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Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Explores the influence of LGBT musicians on music history, including David Bowie, Elton John, and Freddie Mercury.
LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay communitys struggle for acceptance. With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first...
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Edited by an iconic musician and an award-winning writer, an array of talented contributors challenge the male dominance and sexism that have been hard-coded in canons of music, literature, and film, while also discussing the female artists that matter to them and their own personal experiences.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on the ongoing Wall Street Journal column, writer and music historian Marc Myers brings to life five decades of music through oral histories of forty-five transformative songs woven from interviews with the artists who created them. Bringing readers inside the making of a hit, Anatomy of a Song includes the Isley Brothers' memorable song "Shout," Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz," and R.E.M's "Losing My Religion."...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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 pivotal moments that inspired their work.
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Larger Than Life begins with a brief history of male vocal groups, spotlighting The Beatles, the Jackson 5, and Menudo before diving into the building blocks of these beloved acts in "Boy Bands 101." She also focuses on artists like New Edition, New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, One Direction, and BTS before ending with an interrogation into the future of boy bands. Included throughout are Tiger Beat-inspired illustrations, capsule histories...
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In the 1990s, "alternative" was suddenly mainstream, and bands like Pearl Jam and Pavement, Nirvana and R.E.M.--bands that a year before would have been too weird for MTV--were MTV. The boundaries of American culture were exploding, and music was leading the way. It was also the 1990s when a shy music geek named Rob Sheffield met a hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl named Renée, who was way too cool for him but fell in love with him anyway....
Author
Publisher
The Secret Mountain
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"This beautifully illustrated picture book featuring the irresistible songs of Grammy Award Winner Jennifer Gasoi offers children the opportunity to discover the differet colours of her jazz-inspired music. 'Blue and red make purple' is engaging, playful, and utterly endearing! Included are notes highlighting the history, instruments, and unique characteristics of each musical genre along with activities and listening suggestions...The accompanying...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing "Respect" or Bob Dylan performing "Blind Willie McTell," have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. InHolding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years"--
"The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Selected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation. Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic Dave Marsh. Ranging from Elvis Presley to Kurt Cobain, from Nina Simone to Ani DiFranco, from the Beatles to Green Day, the book gives an opinionated, eye-opening overview...
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups ... But what happens when we runout of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022 Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Billboard Hot 100. When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, “The Number Ones”٬٢٠١٤؛a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, in chronological order—he figured he’d post capsule-size...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it-including rock, country, punk, R&B, dance and hip-hop-woven together into a cosmic reckoning with music's evolution as a popular art form, as a huge cultural and economic force, and as an essential component to our identities, from Black Sabbath to Black Flag to Beyoncae, and beyond"--
"One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This encyclopedic history of pop music begins with Bill Haley and the Comet's 1954 hit, “Rock Around the Clock” and continues up through Beyoncé's first huge hit in 2003, “Crazy in Love,” touching on all the groups and genres in between.
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Chuck Eddy is one of the most entertaining, idiosyncratic, influential, and prolific music critics of the past three decades...Rock and Roll Always Forgets features the best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by this singular critic."--Amazon.com
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