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Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ranters & Crowd Pleasers written by Greil Marcus and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1994 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ranters & Crowd Pleasers written by Greil Marcus and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1994 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SPIN written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.
Author : James Dooley
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1912248042
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Red Set written by James Dooley and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on detailed interviews with band members, Red Set considers the music, art and politics that shaped Gang of Four and how the band, in turn, left an indelible mark on popular music. In the autumn of 1976, two young British Fine Arts students travelled to New York on a university grant, but instead of merely studying ended up staying with one of the city’s pioneering punk journalists, visiting the Museum of Modern Art by day and hanging out in punk epicentre CBGBs by night. It is from this trip that Gang of Four emerged. Blending revelations from interviews with the band conducted by the author with snippets from newspaper articles and record reviews, Jim Dooley tells the history of Gang of Four as they remember it. From their days at art school through countless tours, records and reunions, Red Set is the definitive history of one of Britain’s greatest and most influential bands.
Author : Helen Reddington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317025113
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Lost Women of Rock Music written by Helen Reddington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain during the late 1970s and early 1980s, a new phenomenon emerged, with female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers playing in bands. Before this time, women's presence in rock bands, with a few notable exceptions, had always been as vocalists. This sudden influx of female musicians into the male domain of rock music was brought about partly by the enabling ethic of punk rock ('anybody can do it!') and partly by the impact of the Equal Opportunities Act. But just as suddenly as the phenomenon arrived, the interest in these musicians evaporated and other priorities became important to music audiences. Helen Reddington investigates the social and commercial reasons for how these women became lost from the rock music record, and rewrites this period in history in the context of other periods when female musicians have been visible in previously male environments. Reddington draws on her own experience as bass-player in a punk band, thereby contributing a fresh perspective on the socio-political context of the punk scene and its relationship with the media. The book also features a wealth of original interview material with key protagonists, including the late John Peel, Geoff Travis, The Raincoats and the Poison Girls.
Author : Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623562856
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Gang of Four's Entertainment! written by Kevin J.H. Dettmar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats-and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from the suburbs-and, one expects, for many, many others, including British youth-Jon King's and Andy Gill's mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock 'n' roll is always something of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large don't tune in to be lectured to. But what can it mean that a band that made pop songs as political theory actively resisted making that theory legible? Coming to terms with the impact of Entertainment! requires us to take the mondegreen-the misunderstood lyric-seriously. The old joke has it that the title of R.E.M.'s debut album should have been not Murmur, but Mumble: true, so far as it goes. But that's the title, too, of rock 'n' roll's Greatest Hits compilation-and that strategic inarticulateness itself, which creates such an important role for the listener, has an important politics.
Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674445772
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (457 download)
Download or read book In the Fascist Bathroom written by Greil Marcus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was punk just another moment in music history, a flash in time when a group of young rebels exploded in a fury of raw sound? Greil Marcus delves into the afterlife of punk as a much richer phenomenon and as a form of artistic and social rebellion.
Author : Bradford Martin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142995342X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Other Eighties written by Bradford Martin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and ‘70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look reveals that a sizable swath of Americans strongly disapproved of Reagan's policies throughout his presidency. With a weakened Democratic Party scurrying for the political center, many expressed their dissatisfaction outside electoral politics. Unlike the civil rights and Vietnam era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous era. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential, but often overlooked, movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate America's role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. The result is a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life.
Author : Donald Brackett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1573567051
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Fleetwood Mac written by Donald Brackett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleetwood Mac's distinctive sound, first really captured in the 1977 record Rumours, launched the group into the commercial stratosphere, and over the past three decades they have never looked back. All along the way their dysfunctional relationships have informed their professional success, as well as their personal downfalls. By writing and singing about their problems, Fleetwood Mac has transformed what breaks them apart into what keeps them together. They have turned their dark relationship dilemmas into glittering entertainment. In this highly entertaining chronicle, author Donald Brackett provides readers with a special opportunity to review the band's complicated history and reconsider the personal, dynamic sources of their classic albums and enduring hits. The band drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie started in 1967 has gone through more personnel changes and stylistic innovations than any other pop group in our cultural history. The story of the group began when John Mayall and Alexis Korner, the band's mentors, launched a mid-'60s British blues revival. Ex-Mayall players Fleetwood and McVie then went on to form an incendiary band of psychedelic blues under the name Fleetwood Mac. But it was not until hearing a little-known 1973 record from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks that Mick Fleetwood heard the future sound and true pop potential of his own group.
Author : Mike Hill
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814735459
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Whiteness written by Mike Hill and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of white culture
Author : Ryan Hibbett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150135471X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Lit-Rock written by Ryan Hibbett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as soon as it had got rolling, rock music had a problem: it wanted to be art. A mere four years separate the Beatles as mere kiddy culture from the artful geniuses of Sergeant Pepper's, meaning the very same band who represents the mass-consumed, "mindless" music of adolescents simultaneously enjoys status as among the best that Western culture has to offer. The story of rock music, it turns out, is less that of a contagious popular form situated in opposition to high art, but, rather, a story of high and low in dialogue--messy and contentious, to be sure, but also mutually obligated to account for, if not appropriate, one another. The chapters in this book track the uses of literature, specifically, within this relation, helping to showcase collectively its fundamental role in the emergence of the "pop omnivore."
Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313371229
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Elvis Costello written by James E. Perone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-11-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influential rock musician Elvis Costello is recognized for the impressive breadth and scope of his music. His collaborations with such musicians as Tony Bennett and the Count Basie orchestra, however, attest to the many contradictions that define Elvis Costello, the punk rocker. This important guide to his music and career contains over 800 bibliographic citations and a complete discography of Costello's commercially released recordings. The discography, divided into two sections, separately details Costello's career as performer and composer. A brief biography traces his critically acclaimed career and highlights both the influences on his music and the myriad ways in which his music has influenced others. The vast information compiled in this guide to further research is as interesting and diverse as Costello's career. Rock music scholars, musicologists, and Costello enthusiasts will appreciate the videography/filmography, bibliography of musical scores, and list of electronic resources that supplement the extensive discography and annotated bibliography. A works index and a general index make it easy to cross-reference and locate specific information.
Author : Craig Werner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472031474
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book A Change Is Gonna Come written by Craig Werner and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of the groundbreaking chronicle of forty years of black music in America
Author : Joe Bonomo
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 162846805X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Greil Marcus written by Joe Bonomo and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, “There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate.” For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections among figures, sounds, and events in culture, relating unrelated points of departure, mapping alternate histories and surprising correspondences. He is a unique and influential voice in American letters. Marcus was born in 1945 in San Francisco. In 1968 he published his first piece, a review of Magic Bus: The Who on Tour, in Rolling Stone, where he became the magazine’s first records editor. Renowned for his ongoing “Real Life Top Ten” column, Marcus has been a writer for a number of magazines and websites and is the author or editor of over fifteen books. His critique is egalitarian: no figure, object, or event is too high, low, celebrated, or obscure for an inquiry into the ways in which our lives can open outward, often unexpectedly. In Conversations with Greil Marcus, Marcus discuses in lively, wide-ranging interviews his books and columns as well as his critical methodology and broad approach to his material, signaled by a generosity of spirit leavened with aggressive critical standards.
Author : Jean-Christophe Agnew
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405123192
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Post-1945 America written by Jean-Christophe Agnew and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collectionof 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography ofPost-1945 America. Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics andforeign policy Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every importantera and topic Includes book review section on essential readings
Author : Kevin Courrier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441113770
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica written by Kevin Courrier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-03-23 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape. Yet even if the album did cast its radical vision over the future of music, much of the record's artistic strength is actually drawn from the past. This book examines how Beefheart's incomparable opus, an album that divided (rather than) united a pop audience, is informed by a variety of diverse sources. Trout Mask Replica is a hybrid of poetic declarations inspired by both Walt Whitman and the beat poets, the field hollers of the Delta Blues, the urban blues of Howlin' Wolf, the gospel blues of Blind Willie Johnson, and the free jazz of Ornette Coleman. This book illustrates how Trout Mask Replica was not so much an arcane specimen of the avant-garde, but rather a defiantly original declaration of the American imagination.
Author : David L. Pike
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192846167
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s written by David L. Pike and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to excavate their own backyards while governments the world over exhausted their budgets on fortified super-shelters and megaton bombs. The dreams and nightmares inspired by the spectre of nuclear destruction were expressed in images and forms from comics, movies, and pulp paperbacks to policy documents, protest movements, and survivalist tracts. Illustrated with photographs, artwork, and movie and television stills of real and imagined fallout shelters and other bunker fantasies, award-winning author David L. Pike's continues his decades-long exploration of the meanings of modern undergrounds. Ranging widely across disciplines, this volume finds unexpected connections between cultural icons and forgotten texts, plumbs the bunker's stratifications of class, region, race, and gender, and traces the often unrecognized through-lines leading from the 1960s and the less-studied 1980s into the present. Although the Cold War ended over 30 years ago, its legacy looms large in anxieties around security, borders, and all manners of imminent apocalypse. Treating the bunker in its concrete presence and in its flightiest fantasies while attending equally to its uniquely American desires and pathologies and to its global impact, Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s proposes a new way to understand the outsized afterlife of the bunkered decades.
