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Joshua Duchan looks at the career and music of this remarkable singer-songwriter, exploring the unique ways Joel transforms the cultural life of a changing America over four decades. Original interviews with Joel blend with Duchans engaging analysis to provide readers of all backgrounds and ages a new look at Joels most beloved songs.

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Donald Brown follows shifting versions of Dylan, from songs of social involvement to more personal songs, exploring his influential albums, tours, and personas. In an engaging adventure, Brown provides insightful critical commentary on Dylans entire career in the context of its times to assess the relationship of Dylan's music to American culture.

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In The British Invasion, Simon Philo illustrates how this remarkable event in cultural history disrupted and even reversed pop cultures default flow of influence, goods, and ideasorchestrating a dramatic turn-around in the commercial fortunes of British pop in North America that turned the 1960s into The Sixties.

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MacLeod explores Phil Spectors rise and fall as a musician, songwriter, and producer whose musical ability and visionary foresight radically influenced popular music and culture of the 20th century. Spectors legendary wall of sound became a hallmark of 1960s pop music and contributed to the success of bands like the Beach Boys and the Beatles.

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In Sting and The Police: Walking in Their Footsteps, Aaron J. West explores the cultural and musical impact of Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, and Sting. West details the distinctive hybrid character of The Polices musical output, which would also characterize Stings post-Police development as a musician.

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Carey Fleiner examines English rock group the Kinks and their social and cultural influences both on and by the group from the early '60s to present day. In and around the biographical survey of the band's career, The Kinks looks at the several contexts in which the Kinks--and more recently, band founders and brother Ray and Dave Davies as solo acts--created and performed their work.

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Timothy D. Neufeld explores U2's many phases of artistic expression and cultural engagement and the band's employment of faith and activism as a foundation for success. Through close readings of their musical work and the dynamic interplay of artistic expression and social eng...

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