Pop Vocal

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887712192Author Gene PopaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 449g

Surveying the impact of Cuba's economic crisis after the demise of the eastern socialist block, this book documents a relatively unexplored transnational network of collaborations among Cuban musicians that migrated to many different countries from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223847380Author Tijs KrammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Tijs KrammerPublisher Tijs KrammerWeight(grams) 168g

"Hello, hello Brazil" was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this...

Around the world there are grandparents, parents, and children who can still sing ditties by Tigger or Baloo the Bear or the Seven Dwarves. This staying power and global reach is in large part a testimony to the pizzazz of performers, songwriters, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524993009Author David StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936135028Author Bob MielkeFormat HardbackPage Count 566Imprint Naciketas PressPublisher Naciketas PressWeight(grams) 980g

Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of ase, the West African Yoruba concept that spread to Brazil and throughout the African Diaspora. Ase is imagined as power and creative...

A performer who rivaled Sinatra, Bobby Darin rose from dire poverty to become one of the biggest stars of his generation. Dogged by chronic illness, he knew that time was not on his side, and so, in a career full of dizzying twists and turns, he did it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798201528058Author Robert F ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Robert ReynoldsPublisher Robert ReynoldsWeight(grams) 191g

Trance events have an uncanny ability to capture an era, and captivate an audience of travellers occupying the eternal theatre of the dance floor. As this book shows, the tendency within psytrance is to thwart the passage of time, to prolong the night,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440863769Author James E. PeroneFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Greenwood Publishing Group IncPublisher Greenwood Publishing Group Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501362118Author David LooseleyImprint Bloomsbury Academic USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

The Beatles as personal growth gurus, you ask? Sure! Everyone knows that the Beatles were brilliant musicians. But there was much more to them than just great music. John, Paul, George, and Ringo created a living legacy of joy, elegance, and peace. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938643040Author Jeanne Moon FarmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Word Light LLCPublisher Word Light LLCWeight(grams) 597g

Simon Frith has been one of the most important figures in the emergence and subsequent development of popular music studies. From his earliest academic publication, The Sociology of Rock (1978), through to his recent work on the live music industry in...

This is a concise and insightful piece of popular music scholarship, analyzing the creative processes behind some very familiar hit singles from the 1960s. "Hits and Misses" examines a selection of songs and recordings through the lens of textual...

Sixties British rock and pop changed music history. While American popular music dominated the record industry in the late fifties and early sixties, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, and numerous other groups soon invaded the world at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008973893Author Simon BarclayFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 476g

B. Lee Cooper offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary American society as it has been captured and transmitted in the lyrics of more than 3,000 popular recordings. By tracing the permutations of American popular music from the end of the Big...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692104798Author Brian HebertFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Scribekey, LLCPublisher Scribekey, LLCWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm *...

As music columnist for The Nation, Gene Santoro has established himself as an important new critical voice, able to write well on a broad spectrum of popular music and jazz, without losing touch with the cutting edge of today's music scene. Dancing in...

It's a cliche that the world is shrinking. As Gene Santoro sees it in his second collection of essays, music is one arena where that cliche takes on a real, but paradoxical, life: while music criss-crosses the globe with ever-greater speed, musicians...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981258744Author Harris RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Peace! CarvingPublisher Peace! CarvingWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147044Author Don BreithauptFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Covering four decades of music history, this engaging book explores a genre of pop music that has been overlooked, under-reported, and ineffectively characterized-but which nevertheless remains immensely popular. The very qualities that made glam unusual...

Although Beyonce Knowles is not yet 30, the sensual superstar has already succeeded on many levels: as a dancer, singer, composer, model, music producer, video director and actress. Like rap star/entrepreneur Jay-Z, with whom Beyonce recently married,...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Goo Goo Dolls, Nirvana, Green Day, Mariah Carey, Notorious B.I.G., Billy Ray Cyrus, Backstreet Boys... the list goes on. Meet all the 1990s' essential musical artists in one insightful volume. During the 1990s, musical genres...

Bono is a passionate, articulate celebrity who has transcended his role as international rock star and become an effective political activist. This book provides insights into his life story and contributions to both popular culture and politics. Bono:...

The legends of popular music tell their stories--in their own words--from the Big Band era's Artie Shaw to today's stars Paul Simon and Phil Collins. 200 photos. Advertising in Rolling Stone.Book InformationISBN 9780446390903Author Joe SmithFormat...

Contains alphabetical entries on musicians and others in the music industry, covering natives of Georgia as well as those who have made a major contribution to the state's musical history. Contains career biographies of personalities including the Allman...

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Nor-tec phenomenon emerged from the border city of Tijuana, and through modern Internet technology quickly conquered a global audience. Marketed as a kind of "ethnic" electronic dance music, Nor-tec...

Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danzon first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in nineteenth-century Cuba. By the early twentieth-century, it had exploded in popularity throughout the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authoray /f CecilBook InformationISBN 9780837162119Format HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 539g

One of very few books on religion and popular music. Covers a wide range of musical styles, from heavy metal and rap to country, jazz and Broadway musicals. The essays are written by academics and informed by their enthusiasm for the music. Many booAn...

This comprehensive book documents the nearly half-century-long story of The Rolling Stones-the group many regard as the most eminent rock band ever.By 1964 the United States had been "invaded" by a number of British bands, led by the Beatles. The Rolling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313228100Author Nugent M. SharpFormat HardbackPage Count 141Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The year's best essays and articles on music as selected by Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity. Welcome to the second volume in an exciting annual series that celebrates the year's best writing about music and its culture, as selected by Nick Hornby,...

In Year by Year in the Rock Era, Herb Hendler chronicles the evolution of rock from its inception in 1954 until its wane in the early 1980s through a year-by-year breakdown of the progression of musical events--the artists, groups, songs, dances, and LPs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887712451Author Daniel SelbyFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 1492g