Pop Vocal

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416584537Author Karen SchoemerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Over the past four decades the Stephen King movie has become a genre unto itself. The prolific writer's works have spawned well over 100 adaptations for both the big and small screen ranging from modern classics of horror (ECarrieE EThe ShiningE) to...

In a way that no prior rock act had done the Band assimilated remade and contagiously celebrated the rich deep tributaries of American vernacular music. Blues country jazz folk gospel soul rock'n' roll a the members soaked it all up distilling...

In the 1950s and '60s those shiny 45-rpm records with the big hole in the middle were the primary delivery system for popular American music especially rock 'n' roll. Cheap to manufacture and available to even fly-by-night record operations the donut...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957051188Author Daveth MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Bennion KearnyPublisher Bennion KearnyWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...

Following the 1960's sexual revolution, rock and pop have continued to map the societal understanding of sexuality, feminism, and gender studies. Although scholarship has well established how early rock and roll encouraged and affected issues of sex in...

In What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. Many of the singers of this era became wildly...

When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. Leonard Feather, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said ""no other writer now living can write with comparable grace and equal enthusiasm...

With one world tour already under his belt, 18-year old pop star on the rise Shawn Mendes is set to take over the charts for years to come. First discovered on the popular social media app Vine, Mendes developed a following of millions online based on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910295656Author Chris CowlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Apex Publishing LimitedPublisher Apex Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634025730Author BeatlesPage Count 96Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820463650Author Steve JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 440g

Trinidad is known for its vibrant musical traditions, which reflect the island's ethnic diversity. The annual Carnival, far and away the biggest event in Trinidad, is filled with soca and calypso music. Soca is a dance music derived from calypso, a music...

Trevor Kelley and Leslie Simon perfectly capture the excitement, absurdity, and obsessive passion of rock history buffs in this travel guide/indie music biography. Whether they're poking fun at hipsters in trucker hats, or offering a hilarious list of...

The ultimate biography of the musical icon. A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into Bob Dylan lore-including subjects Dylan himself left out of Chronicles: Volume One. DYLAN:...

Boosting the bass guitar, blending the vocals, overdubbing percussion while fretting over shoot-outs in the street. Grumbling about a producer, teasing a white engineer, challenging an artist to feel his African beat. Sound of Africa! is a riveting...

This interdisciplinary volume explores the girl's voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers through topics that range from female vocal development during adolescence to...

Bob Dylan transcends music. He has established himself as one of the most important figures in entertainment history. This biography examines the life and work of the iconic artist, including his groundbreaking achievements of the last two decades. In...

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...

How does popular music produce its subject? How does it produce us as subjects? More specifically, how does it do this through voice--through "giving voice"? And how should we understand this subject--"the people"--that it voices into existence? Is it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900486606Author Joe AmbroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HeadpressPublisher HeadpressWeight(grams) 312g

"Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide their time in the minor leagues wishing for an opportunity to move up and play in the majors. Musical...

It has taken Liverpool almost half a century to come to terms with the musical, cultural and now economic legacy of the Beatles and popular music. At times the group was negatively associated with sex and drugs images surrounding rock music: deemed...

This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio, it focuses on two key moments - the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941644539Author James L DickersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Sartoris Literary GroupPublisher Sartoris Literary GroupWeight(grams)...

The Beat! was the first book to explore the musical, social, and cultural phenomenon of go-go music. In this new edition, updated by a substantial chapter on the current scene, authors Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr., place go-go within black...

Many of Bob Dylan's most well-known works date from the 1960s, and can be seen as critical indicators of the changes in American society then and since. This book explores the unthreading of ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality, and identity...

Many studies of African-American gospel music spotlight history and style. This one, however, is focused mainly on grassroots makers and singers. Most of those included here are not stars. A few have received national recognition, but most are known only...

This examination of the solo music of Paul McCartney, from 1970-2007, offers an analysis of his songs, recordings, and his impact on popular music. The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years examines the large and varied oeuvre of this deeply...

Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music, with the aim of exploring "how the record shapes the song" (Moylan, Recording Analysis, 2020) from a...

An original exploration and celebration of Taylor Swift, the world's biggest music star, as taught at the world's most prestigious university. One of the biggest stars in the world, Taylor Swift became so popular for many reasons - but first and last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956309263Author Richard LecocqFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Dalton Watson Fine BooksPublisher Dalton Watson Fine BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781408720899Author Charles BurchillFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint ConstablePublisher Little, Brown Book Group

This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands' location between the United States and...

This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands' location between the United States and...

This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music,...

Deep Ellum, on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas, retains its character as an alternative to the city's staid image with loft apartments, art galleries, nightclubs, and tattoo shops. It first sprang up as a ramshackle business district with saloons and...

'Tom captured the times - the lows and the many highs - and shared them all with us, documenting, encouraging and capturing a real, authentic timeline of fantastic pictures.'This is the inside story of The Charlatans, told through the lens of legendary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667212111Author Annie ZaleskiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 1270g