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Pop stars: the hidden history of digital capitalism - Crossing over: the hidden history of diaspora - Banda: the hidden history of greater Mexico - Jazz: the hidden history of nationalist multiculturalism - Weeds in a vacant lot: the hidden history of urban renewal - Merengue: the hidden history of Dominican migration - The hip hop hearings: the hidden history of deindustrialization - Masquerades and mixtures: the hidden history of passing - Salsa:...
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Existing books on the analysis of popular music focus on theory and methodology and normally discuss parts of songs briefly as examples. In this book the obverse is true: songs take centre stage. The authors analyse them from a variety of theoretical positions, compare their different hearings and discuss the ways in which they make sense of specific songs. By concentrating on 13 well-known and recent songs, this book offers some model analyses that...
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A celebration of the contributions of America's leading songwriters during the Golden Age of American popular music focuses on the work of such musicians as George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and other notables.
From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to "Big Spender," from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and...
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Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern times unfolded in a series of obscure recording sessions, as hundreds of unknown musicians entered makeshift studios to record the melodies and rhythms of urban streets and dancehalls. The musical styles and idioms etched onto shellac...
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Tom Waits's distinctive, bourbon-soaked growl, his unique persona, and his incorporation of musical styles from blues to experimental to vaudeville have secured for him a top-shelf cult following and an extraordinary critical respect. The idea of the Wanderer--someone who seeks an escape from all of life's problems, and dreams himself into oblivion--serves as the fundamental personality type around which all Waits's music revolves. Ten years of producing...
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"If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R & B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American music has created an array of rival mainstreams, complete with charts in multiple categories. Love it or hate it, the world that radio made has steered popular music and provided the soundtrack of American...
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