Pop Vocal

This book examines the profound legacy of Johnny Clegg (1953-2019), the South African musician, anthropologist and cultural activist who revolutionised the nation's musical landscape. From his groundbreaking collaboration with Sipho Mchunu in the 1970s...

This book examines the profound legacy of Johnny Clegg (1953-2019), the South African musician, anthropologist and cultural activist who revolutionised the nation's musical landscape. From his groundbreaking collaboration with Sipho Mchunu in the 1970s...

This collection delves into the politics of language choice when composing and performing popular music in punk, metal, Hip-Hop and rap and provides fascinating examples of language change, resistance, reclamation and revitalisation from across the...

Since its release in 1976, ABBA's song "Fernando" has been loved by fans around the globe, both for its sing-along chorus and its revolutionary spirit. In Fernando, Kay Dickinson takes readers from Sweden and Chile to Australia and Poland, tracing the...

"An empowering, unapologetic portrait of creative risk and queer joy." -Kirkus ReviewsExplore the "femininomenon" and cultural impact of the Midwest pop princess, Chappell Roan, in this richly illustrated biography.Chappell Roan is a 2025 Grammy Award...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765109250Author Beth EastonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

"Wonderful"--The New York Times. "Provocative, opinionated, and never dull"--Down Beat. "A singular book."--Studs Terkel. When it was first published, Alec Wilder's American Popular Song quickly became a classic and today it remains essential reading...

Winner of The Woody Guthrie First Book Award 2021In 2007, an unlikely troupe of 1500 Filipino prisoners became Internet celebrities after their YouTube video of Michael Jackson's ground-breaking hit 'Thriller' went viral. Taking this spectacular dance as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804903971Author Adam SaundersPage Count 212Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 705g

A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music...

Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, this book seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on nortena, banda or conjunto musics (the most...

Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, this book seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on nortena, banda or conjunto musics (the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634044595Format PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 152mm *...

From the first Tin Pan Alley tunes to today's million-view streaming hits, pop songs have been supported and influenced by an increasingly complex industry that feeds audience demand and regulates supply. As musicians and performers have created new...

Black British Music in America 1967-2000: Atlantic Crossover historically examines musical and cultural relationships through popular music recordings, exploring the transatlantic journeys via academic, critical, and commercial reception of the music. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765124338Author Paul CarrFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Addressing their shared passion for literature, art, and music, this book documents how Samuel Beckett and David Bowie produce extraordinarily empathetic creative outputs that reflect the experience and the effect of alienation. Through an exploration of...

This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness. Rather than providing a history of popular music or an itemization of indigenous musical qualities, it exposes the...

This book examines the creative process of the Bee Gees and the latent elements that shaped their sound. From their formative Australian work to the highs of their disco years and the scores of songs they wrote and produced for other artists, the Bee...

The central image of David Bowie's "Life on Mars?" could have been ripped from his own experience: a child sits "hooked to the silver screen," reliving fantastical scenes played out on film. Throughout his life, Bowie was similarly transfixed by the...

Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with...

U2 and the Religious Impulse examines indications in U2's music and performances that the band work at conscious and subconscious levels as artists who focus on matters of the spirit, religious traditions, and a life guided by both belief and doubt. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Meant to be a field guide for further research, it pitches to the most erudite echelons of Elvis fandom without going over the heads of the masses. It is also easily the coolest,...

In Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negron tells the cultural history of salsa, tracing the music's Nuyorican meanings over a fifty-year period that begins with the establishment of Fania Records in 1964 and how it capitalized on salsa's Nuyorican imaginary to...

Pandemic Playlist: An Exploration of COVID-inspired Popular Music takes readers back to 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the music industry. Focusing on those artists who responded directly to the pandemic with their music, Kevin Farrell...

In Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negron tells the cultural history of salsa, tracing the music's Nuyorican meanings over a fifty-year period that begins with the establishment of Fania Records in 1964 and how it capitalized on salsa's Nuyorican imaginary to...

Downtown, 1956-1965--the first volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In--describes the rise of London's music and recording cultures through the stories of those who empowered Britain's youth to be young. As the generations born in the postwar world...

Itchycoo Park, 1964-1970--the second volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In--explores how London songwriters, musicians, and production crews navigated the era's cultural upheavals by reimagining the pop-music envelope. As the generation born during...

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991157515Author William Michael PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Perrysongs Music Publishing LtdPublisher Perrysongs Music Publishing...

A memoir from singer-songwriter Madison Beer, chronicling the past decade of her life spent in the spotlight-the ups, the downs, and the in-betweens that you won't see on social media.Discovered at twelve years old, Madison Beer was one of the first...

During the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence from a colonial hold that had lasted almost a century. It was an exciting time for a diverse group of pioneering musicians who formed a band they named...

American roots music, also known as Americana music, can be challenging to categorize, spanning the genres of jazz, bluegrass, country, blues, rock and roll, and an assortment of variations in between. In The Downhome Sound, Mandi Bates Bailey explores...

The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by emphasizing the social history, artistic practices, and...

From its 1939 'Nickel, Nickel' jingle to pathbreaking collaborations with Michael Jackson and Madonna to its pair of X Factor commercials in 2011 and 2012, Pepsi-Cola has played a leading role in drawing the American pop music industry into a synergetic...

In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early twenty-first century. Drawing together...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788446015178Author Ramon PelinskiFormat PaperbackImprint Akal EdicionesPublisher Akal Ediciones

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739082799Author MusePage Count 143Imprint Alfred Publishing Company IncPublisher Alfred Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109929Author Al BrodaxFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 671gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739086247Author Alfred Music Publishing Co, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 563Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc...