Pop Rock category: 3054 books
The Devil’s Music
How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
When rock ’n’ roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was “ever working in the world for evil.” Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar...
by James E. Perone
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
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
•...
by Nick Brownlee
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
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,...
by Luca Paisiello
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Il rock italiano è morto? E’ la domanda più odiata che si sentono rivolgere i musicisti quando vengono intervistati e che molti appassionati di musica discutono tra loro. Perché viviamo in un momento storico in cui il rock sta soffrendo una certa impopolarità e sembra abbia ormai ben poco da...
Experiencing Alice Cooper
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Experiencing Alice Cooper: A Listener’s Companion takes a long overdue look at the music and stage act of rock music’s self-styled arch-villain. A provocateur from the very start of his career in the mid-1960s, Alice Cooper, aka Vince Furnier, son of a lay preacher in the Church of Jesus Christ,...
Planet rock
L'ultima rivoluzione
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 19, 2017
L’ultima rivoluzione del rock comincia il 24 settembre 1991, quando esce l’album nevermind dei Nirvana, e finisce l’8 aprile 1994, quando viene trovato il cadavere di Kurt Cobain. In quei tre anni nascono nuovi fenomeni musicali, l’underground conquista le classifiche e le cose nella musica...
Women Who Rock
Bessie to Beyonce. Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl.
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A stellar and unprecedented celebration of 104 musical artists, WOMEN WHO ROCK is the most complete, up-to-date history of the evolution, influence, and importance of women in music. A gorgeous gift book, it includes a stunning, specially commissioned, full-color illustrated portrait of every musician...
Opera Rock
La storia del concept album
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Mezzo secolo di narrazione rock. Dischi come ‘romanzi sonori’ nei quali l’ascoltatore si è tuffato, rapito da immagini di mondi paralleli, futuri distopici, viaggi psichedelici, occultismo, fantascienza e letteratura. La maturità del rock è avvenuta con la crescita compositiva dei suoi protagonisti,...
100% American
La classicità del rock americano. Nuova edizione ampliata e aggiornata
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 30, 2017
La musica di cui si occupa questo libro è uno dei generi e stili del rock. È il rock di Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp e Counting Crows. Come il jazz, ha una miriade di interpreti, i frutti del cui lavoro sono sintetizzati e incorporati in quello di pochi artisti....
Hard Rock Emotions
Un viaggio attraverso la musica più elettrica degli ultimi cinquant’anni
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Un viaggio attraverso la musica più elettrica degli ultimi cinquant’anni. L’hard rock non è semplicemente un genere musicale, è un’emozione intensa, avvolgente, che se vi entra in circolo finisce col diventare la colonna sonora delle vostre azioni e dei vostri pensieri, e non potete più...
Twenty Thousand Roads
The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
**“A terrific biography of a rock innovator that hums with juicy detail and wincing truth. . . . Page after page groans with the folly of the ’60s drug culture, the tragedy of talent toasted before its time, the curse of wealth and the madness of wasted opportunity.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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by Margaret Moser, Bill Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Aerosmith. Elvis Presley. Michael Jackson. Nine Inch Nails. Ozzy Osbourne. U2. What do all of these artists have in common? They're rich and rowdy rock 'n' roll renegades whose wild stunts, dumb quotes, and out-of-control lifestyles are featured in Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things.
--Where...
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Thirty Years Married to a Rolling Stone
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In this wild, behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the biggest rock bands in history, Jo Wood comes clean about her three decades as the girlfriend and eventually the wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. This startlingly honest, laugh-out-loud memoir vividly describes life on tour, in the...
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by Chris Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Would you like to learn more about Tom Petty?How he managed to incorporate his personal problems into the greatest music hits of all time?Music to Tom Petty was not just money and fame. It was a way to express himself through difficult times, challenges and struggles. Somehow he found a way...