Author: Timothy E. Scheurer
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879724689
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Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll. Articles explore the theoretical dimensions of popular music studies; the music of the nineteenth century; and the role of black Americans in the evolution of popular music. Also included—the music of Tin Pan Alley, ragtime, swing, the blues, the influences of W. S. Gilbert and Rodgers and Hammerstein, and changes in lyric writing styles from the nineteenth century to the rock era.
Language: en
Pages: 267
Pages: 267
Beginning with the emergence of commercial American music in the nineteenth century, Volume 1 includes essays on the major performers, composers, media, and movements that shaped our musical culture before rock and roll. Articles explore the theoretical dimensions of popular music studies; the music of the nineteenth century; and the
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Pages: 284
Using the framework of Edward Said's Orientalism, this work examines how Western rock and pop artists--particularly during the age of album rock from the 1970s through the 1990s--perpetuated long-held stereotypes of Japan in their direct encounters with the country and in songs and music videos with Japanese content.
Language: en
Pages: 492
Pages: 492
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Books about American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Language: en
Pages: 530
Pages: 530
Offers background information and commentary on 1,200 popular songs from a variety of styles and genres written between the mid-nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century.
Language: en
Pages: 1003
Pages: 1003
This book continues the objectives of the original volume: to act as a pathfinder in the study of rock music for both the serious student and the interested enthusiast, and to serve as a guide to the vast quantities of material on the subject for librarians and educators. Covering 1984-1990,
Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
From the first Tin Pan Alley tunes to today’s million-view streaming hits, pop songs have been supported and influenced by an increasingly complex industry that feeds audience demand for its ever-evolving supply of hits. Harvey Rachlin investigates how music entered American homes and established a cultural institution that would expand
Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
From Elvis to Madonna, Rock Star/Movie Star explores why rock stars have been useful for movies, and why movies have been useful for rock stars. This in-depth history traverses how rock stars' screen performances have served motion picture and recording industries as well as offered new potentialities for movie stardom.
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