Author : Adam White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : 0711921962
Gold and Platinum Records
Adam White
The Billboard Book Of Gold Platinum Records
The Billboard Book Of Gold Platinum Records Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Billboard Book Of Gold Platinum Records book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Billboard Book of Gold & Platinum Records
Adam White
Author : Adam White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042237672
The Billboard Book of Gold & Platinum Records by Adam White Pdf
Identifies every recording artist in the 20th-century whose music has been certified as gold or platinum.
A Guide to Popular Music Reference Books
Gary Haggerty
Author : Gary Haggerty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313387715
A Guide to Popular Music Reference Books by Gary Haggerty Pdf
A guide to locating information on popular music and the people who create it, this volume is designed as a desk reference—to locate answers to specific questions and to direct library users to key resources. More than 400 comprehensive titles are carefully annotated, describing content, scope, and special features. The focus is on the musical styles that have developed measurable commercial success through recordings and live performance. Along with academic titles, many important titles from the popular press are included, as well as selected electronic resources. A necessary reference tool for any library, scholar, student, and popular music buff. The work covers bibliographies, indexes, discographies, dictionaries and encyclopedias, biographical resources, directories, almanacs, yearbooks, and guidebooks on styles that include jazz, swing, Tin Pan Alley, country, gospel, blues, rhythm and blues, soul, rockabilly, rock, heavy metal, musical theater, and film music. Its extensive appendices feature discographies and bibliographies of individual artists and ensembles. A detailed index combining authors, titles, and subjects makes cross-referencing easy. The entries are modeled after the immensely useful The Guide to Reference Books.
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000
Frank Hoffmann
Author : Frank Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135868864
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 by Frank Hoffmann Pdf
The field of Popular Music Studies is growing, but still lacks some basic reference materials. The Chronology of American Popular Music, 1899-2000 fills this gap by offering a comprehensive overview of the field. It will be a must-own for libraries and individuals interested in this growing field of research.
Saved by Song
Don Cusic
Author : Don Cusic
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781617036422
Saved by Song by Don Cusic Pdf
Saved by Song returns to print with its sweeping overview of the history of gospel music. Powerful and incisive, the book traces contemporary Christianity and Christian music to the sixteenth century and the Protestant Reformation after examining music in the Bible and early church. In America, gospel music has been divided between white and black gospel. Within these divisions are further divisions: southern gospel, contemporary Christian music, spirituals, and hymns. Don Cusic has provided background and insight into the developments of all these rich facets of gospel music. From the psalms of the early Puritans through the hymns of Isaac Watts and the social activism of the Wesleys, to the camp meeting songs of the Kentucky Revival, the spirituals that came from the slave culture, and the hymns from the great revival after the Civil War, gospel music advanced through the nineteenth century. The twentieth century brought the technologies of recordings and the electronic media to gospel music. Saved by Song is ultimately the definitive and complete history of a uniquely American art form. It is a must for anyone interested in the musical and spiritual life of a nation.
Rock Music in American Popular Culture III
Frank Hoffmann,B Lee Cooper,Wayne S Haney
Author : Frank Hoffmann,B Lee Cooper,Wayne S Haney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317957591
Rock Music in American Popular Culture III by Frank Hoffmann,B Lee Cooper,Wayne S Haney Pdf
Rock Music in American Popular Culture III: More Rock ’n’Roll Resources explores the fascinating world of rock music and examines how this medium functions as an expression of cultural and social identity. This nostalgic guide explores the meanings and messages behind some of the most popular rock ’n’roll songs that captured the American spirit, mirrored society, and reflected events in our history. Arranged by themes, Rock Music in American Popular Culture III examines a variety of social and cultural topics with related songs, such as: sex and censorship--“Only the Good Die Young” by Billy Joel and “Night Moves” by Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band holiday songs--“Rockin’Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee and “The Christmas Song” by Nat King Cole death--“Leader of the Pack” by The Shangri-Las and “The Unknown Soldier” by The Doors foolish behavior--“When a Man Loves a Woman” by Percy Sledge and “What Kind of Fool” by Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb jobs and the workplace--“Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by The Police and “Dirty Laundry” by Don Henley military involvements--“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” by the Andrews Sisters and “War” by Edwin Starr novelty recordings--“The Purple People Eater” by Sheb Wooley and “Eat It” by Weird Al Yankovic letters and postal images--“P. S. I Love You” by The Beatles and “Return to Sender” by Elvis Presely In addition, a discography and a bibliography after each section give further examples of the themes and resources being discussed, as do extensive lists of print references at the end of the text.
Rock Music in American Popular Culture II
Frank Hoffmann,B Lee Cooper,Wayne S Haney,Beulah B Ramirez
Author : Frank Hoffmann,B Lee Cooper,Wayne S Haney,Beulah B Ramirez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317940401
Rock Music in American Popular Culture II by Frank Hoffmann,B Lee Cooper,Wayne S Haney,Beulah B Ramirez Pdf
From “Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)?” to a list of all song titles containing the word “werewolf,” Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock ’n’Roll Resources continues where 1995’s Volume I left off. Using references and illustrations drawn from contemporary lyrics and supported by historical and sociological research on popular cultural subjects, this collection of insightful essays and reviews assesses the involvement of musical imagery in personal issues, in social and political matters, and in key socialization activities. From marriage and sex to public schools and youth culture, readers discover how popular culture can be used to explore American values. As Authors B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney prove that integrated popular culture is the product of commercial interaction with public interest and values rather than a random phenomena, they entertainingly and knowledgeably cover such topics as: answer songs--interchanges involving social events and lyrical commentaries as explored in response recordings horror films--translations and transformations of literary images and motion picture figures into popular song characters and tales public schools--images of formal educational practices and informal learning processes in popular song lyrics sex--suggestive tales and censorship challenges within the popular music realm war--examinations of persistent military and home front themes featured in wartime recordings Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock ‘n’Roll Resources is nontechnical, written in a clear and concise fashion, and explores each topic thoroughly, with ample discographic and bibliographic resources provided for additional research. Arranged alphabetically for quick and easy reference to specific topics, the book is equally enjoyable to read straight through. Rock music fans, teachers, popular culture professors, music instructors, public librarians, sound recording archivists, sociologists, social critics, and journalists can all learn something, as the book shows them the cross-pollination of music and social life in the United States.
The Popular Music Teaching Handbook
B. Lee Cooper,Rebecca A. Condon
Author : B. Lee Cooper,Rebecca A. Condon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313072727
The Popular Music Teaching Handbook by B. Lee Cooper,Rebecca A. Condon Pdf
The function of print resources as instructional guides and descriptors of popular music pedagogy are addressed in this concise volume. Increasingly, public school teachers and college-level faculty members are introducing and utilizing music-related educational approaches in their classrooms. This book lists reports dealing with popular music resources as classroom teaching materials, and will stimulate further thought among students and teachers. It focuses on the growing spectrum of published scholarship available to instructors in specific teaching fields (art, geography, social studies, urban studies, and so on) as well as on the multitude of general resources (including biographical directories and encyclopedias of artist profiles). Building on two recent publications: Teaching with Popular Music Resources: A Bibliography of Interdisciplinary Instructional Approaches, Popular Music and Society, XXII, no. 2 (Summer 1998), and American Culture Interpreted through Popular Music: Interdisciplinary Teaching Approaches (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2000), this volume focuses on the growing spectrum of published scholarship that is available to instructors in specific teaching fields (art, geography, social studies, urban studies, and so on) as well as on the multitude of general resources (including biographical directories and encyclopedias of artist profiles).
The Billboard Book of Number One Rhythm & Blues Hits
Adam White,Fred Bronson
Author : Adam White,Fred Bronson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X002305525
The Billboard Book of Number One Rhythm & Blues Hits by Adam White,Fred Bronson Pdf
Documents the history of rhythm and blues music by examining every song to top the Billboard R & B singles chart between 1965 and 1990 and offers inside stories from the singers, musicians, songwriters, arrangers, and producers who created the hits.
A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B through the Early 1990s
Eric Charry
Author : Eric Charry
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819578969
A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B through the Early 1990s by Eric Charry Pdf
This concise yet lively textbook explores the history and significance of American popular music from Tin Pan Alley to Public Enemy. Ethnomusicologist Eric Charry provides a strong foundation for understanding how music, the music industry, and American culture intersect. His innovative teaching style presents the material in a dynamic format suitable for general education courses in music. The book is organized around a series of timelines, tables, and figures, providing fresh perspectives on the social and cultural importance of the music. Charry lays out key contemporary theoretical issues, covers the technical foundations of the music industry, and provides a capsule history of who did what when, with particular emphasis on the rapid emergence of distinct genres and subgenres. The book’s figures distill the history and provide new insight into understanding trends. Over a thousand artists, albums, and songs are covered, such as Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, the Velvet Underground, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Madonna, Talking Heads, and many more.
Boricua Power
José Ramón Sánchez,Ramón Sánchez Ramón
Author : José Ramón Sánchez,Ramón Sánchez Ramón
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814798478
Boricua Power by José Ramón Sánchez,Ramón Sánchez Ramón Pdf
Jos Snchez offers a fresh new way of thinking about Puerto Rican politics. Guided by a dynamic and suggestive concept of political power, the author navigates his way deftly through the thickets of volatile debates and controversy in tracking a century-long history of radical class and ethnic speaking-truth-to-power in the Latino vein. Taking us back to the cigar worker strikes before the 1920s, the story of Boricua Power goes on to probe the political scene in the post-World War II era, and then sheds new light on the Young Lords Party and the exciting political watershed of the Sixties and Seventies in New York City. To sidestep the pitfalls of blame-the-victim pathologizing on the one hand, and wishful triumphalism on the other, Snchezs metaphor of the play of power as dance is fun, convincing, and thoroughly apropos.--Juan Flores, author of From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity"A well-written, historically informed, and original treatment of the Puerto Rican cultural and ethno-class struggle in America. Boricua Power is scholarly yet heartfelt and recommended to anyone interested in ethnicity and social power."--Michael Parenti, author of The Culture StruggleWhere does power come from? Why does it sometimes disappear? How do groups, like the Puerto Rican community, become impoverished, lose social influence, and become marginal to the rest of society? How do they turn things around, increase their wealth, and become better able to successfully influence and defend themselves?Boricua Power explains the creation and loss of power as a product of human efforts to enter, keep or end relationships with others in an attempt to satisfy passions and interests, using a theoretical and historical case study of one community--Puerto Ricans in the United Sta
Music in American Life [4 volumes]
Jacqueline Edmondson
Author : Jacqueline Edmondson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2530 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9798216120391
Music in American Life [4 volumes] by Jacqueline Edmondson Pdf
A fascinating exploration of the relationship between American culture and music as defined by musicians, scholars, and critics from around the world. Music has been the cornerstone of popular culture in the United States since the beginning of our nation's history. From early immigrants sharing the sounds of their native lands to contemporary artists performing benefit concerts for social causes, our country's musical expressions reflect where we, as a people, have been, as well as our hope for the future. This four-volume encyclopedia examines music's influence on contemporary American life, tracing historical connections over time. Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture demonstrates the symbiotic relationship between this art form and our society. Entries include singers, composers, lyricists, songs, musical genres, places, instruments, technologies, music in films, music in political realms, and music shows on television.
Sites of Popular Music Heritage
Sara Cohen,Robert Knifton,Marion Leonard,Les Roberts
Author : Sara Cohen,Robert Knifton,Marion Leonard,Les Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781134103256
Sites of Popular Music Heritage by Sara Cohen,Robert Knifton,Marion Leonard,Les Roberts Pdf
This volume examines the location of memories and histories of popular music and its multiple pasts, exploring the different ‘places’ in which popular music can be situated, including the local physical site, the museum storeroom and exhibition space, and the digitized archive and display space made possible by the internet. Contributors from a broad range of disciplines such as archive studies, popular music studies, media and cultural studies, leisure and tourism, sociology, museum studies, communication studies, cultural geography, and social anthropology visit the specialized locus of popular music histories and heritage, offering diverse set of approaches. Popular music studies has increasingly engaged with popular music histories, exploring memory processes and considering identity, collective and cultural memory, and notions of popular culture’s heritage values, yet few accounts have spatially located such trends to focus on the spaces and places where we encounter and engender our relationship with popular music’s history and legacies. This book offers a timely re-evaluation of such sites, reinserting them into the narratives of popular music and offering new perspectives on their function and significance within the production of popular music heritage. Bringing together recent research based on extensive fieldwork from scholars of popular music studies, cultural sociology, and museum studies, alongside the new insights of practice-based considerations of current practitioners within the field of popular music heritage, this is the first collection to address the interdisciplinary interest in situating popular music histories, heritages, and pasts. The book will therefore appeal to a wide and growing academic readership focused on issues of heritage, cultural memory, and popular music, and provide a timely intervention in a field of study that is engaging scholars from across a broad spectrum of disciplinary backgrounds and theoretical perspectives.
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 9th Edition
Joel Whitburn
Author : Joel Whitburn
Publisher : Billboard Books
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780307985125
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 9th Edition by Joel Whitburn Pdf
The Essential Reference Guide to America’s Most Popular Songs and Artists Spanning More than Fifty Years of Music Beginning with Bill Haley & His Comets’ seminal “Rock Around the Clock” all the way up to Lady Gaga and her glammed-out “Poker face,” this updated and unparalleled resource contains the most complete chart information on every artist and song to hit Billboard’s Top 40 pop singles chart all the way back to 1955. Inside, you’ll find all of the biggest-selling, most-played hits for the past six decades. Each alphabetized artist entry includes biographical info, the date their single reached the Top 40, the song’s highest position, and the number of weeks on the charts, as well as the original record label and catalog number. Other sections—such as “Record Holders,” “Top Artists by Decade,” and “#1 Singles 1955-2009”—make The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits the handiest and most indispensable music reference for record collectors, trivia enthusiasts, industry professionals and pop music fans alike. Did you know? • Beyoncé’s 2003 hit “Crazy in Love” spent 24 weeks in the Top 40 and eight of them in the #1 spot. • Billy Idol has had a total of nine Top 40 hits over his career, the last being “Cradle of Love” in 1990. • Of Madonna’s twelve #1 hits, her 1994 single “Take a Bow” held the spot the longest, for seven weeks—one week longer than her 1984 smash “Like a Virgin.” • Marvin Gaye’s song “Sexual Healing” spent 15 weeks at #3 in 1982, while the same song was #1 on the R&B chart for 10 weeks. • Male vocal group Boyz II Men had three of the biggest chart hits of all time during the 1990s. • The Grateful Dead finally enjoyed a Top 10 single in 1987 after 20 years of touring. • Janet Jackson has scored an impressive 39 Top 40 hits—one more than her megastar brother Michael!
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits
Joel Whitburn
Author : Joel Whitburn
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0823082911
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits by Joel Whitburn Pdf
All the information since the earliest Billboard charts were originally compiled in 1942 is gathered into this one essential reference on country music that has been updated and expanded to capture today's top recording artists and their biggest songs. Original.