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Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself

Author : John Scanlan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145716
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself written by John Scanlan and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raucous cultural history of rock’s relationship with the moving image. When rock ’n’ roll burst into life in the 1950s, the shockwaves echoed around the world, amplified by images of untamed youth projected on cinema screens. But for the performers themselves, corporate showbusiness remained very much in control, contriving a series of cash-in movies to exploit the new musical fad. In this riveting cultural history, John Scanlan explores rock’s relationship with the moving image over seven decades in cinema, television, music videos, advertising, and YouTube. Along the way, he shows how rock was exploited, how it inspired film pioneers, and, not least, the film transformations it caused over more than half a century. From Elvis Presley to David Bowie, and from Scorpio Rising to the films of Scorsese and DIY documentarists like Don Letts, this is a unique retelling of the story of rock—from birth to old age—through its onscreen life.

The South Never Plays Itself

Author : Ben Beard
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588384241
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The South Never Plays Itself written by Ben Beard and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South—as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived experience and a bitter legacy. Nearly every major American filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter has worked on a film about the South, from Gone with the Wind to 12 Years a Slave, from Deliveranceto Forrest Gump. In The South Never Plays Itself, author and film critic Ben Beard explores the history of the Deep South on screen, beginning with silent cinema and ending in the streaming era, from President Wilson to President Trump, from musical to comedy to horror to crime to melodrama. Beard’s idiosyncratic narrative—part cultural history, part film criticism, part memoir—journeys through genres and eras, issues and regions, smash blockbusters and microbudget indies to explore America’s past and troubled present, seen through Hollywood’s distorting lens. Opinionated, obsessive, sweeping, often combative, sometimes funny—a wild narrative tumble into culture both high and low—Beard attempts to answer the haunting question: what do movies know about the South that we don’t?

Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans

Author : Joseph A. Kotarba
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810884836
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans written by Joseph A. Kotarba and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on 18 years of sociological research and 52 years of rock 'n' roll fandom, Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans: The Music Never Ends draws on data collected from participant observations and interviews with artists, fans, and producers to explore our aging rock culture throug...

Music Films

Author : Neil Fox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839023465
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Music Films written by Neil Fox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics, and gender representations, in order to assess their role in the cultivation of myth. Combining historical and critical analyses, and drawing on film and music criticism, Fox examines renowned music films such as A Hard Day's Night (1964), Dig! (2004), and Amazing Grace (2006), critically lauded works like Milford Graves Full Mantis (2018) and Mistaken for Strangers (2013), and lesser-studied films including Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959) and Ornette: Made in America (1985). In doing so, he offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, situating these films within their wider cultural contexts and highlighting their formal and thematic innovations. Discussions in the book span topics from concert filmmaking to music production, the music industry, touring, and filmic representations of authenticity and truth. Overall, Music Films traces the evolution of the genre, highlighting its cultural significance and connection to broader societal phenomena.

Rock 'n' Roll

Author : Dave Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317227700
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Rock 'n' Roll written by Dave Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When rock ‘n’ roll began its ascendancy in the 1950s the older generation saw it as dangerous, renegade, threatening the moral stability of a nation. Young people saw it as freedom, and most importantly, as their music. The teenage revolution was here, This book, first published in 1982, traces the roots of this cultural transformation, its emergence in rock ‘n’ roll and other media, and shows just how violent the confrontation was by looking at contemporary newspaper reports.

Rock'n'roll

Author : David Cothrell
Publisher : Baker's Plays
ISBN 13 : 9780874405637
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Rock'n'roll written by David Cothrell and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1974 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hold On World

Author : John Kruth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493052365
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Hold On World written by John Kruth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hold On World revisits Lennon and Ono's love affair and startling collaborations. John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band was arguably the most emotionally honest album ever made. It wasn't merely another record but more like a sonic exorcism, a spiritual, public bloodletting. Lennon's album drove a stake through the heart of the Beatles' myth while confronting everything else in John's life, from Dylan to God to his glorified status as a "Working Class Hero." Determined to rid himself of past traumas—abandonment by his father and the death of his mother, Julia—Lennon wrote the most powerful song cycle of his career, confronting fear, disappointment, and illusion, all the while espousing his love for Yoko Ono. Released simultaneously, Ono's album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is emotionally raw and challenging. It inspired bands like the B-52s and Yo La Tengo to employ pure sound, whether shrieking vocals or guitar feedback, to express their deepest feelings.

Rock 'n' Roll

Author : Tom Stoppard
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802195369
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Rock 'n' Roll written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock ’n’ Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. When security forces tighten their grip on artistic expression, Jan is inexorably drawn toward a dangerous act of dissent. Back in England, Jan’s volcanic mentor, Max, faces a war of his own as his free-spirited daughter and his cancer-stricken wife attempt to break through his walls of academic and emotional obstinacy. Over the next twenty years of love, espionage, chance, and loss, the extraordinary lives of Jan and Max spin and intersect until an unexpected reunion forces them to see what is truly worth the fight.

Tom Stoppard’s Plays

Author : Nigel Purse
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004319654
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Tom Stoppard’s Plays written by Nigel Purse and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tom Stoppard’s Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony Nigel Purse offers a unique appraisal, on a thematic basis, of all Stoppard’s plays by identifying key patterns and uncovering at the heart of Stoppard’s theatrical plenitude the principle of parsimony.

Leadership & Rock & Roll

Author : Beth Bratkovic
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452074097
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Leadership & Rock & Roll written by Beth Bratkovic and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the many different ways that leadership can be integrated into life. When John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States of America, said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader," he did a good job of crystallizing this approach to leadership. Consider the influence you have each and every day with the people in your life - from the people you work with, plan with, eat with, chat with, coach, cajole, or even simply meet on the street. Two things have influenced me throughout life: leadership and rock and roll. Leadership has been my professional life; I've been learning about it, practicing it, and training others to lead for more than twenty years. I've been listening to rock and roll, and getting inspired by it, for a lot longer than twenty years. The concept of this book is born from one fact: there is an opportunity for ineffective leaders to become tolerable, for tolerable leaders to become good, and for good leaders to become great. How are you using your life to become a better leader? This book provides some anecdotes and a framework to help you apply leadership to every aspect of your life.

The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll

Author : Christopher Knowles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1573445649
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll written by Christopher Knowles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex. Drugs. Loud music. Wild costumes. Dazzling light shows. These words can all describe a great rock concert or a hot dance club, but they were also part and parcel of the ancient cultural phenomenon known as the “Mystery religions.” In this book, author Christopher Knowles shows how the Mystery religions got a secular reincarnation when a new musical form called rock 'n' roll burst onto the scene. The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll traces the history of the Mysteries — their rise, their fall, and their survival through long centuries of repression. Knowles shows how the Mysteries prefigured subcultures as diverse as Santeria, Freemasonry, Mardi Gras and even the Holiness churches of the American frontier, and explains exactly how ancient rituals and music found their way to the New World. In the process, The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll traces the development of rock's most popular genres such as punk and heavy metal, and reveals how many of rock's most iconic artists play the same archetypal roles as the ancient gods. You'll see how many of the rituals and customs and even musical styles of our postmodern society have stunning ancient parallels. You'll meet history's first pop

Radio Art and Music

Author : Jarmila Mildorf
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149859980X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Radio Art and Music written by Jarmila Mildorf and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other programs in North American, English, Spanish, Greek, Italian, and German radio.

One Nation Under God?

Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135207844
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book One Nation Under God? written by Marjorie Garber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Nation Under God? is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today.

What Is Rock and Roll?

Author : Jim O'Connor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451533828
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book What Is Rock and Roll? written by Jim O'Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put on your dancing shoes and move to the music. Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O'Connor explains what constitutes rock music, follows its history and sub-genres through famous musicians and groups, and shows how rock became so much more than just a style of music influencing fashion, language, and lifestyle. This entry in the New York Times best-selling series contains eighty illustrations and sixteen pages of black and white photographs.

All Shook Up

Author : Glenn C. Altschuler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198031912
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book All Shook Up written by Glenn C. Altschuler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race. For instance, the birth of rock coincided with the Civil Rights movement and brought "race music" into many white homes for the first time. Elvis freely credited blacks with originating the music he sang and some of the great early rockers were African American, most notably, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. In addition, rock celebrated romance and sex, rattled the reticent by pushing sexuality into the public arena, and mocked deferred gratification and the obsession with work of men in gray flannel suits. And it delighted in the separate world of the teenager and deepened the divide between the generations, helping teenagers differentiate themselves from others. Altschuler includes vivid biographical sketches of the great rock 'n rollers, including Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly--plus their white-bread doppelgangers such as Pat Boone. Rock 'n roll seemed to be everywhere during the decade, exhilarating, influential, and an outrage to those Americans intent on wishing away all forms of dissent and conflict. As vibrant as the music itself, All Shook Up reveals how rock 'n roll challenged and changed American culture and laid the foundation for the social upheaval of the sixties.

A Concise History of Rock 'n' Roll

Author : Kevin W. Buck
Publisher : Year of the Book
ISBN 13 : 9781949150124
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Rock 'n' Roll written by Kevin W. Buck and published by Year of the Book. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock 'n Roll is the first music to span generations. What youth enjoyed in the '20s was ignored in the '30s. Music from the '30s was ignored in the '40s and so on - that is until Rock 'n' Roll hit the mainstream in the 1960s. Every generation wants a music they can call their own. The difference with Rock 'n' Roll is that new generations embrace what's past as well as present.This volume brings each decade of Rock to life, and additionally includes chapters on Elvis, The Beatles, Music in the Video Age, Rock Festivals, Women in Rock, and lots of urban legends... both true and mythic. Rock music reinvents itself regularly and shows no signs of slowing down.

Sound and Music for the Theatre

Author : Deena Kaye
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317690583
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Sound and Music for the Theatre written by Deena Kaye and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering every phase of a theatrical production, this fourth edition of Sound and Music for the Theatre traces the process of sound design from initial concept through implementation in actual performances. The book discusses the early evolution of sound design and how it supports the play, from researching sources for music and effects, to negotiating a contract. It shows you how to organize the construction of the sound design elements, how the designer functions in a rehearsal, and how to set up and train an operator to run sound equipment. This instructive information is interspersed with ‘war stores’ describing real-life problems with solutions that you can apply in your own work, whether you’re a sound designer, composer, or sound operator.