Popular music

From Ahmir "e;Questlove"e; Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of television's Soul Train.

More than fifteen years since the death of lead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead stand as a symbol of the unresolved cultural clashes of the 1960s.

In this book, Robert L.

Hip Hop Headphones is a crash course in Hip Hop culture.

This is a comprehensive guide to the unique genre of the jukebox musical, delving into its history to explain why these musicals have quickly become beloved for multiple generations of theatergoers and practitioners.

We are what we listen to.

The Music Learning Profiles Project: Let's Take This Outside uses ethnographic techniques and modified case studies to profile musicians active in a wide range of musical contexts not typically found in traditional music education settings.

On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be "e;bored with the USA,"e; but The Clash wasn't a parochial record.

In March 1977, John "e;Johnny Rotten"e; Lydon of the punk band the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey, militarized landscape of East Berlin, which reminded him of home in London.

Originally published in 1994.

The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding across the globe.

In Estrada?

Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond represents the first interdisciplinary volume of chapters on an intricate cultural field that can be experienced and interpreted in manifold ways, whether in Ireland (The Republic of Ireland and/or Northern Ireland), among its diaspora(s), or further afield.

Images of the golden age of wireless and family life before the age of television have widespread currency.

Ewald Pfleger, Gitarrist, Musikproduzent, Autor und Komponist von »Live Is Life« ist Gründungsmitglied der Rockband Opus gibt in seinem Buch nicht nur die Antwort auf die Frage »Live Is Life oder Life Is Live?

The Eurovision Song Contest is famous for its camp spectacles and political intrigues, but what about its actual music?

Every time I sing a song, I'm actually making love on stage.

When the Second World War broke out, ballet in Britain was only a few decades old.

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.

How is it that some conservative groups are viscerally antigovernment even while enjoying the benefits of government funding?

Die definitive Geschichte des klassischen post-punk/gothic Pop-Gruppe aus Crawley, der globale Superstars unwahrscheinlich geworden - The Cure.

In Choreographing in Color , J.

How creative freedom, race, class, and gender shaped the rebellion of two visionary artistsPostwar America experienced an unprecedented flourishing of avant-garde and independent art.

Born of Japan's cultural encounter with Western entertainment media, manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films) are two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture.

In the vein of the classic Johnny Cash: The Life, this groundbreaking work explores the wild life and extraordinary musical career of “the definitive country singer of the last half century” (New York Times), who influenced, among others, Bob Dylan, Buck Owens, Emmylou Harris, John Fogerty, George Strait, Alan Jackson, and Garth Brooks.

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of comic-books, mobilising them as a means to understand better the political context in which they are produced.

Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best-loved musicians in jazz history.

Popular culture has recognized urban gay men's use of the Web over the last ten years, with gay Internet dating and Net-cruising featuring as narrative devices in hit television shows.

This book explores how, and why, the blues became a central component of English popular music in the 1960s.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular culture in the early modern era.

Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing contributes to a wave of voice studies scholarship with the first book-length study of free jazz voice.

Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti.

Upon its release, Don't Break the Oath charted fifth on the official British heavy metal album list and was supported by a two month long sold-out American tour in early 1985.

This full-blooded story of The Wailers puts the life, music and death of the legendary Bob Marley into a razor-sharp new perspective.

In The Cuban Hustle, Sujatha Fernandes explores the multitudinous ways artists, activists, and ordinary Cubans have hustled to survive and express themselves in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse.

This long-awaited volume is the first edited collection to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia.

One of America's greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men.

A revised and updated version of the artist's collected lyricsAn American original, Patti Smith is a multi-disciplined artist and performer.

Why is gender inseparable from pop songs?

No Boomeresque celebration of the "e;music that defined an era,"e; Rock and Roll vs.

The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures.

In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "e;On the Sunny Side of the Street,"e; "e;I Can't Give You Anything But Love,"e; "e;The Way You Look Tonight,"e; and "e;If My Friends Could See Me Now.

For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval.

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA'Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal .

In 1996, Walter Capps won a seat in US House of Representatives.

Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family, and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary composer.

From fan-generated content on TikTok to music videos, the contemporary media landscape is becoming ever more vast, spectacular, and intense.

A brilliant new survey and intelligent exploration of progressive rock, from its origins through to contemporary artists.