The Virgin Encyclopedia Of Indie New Wave

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Alternative rock music
ISBN : 0753502313

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave by Colin Larkin Pdf

This is a complete handbook of information and opinion about the development of indie and new wave music. Based on the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the book contains over 1400 entries covering musicians, bands, songwriters, producers and record labels which have made a significant impact on the development of indie and new wave music and traces the emergence of the original punk and garage acts like the Sex Pistols and the Ramones. The encyclopaedia also covers more recent bands such as the Foo Fighters and Oasis as well as cult artists like The Pastels and The Cocteau Twins. Each entry offers information such as dates, career facts, discography and album ratings.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : B. Lee Cooper,Rebecca A. Condon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313072727

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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).

Author : Stuart Borthwick,Ron Moy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136733802

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Popular Music Genres by Stuart Borthwick,Ron Moy Pdf

An accessible introduction to the study of popular music, this book takes a schematic approach to a range of popular music genres, and examines them in terms of their antecedents, histories, visual aesthetics, and sociopolitical contexts. Within this interdisciplinary and genre-based focus, readers will gain insights into the relationships between popular music, cultural history, economics, politics, iconography, production techniques, technology, marketing, and musical structure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Buzzcocks by Anonim Pdf

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Christoph Ribbat
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780231273

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Flickering Light by Christoph Ribbat Pdf

Without neon, Las Vegas might still be a sleepy desert town in Nevada and Times Square merely another busy intersection in New York City. Transformed by the installation of these brightly colored signs, these destinations are now world-famous, representing the vibrant heart of popular culture. But for some, neon lighting represents the worst of commercialism. Energized by the conflicting love and hatred people have for neon, Flickering Light explores its technological and intellectual history, from the discovery of the noble gas in late nineteenth-century London to its fading popularity today. Christoph Ribbat follows writers, artists, and musicians—from cultural critic Theodor Adorno, British rock band the Verve, and artist Tracey Emin to Vladimir Nabokov, Langston Hughes, and American country singers—through the neon cities in Europe, America, and Asia, demonstrating how they turned these blinking lights and letters into metaphors of the modern era. He examines how gifted craftsmen carefully sculpted neon advertisements, introducing elegance to modern metropolises during neon’s heyday between the wars followed by its subsequent popularity in Las Vegas during the 1950s and '60s. Ribbat ends with a melancholy discussion of neon’s decline, describing how these glowing signs and installations came to be seen as dated and characteristic of run-down neighborhoods. From elaborate neon lighting displays to neglected diner signs with unlit letters, Flickering Light tells the engrossing story of how a glowing tube of gas took over the world—and faded almost as quickly as it arrived.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Publishing
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029105496

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz by Colin Larkin Pdf

Essential companion to this distinctive music style.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 Limited
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:30000064312030

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Country Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

This is a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of country music. Based on the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the book contains over 1000 entries covering musicians, bands, songwriters, producers and record labels which have made a significant impact on the development of country music. It brings together people such as Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks and Jimmie Rogers and the influence of Patsy Cline and Hank Williams and more recent figures such as Mary-Chapin Carpenter and LeAnn Rimes. Each entry offers information such as dates, career facts, discography and album ratings.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:30000067189070

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul by Colin Larkin Pdf

This is a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of R&B and soul music. Based on the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the book contains over 1000 entries covering musicians, bands, songwriters, producers and record labels which have made a significant impact on the development of R&B and soul music. It brings together people such as Otis Reading and Aretha Franklin with the great Philly groups of the 1970s, the mainstream soul of Will Downing and Anita Baker and the modern generation of artists such as Mary J. Blige, Babyface and Toni Braxton. As well as headline acts, the book also covers performers who flourished briefly. Each entry offers information such as dates, career facts, discography and album ratings.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X004358428

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Stage and Film Musicals by Colin Larkin Pdf

A guide to the greatest shows and films in the history of the musical, as well as their stars, lyricists and composers. Over 1600 entries provide facts, figures and critical opinion on all aspects of the field.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : 552 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSC:32106011283188

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The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

Published for the first time in hard cover this invaluable handbook contains 1000 entries taken from theEncyclopedia of Popular Music, offering an insight into the 60s -- the most analyzed yet least understood decade in the history of popular music. It includes every artist who had a significant impact on the development of rock and pop music in those ten years, from the Beatles-led invasion of America to the States' own pop aristocracy of Phil Spector and the Beach Boys, from the rise of Motown to the arrival of psychedelia and the Summer of Love. A perfect mix of fact and informed opinion contained in one single volume. Covers the essential elements -- dates, career facts, discography, album ratings plus a sense of context for each artist.