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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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879724689Author Timothy E ScheurerFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint The Popular PressPublisher The Popular PressWeight(grams) 393gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941028148Author Gary ZenkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint White Lightning PublishingPublisher White Lightning PublishingWeight(grams) 216g

Bachata--a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo's urban shantytowns in the 1960s--is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the social stigma the genre carried for decades. This book...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950864799Author HowexpertFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint HowexpertPublisher HowexpertWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941028131Author Gary ZenkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint White Lightning PublishingPublisher White Lightning PublishingWeight(grams) 216g

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Focusing on female idols' proliferation in the South Korean popular music (K-pop) industry since the late 1990s, Gooyong Kim critically analyzes structural conditions of possibilities in contemporary popular music from production to consumption. Kim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540205711Author Dr Rick SimmonsFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

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While rock groups such as the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean defined the beach music of Southern California during the 1960s, a different, R&B influenced sound could be heard along South Carolina's Grand Strand. Drawing on extensive research and...

Established in 1971, Nass el-Ghiwane is a legendary musical group that transformed the Moroccan music scene in the last decades of the 20th century. The charismatic founding member Larbi Batma (1948-1997) through his lyrics brought to light Moroccan...

Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop’s US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class...

Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop’s US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class...

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...

Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, ""There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate."" For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections among figures, sounds, and events in culture, relating unrelated...

In All I Want Is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s, author Steve Bergsman focuses on the white, female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. These popular performers, many of whom...

Texas-Mexican music, or musica tejana, is not one single music but several musical and musico-literary genres, ensembles, and their styles, encompassing the corrido, cancion, and what author Manuel Pena calls the cancion-corrido. Musica tejana also...

In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann-DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer-identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943573015Author Rodolphe JacquettePage Count 240Imprint EarBooksPublisher Edel Germany GmbH

Popular music culture serves as an arena for debates on English and British national identity in this lively discussion of English popular music of the 1980s and 1990s. Against the background of his own upbringing as a Pakistani Brit, Nabeel Zuberi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595165636Author Giulio D'AgostinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 476g

"This book uniquely and successfully sustains a cohesive analysis of the work, career, and reception of a single artist. That the artist is Neil Young, one of the most confounding and mysterious of rock stars, is an added bonus. Finally someone will...

When Walt Whitman published ""Leaves of Grass"" in 1855, he dreamed of inspiring ""a race of singers"" who would celebrate the working class and realize the promise of American democracy. By examining how singers such as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and...

Music was everywhere during the Civil War. Tunes could be heard ringing out from parlour pianos, thundering at political rallies, and setting the rhythms of military and domestic life. With literacy still limited, music was an important vehicle for...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879724665Author Timothy E ScheurerFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint The Popular PressPublisher The Popular PressWeight(grams) 274gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896522258Author David ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Collector's Guide PublishingPublisher Collector's Guide PublishingWeight(grams) 215g

Although musical tributes play a significant role within contemporary culture and despite their relative longevity as a form of entertainment, little serious research has been published on the subject. This book makes an important contribution to the...

Once considered as little more than the froth in the wake of the First World War, a witty boy-hedonist who, in the giddy Twenties, tweaked the noses of moribund establishmentarians, Poulenc has in fact proved unexpectedly durable - more so than any of...

The crooner Rudy Vallee's soft, intimate, and sensual vocal delivery simultaneously captivated millions of adoring fans and drew harsh criticism from those threatened by his sensitive masculinity. Although Vallee and other crooners reflected the gender...

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...

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...