Pop Vocal

Already one of the biggest pop stars in the world at 25 years old, Ariana Grande is simply unstoppable. From her early career on Broadway, to her star turns on Nickelodeon, to three Billboard #1 albums including 2018's Sweetener, Grande is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986500999Author Rachael GilliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Now known internationally through the recordings of King Sunny Ade and others, juju music originated more than fifty years ago among the Yoruba of Nigeria. This history and ethnography of juju is the first detailed account of the evolution and social...

The North of England is regarded as a region economically and culturally lagging behind the South of England. However, this situation does not refer to popular music in which the North has had an influence which is comparable to that of London. Many...

Tales of The Smiths is a comic book retelling of the band members' teenage years, before the group was famous, and includes fascinating digressions about their influences (the New York Dolls, Nico, Sex Pistols, NY punk, Patti Smith, etc) and the times in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Biography) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781550227321Author Clay EalsFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint ECW...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787390690Author Chris WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Welbeck Publishing GroupPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

Here, for the first time, is a book which analyses popular music from a musical, as opposed to a sociological, biographical, or political point of view. Peter van der Merwe has made an extensive survey of Western popular music in all its forms - blues,...

The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "sound" functions in an equally wide array of popular music. Ranging from the twang of country banjoes and the sheen of hip-hop strings...

Sonic Multiplicities is a fascinating book, with essays rich in empirical detail and - captivatingly combining the personal and the theoretical - evocative of the complexities of experience, desire and politics in our perplexingly mobile and entangled...

Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected...

The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the '70s and early '80s were an extraordinarily talented group who dazzled the world with an exciting blend of elegance, soulful passion and gutsy fire. In this book of original interviews, 32 of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062279804Author Simon ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 839g

You've recorded the album, toured the world, and all of the fans have left the venues. Where can the rock star now turn for sanctuary? With stadium size egos to placate, how does the rock star relax in their household? From Keith Moon's stately home to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416599753Author Robert PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595146185Author Jeannie St MarieFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 156mm * 7mm

Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and...

Bob Dylan's contribution to popular music is immeasurable. Venerated as rock's one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new range of topics and new lyrical complexity into popular music. Without Bob Dylan, rock critic Dave Marsh...

In December 8, 1980, twenty-something rock journalist Laurie Kaye entered the legendary Dakota apartments on Manhattan's Upper West Side to co-conduct an interview with her longtime idol, John Lennon. It was the last interview Lennon would ever give -...

This work is a revealing chronicle of Hip Hop culture from its beginnings three decades ago to the present, with an analysis of its influence on people and popular culture in the United States and around the world. From Grandmaster Flash and the Furious...

"Few books on popular music treat their subject so comprehensively, with thoughtful attention to ideology, history, and verbal and musical rhetoric. Miyakawa's approach is at once comprehensive and streamlined, making for an especially effective...

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, popular music was considered nothing but vulgar entertainment. Today, jazz and rock music are seen as forms of art, and their practitioners are regularly accorded a status on par with the cultural and...

This South Korean group is at the forefront of the K-Pop wave sweeping the globe With a phenomenal string of No. 1 albums plus hit singles like Dynamite, ON, Black Swan, and Life Goes On, BTS is on an unstoppable path to greatness! BTS: ONE is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439170960Author Mary Ellin BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447884286Author Chris WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm * 3mm

Which Song is the Best and Why? Read it and see! Organized by rank, from 1 to 100, this illustrated celebration of the best songs by the boys who revolutionized rock-and-roll includes expert commentary, historical context, interview material, and lots of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630518516Author Murray SteinFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 386g

"Celluloid Symphonies" is a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible. It includes essays by those who created the music - Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Jerry Goldsmith,...

Fans of punk rock and New Wave music will be impressed by this collection of never-before-seen imagesThe first-time release of this private photo collection, Zone's photo memoir will give new insight into what some might see as a saturated field, proving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613744789Author Jeremy SimmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 1451gDimensions(mm)...

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...

After a hundred years of recording, the process of making records is still mysterious to most people who listen to them. Records hold a fundamental place in the dynamics of modern musical life, but what do they represent? Are they documents? Snapshots?...

The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces-cultural, aesthetic, and technical-the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short, discrete, and temporally demarcated...

Jason Derulo teams with Z2 comics to bring his TikTok character UZO to life! In the distant future, a mysterious asteroid accelerates the effects of climate change and turns the planet into a frozen wasteland where the last gasps of humanity fight over...

Smith explores Pete Townshend's artistic struggle between his own creative impulses and those of the commercial public. Faced with a modern version of the minstrel's dilemma, Townshend, early in his career, ignored his creative instincts to satisfy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540003966Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 144Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

The phrase "popular music revolution" may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll. In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480342422Author Gerald McCauleyPage Count 274Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 1497gDimensions(mm) 264mm *...

How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is considered vulgar or second rate? In "The Persistence of Sentiment", Mitchell Morris gives a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637276822Author Katy SprinkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...