Pop Rock category: 3054 books
Foundation Stone - The Legacy Tracks
The musical influences of Brian Jones, Founder of the Rolling Staones
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
The author was Brian Jones's best friend during the months immediately prior to Brian leaving his hometown of Cheltenham for London and his eventual founding of the Rolling Stones.
They shared good times, bad times, money, food, cigarettes, booze, revelations, depressions, views and...
Magical Musical Tour
Rock and Pop in Film Soundtracks
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Winner of the Southwest Popular and American Culture Association's 2016 Peter C. Rollins Book Award in the category of Film/Television
The popular music industry has become completely interlinked with the film industry. The majority of mainstream films come with ready-attached songs that may...
by Music Sales
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
This comprehensive songbook contains all and every one of the 194 songs that were written and sung by the Beatles during their prolific and productive career. Specially arranged in the original keys from the actual recordings, each song includes chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics...
Swissted
Vintage Rock Posters Remixed and Reimagined
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
**“Fine art for font nerds.”—New York Magazine
“One of the most engaging homages I have ever seen.”—Steven Heller**
Swissted takes rock concert posters of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and remixes and reimagines them through a Swiss modernist lens. The result is some of...
Queerness in Pop Music
Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms. The focus falls on artists, such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Boy George, Diana Ross, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Azealia Banks, Zebra Katz, Freddie Mercury,...
More Fun in the New World
The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Sequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene, with 50 rare photos
Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle...
Experiencing the Beatles
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Starting an undeniable revolution, the Beatles took pop culture by storm, shook up the recording industry, and provided a soundtrack for the lives of millions of American teenagers. No band would ever come close to the mania inspired by these four Liverpudlian exports.
Brooke Halpin takes readers...
Counting Down the Beatles
Their 100 Finest Songs
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The Beatles loom large over the musical landscape even now that nearly a half-century has passed since the four men from Liverpool played their last notes together. While the story of their stunning rise and brief but brilliant time together on top of the pop music world is undoubtedly fascinating,...
Pop Stars in My Pantry
A Memoir of Pop Mags and Clubbing in the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Corrupted by Spandau. Slated by Boy George. Mothered by Sade. Evicted by Bananarama. Jilted by Madonna.
Author, columnist and TV writer Paul Simper had a front-row seat at one of pop stardom’s most exciting shows: the 1980s. His memoir, Pop Stars in My Pantry, is an account of a wide-eyed,...
Highway 61 Revisited
The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz--not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes. As legendary...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
This edition of The Little Black Songbook presents the complete lyrics and chords to over 70 rock and pop hits, all of which use no more than 4 simple chords!. This handy chord songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to expand your repertoire...
Pick Up the Pieces
Excursions in Seventies Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest—from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco. With...
The Who. Pure and easy
Testi commentati
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 24, 2011
"Insieme ai Beatles e ai Rolling Stones, gli Who formano la trinità del rock". Parola di "Rolling Stone", e come dargli torto? In oltre quarantanni di attività la band britannica capitanata dal chitarrista e songwriter Pete Townshend ha coniato l'espressione power pop, cavalcato...
by Annika Chung
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Interested in learning Korean while having fun? Love K-pop songs? Then, you found the right book! This book will take you to a unique cultural and linguistic journey through which you will eventually master Korean language and hopefully emerge as a great K-pop singer! The first volume of the book...