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The first academic introduction to Krautrock, exploring both context and legacy in addition to expert discussions of the major bands.

Jerome Kern's Jewel Box shows how the integration of spoken and sung performances in Kern's early musicals reveals new connections between musical theater scores and "e;straight"e; (spoken) theater.

In seinem neuesten Buch entlarvt Marcus drei »gewöhnliche« amerikanische Songs als grundlegende Dokumente amerikanischer Identität: Bascom Lamar Lunsfords »I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground« (1928), Geeshie Wileys »Last Kind Words Blues« (1930) und Bob Dylans »Ballad of Hollis Brown« (1964).

The volume on a standard amp goes to 10.

This book explores some of the various ways in which hip hop has tragically and perilously been misused by scholars and how the study of hip hop often entrenches antiblackness as well as other social problematics.

Between the Ideal and the Real describes why Iraq state-building and democratic transformation failed by offering a very new, and unusual, perspective, away from the usual blame assigned to the US that has become part of the "e;conventional wisdom"e; about Iraq and the Middle East.

HipHop-Kultur ist global: In jeder Sprache wird gerappt, gesampelt wird alles, von Soul Funk Breaks über Klassik bis hin zum folkloristischen Bläsersatz und auf Youtube tanzen B-Boys aus der ganzen Welt vor Wänden voller Graffiti.

Advancing the New Jazz Studies by focusing on questions of intermediality and cultural catalysis, this book demonstrates the role jazz played in the re-making of West German culture in the post-war era.

"La canción popular argentina y latinoamericana marcó una identidad política y cultural bien definida.

Rojo Floyd es un acontecimiento literario único.

Julio Cortázar, Boris Vian, Jack Kerouac, Federico Monjeau, Horacio Verbitsky, Raúl González Tuñón, Paco Urondo, entre otros, reunidos en un libro que compila crónicas, entrevistas, ensayos y poemas sobre jazz, atravezados por una certeza: el swing no es solo un ritmo.

Paul Morley, author, journalist and cultural commentator, tells the story in Earthbound of post-punk, music and changing times - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin'The stand-out is Paul Morley's eclectic, headspinning Earthbound .

Asociado a la rebeldía y el inconformismo juveniles, el rock produjo una revolución cultural cuyos efectos aún modelan buena parte de nuestra vida cotidiana.

¿Qué tienen en común escritores, ensayistas, periodistas especializados y músicos de España y Argentina, como Antonio Muñoz Molina, Beatriz Sarlo, Hermenegildo Sabat, Juan Sasturain, Carlos Sampayo, Marcelo Cohen, Diego Fischerman, Pablo Gianera, Rafael Fillippelli, Sergio Pujol, Santiago Giordano, Eduardo Hojman, Jonio González, César Pradines, Gary Vila Ortiz, Marcelo Scalona, Raúl Acosta, José Luis Cavazza, Rubén "Chivo" González, Roberto Maurer, Guillermo Bazzola, Jorge Fondebrider, Humphrey Inzillo y Marcos Meyer?

Worldwide sensation One Direction is back to share all their secrets, dreams and stories from the past year with the fans they love in the latest instalment of their must-have Annual.

Monasticism is a social and religious phenomenon which originated in antiquity and which still remains relevant in the twenty-first century.

Monasticism is a social and religious phenomenon which originated in antiquity and which still remains relevant in the twenty-first century.

Soul Jazz is a history of jazz and its reception in the black community in the period from the end of World War II until the end of the Vietnam War.

This insider's account of the lives of Brian Jones, Keith Richard, and Mick Jagger in the sixties and seventies has become legendary in the years since its first publication in 1979.

There is no better authority on jazz than the creators, educators, and writers who have made this enigmatic musical style a major force internationally as well as in American history.

OK, break out your microphones (or hair brushes) and start singing to these test and quizzes.

Love him or loathe him, Simon Cowell is arguably the most influential player in the British entertainment industry and one of Britains most successful exports.

Half a century after three teenage brothers decided to give a career in music a go, the Bee Gees are among the most successful and enduring names in popular music history.

Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo-Wop: The Music and Artists of the 1950s and Early 1960s digs back through the catalogue of popular music and brings to life the solo artists, duos, and groups whose music once filled the airwaves and turntables with rock & roll and doo-wop.

The world's biggest star squeezed down to a miniature pocket-size.

For nearly 25 years, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune has been reviewing all parts of the popular music world: from indie up-and-comers and underground hip-hop artists to arena-filling rock-and-rollers and celebrity pop superstars.