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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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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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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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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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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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Red stars
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David Ward MacFadyen |
"Red Stars traces the history of Soviet popular song after 1955 by looking at the careers of the singers Edita P'ekha, Iosif Kobzon, Lev Leshchenko, Sofiia Rotaru, Valerii Leont'ev, Alla Pugacheva, a… |
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