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Northern Soul Scene
Av Sarah Raine, Tim Wall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1274 kr
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The northern soul scene is a dance-based music culture that originated in the English North and Midlands in the early 1970s. It still thrives today with a mix of sixty-year-olds and several generations of new converts, and its celebration of 1960s soul has an international following. This …
Nick Cave
A Study of Love, Death and Apocalypse
Av Roland Boer
Häftad, 2012
356 kr
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This study analyses the work of Nick Cave, a singular, idiosyncratic and brilliant musician, specifically through his engagements with theology and the Bible. It does so not merely in terms of his written work, the novels and plays and poetry and lyrics that he continues to produce, but also the …
Beatles in Perspective: A Carnival of Light
A Carnival of Light
Inbunden, 2023
1237 kr
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The Beatles’ lives and work continue to delight fans and influence musicians half a century since their heyday. Yet their contribution to contemporary culture and their relationship to social change remain controversial topics in need of reappraisal. This collection brings together fourteen leading …
Do You Want to Know a Secret?
The Autobiography of Billy J. Kramer
Inbunden, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
413 kr
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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. This propelled the teenage Kramer into the fast lane, and he followed it …
Rosary and the Microphone
Religious Impulse in U2's Mediated Brand
Inbunden, 2019
1274 kr
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The Rosary and the Microphone explores U2 as a politically engaged band that manifests a particular brand of Christianity through the band's mediation in a global context and for a global audience. Through the primarily semiotic study of U2's various mediations, this book maps the band's strategies …
Rosary and the Microphone
Religious Impulse in U2's Mediated Brand
Häftad, 2019
421 kr
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The Rosary and the Microphone explores U2 as a politically engaged band that manifests a particular brand of Christianity through the band's mediation in a global context and for a global audience. Through the primarily semiotic study of U2's various mediations, this book maps the band's strategies …
Northern Soul Scene
Av Sarah Raine, Tim Wall m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
434 kr
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The northern soul scene is a dance-based music culture that originated in the English North and Midlands in the early 1970s. It still thrives today with a mix of sixty-year-olds and several generations of new converts, and its celebration of 1960s soul has an international following. This …
Beatles in Perspective: A Carnival of Light
A Carnival of Light
Häftad, 2023
403 kr
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The Beatles’ lives and work continue to delight fans and influence musicians half a century since their heyday. Yet their contribution to contemporary culture and their relationship to social change remain controversial topics in need of reappraisal. This collection brings together fourteen leading …
Do You Want to Know a Secret?
The Autobiography of Billy J. Kramer
Häftad, 2016
242 kr
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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. This propelled the teenage Kramer into the fast lane, and he followed it …
Who Do We Think They Are?
Deep Purple and Metal Studies
Av Andy Brown
Inbunden, 2026
1143 kr
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By 1973 Deep Purple were the most successful, top-grossing, stadium-touring heavy rock band on the planet; a position confirmed by the virtuoso performances captured on the double live album, Made in Japan (1972), and the Billboard chart success of the double A-side live/studio single Smoke on the …
Who Do We Think They Are?
Deep Purple and Metal Studies
Av Andy Brown
Häftad, 2026
416 kr
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By 1973 Deep Purple were the most successful, top-grossing, stadium-touring heavy rock band on the planet; a position confirmed by the virtuoso performances captured on the double live album, Made in Japan (1972), and the Billboard chart success of the double A-side live/studio single Smoke on the …
Instrumental Voices
The Boys in the Band
Inbunden, 2027
438 kr
Kommande
Instrumental Voices: The Boys in the Band is the follow-up to Amanda Kramer and Wayne Byrne’s 2024 book, Hired Guns: Portraits of Women in Alternative Music, which documented the careers of professional female touring musicians.Now, Kramer and Byrne turn their attention to the male experience of …
Open up the Doors
Music in the Modern Church
Av Mark Evans
Inbunden, 2006
1274 kr
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Within the Judaeo-Christian tradition -with few exceptions- music has always been central to the performance of sacred rites. The musical setting of liturgy has its roots in the earliest customs of the church and the practice has continued to evolve up to the present day. As the contemporary church …
Open up the Doors
Music in the Modern Church
Av Mark Evans
Häftad, 2006
400 kr
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Within the Judaeo-Christian tradition -with few exceptions- music has always been central to the performance of sacred rites. The musical setting of liturgy has its roots in the earliest customs of the church and the practice has continued to evolve up to the present day. As the contemporary church …
Falco and Beyond
Neo Nothing Post of All
Häftad, 2014
392 kr
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Falco and Beyond is devoted to the most popular Austrian song-writer, singer and rapper of the twentieth century and one of the most successful European singers of all time. Falco was born in 1957, reached the peak of his popularity in the 1980s with songs such as "Der Kommissar", "Rock Me Amadeus" …
Falco and Beyond
Neo Nothing Post of All
Inbunden, 2014
1274 kr
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Falco and Beyond is devoted to the most popular Austrian song-writer, singer and rapper of the twentieth century and one of the most successful European singers of all time. Falco was born in 1957, reached the peak of his popularity in the 1980s with songs such as "Der Kommissar", "Rock Me Amadeus" …
Dub In Babylon
Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-punk
Inbunden, 2010
1190 kr
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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 tracks on which the …
Dub In Babylon
Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-punk
Häftad, 2010
350 kr
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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 tracks on which the …
Technomad
Global Raving Countercultures
Inbunden, 2009
1190 kr
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A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures, Technomad explores the pleasurable and activist trajectories of post-rave. The book documents an emerging network of techno-tribes, exploring their pleasure principles and cultural politics. Attending to sound system culture, …
Technomad
Global Raving Countercultures
Häftad, 2009
388 kr
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A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures, Technomad explores the pleasurable and activist trajectories of post-rave. The book documents an emerging network of techno-tribes, exploring their pleasure principles and cultural politics. Attending to sound system culture, …
Heavy Metal
Controversies and Counterculture
Av Titus Hjelm, Keith Kahn-Harris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1190 kr
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Heavy metal is now over 40 years old. It emerged at the tail end of the 1960s in the work of bands including Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and - most importantly - Black Sabbath. In the 1970s and early 1980s, heavy metal crystallised as a genre as bands such …
Heavy Metal
Controversies and Counterculture
Av Titus Hjelm, Keith Kahn-Harris m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
392 kr
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Heavy metal is now over 40 years old. It emerged at the tail end of the 1960s in the work of bands including Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and - most importantly - Black Sabbath. In the 1970s and early 1980s, heavy metal crystallised as a genre as bands such …
Global Tribe
Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance
Inbunden, 2012
1153 kr
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Trance events have an uncanny ability to capture an era, and captivate an audience of travellers occupying the eternal theatre of the dance floor. As this book shows, the tendency within psytrance is to thwart the passage of time, to prolong the night, for those who adopt a liminal lifestyle. Amid …
Global Tribe
Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance
Häftad, 2012
400 kr
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Trance events have an uncanny ability to capture an era, and captivate an audience of travellers occupying the eternal theatre of the dance floor. As this book shows, the tendency within psytrance is to thwart the passage of time, to prolong the night, for those who adopt a liminal lifestyle. Amid …
Lost Women of Rock Music
Female Musicians of the Punk Era
Häftad, 2012
351 kr
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s a new phenomenon emerged in UK popular music - female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers began playing in bands. Before this time, women's presence in rock bands, with a few notable exceptions, had always been as vocalists. This sudden influx …
Nick Cave
A Study of Love, Death and Apocalypse
Av Roland Boer
Inbunden, 2012
1237 kr
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This study analyses the work of Nick Cave, a singular, idiosyncratic and brilliant musician, specifically through his engagements with theology and the Bible. It does so not merely in terms of his written work, the novels and plays and poetry and lyrics that he continues to produce, but also the …
