Pop Rock Music

Author : Motti Regev
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780745670904

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Pop-Rock Music by Motti Regev Pdf

Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related techniques. The history of pop-rock extends from the emergence of rock'n'roll in the 1950s to a variety of contemporary fashions and trends – rock, punk, soul, funk, techno, hip hop, indie, metal, pop and many more. This book offers a highly original account of the emergence of pop-rock music as a global phenomenon in which Anglo-American and many other national and ethnic variants interact in complex ways. Pop-rock is analysed as a prime instance of 'aesthetic cosmopolitanism' – that is, the gradual formation, in late modernity, of world culture as a single interconnected entity in which different social groupings around the world increasingly share common ground in their aesthetic perceptions, expressive forms and cultural practices. Drawing on a wide array of examples, this path-breaking book will be of great interest to students and scholars in cultural sociology, media and cultural studies as well as the study of popular music.

Author : Walter Everett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015074241632

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Expression in Pop-rock Music by Walter Everett Pdf

This collection presents a wide range of scholarly approaches to understanding artistic expression in rock music and provides insights into the music.

Author : Walter Everett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Musical analysis
ISBN : 0815331606

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Expression in Pop-rock Music by Walter Everett Pdf

First published in 2000

Author : Simon Frith,Will Straw,John Street
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521556600

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The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock by Simon Frith,Will Straw,John Street Pdf

This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to Public Enemy, Nirvana to the Spice Girls. They trace the way new technologies - from the amplifier to the internet - have changed the sounds and practices of pop and they analyse the way maverick entrepreneurs have given way to multimedia corporations. In particular they focus on the controversial issues concerning race and ethnicity, politics, gender and globalisation. Contains full profiles of a selection of figures from the pop and rock world.

Author : Walter Everett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501345975

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Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music by Walter Everett Pdf

Following the 1960's sexual revolution, rock and pop have continued to map the societal understanding of sexuality, feminism, and gender studies. Although scholarship has well established how early rock and roll encouraged and affected issues of sex in the baby boomer generation, this book asks how subsequent pop music has maintained that tradition. The text discusses the gendered performances and biographical experiences of individual musicians, including Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Etta James, and Frank Ocean, and how their invented personae contribute to musical representations of sexuality. It evaluates lyric structure and symbolic language of these artists, and overall emphasizes how pop music, while a commodity art form, reflects the diversity of human sex and gender.

Author : Mark Spicer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351550697

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Rock Music by Mark Spicer Pdf

This volume gathers together twenty articles from among the best scholarly writing on rock music published in academic journals over the past two decades. These diverse essays reflect the wide range of approaches that scholars in various disciplines have applied to the study of rock, from those that address mainly the historical, sociological, cultural and technological factors that gave rise to this music, to those that focus primarily on analysis of the music itself. This collection of articles, some of which are now out of print or otherwise difficult to access, provides an overview of the current state of research in the field of rock music, and includes an introduction which contributes to the ongoing debate over the distinction (or lack thereof) betweenrock andpop.

Author : Michael Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780578035390

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Pop Music Theory by Michael Johnson Pdf

The study of popular music composition is a new field in which the standard rules of traditional music theory do not apply. Learn how to write top 40 hits in every style from alternative rock to country pop. Discover the way chords are constructed and used in pop music, the Nashville numbers system and the role of scales in pop music harmony. Learn how to arrange a lead-sheet chart for a small ensemble so your entire band can learn a song in minutes. No more listening to a cd over and over to figure out a guitar riff when you can learn to recognize chord progressions and easily transcribe music from recordings. You will master the ability to play chord changes for self-accompaniment as well as composition. Finally you will learn how to use the scales for improvisation and "ad libbing" so you can become a soloist with your own unique sound.

Author : David Hatch,Stephen Millward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : 0719023491

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From Blues to Rock by David Hatch,Stephen Millward Pdf

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781495011610

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Best Pop/Rock Songs Ever by Hal Leonard Corp. Pdf

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A prime collection of 50 pop/rock classics for piano/vocal/guitar including: Beat It * Blue Suede Shoes * California Girls * Clocks * Every Breath You Take * Free Fallin' * Hey, Soul Sister * Hotel California * I Want to Hold Your Hand * In the Air Tonight * Jack and Diane * Jessie's Girl * Jump * Livin' on a Prayer * Love Shack * Mony, Mony * My Sharona * Oh, Pretty Woman * Piano Man * Pour Some Sugar on Me * She Drives Me Crazy * Smooth * Summer of '69 * Time After Time * Under the Bridge * What I like About You * When Doves Cry * With or Without You * Wonderful Tonight * and more.

Author : Michaelangelo Matos
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306903359

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Can't Slow Down by Michaelangelo Matos Pdf

A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenes Everybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves - until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music. Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time.

Author : Joe Carducci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : 0962761214

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Rock and the Pop Narcotic by Joe Carducci Pdf

Long out-of-print classic of rock criticism. Author worked with Black Flag, Negativland, Birthday Party, Dead Kennedys, Husker Du, Meat Puppets, and others. Excerpted in the Penguin Book of Rock & Roll Writing. "It is the Moby Dick of Rock-Crit -- nothing else I've read comes close." --James Parker / The Idler (U.K.)

Author : Nate Sloan,Charlie Harding
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190056650

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Switched on Pop by Nate Sloan,Charlie Harding Pdf

Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits. Through close studies of sixteen modern classics, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding shift pop from the background to the foreground, illuminating the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. In 1939, Aaron Copland published What to Listen for in Music, the bestseller that made classical music approachable for generations of listeners. Eighty years later, Nate and Charlie update Copland's idea for a new audience and repertoire: 21st century pop, from Britney to Beyoncé, Outkast to Kendrick Lamar. Despite the importance of pop music in contemporary culture, most discourse only revolves around lyrics and celebrity. Switched on Pop gives readers the tools they need to interpret our modern soundtrack. Each chapter investigates a different song and artist, revealing musical insights such as how a single melodic motif follows Taylor Swift through every genre that she samples, André 3000 uses metric manipulation to get listeners to "shake it like a Polaroid picture," or Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee create harmonic ambiguity in "Despacito" that mirrors the patterns of global migration. Replete with engaging discussions and eye-catching illustrations, Switched on Pop brings to life the musical qualities that catapult songs into the pop pantheon. Readers will find themselves listening to familiar tracks in new waysand not just those from the Top 40. The timeless concepts that Nate and Charlie define can be applied to any musical style. From fanatics to skeptics, teenagers to octogenarians, non-musicians to professional composers, every music lover will discover something ear-opening in Switched on Pop.

Author : David Temperley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190653774

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The Musical Language of Rock by David Temperley Pdf

In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form, and emotional expression. The Musical Language of Rock puts forth a new, comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of rock music by addressing each of these aspects. Eastman music theorist and cognition researcher David Temperley brings together a conventional music-analytic approach with statistical corpus analysis to offer an innovative and insightful approach to the genre. With examples from across a broadly defined rock idiom encompassing everything from the Beatles to Deep Purple, Michael Jackson to Bonnie Raitt, The Musical Language of Rock shows how rock musicians exploit musical parameters to achieve aesthetic and expressive goals-for example, the manipulation of expectation and surprise, the communication of such oppositions as continuity/closure and tension/relaxation, and the expression of emotional states. A major innovation of the book is a three-dimensional model of musical expression-representing valence, energy, and tension-which proves to be a powerful tool for characterizing songs and also for tracing expressive shifts within them. The book includes many musical examples, with sound clips available on the book's website. The Musical Language of Rock presents new insights on the powerful musical mechanisms which have made rock a hallmark of our contemporary musical landscape.

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781458437419

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The Ultimate Pop/Rock Fake Book (Songbook) by Hal Leonard Corp. Pdf

(Fake Book). This 4th edition is the ultimate collection of 600 pop/rock hits in one amazing book in arrangements appropriate for all C instruments! Includes: Adia * Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) * Ain't No Mountain High Enough * All Shook Up * Amazed * Angel * Another One Bites the Dust * At the Hop * Breathe * California Girls * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Can't Help Falling in Love * Come Sail Away * December 1963 (Oh What a Night) * Don't Cry Out Loud * Don't Know Much * Dust in the Wind * Earth Angel * Every Breath You Take * Fast Car * Great Balls of Fire * A Groovy Kind of Love * Hero * Hey Jude * How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) * Imagine * Iris * Layla * The Loco-Motion * Love Will Keep Us Together * Maggie May * Me and Bobby McGee * Memory * Mission: Impossible Theme * My Heart Will Go On * Oh, Pretty Woman * On Broadway * The Power of Love * Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head * The River of Dreams * Save the Best for Last * Sea of Love * The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) * Something * Spinning Wheel * Stand by Me * Stayin' Alive * Surfin' U.S.A. * Tears in Heaven * True Colors * The Twist * The Way We Were * We've Only Just Begun * What a Wonderful World * What's Going On * When I Fall in Love * Wild Thing * Wooly Bully * Yesterday * You've Got a Friend * You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' * and many hundreds more!

Author : Vladimir Bogdanov,Chris Woodstra,Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 1430 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 087930653X

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All Music Guide to Rock by Vladimir Bogdanov,Chris Woodstra,Stephen Thomas Erlewine Pdf

This fun-to-read, easy-to-use reference has been completely updated, expanded, and revised with reviews of over 12,000 great albums by over 2,000 artists and groups in all rock genres. 50 charts.