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Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West

Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the...

Author: Professor or Dr. Toru Mitsui (Professor Emeritus, Kanazawa University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781501391774
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""An overview of popular music in Japan with a focus on the role of western influence""--"  Read More >>

One-Hit Wonders: An Oblique History of Popular Music

One-Hit Wonders: An Oblique History of Popular Music...

Author: Dr. Sarah Hill (Senior Lecturer, Oxford University, UK)
ISBN: 9781501368400
Format: Hardback
$190.00

"""A chronicle of changing popular music styles and tastes as exemplified by ""one-hit wonders"" - focusing on the...  Read More >>

Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop

Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop...

Author: Alexandra M. Apolloni (Program Director, Program Director, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780190879907
Format: Paperback
$80.95

"""This introduction positions the history of girl and young women singers in the 1960s in the context of broader...  Read More >>

French Pop: from Music Hall to Yé-Yé

French Pop: from Music Hall to Yé-Yé

Author: Gareth Jones
ISBN: 9781739966706
Format: Paperback
$82.77

From Django Reinhardt and Édith Piaf to Françoise Hardy and Serge Gainsbourg, French pop has long fascinated the...  Read More >>

Media Narratives in Popular Music

Media Narratives in Popular Music

Author: Chris Anderton (Southampton Solent University, UK) ,  Martin James (Southampton Solent University, UK)
ISBN: 9781501357275
Format: Hardback
$190.00

An evaluation of the role the media (including television, magazines, and documentaries) plays in creating popular...  Read More >>

"Janelle Monáe’s ""Dirty Computer"""

"Janelle Monáe’s ""Dirty Computer"""

Author: Dan Hassler-Forest
ISBN: 9783030906528
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously...  Read More >>

Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations

Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on...

Author: Thomas Gurke ,  Susan Winnett
ISBN: 9783030855420
Format: Hardback
$249.69

Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations opens up the notion of the popular,...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education:...

Author: Zack Moir (Edinburgh Napier University, UK and the University of the Highlands and Islands, UK) ,  Bryan Powell (Montclair State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350287495
Format: Paperback
$84.99

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Educationdraws together current thinking and practice on popular music...  Read More >>

The Sound State of Uzbekistan: Popular Music and Politics in the Karimov Era

The Sound State of Uzbekistan: Popular Music and Politics...

Author: Kerstin Klenke
ISBN: 9781032241265
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Sound State of Uzbekistan: Popular Music and Politics in the Karimov Era describes a remarkable era in Uzbekistan’s...  Read More >>

Being Britney: Pieces of a Modern Icon

Being Britney: Pieces of a Modern Icon

Author: Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
ISBN: 9781788705233
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A timely and unique portrait of one of music's most talented, troubled and talked-about modern icons, re-examining...  Read More >>

Renegades: Born in the USA

Renegades: Born in the USA

Author: Barack Obama ,  Bruce Springsteen
ISBN: 9780241561249
Format: Hardback
$75.00

"""Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of...  Read More >>

Rock and Rhapsodies: The Music of Queen

Rock and Rhapsodies: The Music of Queen

Author: Nick Braae (Principal Academic Staff Member in Music and Performing Arts, Principal Academic Staff Member in Music and Performing Arts, Waikato Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780197526743
Format: Paperback
$69.95

What, exactly, gave Queen's songs their magical and distinct musical identity? Rock and Rhapsodies answers this...  Read More >>

Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States

Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the...

Author: David Pearson (Adjunct Assistant Professor in the music department, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the music department, Lehman College, CUNY)
ISBN: 9780197534892
Format: Paperback
$91.95

"This history of the 1990s underground punk renaissance in the US traces punk participation in protest movements,...  Read More >>

Dueling Grounds: Revolution and Revelation in the Musical Hamilton

Dueling Grounds: Revolution and Revelation in the Musical...

Author: Mary Jo Lodge (Associate Professor of Theater, Associate Professor of Theater, Lafayette College) ,  Paul R. Laird (Professor of Musicology, Professor of Musicology, University of Kansas)
ISBN: 9780190938857
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Demonstrating that there is both much to celebrate and signficant issues to confront in the blockbuster Hamilton,...  Read More >>

Pepsi & Shirlie - It's All in Black and White: Wham! Life and Friendship

Pepsi & Shirlie - It's All in Black and White: Wham!...

Author: Pepsi Demacque-Crockett ,  Shirlie Kemp
ISBN: 9781787399013
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A tale of the 80s and pop stardom, from the two singers who found fame as backing singers in Wham! then going on...  Read More >>

Dolly Parton: A Little Golden Book Biography

Dolly Parton: A Little Golden Book Biography

Author: Wendy Loggia ,  Elisa Chavarri
ISBN: 9780593306857
Format: Hardback
$5.99

What's not to love about Dolly Parton? This Little Golden Book biography shares how someone from incredibly poor...  Read More >>

The Beatles and the 1960s: Reception, Revolution, and Social Change

The Beatles and the 1960s: Reception, Revolution, and...

Author: Prof. Kenneth L. Campbell (Monmouth University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350107441
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The Beatles are widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history and their career has...  Read More >>

The Beatles and the 1960s: Reception, Revolution, and Social Change

The Beatles and the 1960s: Reception, Revolution, and...

Author: Prof. Kenneth L. Campbell (Monmouth University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350107434
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The Beatles are widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history and their career has...  Read More >>

Kurt Weill's America

Kurt Weill's America

Author: Naomi Graber (Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9780190906580
Format: Hardback
$80.95

When German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill arrived in the United States in 1935, he found a nation nothing like he imagined....  Read More >>

An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements

An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements...

Author: Jon Stratton (University of South Australia) ,  Jon Dale (Independent Scholar, Australia)
ISBN: 9781501339868
Format: Paperback
$49.99

"""An evaluation of Australian popular music through a chronological analysis of significant albums over the past...  Read More >>

Fandom and The Beatles: The Act You've Known for All These Years

Fandom and The Beatles: The Act You've Known for All...

Author: Kenneth Womack (Professor of English, Professor of English, Monmouth University) ,  Kit O'Toole (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9780190917869
Format: Paperback
$75.95

Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You've Known for All These Years offers an insightful look into the band's enduring...  Read More >>

Takin' Care of Business: A History of Working People's Rock 'n' Roll

Takin' Care of Business: A History of Working People's...

Author: George Case (Independent scholar, Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9780197548813
Format: Hardback
$75.95

In this insightful and timely book, author George Case shows how an important strain of rock music spoke as much...  Read More >>

From Mummers to Madness: A Social History of Popular Music in England, c.1770s to c.1970s

From Mummers to Madness: A Social History of Popular...

Author: David Taylor
ISBN: 9781862181922
Format: Paperback
$77.63

From Mummers to Madness considers developments in the production and consumption of popular music in England over...  Read More >>

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