Pop Rock category: 3054 books

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Pop-Rock Music

Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity

by Motti Regev
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013

Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related techniques. The history of pop-rock...
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by Doris Leibetseder
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016

Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade,...
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Before Elvis

The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll

by Larry Birnbaum
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012

An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ‘n’ Roll surveys the origins of rock ’n’ roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a far broader and deeper analysis of...
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by Jim Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

The Rock 'n' Pop Music Trivia book is an amazing and absorbing collection of facts, statistics, stories and gossip that will entertain for hours. Which famous band started life as Starfish? When did MTV first hit the airwaves? Where and when was the first ever pop festival held? This...
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Sh-Boom!

The Explosion of Rock 'n' Roll, 1953–1968

by Clay Cole
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009

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...
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Glam Rock

Music in Sound and Vision

by Simon Philo
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018

Until recently, glam rock has been a mere footnote in popular music history: a style-over-substance lark in an otherwise serious industry. Glam Rock: Music in Sound and Vision reveals the true story of how glam carved out a place as a diverse musical style and how it related to the artistic, political,...
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by John Dougan
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006

Released in the U.S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire--the album sold well, but not spectacularly [and was] ultimately a nostalgic in-joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying its in-joke status was its...
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Turn It Up

A Guided Tour Through the Worlds of Pop, Rock, Rap and More

by Greg Kot
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013

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. Turn It Up: A Guided Tour Through the Worlds of Pop, Rock, Rap and More...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001

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...
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by Michael Zadoorian
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

"Danny Yzemski tunes out a dysfunctional family with Frank Zappa and Iggy Pop, shaking his countercultural fist at The Man in this eight-track flashback of a novel set in 1970s Detroit." --O, the Oprah Magazine, included in Summer Reading Picks/One of 'O's Top Books of Summer "Beautiful Music...
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Time after time

Dove, quando e perché nella storia del pop-rock. Anno per anno, dal 1954 ad oggi

by Enzo Gentile
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 17, 2016

La storia del rock è una cosa meravigliosa. Da questo assunto nasce l’idea di Time after time, un modo originale, una formula sinora mai applicata, per raccontare passo passo quello che di notevole, interessante, curioso, memorabile, degno di essere tramandato, è successo nelle cronache del pop-rock...
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by Lucy Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010

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,...
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Are We Not New Wave?

Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s

by Theo Cateforis
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011

“Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music.” —Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out Pop New wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cast in the image of punk rock’s sneering demeanor, yet rendered more accessible and sophisticated....
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Like Punk Never Happened

Culture Club and the New Pop

by Dave Rimmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011

'A controversial and honest account of My Life On The Road With Rock Group, a potted history of pop from '79-'85, and a serious analysis of the whole mess... Dave Rimmer has one great weapon at his disposal. He was there.' David Quantick, NME'As sharp a study of British pop as we'll get ......
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