Future Publishing, 2017. — 148 p. Vinyl record sales have continued to soar consecutively for the past 11 years, with them hitting a 25-year high this year in the UK. Even in this digital age, we haven’t moved so far from our past that there’s no room for the traditional musical format that is vinyl. In 100 Greatest Albums You Should Own On Vinyl, we collate the greatest albums...
Abrams Image. — 315 p. The History of Gangster Rapis a deep dive into one of the most fascinating subgenres of any music category to date. Sixteen detailed chapters, organized chronologically, examine the evolution of gangster rap, its main players, and the culture that created this revolutionary music. From still-swirling conspiracy theories about the murders of Biggie and...
Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1995. — 427 p. Notes From Underground offers the first Western sociological study of rock music and counterculture in Russian society. Based on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and life-history analysis, the author provides a detailed ethnographic examination of the origins and local meanings of rock music and the countercultural way...
Universe Publishing, 2006. — 960 p. — ISBN: 0-7893-1371-5. 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and the most influential pop albums from 1955 through today. Carefully selected by a team of international critics and some of the best-known music reviewers and commentators, each album is a groundbreaking work seminal...
Universe, 2010. — 960 p. — ISBN: 978-1844036844. This latest addition to the best-selling 1001 series offers more than ever — the world’s biggest and best playlist, referencing over 10,000 must-download songs. This book offers more than any previous book in the series. While each main entry profiles and illustrates 1,001 primary songs, it places that song into a contextual web...
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN: 1628922486 , 1628922478. What is experimental music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest, from seasoned practitioners to curious readers. This book takes the stance that experimental music is not a limited historical event, but is a proliferation of approaches to sound that...
Greenwood Press, 2009. — 534 p. Popular music owes greatly to the spirit of rebellion. In all of its diversified, experimental, modern-day micro-genres, music's roots were first watered by good old-fashioned social dissension- its incendiary heights pushed heavenward by radicals and rogue revolutionaries. And perhaps none are more influential and non-conformist than women....
Oxford University Press Inc., New York, 2002. — 272 p. The study of popular music has reached an exciting and important moment in its development. Popular Music Studies introduces students to the most significant debates in the field, offering fresh perspectives and suggesting new directions. Genuinely interdisciplinary on scope, the book outlines the history and development of...
Greenwood, 2007. — 688 p. — (Greenwood Icons). — ISBN: 978-0313339028. The extraordinary impact of hip-hop music on American culture over the past three decades is undeniable. At the forefront of this global phenomenon stand artists who broke new ground, both musically and politically. This unique reference provides substantial entries on the most revolutionary hip-hop artists...
3 edition. — London: Routledge, 2008. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 0415957826; ISBN13: 978-0415957823. Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture provides a thorough treatment of the relevant history behind the marriage of technology and music that has led to the state of electronic music today. Beginning with an early history of electronic music before 1945, the...
VS Verlag fUr Sozialwissenschaften, 2004. — XI, 298 p. — ISBN13: 978-3-81-00-4102-9, e-ISBN13: 978-3-322-80987-2 — (German Edition). Das Buch entwickelt eine Kulturtheorie des Pop und legt dabei ein besonderes Augenmerk auf Körperinszenierungen. Auf der Grundlage einer empirischen Untersuchung der Jugendkultur Techno wird eine an Bourdieu und den Cultural Studies angelehnte...
2nd Ed. — Painted Turtle, 2010. — 176 p. When it was originally published in 1999, Techno Rebels became the definitive text on a hard-to-define but vital genre of music. Author Dan Sicko demystified techno’s characteristics, influences, and origins and argued that although techno enjoyed its most widespread popularity in Europe, its birthplace and most important incubator was...
Krause Publications, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN13: 978-1440248030. Goldmine's Essential Guide to Record Collecting celebrates some of the finest vinyl ever pressed by music’s greatest artists. You'll find the royalty of Rock (Elvis, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones), the pioneers of Punk (The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones), Motown's movers and shakers (Berry Gordy, Marvin Gaye,...
Krause Publications, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN13: 978-1440248030. Goldmine's Essential Guide to Record Collecting celebrates some of the finest vinyl ever pressed by music’s greatest artists. You'll find the royalty of Rock (Elvis, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones), the pioneers of Punk (The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones), Motown's movers and shakers (Berry Gordy, Marvin Gaye,...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 385 p. From the Jim Crow world of 1920s Greenville, South Carolina, to Greenwich Village's Café Society in the '40s, to their 1974 Grammy-winning collaboration on "Loves Me Like a Rock," the Dixie Hummingbirds have been one of gospel's most durable and inspiring groups. Now, Jerry Zolten tells the Hummingbirds' fascinating story and with it the...
NY: Hips Road, 2010. — 459 p. For centuries musicians have tapped into mysticism, magic and alchemy, embracing ritual, spell, incantation and prayer, and experimenting with esoteric approaches to harmony, pitch and vibration. In recent decades, avant-garde musicians have rediscovered these overlaps, as occultism has reinvented itself--through Buddhist and other Asian...
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