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  • Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances by Boucher, David
    David Boucher

    Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances

    Both Dylan and Cohen have been a presence on the music and poetry landscape spanning six decades. This book begins with a discussion of their contemporary importance, and how they have sustained their enduring appeal as performers and recording artists. The focus then returns...
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  • Cornelius's Fantasma by Roberts, Martin
    Martin Roberts

    Cornelius's Fantasma

    In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar was at the forefront of a new wave in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on to produce, under the name Cornelius, a series of...
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  • Carolina Beach Music Encyclopedia by Simmons, Rick
    Rick Simmons

    Carolina Beach Music Encyclopedia

    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 exclusive interviews, this richly...
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  • All Of Me: My Story by Richards, Claire
    Claire Richards

    All Of Me: My Story

    A candid and ultimately inspirational memoir from the much-loved Steps star.Author: Claire RichardsISBN-10: 1447217411ISBN-13: 9781447217411Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2013Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.62d
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  • They All Played Ragtime - The True Story of an American Music by Blesh, Rudi
    Rudi Blesh

    They All Played Ragtime - The True Story of an American Music

    Blesh published They All Played Ragtime as first major scholarly work on ragtime music in 1950, which sparked a ragtime revival. He founded Circle Records in 1946, which recorded new material from aging early jazz musicians as well as the Library of Congress recordings...
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  • Billy Joel: America's Piano Man by Duchan, Joshua S.
    Joshua S. Duchan

    Billy Joel: America's Piano Man

    Despite his tremendous success, Billy Joel's gifts as a composer and commentator on American life are long overdue for a thorough investigation. In Billy Joel: America's Piano Man, music historian Joshua S. Duchan looks at the career and music of this remarkable singer-songwriter, exploring...
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  • Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion by Chapman, Ian
    Ian Chapman

    Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion

    In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music. Still active...
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  • Who Did It First?: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists by Leszczak, Bob
    Bob Leszczak

    Who Did It First?: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists

    "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 compositions...
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  • Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music by Leibetseder, Doris
    Doris Leibetseder

    Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music

    Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp,...
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  • Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music by Hitchins, Ray
    Ray Hitchins

    Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music

    Vibe Merchants offers an insider's perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the...
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  • Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks by Moylan, William
    William Moylan

    Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks

    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 variety of perspectives. Introduced with...
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  • The Little Guide to Bruce Springsteen: The Boss by Orange Hippo!
    Orange Hippo!

    The Little Guide to Bruce Springsteen: The Boss

    Bruce Springsteen arrived on the world's stage in 1973 with two incredible albums in one year, a prolificacy that would define his career for the next half-century. In his tenure at the top of the rock and roll charts, Springsteen received worldwide adoration for...
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  • The Little Guide to Freddie Mercury: The Show Must Go on by Orange Hippo!
    Orange Hippo!

    The Little Guide to Freddie Mercury: The Show Must Go on

    A charismatic performer and front man to Queen, Freddie Mercury is regarded as one of the greatest rock singers in music history.Bursting with all the famed wit, wisdom and wisecracks that made the late, great showman's larger-than-life career so compelling, this tiny tome is...
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  • Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing by Tonelli, Chris
    Chris Tonelli

    Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing

    Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing contributes to a wave of voice studies scholarship with the first book-length study of free jazz voice. It pieces together a history of free jazz voice that spans from sound poetry and scat in the 1950s to the...
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  • Playing To Win: The Definitive Biography of John Farnham by Apter, Jeff
    Jeff Apter

    Playing To Win: The Definitive Biography of John Farnham

    Teen idol. King of Pop. Voice of the common man. Australian of the Year. Friend. Icon. Superstar.John Farnham is the quintessential Aussie legend. As a teenager he gave up an apprenticeship to chase his musical dreams, hitting the big time with 'Sadie (The Cleaning...
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  • After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock by Whitcomb, Ian
    Ian Whitcomb

    After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock

    An irreverent and engaging chronicle of popular music dating from the 1880s, when Tin Pan Alley was founded, to the present by a British-born songwriter and onetime pop star. "Brash, learned, funny, and perspicacious." - The New YorkerAuthor: Ian WhitcombISBN-10: 087910063XISBN-13: 9780879100636Publisher: LimelightLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues by Bernard, Shane K.
    Shane K. Bernard

    Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

    Music of Louisiana was at the heart of rock-and-roll in the 1950s. Most fans know that Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the icons, sprang out of Ferriday, Louisiana, in the middle of delta country and that along with Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley he...
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  • The Dawn of Indian Music in the West by Lavezzoli, Peter
    Peter Lavezzoli

    The Dawn of Indian Music in the West

    A little more than 50 years ago, in 1955, Ali AkbarKhan issued an LP called Music of India: Morning and Evening Ragas, with spoken introduction by violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Until then, Indian music was terra incognita in the West. When the same album was...
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  • The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present by Cheng, Ya-Hui
    Ya-Hui Cheng

    The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present

    Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip-hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization. The political...
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  • Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll by Birnbaum, Larry
    Larry Birnbaum

    Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll

    An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers...
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  • The New Broadway Song Companion: An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style by Devenney, David P.
    David P. Devenney

    The New Broadway Song Companion: An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style

    This is a completely revised and expanded second edition of The Broadway Song Companion, the first complete guide and access point to the vast literature of the Broadway musical for the solo performer. Designed with the working actor in mind, the volume lists every...
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  • Respect: Women and Popular Music by Marcic, Dorothy
    Dorothy Marcic

    Respect: Women and Popular Music

    For more than the first half of the last century, the voice of women in Top-40 popular music has been one of neediness and dependency. Please love me; I'll do anything for you; just be my baby, even if you're no good and treat...
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  • Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America by Stowe, David W.
    David W. Stowe

    Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America

    Bands were playing, people were dancing, the music business was booming. It was the big-band era, and swing was giving a new shape and sound to American culture. Swing Changes looks at New Deal America through its music and shows us how the contradictions...
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  • Who's That Girl?: The Ultimate Madonna Trivia Book by Craig, Michael D.
    Michael D. Craig

    Who's That Girl?: The Ultimate Madonna Trivia Book

    Author: Michael D. CraigISBN-10: 0595210147ISBN-13: 9780595210145Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2001Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.14h x 5.96w x 0.36d
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  • American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945 by Holloway, Diane
    Diane Holloway

    American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945

    Author: Diane HollowayISBN-10: 0595193315ISBN-13: 9780595193318Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 504Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.17w x 1.16d
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  • K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea by Lie, John
    John Lie

    K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea

    K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a...
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  • Surfing about Music by Cooley, Timothy J.
    Timothy J. Cooley

    Surfing about Music

    This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to consider the musical practices of surfers...
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  • Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture by Rose, Tricia
    Tricia Rose

    Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture

    Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco, metal and...
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  • Music Video After MTV: Audiovisual Studies, New Media, and Popular Music by Korsgaard, Mathias
    Mathias Bonde Korsgaard

    Music Video After MTV: Audiovisual Studies, New Media, and Popular Music

    Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos. However, in academia, music videos do not currently share this popularity. Music Video After MTV gives music video its due academic credit by...
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  • Justin Timberlake by Summers, Kimberly Dillon
    Kimberly Dillon Summers

    Justin Timberlake

    This revealing biography of pop star Justin Timberlake documents his background, childhood career, achievements, and disappointments. From his first taste of fame as an 11-year-old contestant on the TV show Star Search to making it big with the boy-band 'N Sync and his subsequent...
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  • Music of the 1980s by Harrison, Thomas
    Thomas Harrison

    Music of the 1980s

    Beyond coverage of mainstream 80s music, such as "hair band" hard rock, pop, new wave, and rap, this compilation of essential musical artists also covers genres like classical, jazz, outlaw country, and music theater. Popular music in the United States during the 1980s is...
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  • U2: A Musical Biography by Kootnikoff, David
    David Kootnikoff

    U2: A Musical Biography

    This is the story of the phenomenally popular, critically acclaimed Irish band from its Dublin beginnings to the present. U2: A Musical Biography tells the story of the phenomenally popular Irish rock band whose passionate songs and performances have taken them from their Dublin...
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  • Guitar Gods: The 25 Players Who Made Rock History by Gulla, Bob
    Bob Gulla

    Guitar Gods: The 25 Players Who Made Rock History

    Meet rock and roll's party crashers. They are the guitar-wielding heroes who came into an established musical framework, rearranged the furniture, tipped over a few chairs, and ditched - leaving the stragglers to pick up the pieces. Guitar Gods showcases the 25 players who...
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  • The Ella Fitzgerald Companion by David, Norman
    Norman David

    The Ella Fitzgerald Companion

    The Ella Fitzgerald Companion is a celebration of the woman who is arguably musical history's greatest singer of popular. An international superstar of jazz and popular music, Fitzgerald boasted astounding versatility and sophistication that covered the entire musical spectrum, and her combination of incredible...
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  • Encyclopedia of World Pop Music, 1980-2001 by Jeffries, Stan
    Stan Jeffries

    Encyclopedia of World Pop Music, 1980-2001

    In this eclectic encyclopedia, author Stan Jeffries chronicles the careers of over 110 musical artists from 37 different nations. Entries include biographical information, trace the entrants' musical development, and recount the performers' critical and popular reception. A collection of photos, an index by nation,...
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  • Songs of the Vietnam Conflict by Perone, James E.
    James E. Perone

    Songs of the Vietnam Conflict

    Offering the widest scope of any study of one of popular music's most important eras, Songs of the Vietnam Conflict treats both anti-war and pro-government songs of the 1960s and early 1970s, from widely known selections such as Give Peace a Chance and Blowin'...
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  • The Directory of the Armed Forces Radio Service Series by MacKenzie, Harry
    Harry MacKenzie

    The Directory of the Armed Forces Radio Service Series

    This directory details the output of transcriptions from the Armed Forces Radio Service from the beginning in 1942 up to 1967. Since many official papers of the early days are no longer available, the information was gathered from many private sources. The range of...
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  • The Unofficial Encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Talevski, Nick
    Nick Talevski

    The Unofficial Encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    This reference work includes an examination of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's selection process, a review of the annual induction ceremony, and provides career biographies of 149 Hall of Fame inductees from the artists and producers to the record company founders and...
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  • Rocket Man: The Encyclopedia of Elton John by Bernardin, Claude
    Claude Bernardin

    Rocket Man: The Encyclopedia of Elton John

    Grammy winner for Can You Feel the Love Tonight from Disney's 1994 blockbuster movie The Lion King, Elton John is a musician that has transcended generations. Since his U.S. debut 25 years ago, E.J. has had a top-40 hit every year. This first reference...
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  • Elvis Presley: A Bio-Bibliography by Hammontree, Patsy G.
    Patsy G. Hammontree

    Elvis Presley: A Bio-Bibliography

    Profiles the life and musical career of Elvis Presley and surveys the books and magazine articles about him.Author: Patsy G. HammontreeISBN-10: 0313228671ISBN-13: 9780313228674Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/1985Pages: 301Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 9.52h x 6.06w x 1.11d
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  • Reggae Island: Jamaican Music in the Digital Age by Jahn, Brian
    Brian Jahn

    Reggae Island: Jamaican Music in the Digital Age

    Within this book over fifty contemporary reggae artists and producers--ranging from Cultural Roots to Dancehall, and including Buju Banton, Shabba Ranks, Tony Rebel, Burning Spear, Bunny Wailer, Judy Mowatt, Oku Onuora, Junior Reid, Ken Boothe, Sister Carol, and Third World--present their views on the...
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  • The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music by Stokes, Martin
    Martin Stokes

    The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music

    At the heart of The Republic of Love are the voices of three musicians--queer nightclub star Zeki M?en, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu--who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their fame and ubiquity have made...
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  • A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti by Averill, Gage
    Gage Averill

    A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti Volume 1997

    The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set against this "day for the hunter" has been a "day for the prey," a history of resistance, and sometimes of triumph....
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  • Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical by Greenspan, Charlotte
    Charlotte Greenspan

    Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical

    Famed lyricist Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, " and "The Way You Look Tonight." In Pick Yourself Up, Charlotte...
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  • Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music by Middleton, Richard
    Richard Middleton

    Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music

    Why do we enjoy pop songs (or not)? Why do they mean so much to us? What do they mean? Is it the sounds, the rhythms, or the words? Is it the singing, the personae of the stars, or the messages and images that...
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  • The Music of Joni Mitchell by Whitesell, Lloyd
    Lloyd Whitesell

    The Music of Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through exploration of Mitchell's musical style, sound, and structure in...
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  • American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 by Wilder, Alec
    Alec Wilder

    American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950

    When Alec Wilder's American Popular Song first appeared, it was almost universally hailed--from The New York Times to The New Yorker to Down Beat--as the definitive account of the classic era of American popular music. It has since become the standard work of the...
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  • The Beatles Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]: Everything Fab Four by Womack, Kenneth
    Kenneth Womack

    The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four [2 Volumes]

    A fascinating look at the history of the Beatles, from their formative years through the present day, as detailed in hundreds of entries chock-full of information never before shared with the public. The Beatles have sold at least 2.3 billion albums; achieved 6 Diamond,...
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  • The Monkees: Made in Hollywood by Kemper, Tom
    Tom Kemper

    The Monkees: Made in Hollywood

    A Variety Best Music Book of 2023 The behind-the-scenes story of the controversial 1960s made-for-tv rock band. The Monkees represent a vital problem for rock and pop: is it the music that matters or the personality and image of the performers? This book explores...
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  • Listen to My Heart: Life, Love & Roxette by Fredriksson, Marie
    Marie Fredriksson

    Listen to My Heart: Life, Love & Roxette

    Listen to My Heart is a completely candid and passionate, heartbreaking yet often witty life story of one of rock music's most resilient lead singers, Marie Fredriksson from Roxette ("It Must Have Been Love," "Listen to Your Heart," "The Look," "Joyride"). Given only a...
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