Download or read book Pop Rock Music written by Motti Regev and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related techniques. The history of pop-rock extends from the emergence of rock'n'roll in the 1950s to a variety of contemporary fashions and trends – rock, punk, soul, funk, techno, hip hop, indie, metal, pop and many more. This book offers a highly original account of the emergence of pop-rock music as a global phenomenon in which Anglo-American and many other national and ethnic variants interact in complex ways. Pop-rock is analysed as a prime instance of 'aesthetic cosmopolitanism' – that is, the gradual formation, in late modernity, of world culture as a single interconnected entity in which different social groupings around the world increasingly share common ground in their aesthetic perceptions, expressive forms and cultural practices. Drawing on a wide array of examples, this path-breaking book will be of great interest to students and scholars in cultural sociology, media and cultural studies as well as the study of popular music.
Download or read book Expression in Pop rock Music written by Walter Everett and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2008 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents a wide range of scholarly approaches to understanding artistic expression in rock music and provides insights into the music.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock written by Simon Frith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book All Music Guide to Rock written by Vladimir Bogdanov and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fun-to-read, easy-to-use reference has been completely updated, expanded, and revised with reviews of over 12,000 great albums by over 2,000 artists and groups in all rock genres. 50 charts.
Download or read book Expression in Pop rock Music written by Walter Everett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000
Download or read book Switched on Pop written by Nate Sloan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits. Through close studies of sixteen modern classics, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding shift pop from the background to the foreground, illuminating the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. In 1939, Aaron Copland published What to Listen for in Music, the bestseller that made classical music approachable for generations of listeners. Eighty years later, Nate and Charlie update Copland's idea for a new audience and repertoire: 21st century pop, from Britney to Beyoncé, Outkast to Kendrick Lamar. Despite the importance of pop music in contemporary culture, most discourse only revolves around lyrics and celebrity. Switched on Pop gives readers the tools they need to interpret our modern soundtrack. Each chapter investigates a different song and artist, revealing musical insights such as how a single melodic motif follows Taylor Swift through every genre that she samples, André 3000 uses metric manipulation to get listeners to "shake it like a Polaroid picture," or Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee create harmonic ambiguity in "Despacito" that mirrors the patterns of global migration. Replete with engaging discussions and eye-catching illustrations, Switched on Pop brings to life the musical qualities that catapult songs into the pop pantheon. Readers will find themselves listening to familiar tracks in new waysand not just those from the Top 40. The timeless concepts that Nate and Charlie define can be applied to any musical style. From fanatics to skeptics, teenagers to octogenarians, non-musicians to professional composers, every music lover will discover something ear-opening in Switched on Pop.
Download or read book From Blues to Rock written by David Hatch and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Girls Can Kiss Now written by Jill Gutowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the Internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today. Jill Gutowitz's life--for better and worse--has always been on a collision course with pop culture, [including] ... the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill's own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture"--
Download or read book The Musical Language of Rock written by David Temperley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form, and emotional expression. The Musical Language of Rock puts forth a new, comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of rock music by addressing each of these aspects. Eastman music theorist and cognition researcher David Temperley brings together a conventional music-analytic approach with statistical corpus analysis to offer an innovative and insightful approach to the genre. With examples from across a broadly defined rock idiom encompassing everything from the Beatles to Deep Purple, Michael Jackson to Bonnie Raitt, The Musical Language of Rock shows how rock musicians exploit musical parameters to achieve aesthetic and expressive goals-for example, the manipulation of expectation and surprise, the communication of such oppositions as continuity/closure and tension/relaxation, and the expression of emotional states. A major innovation of the book is a three-dimensional model of musical expression-representing valence, energy, and tension-which proves to be a powerful tool for characterizing songs and also for tracing expressive shifts within them. The book includes many musical examples, with sound clips available on the book's website. The Musical Language of Rock presents new insights on the powerful musical mechanisms which have made rock a hallmark of our contemporary musical landscape.
Download or read book Music Theory for Computer Musicians written by Michael Hewitt and published by Course Technology Ptr. This book was released on 2008 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many DJs, gigging musicians, and electronic music producers understand how to play their instruments or make music on the computer, but they lack the basic knowledge of music theory needed to take their music-making to the next level and compose truly professional tracks. Beneath all the enormously different styles of modern electronic music lie certain fundamentals of the musical language that are exactly the same no matter what kind of music you write. It is very important to acquire an understanding of these fundamentals if you are to develop as a musician and music producer. Put simply, you need to know what you are doing with regard to the music that you are writing. Music Theory for Computer Musicians explains these music theory fundamentals in the most simple and accessible way possible. Concepts are taught using the MIDI keyboard environment and today's computer composing and recording software. By reading this book and following the exercises contained within it, you, the aspiring music producer/computer musician, will find yourself making great progress toward understanding and using these fundamentals of the music language. The result will be a great improvement in your ability to write and produce your own original music!
Download or read book From Blues to Rock written by David Hatch and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rock Music written by Mark Spicer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers together twenty articles from among the best scholarly writing on rock music published in academic journals over the past two decades. These diverse essays reflect the wide range of approaches that scholars in various disciplines have applied to the study of rock, from those that address mainly the historical, sociological, cultural and technological factors that gave rise to this music, to those that focus primarily on analysis of the music itself. This collection of articles, some of which are now out of print or otherwise difficult to access, provides an overview of the current state of research in the field of rock music, and includes an introduction which contributes to the ongoing debate over the distinction (or lack thereof) betweenrock andpop.
Download or read book The Jazz Harmony Book written by David Berkman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches the ideas behind adding chords to melodies. It begins with basic chords and progressions, and moves to more complex ideas. With an introduction and two appendices. Two CDs of additional material.
Download or read book The Easy Pop Rock Fake Book written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Fake Book). Here are 100 top pop/rock songs that are easy to learn and play. All are in large notation and in the key of C, with lyrics and simplified chords that remain true to each tune. Includes: All Right Now * Billie Jean * Carry on Wayward Son * Change the World * Dancing Queen * Don't Fear the Reaper * Don't Worry, Be Happy * Eye of the Tiger * Fireflies * The Greatest Love of All * Hey, Soul Sister * How to Save a Life * How You Remind Me * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Kiss on My List * Like a Prayer * Love Shack * Mony, Mony * Oh, Pretty Woman * Pour Some Sugar on Me * She Will Be Loved * Smooth * Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) * Use Somebody * With or Without You * You Really Got Me * and more.
Download or read book The Ultimate Pop Rock Fake Book Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Fake Book). This 4th edition is the ultimate collection of 600 pop/rock hits in one amazing book in arrangements appropriate for all C instruments! Includes: Adia * Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) * Ain't No Mountain High Enough * All Shook Up * Amazed * Angel * Another One Bites the Dust * At the Hop * Breathe * California Girls * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Can't Help Falling in Love * Come Sail Away * December 1963 (Oh What a Night) * Don't Cry Out Loud * Don't Know Much * Dust in the Wind * Earth Angel * Every Breath You Take * Fast Car * Great Balls of Fire * A Groovy Kind of Love * Hero * Hey Jude * How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) * Imagine * Iris * Layla * The Loco-Motion * Love Will Keep Us Together * Maggie May * Me and Bobby McGee * Memory * Mission: Impossible Theme * My Heart Will Go On * Oh, Pretty Woman * On Broadway * The Power of Love * Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head * The River of Dreams * Save the Best for Last * Sea of Love * The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) * Something * Spinning Wheel * Stand by Me * Stayin' Alive * Surfin' U.S.A. * Tears in Heaven * True Colors * The Twist * The Way We Were * We've Only Just Begun * What a Wonderful World * What's Going On * When I Fall in Love * Wild Thing * Wooly Bully * Yesterday * You've Got a Friend * You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' * and many hundreds more!
Download or read book Rock and the Pop Narcotic written by Joe Carducci and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out-of-print classic of rock criticism. Author worked with Black Flag, Negativland, Birthday Party, Dead Kennedys, Husker Du, Meat Puppets, and others. Excerpted in the Penguin Book of Rock & Roll Writing. "It is the Moby Dick of Rock-Crit -- nothing else I've read comes close." --James Parker / The Idler (U.K.)
Download or read book All about Crosswords Vol 1 All about the History of Rock and Pop Music written by Donald Moore and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1994-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Fifties to the Super Rock Stars, from the British Invasion to America's own most recently famous, these 20 puzzles present a broad overview. Special feature: permission is granted for reproducing the puzzles for in-class use! In addition to the puzzles, author Donald Moore includes instructions and use suggestions, helpful word lists, a bibliography and, at the end, complete solutions.
