Popular music

The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music.

This innovative book sets out practical guidance for people with dementia, their families and carers on reducing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

In the twenty-first century, Senegalese hip hop--"e;Rap Galsen"e;--has reverberated throughout the world as an exemplar of hip hop resistance in its mobilization against government corruption during a series of tumultuous presidential elections.

Jazz in Europa – das hieß lange Zeit soviel wie amerikanischer Jazz, unabhängig davon, ob er von amerikanischen oder europäischen Musikern dargeboten wurde.

Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century popular music of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

In a world of violence in which religion seems to play an increasing role, the understanding of the Religions of the Book, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is highly important.

Is modern racism a product of secularisation and the decline of Christian universalism?

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format.

Popular music is not simply a series of musicians, moments, genres or recordings.

This new and updated edition of U2 A Diary brings U2s story up to date with information about the band's ground-breaking film, U2 3D, recording sessions for No Line on the Horizon and the story of how the album was leaked online twice before its official release, the U2 360 world tour and Bono's back injury that forced an entire leg to be postponed and the band's struggles to decide how to follow No Line on the Horizon and the 360 Tour with new material.

God Rocks!

The first book to explore the ballad''s history and emotional appeal, surveying seventy years of the genre in modern America.

Once the domain of a privileged few, the art of record production is today within the reach of all.

Amidst the heated fray of the Culture Wars emerged a scrappy festival in downtown New York City called Bang on a Can.

A member of Muddy Waters' legendary late 1940s-1950s band, Jimmy Rogers pioneered a blues guitar style that made him one of the most revered sidemen of all time.

For almost four decades, Bruce Springsteen's music has directly inspired, influenced, and uplifted millions of devoted fans, who hold a special place in their hearts and minds for his work.

This volume honors and extends the contributions of educator and scholar Dr.

This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post-civil rights generation.

The author presents a cultural history of popular Viennese electronic music from 1990 to 2015, from the perspectives of production, scene and national and international reception.

In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan's vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios.

How Nashville Became Music City, U.

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb.

What does it mean to think of Western Art music - and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory - as a tradition?

A powerful memoir of redemption from the son of blues legend John Lee HookerBorn in Detroit and exposed to the music world from an early age, John Lee Hooker Jr.

Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam.

Fado, often described as 'urban folk music', emerged from the streets of Lisbon in the mid-nineteenth century and went on to become Portugal's 'national' music during the twentieth.

There are many biographies and histories of early country music and its creators, but surprisingly little attention has been given to the actual songs at the heart of these narratives.

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio was a Neapolitan nobleman with long practical experience of military life, first in the service of Charles V and later as both soldier and courtier in France and then at the court of Alfonso II d'Este at Ferrara.

With no fewer than nine members and a unique stage image based on grotesque masks and boiler suits, Slipknot retained a mystique that was unprecedented in the metal world, never allowing their faces to become known - so that the focus would remain on their music.

Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema examines popular representations of Generation X in American and British film.

Particularly since the 1950s, cars and popular music have been constantly associated.

Keywords in Remix Studies consists of twenty-four chapters authored by researchers who share interests in remix studies and remix culture throughout the arts and humanities.

What is rock and roll and where does it come from?

In the studio and more than 2,300 concerts between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead performed more than 400 different songs.

An important center of dancehall reggae performance, sound clashes are contests between rival sound systems: groups of emcees, tune selectors, and sound engineers.

This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them.

Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) explores the role music-making has played in community projects run for young people in the poverty-stricken and often violent surroundings of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music?

Duke Ellington was one of jazz's greatest figures, a composer and bandleader of unparalleled importance and influence.

The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic Singing Revolution.

This book examines the community-based learning and teaching of 'traditional' music in contemporary Scotland, with implications for transnational theoretical issues.

This book bridges a gap in existing scholarship by foregrounding the contribution of women to the nineteenth-century Lied.

Between 1972 and 1987, freelance teacher and music journalist Roland Baggenaes conducted a series of interviews with jazz musicians for CODA magazine.

From a Battle of the Bands contest in Teignmouth, to the first band ever to sell out the new Wembley Stadium, the story of Muse's stratospheric rise is one of UK rock's most fascinating and incendiary tales.

Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.

With more than two thousand songs handpicked and organized by former Spin magazine writer and editor Sarah Lewitinn (aka Ultragrrrl), The Pocket DJ is the ultimate insider's reference guide for selecting music, downloading MP3s, and making all-purpose mixes for every occasion imaginable.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor shares her experiences, insights and reflections on men, music and motherhood.