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Neil Young is an icon, plain and simple. This book follows the evolution of Young's musical work, focusing on the enduring elements that have made his music successful. It covers Young's musical output album by album, and song by song - from his debut work with Buffalo Springfield, to his time with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

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Smith's 1975 album, Horses, was the first album released from the scene and established Smith as a major artist. Smith's impact on rock musicher rebellion against gender roles, her charismatic performances, her merging of poetry and music, and the way she's aged as a rock starhas been vast.

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This examination of the solo music of Paul McCartney, from 1970-2007, offers an analysis of his songs, recordings, and his impact on popular music.

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Paul Simon is commonly acknowledged to be one of the most successful singer-songwriters of the pop-rock era. After a brief biographical overview, this title examines Simon's songwriting work, providing a critical discussion of each song. It also discusses the variety of musical elements that contribute significantly to the value of Simon's work.

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Offering commentary, musical analysis, and detailed interpretation of her songs' lyrics, this book examines the qualities of Sheryl Crow's music that have served to establish the artist's success and popularity.

Sheryl Crow continues to be celebrated for her legacy as a singer-songwriter and pop culture icon.

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The Words and Music of Sting subdivides Sting's life and works into rough periods of creative activity and offers a fantastic opportunity to view Sting's many stylistic changes within a coherent general framework.

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This scholarly analysis of the music of Taylor Swift identifies how and why she is one of the early 21st century's most recognizable and most popular stars.

By the age of 13, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift had already inked a development deal with a major record label.

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Here, author Corinne Kessel pursues Waits into this distinctly murky and unsettled atmosphere to address in particular Waits's enduring questions of reality, landscape, and identity.

Also included are appendices listing Internet resources, tribute albums and covers, and Waits's own extensive contributions to film and theatre.

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Van Morrison is primal but sophisticated; he's accessible but inscrutable; he's a complex songwriter and a raw blues shouter; he's a steady influence on the musical scene but wildly unpredictable as well. This book provides a useful guide to Van Morrison's incredibly fluid musical identity.

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In The World and U2: One Bands Remaking of Global Activism, Alan McPherson trains a historians eye on the evolution and influence of the bands activism from its formation in 1976 to its most recent album and concert tour.

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A fascinating portrait of one of America's greatest composer-performers in his own words and the words of the musicians he played with.

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A directory of special collections of fair-related materials is also included.

Newspaper and magazine articles, books, dissertations, drawings, photographs, maps, letters, documents, and collections of memorabiliathese provide the enduring heritage of the fair.

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A compilation of Konrad Wolff's writings and his correspondence with celebrated musical personalities.

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"The life of Paul Gauguin (1848--1903), who abandoned his wife, five children, and a successful career as a stockbroker to paint in poverty in exotic Tahiti, is one of the legendary tales of the art wor"

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This insightful biography looks at the turbulent lives, groundbreaking music and lyrics, and powerful brand of hip hop's infamous Wu-Tang Clan.

The Wu-Tang Clan and RZA: A Trip through Hip Hop's 36 Chambers chronicles the rise of the Wu-Tang Clan from an underground supergroup to a globally recognized musical conglomerate.

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The wide gamut of films that turn us on, as judged by the most distinguished group of movie critics in America

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This edited collection focuses on the X-Men film franchise, with essays that considers the movies as popular culture products. Chapters in this volume address various aspects featured in individual films or throughout the series. The essays discuss such topics as gender, race, ...

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"Famous as a football star and prizewinning student, then acclaimed as a world-class concert singer and record-breaking actor on stage and screen, Paul Robeson became one of America's most controversia"

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Offers the study of changes in Soviet cinema that have been taking place since 1985. This title examines a variety of films from "BOMZH" (initials standing for homeless drifter) through Taxi Blues and the glasnost blockbuster "Little Vera" to the Latvian documentary "Is It Easy to Be Young" and the "new wave" productions of "Wild Kazakh boys."

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Thea Musgrave ranks among the world's foremost living composers, and is widely known for the warmth, humor, and theatrical qualities of her music. Hixon has prepared the first and only substantial bibliographical treatment of the composer, and the only complete listing of her works, with the assistance of Musgrave herself.