Cultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine in this important book, which dissects how hip hop has sidelined Black women's identity and emotional well-being.A "ride-or-die chick" is a woman who holds down her family and community. She's your...

From Partition to Formation, Daddy Lessons to XO, Beyoncé Legends Alphabet is a melodic trip through the swaggering career of the world’s greatest R&B star. Bootyliciously illustrated and written with admiration, this A to Z anthology is a must-have for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228834359Author Jack KopsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

In Dreams in Double Time Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized communities. Blending lyrical nonfiction with transdisciplinary critique and moving beyond standard Black/white...

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans "jazz funeral" to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music's own...

From the Minds of Jazz Musicians, Volume II: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired is a follow-up to Volume I's celebration of contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled, and succeeded in finding their creative space. Volume II was...

A catalog nearly fifty years in the making, Bruce Springsteen's music remains popular and a frequent subject of study yet little critical attention has been given to its inclusion in film and television. This book examines a selection of films and TV...

Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major new analysis of music videos from 1966-2016, identifying not only their distinctive British traits, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399530722Author David EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 234gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 129mm...

When we talk about a jazz "standard" we usually mean one of the many songs that jazz musicians repeatedly play as part of their core repertoire. But unlike musical works in the tradition of so-called classical music, standards--whether plucked from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859651783Author James RiordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

The rise of Justin Timberlake from one-fifth of boy band *N SYNC to one of the world's top male solo artists has been nothing short of meteoric. But how did this precocious curly haired boy from the Tennessee Bible Belt transform himself into pop pin-up...

Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) is best known as the popular bandleader whose hits included "Cherokee", "Pompton Turnpike", and "Skyliner". But he was also the first to break the colour barrier in a popular dance band, and his black musicians included Clark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711977693Author Jack LongPage Count 256Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited

Born Ruby Rebecca Blevins in a log cabin nestled among the Arkansas Ozarks in 1908, Patsy Montana began her musical career performing in the 1920s with the California-based Montana Cowgirls trio. She went solo and in 1936 became the first female country...

Music is an expressive voice of a culture, often more so than literature. While jazz and rap are musical genres popular among people of numerous racial and social backgrounds, they are truly important historically for their representation of and impact...

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Rockin’ the Kremlin is the wild true story of the first CEO of Universal Music Russia and his quest to bring Western popular music to post-Soviet Russia. With many twists—from political chaos and gang violence to the launch of Russian’s most successful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905959075Author Kingsley AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ovolo Publishing LtdPublisher Red Planet Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997409178Author Tom WilmethFormat PaperbackImprint Thomas L. WilmethPublisher Thomas L. WilmethWeight(grams) 744g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997409185Author Tom WilmethFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Thomas L. WilmethPublisher Thomas L. WilmethWeight(grams) 907g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399536793Author Brian BooneFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 170g

With a discography of over 1000 songs, 20 musicals and three motion pictures, the Lebanese singer and performer, Fairouz, is an artist of pan-Arab appeal, who has connected with listeners from diverse backgrounds and geographies for over four often...