Profiles in Popular Music – serie
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Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album
How to Disappear Completely
Häftad, 2010
266 kr
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How the British rock band Radiohead subverts the idea of the concept album in order to articulate themes of alienation and anti-capitalism is the focus of Marianne Tatom Letts's analysis of Kid A and Amnesiac. These experimental albums marked a departure from the band's standard guitar-driven base …
Choro
A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music
Av Tamara Elena Livingston, Thomas George Caracas Garcia
Häftad, 2005
298 kr
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Choro is a type of Brazilian popular music similar in background to the celebrated Cuban son of Buena Vista Social Club fame. Choro started in Rio de Janeiro as a fusion of African-based rhythms and structures with European instruments and dance forms. In the 20th century, it came to represent …
Five Percenter Rap
God Hop's Music, Message, and Black Muslim Mission
Häftad, 2005
269 kr
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"Few books on popular music treat their subject so comprehensively, with thoughtful attention to ideology, history, and verbal and musical rhetoric. Miyakawa's approach is at once comprehensive and streamlined, making for an especially effective presentation of the issues as well as a good read." …
Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity
Häftad, 2009
252 kr
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Throughout his career, Johnny Cash has been depicted—and has depicted himself—as a walking contradiction: social protestor and establishment patriot, drugged wildman and devout Christian crusader, rebel outlaw hillbilly thug and elder statesman. Leigh H. Edwards explores the allure of this …
Songs of Jimmie Rodgers
A Legacy in Country Music
Häftad, 2009
295 kr
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The songs of country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers have been appropriated by dozens of musicians and radically transformed since he first recorded them nearly 90 years ago. His songs have often resurfaced at critical moments when country music has been forced to confront issues of style, gender, …
Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class
Dreaming in Middletown
Häftad, 2009
252 kr
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Canadian progressive rock band Rush was the voice of the suburban middle class. In this book, Chris McDonald assesses the band's impact on popular music and its legacy for legions of fans. McDonald explores the ways in which Rush's critique of suburban life—and its strategies for escape—reflected …
Megamusical
Inbunden, 2006
473 kr
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A megamusical is an epic, dramatic show featuring recurring melodies in a sung-through score; huge, impressive sets; and grand ideas. These qualities are accompanied by intensive marketing campaigns, unprecedented international financial success, and a marked disjunction between critical reaction …
