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Ariana Grande captured the hearts of a nation with her One Love Manchester concert. Less than a fortnight after a terrorist killed twenty-two people at her Manchester show, the petite princess stood tall at her tribute concert that united and healed a shaken nation. She was the emotional core of a...

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South...

“If you told me you wanted to get going on guitar, I’d recommend Justin Sandercoe.” - Mark Knopfler “One of the most influential guitar teachers in history.” - The Independent The Justinguitar Pop Songbook is the latest addition to Justin Sandercoe's series of guitar songbooks,...

This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence...

“Music That Matters (Classic Pop)” (Includes 11 Video Notebooks at the End of the Manuscript)What makes music have a lasting impact on your soul minutes, days, months, years and decades after you first experienced a particular group, song or album? Chances are you were experiencing something emotionally...

Ukulele From The Beginning: Pop Songs (The Yellow Book) is a great collection of 16 favourite pop songs, selected and arranged specially for younger ukulele players. All of the songs have been simplified and annotated with easy chord diagrams, strumming and picking patterns. Designed to be accessible...

Listen to Pop! discusses the evolution of pop music in America from the 1950s to the present, diving into its impact on American culture, particularly through its association with television, and its enduring legacy. • Analyzes a diversity, stylistically and otherwise, of must-hear examples •...

The rise and rise of the 'manufactured' pop group has been a reliable and consistent trend over the last 50 years of the pop music charts, and this entertaining account by Nick Brownlee features them all! This is the story of the hapless artists and the all-powerful Svengali's who created them,...

Tan divertido de criticar como de citar, "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! La historia del pop moderno" explora las raíces de la música pop a través del nacimiento del rock, soul, R&B, punk, hip hop, indie, house y techno, englobando canciones, grupos, escenarios y estilos desde "Rock around...

The Cher Bible, Vol. 1: Essentials "Let's call it what it is, before Britney, before Madonna, there was only Cher." - Gene Simmons, KISS. Rightfully coined the "Goddess of Pop", Cher has conquered music, film and television during her 50-year showbiz career, selling...

In a career that begun in the late Sixties Iggy Pop always set out to shock. But his attention-grabbing tactics including self-mutilation always disguised a musician and artist more complex than the image suggested. In this solid biography Joe Ambrose does full justice to the original spirit of Iggy...

"[Stanley is] as clear-eyed about music as he is crazy in love with it." —Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times A monumental work of musical history, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! traces the story of pop music through songs, bands, musical scenes, and styles from Bill Haley and the Comets’ “Rock around...

No matter how much of an expert you think you are, there will be plenty to challenge and baffle you in this collection of over 1000 teasers from the world of Rock and Pop! From Abba to Frank Zappa, there's something for everyone to display their expertise. The questions are divided into rounds,...

A rip-snorting rock ‘n’ roll memoir from the legendary disc jockey who’s been called “the missing link to the Sixties.” There was a small sliver of time between Bebop and Hip-Hop, when a new generation of teenagers created rock ‘n’ roll. Clay Cole was one of those teenagers, as...