Rock N Roll Plays Itself

Author : John Scanlan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781789145717

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Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself by John Scanlan Pdf

A raucous cultural history of rock’s relationship with the moving image. When rock ’n’ roll burst into life in the 1950s, the shockwaves echoed around the world, amplified by images of untamed youth projected on cinema screens. But for the performers themselves, corporate showbusiness remained very much in control, contriving a series of cash-in movies to exploit the new musical fad. In this riveting cultural history, John Scanlan explores rock’s relationship with the moving image over seven decades in cinema, television, music videos, advertising, and YouTube. Along the way, he shows how rock was exploited, how it inspired film pioneers, and, not least, the film transformations it caused over more than half a century. From Elvis Presley to David Bowie, and from Scorpio Rising to the films of Scorsese and DIY documentarists like Don Letts, this is a unique retelling of the story of rock—from birth to old age—through its onscreen life.

Author : Ben Beard
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781588384249

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The South Never Plays Itself by Ben Beard Pdf

Since Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South—as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived experience and a bitter legacy. Nearly every major American filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter has worked on a film about the South, from Gone with the Wind to 12 Years a Slave, from Deliveranceto Forrest Gump. In The South Never Plays Itself, author and film critic Ben Beard explores the history of the Deep South on screen, beginning with silent cinema and ending in the streaming era, from President Wilson to President Trump, from musical to comedy to horror to crime to melodrama. Beard’s idiosyncratic narrative—part cultural history, part film criticism, part memoir—journeys through genres and eras, issues and regions, smash blockbusters and microbudget indies to explore America’s past and troubled present, seen through Hollywood’s distorting lens. Opinionated, obsessive, sweeping, often combative, sometimes funny—a wild narrative tumble into culture both high and low—Beard attempts to answer the haunting question: what do movies know about the South that we don’t?

Author : Joseph A. Kotarba
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810884830

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Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans by Joseph A. Kotarba Pdf

Based on 18 years of sociological research and 52 years of rock 'n' roll fandom, Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans: The Music Never Ends draws on data collected from participant observations and interviews with artists, fans, and producers to explore our aging rock culture throug...

Author : Matthew Edwards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442231948

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So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll by Matthew Edwards Pdf

Rock ‘n’ roll is a style that was born out of the great American melting pot. An outgrowth of the blues, rock 'n' roll music combines driving rhythms, powerful chords, and lyrics that communicate the human experience to audiences around the world. Although rock singing was once seen as a vulgar use of the human voice and was largely ignored by the academic community, voice teachers and singers around the world have recently taken a professional interest in learning specialized techniques for singing rock 'n' roll. So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll gives readers a comprehensive guide to rock history, voice science, vocal health, audio technology, technical approaches to singing rock, and stylistic parameters for various rock subgenres. Matthew Edwards, assistant professor of voice at Shenandoah Conservatory, provides easy-to-understand explanations of technical concepts, with tips for practical application, and suggestions for listening and further reading. So You Want to Sing Rock ‘n’ Roll includes guest-authored chapters by singing voice researchers Dr. Scott McCoy and Dr. Wendy LeBorgne, as well as audio and visual examples available from the website of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. This work is not only the ideal guide to singing professionals, but the perfect reference work for voice teachers and their students, lead and back-up singers, record producers and studio engineers. The So You Want to Sing seriesis produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Rock 'n' Roll features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.

Author : Dave Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317227700

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Rock 'n' Roll by Dave Rogers Pdf

When rock ‘n’ roll began its ascendancy in the 1950s the older generation saw it as dangerous, renegade, threatening the moral stability of a nation. Young people saw it as freedom, and most importantly, as their music. The teenage revolution was here, This book, first published in 1982, traces the roots of this cultural transformation, its emergence in rock ‘n’ roll and other media, and shows just how violent the confrontation was by looking at contemporary newspaper reports.

Author : Neil Fox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839023453

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Music Films by Neil Fox Pdf

In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics, and gender representations, in order to assess their role in the cultivation of myth. Combining historical and critical analyses, and drawing on film and music criticism, Fox examines renowned music films such as A Hard Day's Night (1964), Dig! (2004), and Amazing Grace (2006), critically lauded works like Milford Graves Full Mantis (2018) and Mistaken for Strangers (2013), and lesser-studied films including Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959) and Ornette: Made in America (1985). In doing so, he offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, situating these films within their wider cultural contexts and highlighting their formal and thematic innovations. Discussions in the book span topics from concert filmmaking to music production, the music industry, touring, and filmic representations of authenticity and truth. Overall, Music Films traces the evolution of the genre, highlighting its cultural significance and connection to broader societal phenomena.

Author : Christopher Knowles
Publisher : Cleis Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781573444057

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The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll by Christopher Knowles Pdf

"...tells the story of the Mysteries [e.g. Mystery religions]--their rise, fall and eventual rebirth in the New World, where rhythms and melodies from the West African and the Celtic diasporas collided with the sound of popular music forever."--P. 4 of cover.

Author : John Kruth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781493052363

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Hold On World by John Kruth Pdf

Hold On World revisits Lennon and Ono's love affair and startling collaborations. John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band was arguably the most emotionally honest album ever made. It wasn't merely another record but more like a sonic exorcism, a spiritual, public bloodletting. Lennon's album drove a stake through the heart of the Beatles' myth while confronting everything else in John's life, from Dylan to God to his glorified status as a "Working Class Hero." Determined to rid himself of past traumas—abandonment by his father and the death of his mother, Julia—Lennon wrote the most powerful song cycle of his career, confronting fear, disappointment, and illusion, all the while espousing his love for Yoko Ono. Released simultaneously, Ono's album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is emotionally raw and challenging. It inspired bands like the B-52s and Yo La Tengo to employ pure sound, whether shrieking vocals or guitar feedback, to express their deepest feelings.

Author : David Cothrell
Publisher : Baker's Plays
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874405637

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Rock'n'roll by David Cothrell Pdf

Author : Nigel Purse
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004319653

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Tom Stoppard’s Plays by Nigel Purse Pdf

In Tom Stoppard’s Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony Nigel Purse offers a unique appraisal, on a thematic basis, of all Stoppard’s plays by identifying key patterns and uncovering at the heart of Stoppard’s theatrical plenitude the principle of parsimony.

Author : Beth Bratkovic
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452074092

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Leadership & Rock & Roll by Beth Bratkovic Pdf

This book is about the many different ways that leadership can be integrated into life. When John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States of America, said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader," he did a good job of crystallizing this approach to leadership. Consider the influence you have each and every day with the people in your life - from the people you work with, plan with, eat with, chat with, coach, cajole, or even simply meet on the street. Two things have influenced me throughout life: leadership and rock and roll. Leadership has been my professional life; I've been learning about it, practicing it, and training others to lead for more than twenty years. I've been listening to rock and roll, and getting inspired by it, for a lot longer than twenty years. The concept of this book is born from one fact: there is an opportunity for ineffective leaders to become tolerable, for tolerable leaders to become good, and for good leaders to become great. How are you using your life to become a better leader? This book provides some anecdotes and a framework to help you apply leadership to every aspect of your life.

Author : Mina Carson,Tisa Lewis,Susan M. Shaw
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813129044

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Girls Rock! Fifty Years of Women Making Music by Mina Carson,Tisa Lewis,Susan M. Shaw Pdf

Girls Rock! explores the many ways women have defined themselves as rock musicians in an industry once dominated and controlled by men. Integrating history, feminist analysis, and developmental theory, the authors describe how and why women have become rock musicians―what inspires them to play and perform, how they write, what their music means to them, and what they hope their music means to listeners. As these musicians tell their stories, topics emerge that illuminate broader trends in rock's history. From Wanda Jackson's revolutionary act of picking up a guitar to the current success of independent artists such as Ani DiFranco, Girls Rock! examines the shared threads of these performers' lives and the evolution of women's roles in rock music since its beginnings in the 1950s. This provocative investigation of women in rock is based on numerous interviews with a broad spectrum of women performers―those who have achieved fame and those just starting bands, those playing at local coffeehouses and those selling out huge arenas. Girls Rock! celebrates what female musicians have to teach about their experiences as women, artists, and rock musicians.

Author : Marjorie Garber,Rebecca Walkowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135207847

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One Nation Under God? by Marjorie Garber,Rebecca Walkowitz Pdf

One Nation Under God? is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today.

Author : Jarmila Mildorf,Pim Verhulst
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498599801

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Radio Art and Music by Jarmila Mildorf,Pim Verhulst Pdf

This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other programs in North American, English, Spanish, Greek, Italian, and German radio.

Author : Kevin W. Buck
Publisher : Year of the Book
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949150127

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A Concise History of Rock 'n' Roll by Kevin W. Buck Pdf

Rock 'n Roll is the first music to span generations. What youth enjoyed in the '20s was ignored in the '30s. Music from the '30s was ignored in the '40s and so on - that is until Rock 'n' Roll hit the mainstream in the 1960s. Every generation wants a music they can call their own. The difference with Rock 'n' Roll is that new generations embrace what's past as well as present.This volume brings each decade of Rock to life, and additionally includes chapters on Elvis, The Beatles, Music in the Video Age, Rock Festivals, Women in Rock, and lots of urban legends... both true and mythic. Rock music reinvents itself regularly and shows no signs of slowing down.