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Author : Drew Brathwaite
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329821548
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Watershed Anthems written by Drew Brathwaite and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-10 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fiction and nonfiction short stories by Drew Brathwaite
Author : Steven Hyden
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306845695
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book This Isn't Happening written by Steven Hyden and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A. In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future. For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was Kid A. Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it an instant classic; others, such as the UK music magazine Melody Maker, deemed it "tubby, ostentatious, self-congratulatory... whiny old rubbish." But two decades later, Kid A sounds like nothing less than an overture for the chaos and confusion of the twenty-first century. Acclaimed rock critic Steven Hyden digs deep into the songs, history, legacy, and mystique of Kid A, outlining the album's pervasive influence and impact on culture in time for its twentieth anniversary in 2020. Deploying a mix of criticism, journalism, and personal memoir, Hyden skillfully revisits this enigmatic, alluring LP and investigates the many ways in which Kid A shaped and foreshadowed our world.
Author : Joe Oestreich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762785950
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Hitless Wonder written by Joe Oestreich and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic underdog story about a local band that almost hits the big time. Everyone knows the price of fame. Hitless Wonder measures the price of obscurity. What happens when you chase a dream into middle age and, in doing so, risk losing the people you love?
Author : Ian Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317588193
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Global Glam and Popular Music written by Ian Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective. Focus is given to a number of representative artists, bands, and movements, as well as national, regional, and cultural contexts from around the globe. Approaching glam music performance and style broadly, and using the glam/glitter rock genre of the early 1970s as a foundation for case studies and comparisons, the volume engages with subjects that help in defining the glam phenomenon in its many manifestations and contexts. Glam rock, in its original, term-defining inception, had its birth in the UK in 1970/71, and featured at its forefront acts such as David Bowie, T. Rex, Slade, and Roxy Music. Termed "glitter rock" in the US, stateside artists included Alice Cooper, Suzi Quatro, The New York Dolls, and Kiss. In a global context, glam is represented in many other cultures, where the influences of early glam rock can be seen clearly. In this book, glam exists at the intersections of glam rock and other styles (e.g., punk, metal, disco, goth). Its performers are characterized by their flamboyant and theatrical appearance (clothes, costumes, makeup, hairstyles), they often challenge gender stereotypes and sexuality (androgyny), and they create spectacle in popular music performance, fandom, and fashion. The essays in this collection comprise theoretically-informed contributions that address the diversity of the world’s popular music via artists, bands, and movements, with special attention given to the ways glam has been influential not only as a music genre, but also in fashion, design, and other visual culture.
Author : Mark Pedelty
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439907137
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Ecomusicology written by Mark Pedelty and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can musicians really make the world more sustainable? Anthropologist Mark Pedelty, joined an eco-oriented band, the Hypoxic Punks, to find out. In his timely and exciting book, Ecomusicology, Pedelty explores the political ecology of rock, from local bands to global superstars. He examines the climate change controversies of U2's 360 Degrees stadium tour—deemed excessive by some—and the struggles of local folk singers who perform songs about the environment. In the process, he raises serious questions about the environmental effects and meanings on music. Ecomusicology examines the global, national, regional, and historical contexts in which environmental pop is performed. Pedelty reveals the ecological potentials and pitfalls of contemporary popular music, in part through ethnographic fieldwork among performers, audiences, and activists. Ultimately, he explains how popular music dramatically reflects both the contradictions and dreams of communities searching for sustainability.
Author : Timothy J. Cooley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520276647
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Surfing about Music written by Timothy J. Cooley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--First printed page.
Author : Patricia Joan Saunders
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813571227
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Buyers Beware written by Patricia Joan Saunders and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buyers Beware treats Caribbean pop cultural texts with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region to read them against the grain and consider how, and whether, their "pulp" preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality, and national politics are disseminated and consumed within the Caribbean.
Author : Patrik N. Juslin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199230145
Total Pages : 991 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Music and Emotion written by Patrik N. Juslin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successor to the acclaimed 'Music and Emotion', The Handbook of Music and Emotion provides comprehensive coverage of the field, in all its breadth and depth. As well as summarizing what is currently known about music and emotion, it will also stimulate further research in promising directions that have been little studied.
Author : Keri Dexter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351735500
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book A Good Quire of Voices: The Provision of Choral Music at St.George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Eton College, c.1640-1733 written by Keri Dexter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Until relatively recently, musicologists' account of church music in post-Restoration and early Georgian England has been substantially incomplete due to an almost exclusive preoccupation with the music and musicians of the Chapel Royal. The balance is now being redressed and this book begins the task of filling one of the remaining gaps in our understanding of the field. The volume represents a detailed examination of the practical workings of a choral foundation during the later 17th and early 18th centuries, placing the musicians within their wider historical and social contexts, and based on a comprehensive survey of extant archival material.
Author : Alex Kitts
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1409133982
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dizzee Rascal written by Alex Kitts and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No-holds-barred account of one of Britain's most gifted and creative musical talents In 2003, at the age of 17, Dizzee Rascal became an overnight name to drop when his debut album, Boy In Da Corner, beat Coldplay, Radiohead and The Darkness to the Mercury Music Prize. Dizzee was born in Nigeria, but raised by his mum in Bow, east London after the death of his father when he was two years old. Dizzee was thrown out of four schools in four years, got involved with drugs and crime. But, whilst he dropped out of most formal education, music always had a guiding influence on Dizzee. With four bestselling albums to his name, Dizzee is not only famed for pioneering grime - his style has evolved and progressed and he has become one of the biggest popstars in the UK today. Recent collaborations with artists as diverse as Arctic Monkeys and Fatboy Slim demonstrate Dizzee's vision and musical genius. Citing influences which range from old skool hip hop to jungle and heavy metal, Dizzee embodies an artist with a unique talent who's pioneering approach guarantee his longevity.
Author : Chris Woodstra
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879309176
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book All Music Guide Required Listening written by Chris Woodstra and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects reviews for one thousand enduring classic rock albums ranging from the extremely popular to more obscure works.
Author : Stanley R. McDaniel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666755931
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Servanthood of Song written by Stanley R. McDaniel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Servanthood of Song is a history of American church music from the colonial era to the present. Its focus is on the institutional and societal pressures that have shaped church song and have led us directly to where we are today. The gulf which separates advocates of traditional and contemporary worship—Black and White, Protestant and Catholic—is not new. History repeatedly shows us that ministry, to be effective, must meet the needs of the entire worshiping community, not just one segment, age group, or class. Servanthood of Song provides a historical context for trends in contemporary worship in the United States and suggests that the current polemical divisions between advocates of contemporary and traditional, classically oriented church music are both unnecessary and counterproductive. It also draws from history to show that, to be the powerful component of worship it can be, music—whatever the genre—must be viewed as a ministry with training appropriate to that. Servanthood of Song provides a critical resource for anyone considering a career in either musical or pastoral ministries in the American church as well as all who care passionately about vital and authentic worship for the church of today.
Author : Stan Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317589726
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Queerness in Pop Music written by Stan Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, the Pet Shop Boys, George Michael, and many others. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality, which involves a creative interdisciplinary approach to musical interpretation. He advocates a model of analysis that involves both temporal-specific listening and biographic-oriented viewing. Music analysis is woven into this, illuminating aspects of parody, nostalgia, camp, naivety, masquerade, irony, and mimesis in pop music. One of the principal aims is to uncover the subversive strategies of pop artists through a wide range of audiovisual texts that situate the debates on gender and sexuality within an aesthetic context that is highly stylized and ritualized. Queerness in Pop Music also addresses the playfulness of much pop music, offering insights into how discourses of resistance are mediated through pleasure. Given that pop artists, songwriters, producers, directors, choreographers, and engineers all contribute to the final composite of the pop recording, it is argued that the staging of any pop act is a collective project. The implications of this are addressed through structures of gender, ethnicity, nationality, class, and sexuality. Ultimately, Hawkins contends that queerness is a performative force that connotes futurity and utopian promise.
Author : Gillian A.M. Mitchell
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783089105
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The British National Daily Press and Popular Music, c.19561975 written by Gillian A.M. Mitchell and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British National Daily Press and Popular Music c.1956–1975 constitutes a reappraisal of the reactions of the national daily press to forms of music popular with young people in Britain from the mid-1950s to the 1970s (including rock ‘n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat group’ and rock music). Conventional histories of popular music in Britain frequently accuse the newspapers of generating ‘moral panic’ with regard to these musical genres and of helping to shape negative attitudes to the music within the wider society. This book questions such charges and considers whether alternative perspectives on press attitudes towards popular music may be discerned. In doing so, it also challenges the tendency to perceive evidence from newspapers straightforwardly as a mere illustration of wider social trends and considers the manner in which the post-war newspaper industry, as a sociocultural entity in its own right, responded to developments in youth culture as it faced distinctive challenges and pressures amid changing times.
Author : Seth Herbst
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000881547
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Milton and Music written by Seth Herbst and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton’s poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work. In Part I: Milton on Music, Seth Herbst shows that writing about music galvanized Milton’s intellectual development towards animist materialism, the belief that everything in the universe—even the human soul—is made of matter. The Milton who emerges is a forward-thinking visionary who leaped past his contemporaries in conceiving music as a material phenomenon that exists simultaneously as sound and metaphor. Part II: Milton in Music follows two daring composers in investigating whether Milton’s visionary concept of music can be realized in actual musical sound. In Samson, an oratorio adaptation of Milton’s Samson Agonistes, Handel resists Miltonic music theory, suggesting that music struggles to function as both sound and metaphor. By contrast, the twentieth-century Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki composes an iconoclastic opera of Paradise Lost that develops a soundworld of fractured dissonance in which music acts as both sound and metaphor. Recovering Milton’s own high estimation of music from a critical tradition that has subordinated it to the poet’s political and religious convictions, Herbst reveals Milton as an interdisciplinary thinker and overlooked figure in the study of words and music. Driven by bold claims about the comparative treatment of literature and music, Milton and Music revises our understanding of what makes this canonical poet an intellectual revolutionary.
Author : Peter Baehr
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 178308183X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt written by Peter Baehr and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt offers a unique collection of essays on one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. The companion encompasses Arendt’s most salient arguments and major works – The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution and The Life of the Mind. The volume also examines Arendt’s intellectual relationships with Max Weber, Karl Mannheim and other key social scientists. Although written principally for students new to Arendt’s work, The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt also engages the most avid Arendt scholar.
Author : Hari Har Mallick
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book THE UNSUNG SONG OF SHAMBUKA AND OTHER POEMS written by Hari Har Mallick and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains 60 selected poems which are written in the line of protest-poetry, dares to expose the social inequalities and social injustice in an artistic way.
