Popular music

Lennon and McCartney: Painting with Sound explores the work of two of the most influential composers of the twentieth century.

The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "e;sound"e; functions in an equally wide array of popular music.

Social networks are critical for the creation and consumption of music.

Many metal songs incorporate poetry into their lyrics using a broad array of techniques, both textual and musical.

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Debates over who belongs in Europe and who doesn't increasingly speak the language of mixing, but how are the figures commonly described as 'mixed' actually embodied?

The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.

Japan's jazz community-both musicians and audience-has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation.

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With her deeply personal songwriting, countless hit songs, and genre-bending yet unmistakable sound, Taylor Swift has cemented her status as one of pop music's most iconic and culture-defining voices.

Every night, somewhere in the world, three or four musicians will climb on stage together.

Led Zeppelin's records and concerts outsold every other band on the planet.

An avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear, 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) marked a pivotal point in David Bowie's career.

Featuring a wealth of new interviews with the genres most central figures, Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult offers the most comprehensive guide yet to the most controversial form of extreme metal.

Mina (Anna Maria Mazzini, born Lombardy, 1940) is an Italian popular music icon who throughout her sixty-year-long career has come to represent a range of diverse meanings.

A first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues venues and performers in the city from the 1940s through the 1990s.

"Jetzt höre ich den Song mit anderen Ohren" oder "Endlich weiß ich, worum es in meinem Lieblingslied wirklich geht" – seit SWR1 Musikredakteur Werner Köhler Anfang 2016 mit seinen "Hits & Stories" auf Sendung gegangen ist, erhält er ein begeistertes Feedback seiner Hörer.

For some people, at some times, in some places, on some drugs, dance music can be a gateway to transformative, even transcendent experiences.

This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness.

“Michael Stipe’s photo-journal of Patti Smith’s celebrated return to touring .

Bands structured around western wind instruments are among the most widespread instrumental ensembles in the world.

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From the beginning of her career in 1935 to her death in 1963 and right up to the present, Edith Piaf has been recognized as unique and iconic.

This book, first published in 1987, is a landmark contribution to macrosociology that extends the tradition of Sorokin, Durkheim, Marx, Weber and other founders of the discipline in new and exciting directions.

In the mid-20th century, African musicians took up Cuban music as their own and claimed it as a marker of black Atlantic connections and of cosmopolitanism untethered from European colonial relations.

Made in Latin America serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Latin American popular music.

For Broadway audiences of the 1980s, the decade was perhaps most notable for the so-called "e;British invasion.

British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged.

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Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of ChuckBerry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure.

In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players.

Mad Dogs and Englishness connects English popular music with questions about English national identities, featuring essays that range across Bowie and Burial, PJ Harvey, Bishi and Tricky.

London, 1966: Paul McCartney met a group of three electronic musicians called Unit Delta Plus.

In the past few years, Detroit siblings Jack and Meg White have in conjunction with a stream of similar-minded bands, revitalised rock music.

The eclectic Orange County band No Doubt was formed in 1986 by Eric Stefani and John Spence who soon recruited Eric's younger sister Gwen as co-vocalist.

**MOJO MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR**The Hollywood Brats are the greatest band you ve never heard of.

'My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

Gettin' Around examines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in various ways, toward an imaginative reconfiguration of a humanity that transcends entrenched borders of ethnicity and nationhood, while at the same time remaining keenly aware of the exigencies of history.

Spätestens mit dem Sensationserfolg ihres zweiten Albums »Back to Black« war die ganze Welt fasziniert von Amys Ausnahmetalent, ihrem Retro-Look und ihrem exzessiven Lifestyle.

One of the greatest names in classic rock, Yes have been on the circuit for an incredible 34 years.

Simon Frith has been one of the most important figures in the emergence and subsequent development of popular music studies.

In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time.

The Dead C's Clyma est mort (1993) is the record of a live gig for one person.

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Hits and Misses examines a selection of songs and recordings through the lens of textual criticism and delineates the creative process as it unfolds from the initial conception of a song to the final mix presented on disc.

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet and shares photos of his extensive unique personal T-shirt collection.

This edition brings the story of 20th-century Southern politics up to the present day and the virtual triumph of Southern Republicanism.

Almost 20 years ago Michael Brocken created from his doctoral research, what became both a seminal and contested volume concerning the social mores surrounding the British Folk Revival up to that point in time: The British Folk Revival 1944-2002.

Popular music has long been a subject of academic inquiry, with college courses taught on Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles, along with more contemporary artists like Beyonce and Outkast.