The contributors to the volume include academics and journalists; several wear both hats, and some are musicians as well.
The authors of Precious and Few, Don Breithaupt and Jeff Breithaupt, true-blue '70s fanatics, have put together this irresistibly readable book to transport readers back to a time when people wore smiley-face buttons, went to singles bars, ...
Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits.
By 1922, Johnson lost control of the club and relinquished his interest to the Irish gangster Owney “the Killer” Madden, a fearsome little Hell's Kitchen rat who, at the time he took over the Cotton Club, was in Sing Sing on a ...
Pop Music, U.S.A. is designed to be used in a college-level general music class. It covers popular music in America from pre-Revolutionary War times through the present (2018).
Listen to Pop!: Exploring a Musical Genre provides readers with an overview and a history of the pop music genre. The bulk of the book is devoted to analysis of 50 must-hear musical examples, which include artists, songs, and albums.
This four-volume work provides provocative critical analyses of 160 of the best popular music albums of the past 50 years, from the well-known and mainstream to the quirky and offbeat.
Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits.
The boy band is a powerful example of Weber's (1922) second meaning of charisma: that is, mediated charisma – the management of mass responses of intoxication and devotion to essentially packaged agents of entertainment.
At that time in New Orleans—still in active maritime communication with the port of Havana—the Cuban feel was well established, to say the least, and not only in the music of Professor Longhair. The Hawketts' 1954 ''Mardi Gras Mambo ...