Pop Rock category: 3054 books
Pop Science
Serious Answers to Deep Questions Posed in Songs
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist uses data, facts, and science to deliver hilarious, fascinating answers to some of the most famous questions in pop music history.
“Is there life on Mars? Where have all the flowers gone? Pop songs can pose excellent questions and James Ball has given...
Let's Rock!
How 1950s America Created Elvis and the Rock and Roll Craze
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Rock & roll was one of the most important cultural developments in post–World War II America, yet its origins are shrouded in myth and legend*. Let’s Rock!* reclaims the lost history of rock & roll. Based on years of research, as well as interviews with Bo Diddley, Pat Boone, and other...
by Francesco Primerano
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Il manuale in questione vuol celebrare piu' di 50 anni di Musica Rock.....
il nostro amico e fratello Rock.. il Rock senza tempo...il Rock dei popoli..il Rock che ha siglato intere generazioni di fenomeni,contribuendo a cambiare il Mondo nella Cultura,nell'Arte,nel Costume,nella nostra amata Societa'....In...
Pop Fiction
The Song in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Pop Fiction's unique essays individually consider one song within a cinematic context. Unlike previous collected volumes about pop music in film, where a generalised approach has been adopted, this offers instead a close examination of two pervasive and significant mediums in combination. The collection...
by Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Rock and roll's death has been forecast nearly since its birth; the country song "The Death of Rock and Roll" appeared in September 1956, showing that the music had already outraged a more conservative listening audience. Is Rock Dead? sets out to explore the varied and sometimes conflicting...
by Chester Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The Ukulele From The Beginning: Pop Songs (Blue Book) is a great collection of 16 favourite pop songs, specially chosen and arranged for primary school-age and early secondary school-age children.
The songs are simplified, and annotated with easy chord symbols, strumming and picking patterns....
by Georgina Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop group within the wider context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music and culture. Offering the first extended look at pop masculinity as...
by Patrick Humphries
Language: German
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Language: German
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Auch nach 20 Alben und einer Legion begeisterter Fans hört der unbeirrbare Waits nicht auf, immer wieder neue, mal zärtlich poetische, mal raue wüste Songs voll magischer Faszination zu produzieren, die andere Pop-Artisten wie Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, The Eagles, Elvis Costello, Meat Loaf,...
Good Vibrations
My Life as a Beach Boy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history -- timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good Vibrations." The eBook edition includes 85 additional photos.
As...
Please Kill Me
The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
**Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time.”-*Time Out New York*
Lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching . . . Resounds with authenticity.”-*The New York Times*
No volume serves juicier dish on punk’s...
Jingle Jangle Morning
Folk-Rock in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Jingle Jangle Morning is the story of how folk and rock merged in the 1960s to create folk-rock, injecting social consciousness and poetic lyricism into popular music to scale heights that neither folk nor rock could have reached without blending. It draws on more than 100 first-hand interviews with...
What You Want Is in the Limo
On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
An epic joyride through three history-making tours in 1973 that defined rock and roll superstardom—the money, the access, the excess—forevermore.
The Who’s Quadrophenia. Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy. Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies. These three unprecedented tours—and...
Managing Artists in Pop Music
What Every Artist and Manager Must Know to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Music managers and artists will learn the secrets of successful management with scenarios from a manager’s work life along with the legal and business skills to master them. Through stories of real-life famous artist-manager teams, the authors analyze, criticize, and detail what a manager ought...
The Theater Will Rock
A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
The tumultuous decade of the 1960s in America gave birth to many new ideas and forms of expression, among them the rock musical. An unlikely offspring of the performing arts, the rock musical appeared when two highly distinctive and American art forms joined onstage in New York City. The Theater Will...