Any Old Way You Choose It
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The Popular As Art
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Author : Thomas Hecken
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-09-28
The Popular As Art written by Thomas Hecken and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-28 with Social Science categories.
This book will reconstruct and analyze the logic and frameworks surrounding positive evaluations of popular art in articles and books predominantly published in the United States and western Europe. It will also examine negative evaluations of the popular, especially those that have successfully prevented the popular from being perceived as (good) art and still provide partially effective counterarguments today. This book will examine both relevant judgments on individual works and groups of works as well as general judgments and assessments.
Dusty
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Author : Annie J. Randall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-11-17
Dusty written by Annie J. Randall and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-17 with Music categories.
Dubbed the "White Queen of Soul," singer Dusty Springfield became the first British soloist to break into the U.S. Top Ten music charts with her 1964 hit "I Only Want To Be With You"--a pop classic followed by many others, including "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and "Son of a Preacher Man." Today she is usually placed within the history of the Beatles-led "British Invasion" or seen as a devoted acolyte of Motown. In this penetrating look at her music and career, Annie J. Randall shows how Springfield's contributions transcend the narrow limits of those descriptions and how this middle-class former convent girl became perhaps the unlikeliest of artists to achieve soul credibility on both sides of the Atlantic. Randall reevaluates Springfield's place in sixties popular music through close investigation of her performances as well as interviews with her friends, peers, professional associates, and longtime fans. As the author notes, the singer's unique look--blonde beehive wigs and heavy black mascara--became iconic of the mid-sixties postmodern moment in which identity scrambling and camp pastiche were the norms in swinging London's pop culture. Randall places Springfield within this rich cultural context, focusing on the years from 1964 to 1968, when she recorded her biggest international hits and was a constant presence on British television. The book pays special attention to Springfield's close collaboration and friendship with American gospel singer Madeline Bell, the distinctive way Springfield combined US soul and European melodrama to achieve her own musical style and stage presence, and how her camp sensibility figured as a key element of her artistry.
Songbooks
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Author : Eric Weisbard
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-23
Songbooks written by Eric Weisbard and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-23 with Music categories.
In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, biographies, and song compilations to blues novels, magazine essays, and academic studies. The authors of these works are as diverse as the music itself: women, people of color, queer writers, self-educated scholars, poets, musicians, and elites discarding their social norms. Whether analyzing books on Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, and Madonna; the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Gayl Jones, and Jennifer Egan; or varying takes on blackface minstrelsy, Weisbard charts an alternative history of American music as told through its writing. As Weisbard demonstrates, the most enduring work pursues questions that linger across time period and genre—cultural studies in the form of notes on the fly, on sounds that never cease to change meaning.
Feast Of Excess
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Author : George Cotkin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Feast Of Excess written by George Cotkin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Art categories.
Feast of Excess is an engaging and accessible portrait of "The New Sensibility," as it was named by Susan Sontag in 1965. The New Sensibility sought to push culture in extreme directions: either towards stark minimalism or gaudy maximalism. Through vignette profiles of prominent figures-John Cage, Patricia Highsmith, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Anne Sexton, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Erica Jong, and Thomas Pynchon, to name a few-George Cotkin presents their bold, headline-grabbing performances and places them within the historical moment.
The Last Great Dream
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Author : Dennis McNally
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2025-05-13
The Last Great Dream written by Dennis McNally and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-13 with History categories.
"McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism that gripped the world for more than two decades."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, a riveting social history of everything that led up to the 1960s counterculture movement. Few cities represent the countercultural movement of the 1960s more than San Francisco. By that decade, the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was home to self-branded “freaks” (dubbed “hippies” by the media) who created the world’s first psychedelic neighborhood—an alchemical chamber for social transformation. They rejected a large part of the traditional American identity, passing over American exceptionalism, consumerism, misogyny, and militarism in favor of creativity, mind-body connection, peace, and love of all things. The Last Great Dream is a history of everything that led to the 1960s counterculture, when long-simmering resistance to American mainstream values birthed the hippie. It begins with the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, peaks with the Human Be-in in Golden Gate Park, and ends with the Monterey Pop Festival that introduced Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to the world. It tells of several micro-histories, including beat poetry, visual arts, underground publishing, electronic/contemporary compositional music, experimental theater, psychedelics, and more. Fascinating and definitive, The Last Great Dream is the ultimate guide to a generation-defining countercultural movement—an Underground 101 course for newcomers and aficionados alike.
Come Together
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Author : Jon Wiener
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1984
Come Together written by Jon Wiener and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, c1984.
The Morning Exercises At Cripplegate Edited By S Annesley St Giles In The Fields Edited By Thomas Case And In Southwark Edited By Nathaniel Vincent Being Divers Sermons Preached A D 1659 1689 By Several Ministers Of The Gospel In Or Near London Fifth Edition Carefully Collated And Corrected With Notes And Translations By J Nichols Indexes By The Rev T H Horne And Others
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Author : Samuel ANNESLEY (LL.D., Minister of St. Giles', Cripplegate.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1845
The Morning Exercises At Cripplegate Edited By S Annesley St Giles In The Fields Edited By Thomas Case And In Southwark Edited By Nathaniel Vincent Being Divers Sermons Preached A D 1659 1689 By Several Ministers Of The Gospel In Or Near London Fifth Edition Carefully Collated And Corrected With Notes And Translations By J Nichols Indexes By The Rev T H Horne And Others written by Samuel ANNESLEY (LL.D., Minister of St. Giles', Cripplegate.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1845 with categories.
Morning Exercises At Cripplegate Ed By S Annesley St Giles In The Fields Ed By T Case And In Southwark Ed By N Vincent Sermons Preached A D 1659 1689 By Several Ministers Of The Gospel
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Author : London St. Giles, Cripplegate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1845
Morning Exercises At Cripplegate Ed By S Annesley St Giles In The Fields Ed By T Case And In Southwark Ed By N Vincent Sermons Preached A D 1659 1689 By Several Ministers Of The Gospel written by London St. Giles, Cripplegate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1845 with categories.
Turn That Down
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Author : Lewis Grossberger
language : en
Publisher: Emmis Books
Release Date : 2005
Turn That Down written by Lewis Grossberger and has been published by Emmis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
Lewis Grossberger turns it up to eleven in this unexpurgated riff on rock and roll, reggae, pop, rap, and all music that rattles the windows and annoys our elders. Chronicling loud music from its colicky infancy and troubled adolescence smack into its midlife crisis and beyond, Turn That Down! reveals all the vicious rumors and unsubstantiated scuttlebutt that Lew could make up. Book jacket.
The Grammar Of Rock
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Author : Alexander Theroux
language : en
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Release Date : 2013-02-16
The Grammar Of Rock written by Alexander Theroux and has been published by Fantagraphics Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-16 with Music categories.
Novelist and critic Alexander Theroux analyzes the pop song. National Book Award nominee, critic and one of America’s least compromising satirists, Alexander Theroux takes a comprehensive look at the colorful language of pop lyrics and the realm of rock music in general in The Grammar of Rock: silly song titles; maddening instrumentals; shrieking divas; clunker lines; the worst (and best) songs ever written; geniuses of the art; movie stars who should never have raised their voice in song but who were too shameless to refuse a mic; and the excesses of awful Christmas recordings. Praising (and critiquing) the gems of lyricists both highbrow and low, Theroux does due reverence to classic word-masters like Ira Gershwin, Jimmy Van Heusen, Cole Porter, and Sammy Cahn, lyricists as diverse as Hank Williams, Buck Ram, the Moody Blues, and Randy Newman, Dylan and the Beatles, of course, and more outré ones like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Patti Smith, the Fall (even Ghostface Killa), but he considers stupid rhymes, as well ― nonsense lyrics, chop logic, the uses and abuses of irony, country music macho, verbal howlers, how voices sound alike and why, and much more. In a way that no one else has ever done, with his usual encyclopedic insights into the state of the modern lyric, Theroux focuses on the state of language ― the power of words and the nature of syntax ― in The Grammar of Rock. He analyzes its assaults on listeners’ impulses by investigating singers’ styles, pondering illogical lunacies in lyrics, and deconstructing the nature of diction and presentation in the language. This is that rare book of discernment and probing wit (and not exclusively one that is a critical defense of quality) that positively evaluates the very nature of a pop song, and why one over another has an effect on the listener.