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The rise of the crooners
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Michael R Pitts |
"The Rise of the Crooners examines the historical trends and events that led to the emergence of the crooning style. In the introduction Ian Whitcomb, a successful popular music vocalist for almost f… |
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Songs for fat people
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David MacFadyen |
"David MacFadyen traces the careers of early 20th century Russian singers such as Izabella Iur'eva, Tamara Tsereteli, and others who struggled to continue to perform as they fled the dangers of a Sov… |
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A story of New Orleans
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Ned Sublette |
Spending 2004–2005 in New Orleans investigating the city’s legendary past both in the archives and its living culture in the street, this account combines personal memoir, historical research, and on… |
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Cultural codes
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William C. Banfield |
"No art can survive without an understanding of, and dedication to, the values envisioned by its creators. No culture over time has existed without a belief system to sustain its survival. Black musi… |
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He Is ... I Say
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David Wild |
He Is...I Say examines Neil Diamond’s singular place in the pantheon of popular music. David Wild—who’s interviewed Diamond for Rolling Stone, penned the liner notes to a number of Diamond’s antholog… |
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A new America
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Tommy Mottola |
The legendary music impresario explores and expounds on his lifelong love of Latin music and its ever-growing influence in America, in a book inspired by the HBO documentary "The Latin Explosion."
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American roots music
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Holly George-Warren,Robert Santelli |
"American roots music - encompassing blues, country & western, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, Native American, and other uniquely American genres of folk music - originated and was nurtured in small … |
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31 Songs
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Nick Hornby |
I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved ... Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else.' In his first non-fiction work since Fever Pit… |
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White Bicycles
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Joe Boyd |
When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guita… |
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Oh boy!
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Freya Jarman-Ivens |
"From Muddy Waters to Mick Jagger, Elvis to Freddie Mercury, Jeff Buckley to Justin Timberlake, masculinity in popular music has been an issue explored by performers, critics, and audiences. From the… |
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Phil Spector
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Sean MacLeod |
Musician, songwriter, and producer-- Spector's musical ability and visionary foresight charted the future of popular music and culture of the late twentieth century. He reshaped the business and mark… |
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Joni
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Barney Hoskyns |
"Nine Grammys. More than ten million albums sold. Named one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time by Rolling Stone. Joni: The Anthology is an essential collection of writings on Joni Mi… |
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Cover me
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Ray Padgett |
"From the creator of the popular website covermesongs.com comes the perfect book for music fans: the inside stories behind 20 iconic cover songs and the artists who turned them into classics. A great… |
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Waiting for the sun
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Barney Hoskyns |
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Ralph Peer and the making of popular roots music
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Barry Mazor |
The first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous A&R man and music publisher who changed the breadth and flavor of popular music in the United States and around the world, a man who was crucial in … |
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Going into the city
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Robert Christgau |
The Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau takes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past and … |
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Country soul
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Charles L. Hughes |
Drawing on interviews and rarely used archives, Hughes brings to life the daily world of session musicians, producers, and songwriters at the heart of the country and soul scenes in the 1960s and 197… |
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The pop festival
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George McKay |
"A brilliant collection of essays on popular music festival culture as a whole, from its origins to a wide range of contemporary manifestations"--Provided by publisher. |
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Your song changed my life
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Bob Boilen |
Is there a song that changed your life? NPR's music authority Bob Boilen posed that question to some of today's best-loved musical legends and rising stars. In their answers the artists reflect on pi… |
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Categorizing sound
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David Brackett |
"Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people: in other words, how do particular ways of organizing sound become integral parts of whom we percei… |
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