The Virgin Encyclopedia Of 80s Music

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSC:32106016008036

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of 80s Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

Remember the 80's? The Virgin Encyclopedia of 80's Music is a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of the most fragmented and frequently maligned decade in the history of popular music. Here are 1000 entries on the bands, musicians, songwriters, producers and record labels - everyone who had a significant impact on the development of rock and pop music in those ten years, from the New Romantics who brought colour and image to fill the gap left by punk and the new wave, to the stadium acts who provided a launch pad for Live Aid, to the myriad variations of house and techno spawned in the latter half of the Eighties. As well as all the giants of the period the encyclopedia has the range and depth to include artists who flourished briefly and yet were quintessential to the decade. A perfect mix of fact and informed opinion contained in one single volume, distilled from the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world's leading source of reference on rock and pop history. Informed, infatuating and invaluable.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020358623

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

Whatever you were doing and listening to during the eighties, THE VIRGIN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EIGHTIES MUSIC will bring it all back. All the facts and informed opinions on the artists who made that decade's musical history are contained in this single volume, distilled from THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR MUSIC, the world's leading reference on rock and pop history.

Author : Muza UK Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:852797070

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Muza UK Ltd Pdf

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020358631

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Seventies Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

The aim of this book is to provide a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of the music of the 1970s. There are over 1000 entries on the bands, musicians, songwriters, producers and record labels of this decade, everyone who had any significant impact on the development of rock and pop music. From the stars who, unlike Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison, survived the sixties only to be dudded as dinosaurs, to the angry reactions of punk and the new wave and the sounds of glam rock and disco, this encylopaedia aims to answer any query about any aspect of seventies music. As well as the giants of the decade, such as Queen, Abba and Fleetwood Mac, the book also includes those artists who only flourished briefly.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020358649

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

The aim of this book is to provide a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of the music of the 1960s. There are over 1000 entries on the bands, musicians, songwriters, producers and record labels of this decade, everyone who had any significant impact on the development of rock and pop music. From the Beatles-led British invasion of America to the States' own pop figures such as the Beach Boys, from the rise of Motown and Atlantic, to the arrival of psychedelia, this encylopaedia aims to answer any query about any aspect of 60s music. As well as the giants of the decade, the book also includes those artists who flourished briefly such as Scott McKenzie and Annette Funicello.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Popular music
ISBN : UCSC:32106011283170

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

All the facts and informed opinion that you need on the artists who made the history of this decade are contained in this single volume, distilled from The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world's leading source of reference on rock and pop history.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Popular music
ISBN : 1852278323

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

Suitable for writers, researchers, musicologists and music industry professionals, this title includes hundreds of fresh entries covering fresh acts, breaking dance artists, urban R&B and the indie bands. It offers essential information - birth dates, career facts, and five-star album ratings to all of which are presented with a sense of context.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112273987

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

The Nineties has been a thrilling and varied decade for pop, with a renaissance of both rock and roll and pop music. Along with new acts like the Spice Girls, Oasis, Beck, Bjork and Nirvana, there has been an explosion of dance music and the emergence of powerful new genres like drum'n'bass and thrash metal. All the entries have been created from the massive data-base of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, first published in 1992, which is the acknowledged champion of contemporary music reference books.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781448132744

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of The Blues by Colin Larkin Pdf

The Virgin Encyclopaedia of the Blues is a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of the most classically simple, enduring and inspiring genre in the history of popular music. All entries have been created from the massive database of The Encyclopaedia of Popular Music, which has swiftly and firmly established itself as the undisputed champion of contemporary music reference books. Brand new research ensures that the 1000 entries are bang up-to-date and cover everyone - the musicians, bands, songwriters, producers and record labels - who has made a significant impact on the development of the blues. It brings together pioneers like Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, the influence of Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon on the blues boom of the 1960s, and the most recent blues resurgence featuring Keb'Mo, Larry Garner and Jonny Lang. As well as the giants of the blues, this encyclopaedia has the range and depth to include performers who flew the blues flag during fallow periods, the 1980s band Roomful of Blues for example, or acts like Paul Butterfield, Chicken Shack, Stevie Ray Vaughan, who took the music to a wider, whiter, audience. Some blues musicians, including John Lee Hooker and Taj Mahal, seem to last forever. Others simply defined the genre, like Lead Belly, Bessie Smith and Howlin' Wolf. Whomever you remember or want to know more about, each entry gives the essential elements - dates, career facts, discography and album ratings - as well as a sense of context, striking a balance between the extremes of the self-opinionated and the bland.

Author : Daniel Blythe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015051575457

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The Encyclopaedia of Classic 80s Pop by Daniel Blythe Pdf

An indispensable guide to the best - and the worst - pop music of the 1980s.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSC:32106011402176

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

All the facts and informed opinion that you need on the artists who made the history of this decade are contained in this single volume, distilled from The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world's leading source of reference on rock and pop history.

Author : Judith Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317129486

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Generations by Judith Burnett Pdf

Generations: The Time Machine in Theory and Practice challenges the fragmented and diverse use of the concept of generation commonly found in the social sciences. It approaches the concept in a manner that stretches the sociological imagination away from its orientation toward the present by building the concept of the passage of time into our understanding of the social. It proposes an innovative and exciting view of the field of generations, lifting it out from life course and cohort analysis, and reconstituting the area with fresh and dynamic ways of seeing. With its unique, intellectually innovative and sustained critical study of generational work, Generations will appeal to scholars across a range of social sciences and humanities, and will be of particular interest to social theorists and anthropologists, as well as sociologists of social history, consumption, identity and culture.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:30000062257310

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

The bands, producers, labels and remixers of the diverse dance music culture are listed here in this reference book. Dates, career facts, discographies and star ratings are given, along with considered opinion on the prime movers and shakers in the business.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Jazz
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119423544

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz by Colin Larkin Pdf

From boogie-woogie to bebop and beyond, the sounds and rhythms of Jazz is mercurial- always creative, seldom static, frequently cultish and often contentious. The latest edition of The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz is the essential companion to making an acquaintance with Jazz. It will inform you and it will not talk down to you. There are over 3,500 entries detailing every artist who has had an impact on the development of jazz since it headed out from New Orleans and spread to New York, London, Paris, Montreux, Munich and way beyond. Here are all the legends whose genius is evoked in a single name - Ella, Duke, Satchimo, Bird, Miles, Trane, the Hawk, Monk and Diz - together with all the younger talent - Brad mehidau, jacky terrasson, Nicholas Payton and the youngest phenomenon of them all, Norah Jones. They line up with modern-day giants of the genre such as John Schofield, Dave Holland, Joe Lovano and Keith Jarrett. All entries have a detailed album chronology, together with a five-star rating system.The text is non-pompous, non-judgemental yet friendly and constructive. All the text has been taken from the gigantic database of The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, first published in 1992. the EPM and its spin-off series swiftly and firmly established itself as the undisputed champion of all contemporary-music reference books.