Did you know that Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote an essay on the Top 40? The serious study of popular music has a history as deep and diverse as the music itself, from the ponderings of philosophers to the passionate prose of critics in mimeographed magazines. Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin, both writers and teachers of popular music, have compiled a survey of critical approaches to pop music. Divided by general theoretical category, "On Record" serves as a guide to the growing sophistication and shifting emphases in the field. There are classic sociological analyses of "deviance" and rebellion, studies of technology, subcultural and feminist readings, semiotic and musicological essays, and close readings of stars, bans and the fans themselves. Each section opens with an introduction that places the essays in their proper context and explains the editor's choices. more>>

This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to Public Enemy, Nirvana to the Spice Girls. They trace the way new technologies - from the amplifier to the internet - have changed the sounds and practices of pop and they analyse the way maverick entrepreneurs have given way to multimedia corporations. In particular they focus on the controversial issues concerning race and ethnicity, politics, gender and globalisation. Contains full profiles of a selection of figures from the pop and rock world.



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All the songs from the album arranged for piano, voice and guitar including complete lyrics and guitar chord boxes more>>

This guide provides all the facts you need on amplified guitar abuse in all its multifarious guises: hard rock, heavy metal, thrash metal, funk metal, death metal, hardcore, grindcore, grunge, black metal and more. more>>

This is the bible for all popular music fans. With its unique format, featuring complete discographies, biographies and histories - plus catalogue ordering numbers, chart positions and recommended listening ... The Great Rock Discography crams in all the more>>

This guide informs readers how to build a representative collection of soul music. It traces the music's path, with a brief stop-over in Ethiopia, from its birth in pentecostal churches in cotton country, to a proliferation of styles. more>>

This comprehensive and illuminating volume is condensed from the Encyclopedia of Popular Music's constantly updated 8 million word database, the most authoritative of its kind. Drawing upon his extensive personal experience in the music industry, Colin Larkin has produced an accessible and invaluable tome, infused with his own infectious enthusiasm for popular music.





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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 more>>