Paul Weller And Popular Music

Author : Andrew West
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000771954

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Paul Weller and Popular Music by Andrew West Pdf

Using research, analysis and a range of historical sources, Paul Weller and Popular Music immerses the reader in the excitement of Paul Weller’s unique creative journey, covering topics such as the artist’s position within his field; his creative processes; the contexts in which the music was made; the artist as collaborator; signifiers that mark the trajectory of the music; and formative influences. Focusing on over 40 years of recorded work from ‘In the City’ to ‘Fat Pop (Volume One)’, this study explores why Paul Weller's music is widely considered both timeless and of its time, and with reference to a wide range of interviews, reviews and texts, it offers an in-depth critical analysis of Paul Weller’s music. It will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers of popular music, popular culture, performance studies and music production.

Author : John Reed
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857120496

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Paul Weller: My Ever Changing Moods by John Reed Pdf

The best-selling biography to the life and mood-swings of the one and only Modfather. Through his work with The Jam, The Style Council and ultimately as a solo artist, Weller has remained one of our most uncompromising artists and social commentators. John Reed charts the turbulent course of Weller's career as the Woking-born songwriter has battled to balance his moral convictions with the demands of being a pop music artist. This updated version brings the story fully into the 21st century, and includes a comprehensive discography as well as a host of previously unpublished photographs.

Author : Dennis Munday
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857120168

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The Jam & Paul Weller: Shout to the Top by Dennis Munday Pdf

The inside story of The Jam and The Style Council by the man who oversaw their careers! Record industry executive Dennis Munday's frank account reveals the trials and triumphs of Paul Weller's career, from The Jam's first single in 1977 to the break-up of The Style Council in 1989. He also writes about Weller's post-style Council solo career with a unique insight. Working for Polydor, the author became a regular presence at the two groups' many recording sessions, effectively becoming an honorary member of both The Jam and The Style Council. Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with the band members - and eventually leaving Polydor - Munday was the vital link between Paul Weller and his record company or years. Here then is a uniquely intimate portrait of a rock hero and two influential groups written by someone who was at the heart of the action. This new edition of Shout To The Top has been updated to include details of Paul's new album 22 Dreams, ongoing changes in the line-up to his band and the emergence of From The Jam, the group featuring Paul's former colleagues Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler which is touring the world performing a set of Jam songs to great acclaim.

Author : Paul Weller
Publisher : Genesis Publications
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1905662742

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Magic: a Journal of Song by Paul Weller Pdf

"Scratching around at home on an acoustic guitar, singing into my phone with these funny little rough ideas. All of a sudden, it turns into something beautiful or complete... it's a fascinating thing. It's magic." -- Paul Weller In Magic: A Journal of Song, Paul Weller gives the first and definitive account of his illustrious songwriting career, recounting a lifetime of lyrics in Weller's most candid and intimate commentary to date. As one of the most innovative and remarkable songwriters of the last fifty years, Paul Weller has proved to be the ultimate shapeshifter, moving from the Jam's punk sensibilities to the genre-defying Style Council, and later through a remarkable 30-year solo career. Alongside Lennon and McCartney, Weller is one of few artists that has attained a UK number one album over five consecutive decades, and he's also received career defining awards from the BRITs (Lifetime Achievement Award), NME Awards (Godlike Genius Award) and a GQ Award for Songwriter of the Year. The book chronicles a lifetime worth of lyrics with impressive clarity. We follow Weller through his upbringing on Stanley Road and founding the Jam in his teenage years, creating the Style Council alongside keyboardist Mick Talbot, and later into his 16-album solo career, including stories behind iconic albums such as Stanley Road and Wild Wood, as well as his latest album, Fat Pop Vol. 1. Magic presents 130 of Weller's finest lyrics to date, accompanied by an illuminating commentary which sees him give unprecedented insight into his life and lyrics, as told to GQ editor and author, Dylan Jones OBE, in their first collaboration. "Paul Weller has proved that he is not only beyond reproach, in some senses he is quite possibly without equal." -- Dylan Jones "The thing I have discovered is that music in its truest sense is beyond any trend or movement or category." -- Paul Weller

Author : Paul Weller
Publisher : Random House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409022640

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Suburban 100 by Paul Weller Pdf

REVISED, UPDATED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PAUL ABBOTT This edition of Suburban 100 includes new lyrics from the critically acclaimed albums, 22 Dreams and Wake Up the Nation, which has been nominated for the Mercury Music Award. Paul Weller first burst onto the national music scene with The Jam in 1977 and was quickly marked apart from his contemporaries as a brilliant lyricist. In a writing career that has now spanned three decades, his songs have been acclaimed, imitated and loved by many. Suburban 100 - the first selection of Paul Weller's lyrics - draws on songs written for The Jam, The Style Council and solo releases that, together, tell stories of life and love, rage and romance. The youthful frustrations of small-town life that fuelled Weller's early writing is palpable, as is the angry but poignant response to Thatcher's Britain. His lyrics, rooted in English suburban culture, explore the hopes, dreams and crashing disappointments of ordinary people. They also revel in the mystical beauty of the English country landscape and repeatedly revisit dreamlike childhood summers. For the first time Paul Weller shares his reflections on his lyrics, offering candid insights to his writing process and the inspiration behind some of pop music's best loved songs. Suburban 100 reveals aspects of a famously private man.

Author : Mark Paytress,John Reed
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 0711968187

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The Complete Guide to the Music of Paul Weller & The Jam by Mark Paytress,John Reed Pdf

A guide to the music of Paul Weller and The Jam. The book examines every recorded song in the band's catalogue to date, and acts as a consumer's critical guide. Shaped like a CD box, it is designed to sit alongside the reader's existing CD collection.

Author : Georgina Gregory,Mike Dines
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350086944

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Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music by Georgina Gregory,Mike Dines Pdf

This book highlights how the diverse nature of spiritual practices are experienced and manifest through the medium of popular music. At first glance, chapters on Krishnacore, the Rave Church phenomenon and post-punk repertoire of Psychic TV may appear to have little in common; however, this book draws attention to some of the similarities of the nuances of spiritual expression that underpin the lived experience of popular music. As an interdisciplinary volume, the extensive introduction unpacks and clarifies terminology relating to the study of religion and popular music. The cross-disciplinary approach of the book makes it accessible and appealing to scholars of religious studies, cultural studies, popular music studies and theology. Unlike existing collections dealing with popular music and religion that focus on a specific genre, this innovative book offers a range of music and case studies, with chapters written by international contributors.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857125958

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

Author : Lawrence Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1886894442

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Paul Weller by Lawrence Watson Pdf

Author : Irene Morra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135048952

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Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity by Irene Morra Pdf

This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness. Rather than providing a history of popular music or an itemization of indigenous musical qualities, it exposes the influential cultural and nationalist rhetoric around popular music and the dissemination of that rhetoric in various forms. Since the 1960s, popular music has surpassed literature to become the dominant signifier of modern British culture and identity. This position has been enforced in popular culture, literature, news and music media, political rhetoric -- and in much popular music itself, which has become increasingly self-conscious about the expectation that music both articulate and manifest the inherent values and identity of the modern nation. This study examines the implications of such practices and the various social and cultural values they construct and enforce. It identifies two dominant, conflicting constructions around popular music: music as the voice of an indigenous English ‘folk’, and music as the voice of a re-emergent British Empire. These constructions are not only contradictory but also exclusive, prescribing a social and musical identity for the nation that ignores its greater creative, national, and cultural diversity. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive critique of an extremely powerful discourse in England that today informs dominant formulations of English and British national identity, history, and culture.

Author : Sarah Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317670759

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Preserving Popular Music Heritage by Sarah Baker Pdf

There is a growing awareness around the world of the pressing need to archive the material remnants of popular music so as to safeguard the national and local histories of this cultural form. Current research suggests that in the past 20 or so years there has been an expansion of DIY heritage practice, with the founding of numerous DIY popular music institutions, archives and museums around the world. This edited collection seeks to explore the role of DIY or Pro-Am (Professional-Amateur) practitioners of popular music archiving and preservation. It looks critically at ideas around "DIY preservationism," "self-authorised" and "unauthorised" heritage practice and the "DIY institution," while also unpacking the potentialities of bottom-up, community-based interventions into the archiving and preservation of popular music’s material history. With an international scope and an interdisciplinary approach, this is an important reference for scholars of popular music, heritage studies and cultural studies.

Author : Ian Snowball
Publisher : This Day In Music Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781787590533

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Paul Weller: Sounds From the Studio by Ian Snowball Pdf

2017 is the 40th anniversary of the start of Paul Weller’s recording career. His first album, In The City, which he recorded with The Jam, was released in 1977. He then went on to record a further 22 albums with The Jam, The Style Council and his solo career. Sounds from the Studio starts in 2015 with the release of his most recent album Saturn’s Pattern then works backwards to the groundbreaking debut from The Jam - In the City. The book includes interviews with artists who have worked with Paul including Noel Gallagher, Steve Cradock, Sir Peter Blake, Mick Talbot, and both Rick Buckler and Bruce Foxton from The Jam as well as many of the studio hands, sleeve designers and interviews with members from Paul’s family.

Author : Andy Gregory
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1857431618

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The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 by Andy Gregory Pdf

TheInternational Who's Who in Popular Music 2002offers comprehensive biographical information covering the leading names on all aspects of popular music. It brings together the prominent names in pop music as well as the many emerging personalities in the industry, providing full biographical details on pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists. Over 5,000 biographical entries include major career details, concerts, recordings and compositions, honors and contact addresses. Wherever possible, information is obtained directly from the entrants to ensure accuracy and reliability. Appendices include details of record companies, management companies, agents and promoters. The reference also details publishers, festivals and events and other organizations involved with music.

Author : Paul Weller
Publisher : Music Sales Corporation
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0711932913

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Paul Weller by Paul Weller Pdf

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Author : Alex de Lacey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000864977

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Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music by Alex de Lacey Pdf

Grime music has been central to British youth culture since the beginning of the 21st century. Performed by MCs and DJs, it is an Afrodiasporic form that developed on street corners, on pirate radio and at raves. Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music offers the first long-form ethnographic study of grime practice; it questions how and why artists do what they do; and it asks what this can tell us about creative process and improvisation more widely. Based on research conducted in London’s grime scene—facilitated by the author’s long-standing role as a DJ and broadcaster—this book explores the form’s emergence before taking a magnifying glass to the contemporary scene and its performance protocol, exploring the practice of key artists and their crews living and working in the city. The resultant model of creative interaction provides a comprehensive mapping of collective social learning in London’s informal cityscape, offering new ways to conceptualise improvisatory practice within ensembles.