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Book The Dialogue of Courtship in Popular Songs

Download or read book The Dialogue of Courtship in Popular Songs written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dialogue of Courtship in Popular Songs

Download or read book The Dialogue of Courtship in Popular Songs written by Donald Horton and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Music  Popular music analysis

Download or read book Popular Music Popular music analysis written by Simon Frith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding field with changing emphases and agenda. This is a multi-volume resource for this area of study

Book Popular Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simon Frith
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780415299053
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Popular Music written by Simon Frith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding field with changing emphases and agendas. The music industry has changed in recent years, as has governmental involvement in popular music schemes as part of the culture industry. The distinction between the major record labels and the outsider independents has become blurred over time. Popular music, as part of this umbrella of the culture industry, has been progressively globalized and globalizing. The tensions within popular music are now no longer between national cultural identity and popular music, but between the local and the global. This four volume collection examines the changing status of popular music against this background. Simon Frith examines the heritage of popular music, and how technology has changed not only the production but the reception of this brand of sound. The collection examines how the traditional genres of rock, pop and soul have broken down and what has replaced them, as well as showing how this proliferation of musical styles has also splintered the audience of popular music.

Book Popular Song Lyrics and Patterns of Courtship

Download or read book Popular Song Lyrics and Patterns of Courtship written by Susan Trimingham and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book You Wrote My Life

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  • Author : Melton Alonza McLaurin
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9782881245480
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book You Wrote My Life written by Melton Alonza McLaurin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book God Bless America

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  • Author : Kathleen E.R. Smith
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2021-10-21
  • ISBN : 0813185386
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book God Bless America written by Kathleen E.R. Smith and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Pearl Harbor, Tin Pan Alley songwriters rushed to write the Great American War Song—an "Over There" for World War II. The most popular songs, however, continued to be romantic ballads, escapist tunes, or novelty songs. To remedy the situation, the federal government created the National Wartime Music Committee, an advisory group of the Office of War Information (OWI), which outlined "proper" war songs, along with tips on how and what to write. The music business also formed its own Music War Committee to promote war songs. Neither group succeeded. The OWI hoped that Tin Pan Alley could be converted from manufacturing love songs to manufacturing war songs just as automobile plants had retooled to assemble planes and tanks. But the OWI failed to comprehend the large extent by which the war effort would be defined by advertisers and merchandisers. Selling merchandise was the first priority of Tin Pan Alley, and the OWI never swayed them from this course. Kathleen E.R. Smith concludes the government's fears of faltering morale did not materialize. Americans did not need such war songs as "Goodbye, Mama, I'm Off To Yokohama", "There Are No Wings On a Foxhole", or even "The Sun Will Soon Be Setting On The Land Of The Rising Sun" to convince them to support the war. The crusade for a "proper" war song was misguided from the beginning, and the music business, then and now, continues to make huge profits selling love—not war—songs.

Book Popular Music  Music and society

Download or read book Popular Music Music and society written by Simon Frith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding field with changing emphases and agenda. This is a multi-volume resource for this area of study

Book The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music

Download or read book The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music written by John Shepherd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no anthology of essential and introductory readings. The volume includes a comprehensive survey of the field’s history, current state and future research directions. It offers six source readings, thirteen popular contemporary essays, and sixteen fresh, new contributions, along with an extended Introduction by the editors. The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music represents a broad reference work that will be a resource for the current generation of sociologically inclined musicologists and musically inclined sociologists, whether researchers, teachers or students.

Book Music and Technoculture

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  • Author : René T. A. Lysloff
  • Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
  • Release : 2013-08-15
  • ISBN : 0819574414
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Music and Technoculture written by René T. A. Lysloff and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving from web to field, from Victorian parlor to 21st-century mall, the 15 essays gathered here yield new insights regarding the intersection of local culture, musical creativity and technological possibilities. Inspired by the concept of "technoculture," the authors locate technology squarely in the middle of expressive culture: they are concerned with how technology culturally informs and infuses aspects of everyday life and musical experience, and they argue that this merger does not necessarily result in a "cultural grayout," but instead often produces exciting new possibilities. In this collection, we find evidence of musical practices and ways of knowing music that are informed or even significantly transformed by new technologies, yet remain profoundly local in style and meaning. CONTRIBUTORS: Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Kai Fikentscher, Tong Soon Lee, René T. A. Lysloff, Matthew Malsky, Charity Marsh, Marc Perlman, Thomas Porcello, Andrew Ross, David Sanjek, jonathan Sterne, Janet L. Sturman, Timothy D. Taylor, Paul Théberge, Melissa West, Deborah Wong. Ebook Edition Note: Four of the 26 illustrations, and the cover illustration, have been redacted.

Book Taking Popular Music Seriously

Download or read book Taking Popular Music Seriously written by Simon Frith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a sociologist Simon Frith takes the starting point that music is the result of the play of social forces, whether as an idea, an experience or an activity. The essays in this important collection address these forces, recognising that music is an effect of a continuous process of negotiation, dispute and agreement between the individual actors who make up a music world. The emphasis is always on discourse, on the way in which people talk and write about music, and the part this plays in the social construction of musical meaning and value. The collection includes nineteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field, along with an autobiographical introduction.

Book Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity

Download or read book Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity written by Georgina Gregory and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop group within the wider context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music and culture. Offering the first extended look at pop masculinity as exhibited by boy bands, this volume links the evolving expressions of gender and sexuality in the boy band to wider economic and social changes that have resulted in new ways of representing what it is to be a man. The popularity of boy bands is unquestionable, and their contributions to popular music are significant, yet they have attracted relatively little study. This book fills that gap with chapters exploring the challenges of defining the boy band phenomenon, its origins and history from the 1940s to the present, the role of management and marketing, the performance of gender and sexuality, and the nature of fandom and fan agency. Throughout, the author illuminates the ways in which identity politics influence the production and consumption of pop music and shows how the mainstream pop of boy bands can both reinforce and subvert gender and class hierarchies.

Book Love and Limerence

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  • Author : Dorothy Tennov
  • Publisher : Scarborough House
  • Release : 1998-12-29
  • ISBN : 1589796551
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Love and Limerence written by Dorothy Tennov and published by Scarborough House. This book was released on 1998-12-29 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellent. Of universal interest. It deals with the subject in an entirely new way.-Simone de Beauvoir Originally released twenty years ago, Love and Limerence has become a classic in the psychology of emotion. As relevant today as it was then, this book offers insight into love, infatuation, madness, and all flavors of emotion in between.

Book Music in Star Trek

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  • Author : Jessica Getman
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2022-12-30
  • ISBN : 0429871988
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Music in Star Trek written by Jessica Getman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tensions between utopian dreams and dystopian anxieties permeate science fiction as a genre, and nowhere is this tension more evident than in Star Trek. This book breaks new ground by exploring music and sound within the Star Trek franchise across decades and media, offering the first sustained look at the role of music in shaping this influential series. The chapters in this edited collection consider how the aural, visual, and narrative components of Star Trek combine as it constructs and deconstructs the utopian and dystopian, shedding new light on the series’ political, cultural, and aesthetic impact. Considering how the music of Star Trek defines and interprets religion, ideology, artificial intelligence, and more, while also considering fan interactions with the show’s audio, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of music, media studies, science fiction, and popular culture.

Book On Record

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  • Author : Simon Frith
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2006-05-23
  • ISBN : 1134939507
  • Pages : 571 pages

Download or read book On Record written by Simon Frith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic sociological analyses of 'deviance' and rebellion; studies of technology; subcultural and feminist readings, semiotic and musicological essays and close readings of stars, bands and the fans themselves by Adorno, Barthes and other well-known contributors

Book Tarnished Gold

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  • Author : R. Serge Denisoff
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-12-24
  • ISBN : 100067942X
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Tarnished Gold written by R. Serge Denisoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great depression in the popular recording industry that began in 1979 still continues. There are signs, however, that the industry is adjusting to new technologies and may soon revive. R. Serge Denisoff documents the decline and possible revival of this comprehensive study of the recording business, a sequel to his widely acclaimed Solid Gold: The Popular Record Industry. Denisoff offers a brief history of popular music and then, in detail, traces the life cycle of a record, beginning with the artist in the studio and following the record until its purchase. He explains the relationships between artist, manager, producer, company, distributor, merchandiser, and media. They all play roles in the scenario of a hit record. He also discusses the new technologies and how they may affect record sales, especially round-the-clock rock and roll on cable television. Tarnished Gold joins Solid Gold as a staple in the popular culture literature.