Music-Genres & Styles-Pop Vocal

The author traces the history of Wings and delves into the inner dynamics of the group, its commercial and artistic success, and its demise.Author: Garry McGeeISBN-10: 0878333045ISBN-13: 9780878333042Publisher: Taylor Trade PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/11/2003Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.94h x 6.14w x 0.56dReview Citation(s): Library Journal...

(Music Sales America). 50 favorites arranged for piano/vocal and guitar. Includes: The Boy in the Bubble * Bridge Over Troubled Water * Cecilia * Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes * Hearts and Bones * Loves Me Like a Rock * The Sound...

Laura Nyro was a beloved and pioneering singer-songwriter of the 1960s and 1970s, whose songs were covered with great success by the Fifth Dimension; Blood, Sweat & Tears; Three Dog Night; and Barbra Streisand. This first biography uncovers previously never revealed details, including a...

Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. Cultural liberation and musical innovation. Pyrotechnics, bottle service, bass drops, and molly. Electronic dance music has been a vital force for more than three decades now, and has undergone transformation upon transformation as it has taken over the world....

Today, no matter where you are in the world, you can turn on a radio and hear the echoes and influences of Chicago house music. Do You Remember House? tells a comprehensive story of the emergence, and contemporary memorialization of house in Chicago, tracing...

More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so radically experimental...

On Saturday, June 28, 1986, George Michael picked up his tasselled leather jacket, walked out of London's Wembley Stadium and cheerfully tore up five years of glittering pop history. He'd just disposed of Wham!, the band he'd formed with school friend Andrew Ridgeley when...

Prince's position in popular culture has undergone only limited academic scrutiny. This book provides an academic examination of Prince, encompassing the many layers of his cultural and creative impact. It assesses Prince's life and legacy holistically, exploring his multiple identities and the ways in...

Pop Journalist Mark Elliott has written the ultimate guide to one of the greatest independent success stories in music history, with extensive source material and a foreword written by Mike Stock. The Ministry of Pop is a lavish, full-colour book which tells the amazing...

Mod has its roots in in London with a group of young men in the late Fifties who were known as modernists because they listened to modern jazz. Mod culture included fashion, music, motor scooters, and amphetamine-fuelled all-night dancing. During the early to mid...

Beyoncé Knowles first rose to fame as lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the most successful girl groups of all time. Since striking out on her own as a solo artist in 2003, with her multi-platinum debut album Dangerously in Love, Knowles' career...

By 1968, the Summer of Love was over--and society's turmoil was reflected by The Beatles in the studio. The result, known as "The White Album," featured an eccentric, eclectic mixture of styles, techniques, and unconventional songs. This in-depth exploration of the classic work has...

Finally available in North America, this is the definitive and dramatic account of one of the '70s biggest hitmakers. Researched in great detail, Bread: A Sweet Surrender includes exclusive interviews with founding member Robb Royer, along with friends, family, and former musical associates of...

Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right. --Keith RichardsAn emotional map of musical Memphis. If you don't know these characters, let Robert Gordon introduce you. --Elvis CostelloRobert Gordon's book is proof...

For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." For a "tunnel rat" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." For a...

Words like "inspiring," "expansive," and "moving" are regularly used to describe Sigur R's ( ), and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables. The album has no title--or rather, its title is no title: just...

From baby boomers to millennials, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact...

It's hard to think of a solo female recording artist who has been as revered or as reviled over the course of her career as Tori Amos. Amy Gentry argues that these violent aesthetic responses to Amos's performance, both positive and negative, are organized...

Best Damn Hip Hop Writing: The Book of Yoh encapsulates one of the defining voices in hip hop music criticism today. Each essay in this collection is written by Yoh (Travis Phillips), a writer whose work has been featured in various leading hip hop...

Before Bob Marley brought reggae to the world, before Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh, before thousands of musicians played a Jamaican rhythm, there were the men and women who created ska music, a blend of jazz, American rhythm and blues, and the indigenous music...

Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging...

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Music Your Parents Never Wanted You To HearBelieve it or not, music censorship in America did not begin with Tipper Gore's horrified reaction to her daughter's Prince album. The vilification of popular music by government and...

Author: Jeannie St MarieISBN-10: 059514618XISBN-13: 9780595146185Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2000Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.16w x 0.28d

Popular music compels, it entertains, and it has the power to attract and move audiences. With that in mind, the editors of Indigenous Pop showcase the contributions of American Indian musicians to popular forms of music, including jazz, blues, country-western, rock and roll, reggae,...

Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danz 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 Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean basin. A...

The first and only book from one of the most influential girl groups of all time MUSIC, FAME AND A LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP. Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward met in the school playground when they were four. They became international stars, first as a trio,...

Between Norte and Tejano Conjunto analyzes the origin, evolution, and dissemination of the norte and tejano conjunto. This group represents a marginalized local identity that was transformed primarily into an identity of the northeast. It then gave way to the whole of northern M騙ico...

Who is Uncle Albert? Which Ringo hit was turned down by Badfinger? When did John see a UFO? Where is Crackerbox Palace? What comedian plays guitar on "Give Peace a Chance"? After Abbey Road: The Solo Hits of The Beatles is an entertaining celebration...

In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. Challenging the conventional alignments and periodizations of Western cultural histories of the Cold War, they trace the routes of popular music,...

This book presents an analysis of 100 rock concert performances and attempts to answer the question "What makes a truly great rock performance?" Author Peter Smith, an experienced concert goer, delves into his own recollections of experiencing rock performances over the last 50+ years...

When Alina Simone agreed to write a book about Madonna, she thought it might provide an interesting excuse to indulge her own eighties nostalgia. Wrong. What Simone discovered instead was a tidal wave of already published information about Madonna--and her own ambivalence about, maybe...

In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and 50s, the big-band mambo dance scene at the famed Palladium Ballroom was...

"WhateverTom Piazza writes is touched with magic." --Douglas BrinkleyAcclaimed author Tom Piazza follows hisprize-winning novel City of Refuge and the post-Katrinaclassic Why New Orleans Matters with a dynamic collection ofessays and journalism about American music and American character, in DevilSent the Rain."TomPiazza's writing is...

Material Girl . . . Immaculate sexpot . . . Superstar . . . Mother . . . Kabbalah enthusiast . . . For three decades she has defied categorization. . . . She remains one of our greatest living pop icons.Here is the...

Music and Cinema brings together leading scholars from musicology, music theory, film studies, and cultural studies to explore the importance of music in the cinematic construction of ideologies. The 15 essays include "Songlines: Alternative Journeys in Contemporary European Cinema" by Wendy Everett; "Strategies of...

Wu-Tang Clan's debut album, "Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers)" sold a million copies in less than two years, in America alone, without making a single concession to pop radio. That album spawned a mini-empire, including a clothing line that grossed $10 million in...

Miles Davis and Juliette Greco, Jackson Pollock and Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and Bob Dylan and William Burroughs. What do all these people have in common? Fame, of course, and undeniable talent. But most of all, they were cool. Birth of the Cool is...

AMERICAN SINGING GROUPS: A HISTORY 1940 TO TODAYAuthor: Jay WarnerISBN-10: 0634099787ISBN-13: 9780634099786Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2006Pages: 622Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.08lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.44w x 1.10dReview Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 251Choice 11/01/2006 pg. 452

The first ever selection of lyrics by the iconic Scott Walker, hand picked by the artist. Scott Walker is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant, serious, and intelligent avant-garde artists today. As one of the greatest lyricists of the 20th century and front man...

"Poetic musings on a life well-lived--one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn't your typical autobiography. Garfunkel's history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story." --Bookreporter "It's hard to imagine any...

This companion presents a kaleidoscopic view of the world of pop and rock. Expert writers follow the rise of fifteen global stars from Elvis to Public Enemy, Nirvana to the Spice Girls. They chart the changing patterns in production and consumption, and they trace...

In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as "the end of history." Amid the historic overturnings of 1989, including the...

The definitive musical and cultural history of new wave music Author: Theodore CateforisISBN-10: 0472034707ISBN-13: 9780472034703Publisher: University of Michigan PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/07/2011Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.10w x 0.86dReview Citation(s): Choice 01/01/2012Library Journal 05/15/2011

"A variety of approaches are brought to bear on fascinating repertoire, but with the underlying aim of better understanding some brilliant music. There's nothing more exciting in music writing than something which entices you to listen to what's familiar to you in a new...

The Fender Rhodes story is a historical tribute to the electric piano that changed the sound of music. Invented by Harold Rhodes as a rehabilitation tool for soldiers in World War II, the Fender Rhodes piano both revolutionized and empowered musicians to explore a...

(Educational Piano Library). Here are 8 great Disney hits expertly arranged as intermediate duets: The Bare Necessities * Belle * Chim Chim Cher-ee * Hakuna Matata * I See the Light * Kiss the Girl * When She Loved Me * You've Got a...

(Willis). 12 songs that can be used on their own, or as a supplement to John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano or any other method. Includes: Edelweiss * Fly Me to the Moon * Go the Distance * It's a Small World *...

Now in paperback, the definitive anthology from a writer who "set the standard for newspaper pop-music criticism" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the New York Times' first chief pop music critic and Rolling Stone contributor Robert Palmer. Robert Palmer's extraordinary knowledge and boundless love of music...

A fascinating account of the music and epic social change of 1973, a defining year for David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Eagles, Elvis Presley, and the former members of The Beatles. 1973 was the year rock hit its...

NIRVANA FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE MOST IMPORTANT BAND OF THE 1990SAuthor: John D. LuerssenISBN-10: 1617134503ISBN-13: 9781617134500Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/2014Pages: 450Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d