An Avid's Guide to Sixties Songwriters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Avid's Guide to Sixties Songwriters write by Peter Dunbavan. This book was released on 2017-02-28. An Avid's Guide to Sixties Songwriters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An essential reference book for sixties music lovers, this encyclopedic overview includes detailed chart statistics and biographical information for eighty songwriters and covers around two thousand songs, some of which are among the greatest ever written.
Dialectic of Pop
Dialectic of Pop - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dialectic of Pop write by Agnes Gayraud. This book was released on 2020-01-28. Dialectic of Pop available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths. In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnès Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop—its inauthentic authenticity, its mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction—and calls for pop (in its broadest sense, encompassing all genres of popular recorded music) to be recognized as a modern, technologically mediated art form to rank alongside cinema and photography. In a thoroughgoing engagement with Adorno's fierce critique of "standardized light popular music," Dialectic of Pop tracks the transformations of the pop form and its audience over the course of the twentieth century, from Hillbilly to Beyoncé, from Lead Belly to Drake. Inseparable from the materiality of its technical media, indifferent and intractable to the perspectives of high culture, pop subverts notions of authenticity and inauthenticity, original and copy, aura and commodity, medium and message. Gayraud demonstrates that, far from being the artless and trivial mass-produced pabulum denigrated by Adorno, pop is a rich, self-reflexive artform that recognises its own contradictions, incorporates its own productive negativity, and often flourishes by thinking "against itself." Dialectic of Pop sings the praises of pop as a constitutively impure form resulting from the encounter between industrial production and the human predilection for song, and diagnoses the prospects for twenty-first century pop as it continues to adapt to ever-changing technological mediations.
Soho on Screen
Soho on Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soho on Screen write by Jingan Young. This book was released on 2022-05-13. Soho on Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite Soho’s rich cultural history, there remains an absence of work on the depiction of the popular neighbourhood in film. Soho on Screen provides one of the first studies of Soho within post-war British cinema. Drawing upon historical, cultural and urban studies of the area, this book explores twelve films and theatrically released documentaries from a filmography of over one hundred Soho set productions. While predominantly focusing on low-budget, exploitation films which are exemplars of British and international filmmaking, Young also offers new readings of star and director biographies, from Laurence Harvey to Emeric Pressburger, and in so doing enlivens discussion on filmmaking in a time and place of intense social transformation, technological innovation and growing permissiveness.
The Music of the 4 Seasons Featuring Frankie Valli
The Music of the 4 Seasons Featuring Frankie Valli - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Music of the 4 Seasons Featuring Frankie Valli write by Robert Reynolds. This book was released on 2019-12-26. The Music of the 4 Seasons Featuring Frankie Valli available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 4 Seasons & Frankie Valli, rank among the top American vocal acts of all time. Collectively, they amassed seven #1 hits, 18 Top Ten, and an incredible 61 singles in the Hot 100. They also placed 32 LPS on the top albums charts. Their hit making years spanned more than a half-century. Their hits include: Sherry, Big Girls DonÕt Cry, Walk Like a Man, Rag Doll, Working My Way Back to You, CanÕt Take My Eyes Off of You, My Eyes Adored You, December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night), GreaseÉ Their stardom was no overnight success, as they struggled through lean years and recorded many flops while searching for that elusive hit record. The rag-to-riches story has been told via an award-winning Broadway musical & a Clint Eastwood produced motion picture. Learn about the hits, misses, obscure album tracks and B-sides as they sang their way from delinquents to esteemed members of the R&R Hall of Fame. The book examines the music they made famous and tells of all the glorious years that passed between.
All Music Guide
All Music Guide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All Music Guide write by Vladimir Bogdanov. This book was released on 2001. All Music Guide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.
