Download or read book The Philosophy of Modern Song written by Bob Dylan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.
Download or read book The Book of Modern and Popular Songs written by Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pop Song written by Larissa Pham and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author's own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed). Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love—with a place, or a painting, or a person—and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss—from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works, and Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde—Pham writes of her youthful attempts to find meaning in travel, sex, drugs, and art, before sensing that she might need to turn her gaze upon herself. Pop Song is also a book about distances, near and far. As she travels from Taos, New Mexico, to Shanghai, China and beyond, Pham meditates on the miles we are willing to cover to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed. Pop Song is a book about all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home. There is heartache in these pages, but Pham's electric ways of seeing create a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy that is triumphant in both its vulnerability and restlessness.
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 The Book of Modern and Popular Songs written by Joseph Edwards Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pop Sonnets written by Erik Didriksen and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Goodreads Choice Award nominee The Bard meets the Backstreet Boys in this collection of 100 classic pop songs reimagined as Shakespearean sonnets This hilarious book of poetry transforms disco staples, classic rock anthems, and recent chart-toppers into hilarious iambic pentameter! All your favorite songs are here, including hits by Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, and many others. An entertaining journey into the world of Elizabethan poetry, and based on the immensely popular Tumblr of the same name, Pop Sonnets is the perfect gift for Shakespeare fans and music lovers alike. “Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? We hadn’t either, but now we can't get enough.” —TIME
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings written by Steve Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data—recording dates, record numbers, Billboard chart data, and personnel—while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists. Readers who revel in pop cultural history will savor each chapter as it plunges deeply into key events—in music, society, and the world—from each era of the past 125 years. Following in the wake of the first two volumes of his original Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, this follow-up work covers not only more beloved classic performances in pop music history, but many lesser -known but exceptional recordings that—in the modern digital world of “long tail” listening, re-mastered recordings, and “lost but found” possibilities—Sullivan mines from modern recording history. The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 3 and 4 lets the readers discover, and, through their playlist services, from such as iTunes toand Spotify, build a truly deepcomprehensive catalog of classic performances that deserve to be a part of every passionate music lover’s life. Sullivan organizes songs in chronological order, starting in 1890 and continuing all the way throughto the present to include modern gems from June 2016. In each chapter, Sullivanhe immerses readers, era by era, in the popular music recordings of the time, noting key events that occurred at the time to painting a comprehensive picture in music history of each periodfor each song. Moreover, Sullivan includes for context bulleted lists noting key events that occurred during the song’s recording
Download or read book The Book of Modern and Popular Songs written by Joseph Edwards Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Modern Songs Etc written by Joseph Edwards CARPENTER and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Art Songs of the Turn of the Century written by Paul Sperry and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 42 of the best songs of a halcyon period in American music, richly varied in mood, sentiment and musical character, including classics by Edward MacDowell, Charles Ives, Amy Beach, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Oley Speaks, Ethelbert Nevin, John Philip Sousa, Charles Wakefield Cadman and 14 other composers. Reprinted from rare original song sheets in full piano and vocal arrangements.
Download or read book Best Pop Songs for Easy Guitar written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Guitar). A great big collection of 75 popular favorites arranged at an easier level, including: All of Me * Bad Day * Brave * Counting Stars * Dark Horse * Get Lucky * Happy * Ho Hey * Home * How to Save a Life * Human * I Gotta Feeling * Jar of Hearts * Let Her Go * Let It Go * Little Talks * Radioactive * Royals * Say Something * Stay with Me * Summertime Sadness * Teardrops on My Guitar * Titanium * Toes * Torn * Unwell * What Makes You Beautiful * Yellow * You're Beautiful * and more. Standard notation only (no tab.)
Download or read book The Coffeehouse Companion written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Fake Book). Melody, lyrics, and chords, for over 220 acoustic favorites! Songs include: American Pie * Big Yellow Taxi * Cat's in the Cradle * Closing Time * Don't Know Why * Dust in the Wind * Everything I Own * Fast Car * Give a Little Bit * Hallelujah * Ho Hey * I Got You Babe * I'll Be * The Lazy Song * Leaving on a Jet Plane * Meet Virginia * More Than Words * Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * Peaceful Easy Feeling * Put Your Records On * Running on Empty * Summer Breeze * Sunny Came Home * Tom's Diner * Walking in Memphis * Yellow * You've Got a Friend * and many more.
Download or read book Ukulele From The Beginning Pop Songs The Blue Book written by Chester Music and published by Chester Music. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ukulele From The Beginning: Pop Songs (Blue Book) is a great collection of 16 favourite pop songs, specially chosen and arranged for primary school-age and early secondary school-age children. The songs are simplified, and annotated with easy chord symbols, strumming and picking patterns. This is a truly accessible pop songbook, combing a great deal of contemporary repertoire with a selection of true pop classics. This book is a 'sister' publication to the Ukulele From The Beginning - Pop Songs (Red Book). Song List: - Bleeding Love [Leona Lewis] - Can You Feel The Love Tonight? [Elton John] - Fireflies [Owl City] - Isn't She Lovely? [Stevie Wonder] - Locked Out Of Heaven [Bruno Mars] - Love Story [Taylor Swift] - Mad World [Gary Jules] - One More Night [Maroon 5] - Price Tag [Jessie J] - Run [Snow Patrol] - The Sound Of Silence [Simon & Garfunkel] - Troublemaker [Olly Murs] - Video Games [Lana Del Rey] - Viva La Vida [Coldplay] - Call My Name [Cheryl] - Yesterday [The Beatles]
Download or read book Pop Songs for Kids written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Piano Songbook). Kids from all corners of the world love and sing along to the songs of Taylor Swift, One Direction, Katy Perry and other pop stars. This collection features 25 songs from these and many more artists in easy piano format. Includes: Brave * Can't Stop the Feeling * Firework * Happy * Home * Let It Go * Shake It Off * What Makes You Beautiful * and more.
Download or read book Major Labels written by Kelefa Sanneh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 • Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year “One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities. In Major Labels, Sanneh distills a career’s worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a brilliant and omnivorous reckoning with popular music—as an art form (actually, a bunch of art forms), as a cultural and economic force, and as a tool that we use to build our identities. He explains the history of slow jams, the genius of Shania Twain, and why rappers are always getting in trouble. Sanneh shows how these genres have been defined by the tension between mainstream and outsider, between authenticity and phoniness, between good and bad, right and wrong. Throughout, race is a powerful touchstone: just as there have always been Black audiences and white audiences, with more or less overlap depending on the moment, there has been Black music and white music, constantly mixing and separating. Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes, and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes, the best popular music isn’t transcendent. Songs express our grudges as well as our hopes, and they are motivated by greed as well as idealism; music is a powerful tool for human connection, but also for human antagonism. This is a book about the music everyone loves, the music everyone hates, and the decades-long argument over which is which. The opposite of a modest proposal, Major Labels pays in full.
Download or read book World s Greatest Children s Songs written by and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World's Greatest Children's Songs includes both traditional and modern folk songs, along with amusing parodies, teaching songs, and more. It also features a large number of more recent hits that children love, including songs that originated on popular television shows (such as Sesame Street, The Muppets, The Wiggles) and tunes from unforgettable movies. The arrangements are easy enough to be played by children at the early intermediate level, yet musical enough for adults to enjoy performing them as well. Lyrics and chord symbols are provided. Titles: A-Tisket, A-Tasket * The Alphabet Song * The Ants Came Marching * Baby Beluga * The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle * Bananaphone * The Bear Went over the Mountain * Bill Grogan's Goat * B-i-n-g-o * Camptown Races * The Chicken Dance (Dance Little Bird) * Chim Chim Che-ree * Did You Ever See a Lassie? * Do Your Ears Hang Low? * The Dreidel Song * The Eensy-Weensy Spider * Found a Peanut * Frère Jacques * Fruit Salad * Get Ready to Wiggle * Go In and Out the Window * Going to the Zoo * Happy Birthday to You * Heigh Ho (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) * Henry the Octopus * Here We Go Looby Loo * He's Got the Whole World in His Hands * The Hokey-Pokey * Hot Potato * Hush Little Baby * If I Only Had a Brain (from The Wizard of Oz) * If You're Happy and You Know It * It's a Small World * It's Raining, It's Pouring * Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree * Kum Ba Yah * Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) * The Lion Sleeps Tonight * Mail Myself to You * The Marvelous Toy * (Meet) The Flintstones * Merrily We Roll Along * The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down * Michael, Row the Boat Ashore * Mickey Mouse March * Monster Mash * The Muppet Show Theme * The Noble Duke of York * Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow * Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? * Old MacDonald * On Top of Spaghetti * Over the Rainbow *A Peanut Sat on a Railroad Track * Peter Cottontail * Polly Wolly Doodle * Pop! Goes the Weasel * Puff (The Magic Dragon) * The Purple People Eater * Put Your Finger in the Air * Rainbow Connection (from The Muppet Movie) * Riding in My Car (Car Car Song) * Ring Around the Rosy * Rock-a-Bye Baby * Rock-a-Bye Your Bear * Row, Row, Row Your Boat * Shake My Sillies Out * She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain * Skidamarink * Splish Splash * Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious * Swinging on a Star * Take Me Out to the Ball Game * There Were Ten in a Bed * This Land Is Your Land * This Old Man * Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid) * The Unicorn * We're Off to See the Wizard (from The Wizard of Oz) * The Wheels on the Bus * When the Saints Go Marching In * When You Wish Upon a Star * Whistle While You Work * Who Built the Ark * Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf? * Winnie the Pooh * Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah. 144 pages.
Download or read book Popular Songs written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
