Music-Genres & Styles-Pop Vocal

From the Tin Pan Alley 32-bar form, through the cyclical forms of modal jazz, to the more recent accumulation of digital layers, beats, and breaks in Electronic Dance Music, repetition as both an aesthetic disposition and a formal property has stimulated a diverse range...

Of the many girl-groups that came out of the 1960s, none is more idiosyncratic and influential than the Shangri-Las. They were together only five years, but within that time they subverted pop standards and foreshadowed a generation of tough women in music. Critically, they...

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...

Michael Cain offers an informal social history that describes Americana as both a musical genre and a movement, showing what it is, where it came from and where it is going. Through anecdotes and interviews, Cain provides a firsthand view into the creation of...

In Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the second volume in Bob Leszczak's exciting Who Did It First? series, readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, pop songs and standards. As Leszczak points out,...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). This 17-song folio matches the live album release of Roy Orbison's 1988 Cinemax special, where he was backed by Elvis' TCB Band and joined by all-stars such as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang and...

(Paperback Songs). The most contemporary rhyming dictionary on the market Features more than 30,000 words encompassing standard vocabulary, proper nouns, popular expressions and more, all organized cross-phonetically to maximize word choice. Ideal for singer-songwriters, writers and poets, serious or recreational, pro or amateurAuthor: Hal...

(Piano Play-Along). Play 8 of your favorite songs with sound-alike CD tracks. Each volume in this series comes with a CD of orchestrated arrangements. The music in this book matches these recorded orchestrations. There are two tracks for each a full performance for listening,...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Our new folio matches the 30th anniversary reissue of Billy Joel's classic album. Features all nine songs arranged by Billy Joel's keyboardist and Music Director, David Rosenthal. Songs are arranged to combine the piano parts and vocal melodies into playable arrangements...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Our matching folio features all nine songs from the wildly popular, multiplatinum magnum opus from Prince and the Revolution, often acknowledged as one of the best albums of all time. Contains: Baby I'm a Star * The Beautiful Ones * Computer...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 90 fabulous standards made famous during the 1930s and '40s: All of Me * Darn That Dream * In the Mood * Marie * Moonlight in Vermont * Old Devil Moon * Paper Doll * Pennies from Heaven * Stardust * Tuxedo...

In what amounts to a history of the last twenty-five years of popular music, respected music journalist Garry Mulholland has compiled a list of the 500 greatest singles since The Sex Pistols' seminal "Anarchy in the UK". In incisive, outspoken and informative essays, Mulholland...

What really went on behind the doors of the world's top studios while recording the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and R.E.M.? How did producers deal with the legendary egos of Oasis and Paul Simon? Or the haunted perfectionism of Michael Jackson and Phil...

This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizaje--the mixing of race and culture--in...

Texas-Mexican music, or m俍ica tejana, is not one single music but several musical and musico-literary genres, ensembles, and their styles, encompassing the corrido, canci, and what author Manuel Pe calls the canci-corrido. M俍ica tejana also includes two major regional ensembles and their styles-the conjunto...

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...

JAMBANDS BK/CD COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE PLAYERS MUSIC AND SCENEAuthor: Dean BudnickISBN-10: 0879307455ISBN-13: 9780879307455Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2003Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.42w x 0.81d

Based on the official Top 20 charts from Billboard in the US and NME/Music Week in the UK, this entertaining book shows at a glance the monthly international status of the hits. The fully updated and revised fourth edition lists the charts since they...

Although African influences undeniably pervade the popular music of Brazil, until now few books have examined the role of Blackness--what author Dari駭 Davis calls "Africaneity"--in the creation and development of twentieth-century Brazilian musical traditions. This innovative, accessible work offers a fascinating look at Brazilian...

These fourteen original essays examine the fascinating world of music scenes, those largely inconspicuous sites where clusters of musicians, producers, and fans explore their common musical tastes and distinctive lifestyle choices. Although most music scenes come and go with hardly a trace, they nevertheless...

What do AC/DC and Aphex Twin have in common? David Bowie and Butthole Surfers? The Clash and the Chemical Brothers? On the surface, very little. Yet they are all representative of the most important movement in modern music - Alternative.What makes these acts alternative?...

At a time when fundamentalism is on the rise, traditional religions are in decline and postmodernity has challenged any system that claims to be all-defining, young people have left their traditional places of worship and set up their own, in clubs, at festivals and...

In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences of Asians and Asian...

"Hello, hello Brazil" was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital...

From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music. Soundtrack Available fills this gap, as its contributors provide detailed analyses...

Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow" or "pornographic" music-as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American jazz, Hollywood film...

An investigation of music, sound, and public space in contemporary JapanIn this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marié Abe investigates the intersection of sound, public space, and sociality in contemporary Japan. Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize...

"Sylvan's thesis furnishes far more of the same valued experiences than is usually realized: ritual activity, communal ceremony, a philosophy and worldview, a code for living one's life, a cultural identity, a social structure, a sense of belonging, and crucially, Sylvan argues encounters with...

This book is a study of chang?, a particular style of music and dance in Guant疣amo, Cuba, and the roots of son, the style of music that contributed to the development of salsa, in Eastern Cuba. The book also highlights the connections between Afro-Haitian...

Many associate early western music with the likes of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but America's first western music craze predates these "singing cowboys" by decades. Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs...

(E-Z Play Today). Features 40 easy-to-play favorites, including: Amazing Grace * America * Blue Danube Waltz * Kumbaya * Ode To Joy * Yellow Rose Of Texas * and many more.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 079352198XISBN-13: 9780793521982Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1993Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight:...

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 interweaves bachata's history and development with...

Covering"the musical practice of one artist recording or performing another composer's song"has always been an attribute of popular music. In 2009, the internet database Second Hand Songs estimated that there are 40,000 songs with at least one cover version. Some of the more common...

This companion volume to the 27 chart topping hits found on the Beatles 1 CD allows you to see, through beautifully rendered and vividly colored Song Maps, how the Four Lads from Liverpool arranged their music, and especially, their brilliant vocal harmonies. Along with...

Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945 provides the first broad scholarly discussion of this music since 1990. The book critically examines key moments in the history of black British popular music from 1940s jazz to 1970s soul and reggae, 1990s Jungle and the...

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...

New York Puerto Ricans have been an integral part of hip hop culture since day one: from 1970s pioneers like Rock Steady Crew's Jo-Jo, to recent rap mega-stars Big Punisher (R.I.P.) and Angie Martinez. Yet, Puerto Rican participation and contributions to hip hop have...

Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest examines how the Eurovision Song Contest has reflected and become intertwined with the history of postwar Europe from a political perspective. Established in 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest is the world's largest popular music event and one...

In studies of gender and sexuality in popular music, the concept of difference is often a crucial analytic used to detect social agency; however, the alternative analytic of ambiguity has never been systematically examined. While difference from heterosexual norms is taken to be the...

Popular World Music, Second Edition introduces students to popular music genres and artists from around the world. Andrew Shahriari discusses international music styles familiar to most students--Reggae, Salsa, K-Pop, and more--with a comprehensive listening-oriented introduction to mainstream musical culture. Each chapter focuses on specific...

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop group within the wider context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music and culture. Offering the first extended look...

Released in 1952, the Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923-1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial recordings of American vernacular and folk music originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the Anthology featured...

Britpop and the English Music Tradition is the first study devoted exclusively to the Britpop phenomenon and its contexts. The genre of Britpop, with its assertion of Englishness, evolved at the same time that devolution was striking deep into the hegemonic claims of English...

Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Theoretically ambitious and innovative, this book is a new account of popular music that has been at the centre of national, political and cultural debates for over...

In today's culture, popular music is a vital site where ideas about gender and sexuality are imagined and disseminated. Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions explores what that means with a wide-ranging collection of chapters that consider the many...

There are only some albums that I can listen to 'track by track' for the whole album, without skipping tunes or just playing a few songs, these are: Pink Floyd 'The Wall', ' Magnum 'On A Storytellers Night', Metallica 'Master of Puppets' and Meat...

A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

Author: Ronald P. SmithISBN-10: 0595226264ISBN-13: 9780595226269Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/2002Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

Author: Ron SmithISBN-10: 0595206220ISBN-13: 9780595206223Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2001Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.04w x 0.45d

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 from others. Presenting a series of case...