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  • Rock Music in American Popular Culture III

    More Rock 'n' Roll Resources

    Rock Music in American Popular Culture III: More Rock ’n’Roll Resources explores the fascinating world of rock music and examines how this medium functions as an expression of cultural and social identity. This nostalgic guide explores the meanings and messages behind some of the most popular rock ’n’roll songs that captured the American spirit, mirrored society, and reflected events in our ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Rock Music in American Popular Culture

    Rock 'n' Roll Resources

    How does rock music impact culture? According to authors B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney, it is central to the definition of society and has had a great impact on shaping American culture. In Rock Music in American Popular Culture, insightful essays and book reviews explore ways popular culture items can be used to explore American values. This fascinating book is arranged alphabetically for ... Leer más

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  • Rock Music in American Popular Culture II

    More Rock 'n' Roll Resources

    From “Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)?” to a list of all song titles containing the word “werewolf,” Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock ’n’Roll Resources continues where 1995’s Volume I left off. Using references and illustrations drawn from contemporary lyrics and supported by historical and sociological research on popular cultural subjects, this collection of ... Leer más

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  • How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll

    An Alternative History of American Popular Music

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    "There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hip hop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How ... Leer más

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  • The Blues:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Elijah Wald ...
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    Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, "When you ain't got no ... Leer más

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  • The Sound of the City

    The Rise of Rock and Roll

    Charlie Gillett, a British journalist, loves the music, and his passion is evident throughout The Sound of the City. Yet the greatest strength of the book is the way Gillett tracks the resistance of the music industry to early rock-and-roll, which was followed (needless to say) by a frantic rush to engulf and devour it.When first published The Sound of the City was hailed as having 'never been ... Leer más

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  • Just around Midnight

    Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

    de Jack Hamilton ...
    By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the ... Leer más

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  • Country Music USA

    50th Anniversary Edition

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  • Dolly Parton 218 Success Facts - Everything you need to know about Dolly Parton

    de Diana Reed ...
    Dolly Rebecca Parton' (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, female actor, writer and benefactor, finest familiar for her work in country tunes.This book is your ultimate resource for Dolly Parton. Here you will find the most up-to-date 218 Success Facts, Information, and much more.p>In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you ... Leer más

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  • Cornell '77

    The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall

    de Peter Conners ...
    On May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, on the Cornell University campus, in front of 8,500 eager fans, the Grateful Dead played a show so significant that the Library of Congress inducted it into the National Recording Registry. The band had just released Terrapin Station and was still finding its feet after an extended hiatus. In 1977, the Grateful Dead reached a musical peak, and their East Coast ... Leer más

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  • Pickers and Poets

    The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas

    Series series John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
    Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential thread in this tapestry: the Texas singer-songwriters to whom the contributors refer as ... Leer más

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