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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 198 pages)
Description
"Popular music has long been used to entertain, provoke, challenge and liberate but also to oppress and control. Can popular music be political? What types of popular music work best with politics? How can songs, videos, concerts or any other musical commodity convey ideas about power, politics and identity? Using Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies (MCDS), this book reveals the deeply political role played by popular music. Lyndon Way demonstrates...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 242 pages)
Description
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" Jennifer C. Lena is visiting assistant professor of sociology at Barnard College.
Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (vii, 236 pages) : illustrations.
Description
Popular music has long been a powerful force for social change. Protest songs have served as anthems regarding war, racism, sexism, ecological destruction and so many other crucial issues. Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through the past 100 years of politically-conscious music, from Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA. Covering a wide variety of genres, including reggae, country, metal, psychedelia, rap, punk, folk and soul,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Description
This masterful survey covers all genres of popular music, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists.
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The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings covers the full range of popular music recordings with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. In this 2-volume encyclopedia, Sullivan explores approximately 1,000 song recordings from 1889 to the present, telling the stories behind the songs, recordings, performers, and songwriters. From the Victorian parlor ballad and ragtime hit at the end of the 19th century to today's rock classics, the Encyclopedia...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 316 pages).
Description
Centered on the musical experiences of homosexual men in St. Petersburg and Moscow, this ground-breaking study examines how post-Soviet popular music both informs and plays off of a corporeal understanding of Russian male homosexuality. Drawing upon ethnography, musical analysis, and phenomenological theory, Stephen Amico argues that the homosexual body in post-Soviet Russia rejects both the Soviet aversion to physical pleasure and the Western politicization...
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Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource (166 p.)
Description
'Love' may be the major theme of the majority of pop songs, but 'hate', including its subcategories malevolence, vengeance, self-loathing, and contempt, run it close. Looking at artists across the history of popular music, and songs ranging from 'Runaround Sue' to 'W.A.P', this book explores the concept of hatred in lyrics, album art, music video, and the music industry itself, asking important questions about misogyny, politics, psychology, and family...
20) Lyle Lovett
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Backed by both a 14 piece big band and a 26 piece orchestra, Lyle Lovett shines in this performance, which includes music from his 2003 album "Smile". Randy Newman joins Lyle for a few duets and trumpeter Mark Isham also lends his magic to a few key pieces.





