Music-Genres & Styles-Pop Vocal

He's the only person to whom The Velvet Underground ever played as an audience of one, the first British writer to talk to Patti Smith after her seventeen-year hiatus from rock. One reviewer hailed his previous book England is Mine as "surely the strangest...

Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was unable to read or write music and could only play the piano in the key of F-sharp major; yet, for the first half of the twentieth century he was America's most successful and most representative songwriter, composing such hits as...

From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and...

Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony in the 1830s, Averill traces...

NPR Great Read of 2016From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania--"the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)--comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including...

After winning 1974's Eurovision Song Contest with their song "Waterloo," ABBA catapulted to fame, capturing hearts across the globe with their melodic and ever-so-catchy pop songs.Formed in Stockholm, in 1972 by Agnetha F舁tskog, Bjn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, ABBA became one...

In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, Ben Watt, one half of the Billboard-topping pop duo Everything But The Girl, was taken to a London hospital complaining of chest pain. He didn't leave for two and a half months....

Pianists will delight in this updated songbook, in which the piano/vocal arrangements have been notably improved (compared to older published sheet music renditions) to accurately reflect what was played on the band's original hit recordings. Basic guitar chord grids are also included. (A note-for-note...

Their lives were cut brutally short...yet the legacy has on lived on for four decades. They were three of rock 'n' roll's brightest stars, touring together in a music revue that was as grueling as it was magical. Dilapidated school buses that frequently broke...

The dictionary defines trivia as: "matter or things of very slight importance, commonplace, or ordinary." Yet anyone who has ever read anything about a favorite sports star, singer, historic figure or celebrity will find that it is often the so-called trivia that makes things...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). We're proud to present this comprehensive retrospective of one of the most influential pop bands of all time Features 44 of their classic hits, including: All Summer Long * Barbara Ann * Be True to Your School * California Girls *...

Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity. Josh Kun, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, insists that America is...

Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book consists of chapters by leading scholars and...

Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll. Articles explore the theoretical dimensions of popular music studies; the music...

This volume collects many of the best articles from veteran Rolling Stone writer Ben Fong-Torres. While many will recognize Ben as he was portrayed in Cameron Crowe's hit film Almost Famous, his thoughtful and engaging stories have been providing a backstage view for over...

In the early nineties, riot grrrl exploded onto the underground music scene, inspiring girls to pick up an instrument, create fanzines, and become politically active. Rejecting both traditional gender roles and their parents' brand of feminism, riot grrrls celebrated and deconstructed femininity. The media...

The crooner Rudy Vall e'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 Vall e and other crooners reflected the gender fluidity of late-1920s popular culture, their challenge...

Has pop burnt itself out? Paul Morley takes the reader on an epic drive through the history of music to find out. A succession of celebrities, geniuses and other protagonists led by Madonna, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Erik Satie, John Cage and Wittgenstein appear to...

Musical representations of wildness in an era of revolutionRecipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological SocietyWhat are the uses of musical exoticism? In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of "wildness" as they manifested in popular music during...

Celebrating the legendary studio musicians of Jamaican popular music through personal photographs and interviewsThis is the first book devoted to the studio musicians who were central to Jamaica's popular-music explosion. With color portraits and interview excerpts, over 100 musical pioneers--such as Prince Buster, Robbie...

In industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree-a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thoroughbred. With native sons and daughters like Naomi and Wynonna Judd, Loretta Lynn, the Everly Brothers, Joan Osborne, and Merle Travis, it's...

An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters -- its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio's immense influence on the sound of popular music. But behind the company's chart toppers and legendary...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). All 16 songs from the soundtrack for this 2014 breakout blockbuster movie based on a novel by John Green, in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar. Includes Ed Sheeran's "All of the Stars," "Boom Clap" by Charli XCX, plus: All I Want...

If given another chance to write for the series, which albums would 33 1/3 authors focus on the second time around? This anthology features compact essays from past 33 1/3 authors on albums that consume them, but about which they did not write. It...

When Billy J. Kramer's "Do You Want To Know A Secret?" by Lennon and McCartney topped the charts in 1963, he was the first singer in the world to have a number one hit with a Beatles song, apart from the Fab Four themselves....

The Ultimate Guide To Great Reggae celebrates (and helps you find) the greatest songs of reggae. It focuses on every style of reggae, from mento to Jamaican R&B, ska, rock steady, dub, DJ, roots, dancehall and more. It opens with an exceptionally comprehensive brief...

Bob Dylan is a music hero to generations. He's also an international-bestselling artist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and an Oscar winner for Things Have Changed. His career is stronger and more influential than ever. How did this happen, given the road to oblivion he...

IF YOU LIKE THE RAMONES... HERE ARE OVER 200 BANDS, CDS, FILMS AND OTHER ODDITIES THAAuthor: Peter AaronISBN-10: 1617134570ISBN-13: 9781617134579Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2013Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.70d

(Ukulele). The Strum & Sing series provides an unplugged and pared-down approach just the chords & lyrics with nothing fancy so you can strum along. Here are easy-to-play ukulele/vocal arrangements of two dozen top tunes from John Mayer: Back to You * Clarity *...

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 Beatles...

It's 1976. The Beach Boys, on the back of their charismatic lead singer, Mike Love, were still fending off the "British Music Invasion" and keeping America's Band alive and on the road. Meanwhile the band's co-founder Brian Wilson was holed up in his Bel...

The Go-Betweens recorded six albums that are among the finest work of the 1980s, earning them a reputation as the ultimate cult band and the lasting esteem of their peers, from R.E.M. to Sleater-Kinney. In 2000 they returned to making records--and received the best...

HOMEGROUND: THE KATE BUSH MAGAZINE: ANTHOLOGY TWO: 'THE RED SHOES' TO '50 WORDS FOR SNOW'HomeGround is a magazine devoted to Kate Bush (born in 1958), a British pop star best-known for hits such as 'Wuthering Heights', 'Wow', 'Hounds of Love' and 'Running Up That...

Dub reggae and the techniques associated with it have, since the late-1980s, been used widely by producers of dance and ambient music. However, the term was originally applied to a remixing technique pioneered in Jamaica as far back as 1967. Recording engineers produced reggae...

Billy Joel has sold over 150 million records, produced thirty-three Top-40 hits, received six Grammy Awards, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fans celebrate him, critics deride him, and scholars have all but ignored him. This first-of-its-kind collection of...

For beginning musicians, Alfred's Easy series is the fast track to developing a repertoire of well-known and fun-to-play songs, while more experienced players will find an excellent resource of favorite songs. The Easy Hits Piano format provides fun and satisfying piano arrangements that are...

This second volume begins 60 years ago when Elvis Presley returns from the army, wondering if he still has a career and massive fan base after being away for two years.He needn't have worried himself, the fans lapped up his new and more ambitious...

Prince was a spiritual and musical enigma who sought to transcend race and gender through his words, music, and fashion. Raised as a Seventh-Day Adventist and later going door-to-door as a Jehovah's Witness, he expressed his faith overtly and allegorically, erotically and poetically. Theology...

Pop Music: Our Most Influential Laboratory for Social and Aesthetic Experimentation--Changing the World Three Minutes at a Time Named a Must-Read by Vanity Fair and the BBC as well as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly In Love for Sale: Pop...

The major objective of this collection of 28 essays is to analyze the trends, musical formats, and rhetorical devices used in popular music to illuminate the human condition. By comparing and contrasting musical offerings in a number of countries and in different contexts from...

Amber Communications Group, Inc.'s imprint Colossus Books has published Before the Legend: The Rise of New Kids on the Block and...a Guy Named Maurice Starr - The Early Years, a remarkable true story as told by author and former record producer Tony Rose, the...

GREATEST MUSIC NEVER SOLD: SECRETS OF LEGENDARY LOST ALBUMSAuthor: Dan LeroyISBN-10: 0879309059ISBN-13: 9780879309053Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2007Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.16h x 6.16w x 0.67d

45 RPM THE HISTORY AND THE VILLIANS OF A POP MUSIC REVOLUTIONAuthor: Jim DawsonISBN-10: 0879307579ISBN-13: 9780879307578Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2003Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.22h x 7.36w x 0.45d

The collective grassroots stories in this book manifest black gospel music as one of the most prevalent forms of contemporary American song.Author: Alan YoungISBN-10: 087805944XISBN-13: 9780878059447Publisher: University Press of MississippiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2013Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.95h x 5.99w x 0.87dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 04/15/1997...

From London to Los Angeles, from the pages of New Musical Express to Rolling Stone, women have been writing about rock and pop music for more than 30 years. Rock She Wrote collects the best of women's writing on music from the 1960s to...

Composers often write pieces in highly contrasting moods in very close proximity. But no composer took this process further than Beethoven. His famous Fifth Symphony, with an opening any child knows, became the standard for the Romantic, tragedy to triumph, "victory symphony." The sunny...

Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic...

Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos explores the many-layered relationships female fans build with feminist musicians in general and with Tori Amos, in particular. Using original interview research with more than forty fans of Tori Amos,...

Alone in the World * Fifty Percent * The Girl Who Used to Be Me * I Believe in Love * In the Heat of the Night * Like a Lover * One Day * A Piece of Sky * That Face * What...

Enjoy playing Susan Boyle's personal favorites from the sacred, secular, and traditional worlds. This songbook includes commentary from Susan on each title. Titles: Perfect Day * Hallelujah * Do You Hear What I Hear? * Don't Dream It's Over * The First Noel *...