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Using Billy Joels music as a lens on history and culture, this volume introduces a variety of musicological approaches to one of the most popular entertainers of the past fifty years.

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Kim combines historical contextualization with political economy of the media and critical textual analysis to investigate the socio-ideological effects of K-Pop in the existing networks of power and domination in gender relations. He examines K-Pop female idols individualism and identity formation through the lens of Koreas cultural politics.

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Kim combines historical contextualization with political economy of the media and critical textual analysis to investigate the socio-ideological effects of K-Pop in the existing networks of power and domination in gender relations. He examines K-Pop female idols individualism and identity formation through the lens of Koreas cultural politics.

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Ken Bielen argues that record album covers are used to authenticate the image of the performer in the music genre and as a tool to show transitions in image. He argues that specific music genres have unique signs that legitimate the recording artist.

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Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 explores how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present.

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Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 explores how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present.

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This book presents an analysis of 100 rock concert performances and answers the question "What makes a truly great rock performance" Peter Smith delves into his own recollections of experiencing rock performances and covers themes of icons, persona, energy, fandom, venues, communities, politics, art-rock, authenticity and maturity.

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As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the most momentous year in the life of the Beatles, the contributors to The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love perform wide-ranging analyses of the groups enduring sociocultural influence and achievements.

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The Rock Music Imagination explores creativity in classic rock, its roots in the blues, and its wide cultural impact. The romantic strains of rock imagination are examined in the songs of popular rock bands, the sixties counterculture, science fiction, the rock music novel, and rocks attention to human rights in the global community.

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The Rock Music Imagination explores creativity in classic rock, its roots in the blues, and its wide cultural impact. The romantic strains of rock imagination are examined in the songs of popular rock bands, the sixties counterculture, science fiction, the rock music novel, and rocks attention to human rights in the global community.

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This book offers new essays from interdisciplinary perspectives on U2s career-long dynamic of resisting conventional boundaries in order to erase barriers that inhibit growth, understanding, and progress.