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Naná Vasconcelos’s Saudades

Author : Daniel B. Sharp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501345729
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Naná Vasconcelos’s Saudades written by Daniel B. Sharp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Afro-Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos stitches together histories of 1960s-1980s jazz, psychedelia, world music, experimentalism and post-punk. Based in Recife, Rio de Janeiro, New York City and Paris, Naná played with musicians as varied as Egberto Gismonti, Don Cherry, Pat Metheny, Ralph Towner, Arto Lindsay, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Paul Simon, Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, Os Mutantes, and Milton Nascimento. This book traces the 15 years (1964-1979) leading up to Naná's Saudades (1979, ECM), an album evoking his sonic memories of Brazil that he recorded while in Germany. Saudades features berimbau, a one-stringed instrument that looks like a bow and arrow, alongside onomatopoetic vocals and the strings of the Radio Symphony Stuttgart. Daniel B. Sharp hears Naná's playing as a counterargument against dishonest notions of the primitive just as world music emerged as a genre. With a gourd, a stick, a wire, a wicker basket, and a stone, Naná made music as complex and contemporary as the ARP synthesizers in vogue at the time.

Nan Vasconceloss Saudades

Author : Daniel b Sharp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501345746
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Nan Vasconceloss Saudades written by Daniel b Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The berimbau, a one-stringed musical instrument that looks like a bow from a bow-and-arrow, is customarily strung with the wire found within a car tire. When Afro-Brazilian percussionist Nan ̀Vasconcelos set out to build his own, however, he strung it instead with a single Steinway piano string, signaling his desire to take the instrument beyond its traditional settings. Nan ̀grew up in Northeast Brazil, surrounded by the resourceful improvisation born of necessity that the car tire wire solution symbolizes. As his long career progressed, he lived his dream to play concert halls throughout the world with his single Steinway string. Nan ̀painted with sound, reimagining percussion and voice to create evocative, cinematic soundscapes. This book revolves around Nan'̀s 1980 album Saudades, released on ECM records. It traces his early work between 1969-1979 as he lived in New York, Europe and Brazil, as he developed his approach to music-making that culminated in Saudades."--

John Farnham's Whispering Jack

Author : Graeme Turner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150138208X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book John Farnham's Whispering Jack written by Graeme Turner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by an Australian artist in Australia, and constitutes the turning point in Farnham's bid to achieve credibility as an adult contemporary musician. The first single from the album, 'You're the Voice,' has achieved such iconic status that it is routinely referred to as Australia's unofficial national anthem. The book examines the album, its context and that history in order to recover a crucial conjuncture in the development of Australian rock and popular music, one that has previously been ignored in Australian popular music studies.

Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything

Author : András Rónai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501354442
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Bea Palya's I'll Be Your Plaything written by András Rónai and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the state-run music industry in Hungary has artificially isolated musical worlds. The 2010 album I'll Be Your Plaything is a concept album comprising at times drastically re-imagined cover versions of Hungary's most popular hits from the socialist era. As such it is a testament to music as a medium's aptness to reflect on public and personal pasts. The album moreover exemplifies how rich and appealing synthesis of sounds and traditions can be concocted when folk, classically trained, rock, and jazz musical artists collaborate. Along with this freedom to blend and synthesize, the album opens up some long overdue space for women; playing with personas, voices, and singing styles, Palya reflects on issues of femininity, maternity, sexuality, and coupledom across generations.

Kylie Minogue's Kylie

Author : Adrian Renzo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501383000
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Kylie Minogue's Kylie written by Adrian Renzo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kylie Minogue's self-titled debut album produced hits, controversy and a perfect mainstream storm. The then soap and children's television star 'crossed over' to music with hit writer/producers SAW - and the shamelessly commercial approach of all involved saw the 'real' music industry get its back up. This book interrogates the way that commercial pop albums are remembered in both the popular music press and in academic research. Is there a way of dealing with 'mainstream' pop without denigrating the music and (just as importantly) without validating it according to the terms of a 'high art' canon? This text sheds light on the way that notions of 'mainstream' and 'other' play out in a local context-specifically, Australia and New Zealand music on a global stage.

Shonen Knifes Happy Hour

Author : Brooke McCorkle Okazaki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501347977
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Shonen Knifes Happy Hour written by Brooke McCorkle Okazaki and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shonen Knife-an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan-cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Their 1998 album Happy Hour, filled with tunes about delicacies ranging from sushi to banana chips, encapsulates the band's charming fusion of cuteness with punk rock cool. Tracing histories of food and josei rock in Japan, McCorkle Okazaki outlines the ways Shonen Knife has, over the last forty years, consistently used seemingly straightforward songs about food to comment on gender stereotypes in popular culture.

Los Rodríguez's Sin Documentos

Author : Héctor Fouce
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501357905
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Los Rodríguez's Sin Documentos written by Héctor Fouce and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sin Documentos is a landmark album in Spanish popular culture and continues to maintain considerable popularity more than two decades after its release. The characteristic guitar riff of the title song, a kind of rumba-rock, still occupies a place at every party in Spain. Los Rodríguez's success came after a decade characterized by the rise and fall of local-language punk and new wave bands. By the time Sin Documentos appeared, however, rock journalism was fascinated by the thriving indie scene, where the bands were singing in English and had turned to grunge and noise rock. This book evaluates the influence of Latin American pop-rock in the modernization of Spanish popular music from the 1950s, despite the Anglophilia of Spanish rock scenes, especially in the 1990s. Through interviews with members of the band and members of the record label DRO, analysis of the media coverage of the album and a cultural analysis of its meanings, it delves into the cultural trends of Spain throughout the 1990s and beyond.

Nenes' Koza Dabasa

Author : Henry Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501351265
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Nenes' Koza Dabasa written by Henry Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Koza Dabasa explores Okinawa's island culture and its ghosts of war through the lens of Nenes, a four-woman pop group that draws on the distinctiveness and exoticism of Okinawan musical tradition. Both a tropical island paradise and the site of some of the bloodiest battles of World War II, Okinawa has a unique culture and a contentious history. Its musical traditions are distinct from other parts of Japan, varying in instrumentation, poetic forms, and musical scales. Nenes marks its cultural difference as Okinawan by emphasizing its own exoticism, expressed through its music, fashion, imagery, and performance style. Henry Johnson listens to Koza Dabasa as a representation of Okinawa's relationship with the Japanese music industry and with the broader themes of international warfare and local tourism. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.

Yuming's The 14th Moon

Author : Lasse Lehtonen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501378155
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Yuming's The 14th Moon written by Lasse Lehtonen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not an exaggeration that Matsutoya Yumi-better known by her stage name Yuming-is one of the most influential figures in Japanese popular music history. A singer-songwriter recognized globally for her songs used in Miyazaki Hayao's beloved animations, Yuming has captured the hearts of listeners of different generations since her debut in the early 1970s. Her fourth album, The 14th Moon, released in 1976, was a milestone in establishing her signature style: the posh, “city” sound that later paved the way to the 1980s City Pop and 1990s J-pop. In addition to examining the album's astonishing stylistic versatility, this book explores how Yuming revolutionized the position of women in Japanese popular music and how her work can help us understand social changes in Japan of the 1970s.

Alastair Riddell’s Space Waltz

Author : Ian Chapman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501389521
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Alastair Riddell’s Space Waltz written by Ian Chapman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alastair Riddell's band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New Zealand rock act who hit gold with a #1 hit single in October 1974 with the song 'Out On The Street' but thereafter failed to achieve anything even close to that feat. While relegated to one-hit-wonder status in the eyes of many, to this day Riddell and Space Waltz epitomize the mid-1970s heyday of glam rock in New Zealand. But in truth their impact went far beyond this. Their generationally divisive nation-wide debut on the hugely popular MOR television talent quest Studio One/New Faces demonstrated the power of mass media exposure – they were instantly signed to a record deal with industry giant EMI – while Riddell's controversial gender-bending image provided a cultural crossroads that greatly impacted the wider youth culture of Aotearoa New Zealand. In addition, while the album's most famous track, 'Out On The Street,' is rightly regarded as New Zealand's glam rock anthem, the wider album demonstrates a compositional and musical depth that goes far beyond glam rock and into the realm of sophisticated progressive rock, ultimately providing an unlikely and highly unique musical amalgam.

1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die

Author : Tom Moon
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0761153853
Total Pages : 1025 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die written by Tom Moon and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musical adventure of a lifetime. The most exciting book on music in years. A book of treasure, a book of discovery, a book to open your ears to new worlds of pleasure. Doing for music what Patricia Schultz—author of the phenomenal 1,000 Places to See Before You Die—does for travel, Tom Moon recommends 1,000 recordings guaranteed to give listeners the joy, the mystery, the revelation, the sheer fun of great music. This is a book both broad and deep, drawing from the diverse worlds of classical, jazz, rock, pop, blues, country, folk, musicals, hip-hop, world, opera, soundtracks, and more. It's arranged alphabetically by artist to create the kind of unexpected juxtapositions that break down genre bias and broaden listeners’ horizons— it makes every listener a seeker, actively pursuing new artists and new sounds, and reconfirming the greatness of the classics. Flanking J. S. Bach and his six entries, for example, are the little-known R&B singer Baby Huey and the '80s Rastafarian hard-core punk band Bad Brains. Farther down the list: The Band, Samuel Barber, Cecelia Bartoli, Count Basie, and Afropop star Waldemer Bastos. Each entry is passionately written, with expert listening notes, fascinating anecdotes, and the occasional perfect quote—"Your collection could be filled with nothing but music from Ray Charles," said Tom Waits, "and you'd have a completely balanced diet." Every entry identifies key tracks, additional works by the artist, and where to go next. And in the back, indexes and playlists for different moods and occasions.

Darkthrones A Blaze in the Northern Sky

Author : Ross Hagen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501354353
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Darkthrones A Blaze in the Northern Sky written by Ross Hagen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darkthrone's A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992) is a foundational keystone of the musical and aesthetic vision of the notorious Norwegian black metal scene and one of the most beloved albums of the genre. Its mysterious artwork and raw sound continue to captivate and inspire black metal fans and musicians worldwide. This book explores the album in the context of exoticism and musical geography, examining how black metal music has come to conjure images of untamed Nordic wildernesses for fans worldwide. In doing so, it analyzes aspects of musical style and production that created the distinctly "grim" sound of Darkthrone and Norwegian black metal.

Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi

Author : Maria Sonevytsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501363131
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi written by Maria Sonevytsky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock 'n' roll may not have toppled the USSR, but it definitely rumbled through its foundations. Unlike the often-saccharine pop music sanctioned by the Soviet state, Ukrainian punk musicians of the 1980s Kyiv underground adapted ideologies of rock to roast the absurdities of late Soviet life, to articulate new ways of being Ukrainian, and to celebrate the cathartic pleasures of collective gatherings organized around musical performances. This book tells the story of Tantsi (Dances) a 1989 semi-official cassette release by the now-legendary Ukrainian punk band Vopli Vidopliassova, known to fans simply as VV (pronounced “Ve-Ve”). Their disruptive musical sounds, ironic lyrics, use of language, and propulsive performances toyed with the distinctions between official and unofficial Soviet culture. VV's Tantsi exemplifies how Soviet musical cultures existed within an ecosystem of contradictions as entrenched state infrastructures collided with emergent youth subcultures on the quicksand of late Soviet life. Today, Tantsi continues to invite us to dance while we laugh (or cry) at the absurdities of everyday life.

Heiner Müller and Heiner Goebbelss Wolokolamsker Chaussee

Author : Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501346172
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Heiner Müller and Heiner Goebbelss Wolokolamsker Chaussee written by Philip V. Bohlman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by the Second World War and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Müller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European history at a moment of international crisis. The question at the heart of the recording was prescient in the waning years of the Cold War, but it remains no less critical for the crisis of Europe today: Is it possible for Europe to be unified? A vast range of musical styles-from folk song to hip-hop, from the symphonic canon to heavy metal-coalesce in the five acts, which expose the wounds of European history while struggling musically to heal them. This extraordinary recording from 1989/90 not only captures the sound of a historical moment, but also powerfully enacts responses to it. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese, Brazilian, and European music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, and more.

Bic Runga's Drive

Author : Henry Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501390058
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Bic Runga's Drive written by Henry Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From entering a high-school music competition to being honoured with the New Zealand Order of Merit, Bic Runga has an established place within contemporary popular music. Focusing on her iconic album, Drive, and including informative case studies of representative tracks on the album, this book provides not only an in-depth study of one album, but skilfully navigates Runga's creative work over three decades to illuminate some of the key stages of her career. The book discusses the performer's rise to stardom, musical style, accolades and performance achievements. Blending popular music studies with media analysis, the book is the first to offer a detailed study of Runga's creativity and a close-up study of her debut and critically acclaimed album.

Cornelius's Fantasma

Author : Martin Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501330187
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Cornelius's Fantasma written by Martin Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar was at the forefront of a new wave in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on to produce, under the name Cornelius, a series of albums that are among the most innovative in Japanese popular music of the past two decades. Oyamada's third album under his Cornelius alter-ego, Fantasma (1997), played a key role in putting J-pop on the world map for Western music fans, and Oyamada himself is today one of the most respected figures in the Japanese music industry. This book tells the story of Fantasma's emergence from the Shibuya-kei scene and considers the wider impact of Oyamada's work both internationally and on Japanese popular music today. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.

The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn

Author : Matthew Bannister
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501390104
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn written by Matthew Bannister and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand. A 1980s variety act, The Front Lawn was part of an Aotearoa/New Zealand alternative tradition of duos that combine music, comedy, theatre and film. Their debut album Songs from The Front Lawn (1989) distilled McGlashan and Sinclair's theatrical stage show and their groundbreaking short films, Walkshort and The Lounge Bar, while also thrusting the band into the burgeoning New Zealand indie scene. The album is a snapshot of '80s New Zealand, a turbulent, creative period for indie music, indie film and musical theatre, celebrating local identity in new ways. Starting with a social and cultural background of New Zealand in the late 1970s, the book covers McGlashan and Sinclair's upbringing on Auckland's North Shore, early artistic influences and overseas experiences leading to the formation of the group. Much attention is paid to the duo's philosophy, early performances, the process of recording the album – including The Front Lawn's collaboration with Wellington avant-garde/cabaret group Six Volts and the addition of Jennifer Ward-Lealand as the group's third member – and analysis of each of the album's 10 songs. In parting, Matthew Bannister discusses the group's second and final album, More Songs from The Front Lawn, as well as the individual members' subsequent artistic careers