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When the Beat Drops

Author : Anna Hecker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781510733343

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It's time to face the music. Seventeen-year-old Mira has always danced to her own beat. A music prodigy in a family of athletes, she'd rather play trumpet than play ball—and with her audition to a prestigious jazz conservatory just around the corner (and her two best friends at music camp without her), she plans to spend the summer focused on jazz and nothing else. She only goes to the warehouse party in a last-ditch effort to bond with her older sister. Instead, she falls in love with dance music, DJing... and Derek, a gorgeous promoter who thinks he can make her a star. Suddenly, trumpet practice and old friendships are taking a back seat to packed dance floors and sun-soaked music festivals, outsized personalities and endless beats. But when a devastating tragedy plunges her golden summer into darkness, Mira discovers just how little she knows about her new boyfriend, her old friends, and even her own sister. Music brought them together. Will it also tear them apart?

Behind The Shadows: The Complete Script Of The Short Play

Author : Scott Cartwright
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780244252267

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River is being abused by her current boyfriend, Darren. After breaking up with him to get with her childhood crush, Luke, Darren looks for ways to get back at River, including sleeping with Luke's ex-girlfriend. In the end, he's had enough and ends his life believing she would miss him. Far from it. After giving birth to a little girl, Symphony, River learns the importance of living life in the moment whilst we still can.

TikTok

Author : D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye,Jing Zeng,Patrik Wikstrom
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509548941

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TikTok by D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye,Jing Zeng,Patrik Wikstrom Pdf

Since its acquisition and rebranding in 2018, TikTok has become one of the fastest growing platforms in the world. Moreover, it's the first Chinese-developed platform to find mainstream international success, carving its own niche in the global short video industry. In the first comprehensive exploration of TikTok, Kaye, Zeng, and Wikström provide a history of the emergent genre of short video and situate the platform within the cultures and controversies that have accompanied its dramatic growth. They provide an extensive overview of TikTok's functions and uses, the diverse markets in which the platform operates, and the issues of governance that have impacted its expansion. Once thought to be 'just for kids', the authors illustrate how TikTok is further transforming platform cultures and the dynamics of broader creative industries. TikTok, the authors argue, represents an evolutionary step in the way culture is produced and consumed on digital platforms. This timely book is essential reading for students and scholars in media and communication studies and for anyone who has been captivated by the global growth of TikTok and short video.

Soul in Seoul

Author : Crystal S. Anderson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496830111

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K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music itself. She demonstrates how contemporary K-pop references and incorporates musical and performative elements of African American popular music culture as well as the ways that fans outside of Korea understand these references. K-pop emerged in the 1990s with immediate global aspirations, combining musical elements from Korean and foreign cultures, particularly rhythm and blues genres of black American popular music. Korean solo artists and groups borrow from and cite instrumentation and vocals of R&B genres, especially hip-hop. They also enhance the R&B tradition by utilizing Korean musical strategies. These musical citational practices are deemed authentic by global fans who function as part of K-pop’s music press and promotional apparatus. K-pop artists also cite elements of African American performance in Korean music videos. These disrupt stereotyped representations of Asian and African American performers. Through this process K-pop has arguably become a branch of a global R&B tradition. Anderson argues that Korean pop groups participate in that tradition through cultural work that enacts a global form of crossover and by maintaining forms of authenticity that cannot be faked, and furthermore propel the R&B tradition beyond the black-white binary.

The Broke 'n' Beat Collective

Author : Keith Saha,Sue Buckmaster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474299725

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Sometimes when I can't stand on my own two feet Or the voices in my head feel cracked and incomplete I turn up the volume of my Broken Beats The Big Heavy Bass sends moves flowing to my feet Melodic rhymes fill my head and make me feel oh-so-sweet Cos my Broken Beats help me feel alive And not so Broke and Beat. The Broke 'n' Beat Collective is a unique mash up of hip-hop, theatre and puppetry which brings together four amazing artists: beat-boxer Hobbit, b-boy LoGisTics , singer/rapper Elektric and puppeteer Mohsen to form The Broke 'n' Beat Collective. Written by Keith Saha, a playwright and the co-artistic director of 20 Stories High, and Sue Buckmaster, the Artistic Director of Theatre-Rites, The Broke 'n' Beat Collective is a unique theatrical experience filled with gripping tales, transfixing poetry and hip-hop puppetry. Funny and moving, it is a raw and moving play that explores the hardships faced by young people in the UK today. This edition was published to coincide with a national tour of the play which opened in February 2016 in a coproduction between 20 Stories High and Theatre Rites.

An Anthology of Australian Albums

Author : Jon Stratton,Jon Dale,Tony Mitchell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501339882

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An Anthology of Australian Albums by Jon Stratton,Jon Dale,Tony Mitchell Pdf

An Anthology of Australian Albums offers an overview of Australian popular music through the lens of significant, yet sometimes overlooked, Australian albums. Chapters explore the unique qualities of each album within a broader history of Australian popular music. Artists covered range from the older and non-mainstream yet influential, such as the Missing Links, Wendy Saddington and the Coloured Balls, to those who have achieved very recent success (Courtney Barnett, Dami Im and Flume) and whose work contributes to international pop music (Sia), to the more exploratory or experimental (Curse ov Dialect and A.B. Original). Collectively the albums and artists covered contribute to a view of Australian popular music through the non-canonical, emphasizing albums by women, non-white artists and Indigenous artists, and expanding the focus to include genres outside of rock including hip hop, black metal and country.

The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music

Author : Andy Bennett,Steve Waksman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781473910997

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"The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music is a comprehensive, smartly-conceived volume that can take its place as the new standard reference in popular music. The editors have shown great care in covering classic debates while moving the field into new, exciting areas of scholarship. International in its focus and pleasantly wide-ranging across historical periods, the Handbook is accessible to students but full of material of interest to those teaching and researching in the field." - Will Straw, McGill University "Celebrating the maturation of popular music studies and recognizing the immense changes that have recently taken place in the conditions of popular music production, The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music features contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field. Every chapter is well defined and to the point, with bibliographies that capture the history of the field. Authoritative, expertly organized and absolutely up-to-date, this collection will instantly become the backbone of teaching and research across the Anglophone world and is certain to be cited for years to come." - Barry Shank, author of 'The Political Force of Musical Beauty' (2014) The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music provides a highly comprehensive and accessible summary of the key aspects of popular music studies. The text is divided into 9 sections: Theory and Method The Business of Popular Music Popular Music History The Global and the Local The Star System Body and Identity Media Technology Digital Economies Each section has been chosen to reflect both established aspects of popular music studies as well as more recently emerging sub-fields. The handbook constitutes a timely and important contribution to popular music studies during a significant period of theoretical and empirical growth and innovation in the field. This is a benchmark work which will be essential reading for educators and students in popular music studies, musicology, cultural studies, media studies and cultural sociology.

Hymns for the Fallen

Author : Todd Decker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520282322

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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. THE PRESTIGE COMBAT FILM -- 1. Movies and Memorials -- 2. Soundtracks and Scores -- PART II. DIALOGUE -- 3. Soldiers' Talk -- 4. Soldiers' Song -- 5. Disembodied Voices -- PART III. SOUND EFFECTS -- 6. Nothing Sounds Like an M-16 -- 7. Helicopter Music -- PART IV. MUSIC -- 8. Unmetered -- 9. Metered -- 10. Elegies -- 11. End Titles -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

America's Schools and the Mass Media

Author : Everette E. Dennis,Craig L. LaMay
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1412817129

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America's Schools and the Mass Media by Everette E. Dennis,Craig L. LaMay Pdf

Any quotation dictionary that includes an entry for "education" provides ample testimony that education is more than schools. From Aristotle to Oscar Wilde come warnings that education is no substitute for experience. Indeed, for some critics of schooling, we learn that formal education is antithetical to learning. "America's Schools and the Mass Media "collectively explore the contents of mass media and how it shapes educational programming and policy-making. The editors claim that American schooling for the past forty years has less to do with a learning agenda and pedagogy than with economic competition and national security. The editors and contributors to this important volume contend that American public schooling has historical roots as a crucible for democratic government. This ideal has not only grown increasingly suspect in recent years, but is now commonly assailed as a brake on both economic growth and intellectual excellence. The editors ask what minimum skills and knowledge one must possess in order to participate in the life of the nation, if not in the life of the mind. The essays by Gerald Grant, Bella Rosenberg, Charles T. Salmon, Joan Richardson, and Susan Tifft take direct aim at this issue, with surprising, but stimulating results. The volume begins with Myron Lieberman's "law" to wit, the "more important an educational question, the less people know about it." The remainder of the contributions aim Jo begin removing this law with a more salutary understanding. The twelve essays that constitute the work deal with the interplay of educational and media institutions; what students learn and how they learn it--with a special emphasis on the long and questionable history of corporate, special interest and government attempts to shape the beliefs of future citizens and present consumers. The volume closes with a full scale effort to review the nation's educational priorities, and how questions of school choice are entwined with those of media choice.

Spectacle, Fashion and the Dancing Experience in Britain, 1960-1990

Author : Jon Stratton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031090127

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Spectacle, Fashion and the Dancing Experience in Britain, 1960-1990 by Jon Stratton Pdf

This book explores dancing from the 1960s to the 1980s; though this period covers only twenty years, the changes during it were seismic. Nevertheless continuities can be found, and those are what this book examines. In dancing, it answers how we moved from the self-control that formed the basis for ballroom dancing, to ecstatic rave dancing. In terms of music, it answers how we moved from the beat groups to electronic dance music. In terms of youth, it answers how we moved from youth culture to club culture.

#DistractionAction: Volume 1

Author : Robert Ormsby
Publisher : Robert Ormsby
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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#DistractionAction: Volume 1 by Robert Ormsby Pdf

Love, death, depression, humor, and hip-hop are some of the major inspirations for this collection of short stories, poems, anecdotes, and general musings. Featuring fan favorites "Sadness," "Pass The Super Salad," and "Suicide's Seduction" among others. Told in a unique literary voice, this is the first book from newly acclaimed author Robert Ormsby and is sure to offer the reader plenty of action for their own distractions.

What We Do Is Secret

Author : Thorn Kief Hillsbery
Publisher : Villard
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307417732

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“Why am I a punk? Because I wasn’t anything before, except different. And now it’s like I’m different, but with a vengeance.” It’s been months since the suicide of Darby Crash, L.A. punk rock icon and lead singer of the Germs. He checked out on the same day John Lennon was shot: December 8, 1980. But for Rockets Redglare, it feels like yesterday. Darby was the hot-as-sun center of Rockets’s world. Part ringleader, part god, and all charismatic manipulator, Darby was as close to family as a hustler and street kid like Rockets might ever get. Now, as Rockets amps up for another night looking for tricks and scrounging a meal, Sex Pistols and X lyrics on repeat in his head, he knows he’s come to a turning point–the scene is changing, and nothing’s as easy as it was when Darby brought him into the fold. From the underground clubs to the back of the giant “H” in the Hollywood sign, Rockets and his crew of friends spend the night burning bridges, building new ones, tripping and talking and searching for answers. As the dark gives way to early morning, the punks and the cops engage in their ritual standoff–and Rockets faces the ultimate choice: Should he stay or should he go?

Strange Sounds

Author : Timothy D Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135206512

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In Strange Sounds, Timothy D. Taylor explains the wonder and anxiety provoked by a technological revolution that began in the 1940s and gathers steam daily. Taylor discusses the ultural role of technology, its use in making music, and the inevitable concerns about "authenticity" that arise from electronic music. Informative and highly entertaining for both music fans and scholars, Strange Sounds is a provocative look at how we perform, listen to, and understand music today.

I Was an Awesomer Kid

Author : Brad Getty
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781452149165

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Face it: You were awesome when you were a kid. You feared nothing. You spoke your mind. You tried new things. You had imagination. Now you play by the rules, dress appropriately, and choose politeness over self-expression. Well, life's too short for that and this book proves it. Vintage photographs of real kids doing awesome stuff—wearing footie pj's, eating sugar cereal, napping, and showing off— accompany witty captions that poke fun at the doldrums of adult life and remind us to unleash our inner kid. With a hilarious dose of 80s and 90s nostalgia, just enough snark, and an ultimately uplifting message, I Was an Awesomer Kid is a great gift for all who are young at heart . . . or wish they still were!

Hooks in Popular Music

Author : Tim Byron,Jadey O’Regan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031190001

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This volume is the first book-length study of hooks in popular music. Hooks - those memorable musical moments for listeners such as a riff or catchy melodic phrase – are arguably the guiding principle of much modern popular music. The concept of the hook involves aspects of melody, rhythm, harmony, production, lyrical and cultural meaning - and how these interact within a song’s topline and backing track. Hooks are also inherently related to the human capacities for memory and attention, and interact with our previous experiences with music. Understanding hooks in popular music requires a new interdisciplinary approach drawing from popular music studies, pop musicology, and music psychology, and this book draws from each of these disciplines to understand the hooks present in a broad range of popular music styles from the last thirty years.