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By: Kenneth J. Bindas

ISBN: 9780275943066
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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These essays document the American experience as recorded in popular sound, relating topics concerning 20th century music to issues of politics, society and culture. The focus is to place music in societal perspective and encourage investigation of the issues behind popular tunes.


(Paperback)

By: Gruff Rhys

ISBN: 9780241965368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether there was indeed, as widely believed, a tribe of Welsh-speaking native Americans still walking the great plains.


(Hardback)

By: Mark Booth

ISBN: 9780313213052
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1983
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Kerry Segrave

ISBN: 9780306805028
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Publisher: Hachette Books
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The authors document the numerous attempts to ban or censor rock music, and dramatically show how it has been blamed for everything from anarchy and juvenile delinquency to drugs, deafness, teen pregnancy, suicide, abortion, pornography, and even murder. Here is the complete history of that "sick, repulsive, horrible, and dangerous" music as seen by its enemies.


(Paperback)

By: Robb Reiner

ISBN: 9780552174725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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At fourteen, Toronto school friends Steve 'Lips' Kudlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever.


(Paperback)

By: John White

ISBN: 9780826469151
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As the handsome (and much-married) leader of a series of big bands and small groups in the 1930s and 1940s, clarinetist Artie Shaw achieved measures of fame and fortune that temporarily eclipsed those of his great rival, Benny Goodman.


(Hardback)

By: Kevin Courrier

ISBN: 9780313345869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this incisive examination, author Kevin Courrier (Dangerous Kitchen: the Subversive World of Zappa, Randy Newman's American Dreams) examines how the Fab Four, through their astonishing music and comically rebellious personalities, created the promise of an inclusive culture built on the principles of pleasure and fulfillment.


(Paperback)

By: Pete Fornatale

ISBN: 9781416591207
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Paperback)

By: Steven Heine

ISBN: 9780826429506
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Throughout his various stages, Dylan's work reveals an affinity with the Zen world view, where enlightenment can be attained through meditation, self-contemplation and intuition rather than through faith and devotion. This book argues that Dylan actually embraces two radically distinct world views at alternating periods.


(Hardback)

By: Paul Oliver

ISBN: 9780465008810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Basic Books
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A pioneering scholar of the blues explores the folk traditions that predated and shaped this uniquely American music as we know it.


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By: Larry Kiner

ISBN: 9780313275272
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This important source of information on American popular songs, artists, and recordings of the 1943 to 1947 period will be welcomed by musical scholars of the World War II era and by those with a penchant for American popular music.


(Hardback)

By: Jonathan A. Zwickel

ISBN: 9780313365584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A concise musical biography traces the Beastie Boys' story from the New York punk scene through a blockbuster career that spans more than 20 years.


(Paperback)

By: Laurence Coupe

ISBN: 9780719071133
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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What does the 'Beat' in 'Beatles' really mean Why did Bob Dylan want to visit Jack Kerouac's grave with Allen Ginsberg How does reading Gary Snyder help us understand the lyrics of Jim Morrison This book provides the answers. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Bethany Easton

ISBN: 9798765109250
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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By: William J. Dowlding

ISBN: 9780671682293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1989
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Mark Dodshon

ISBN: 9780143003670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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Few bands have hooked into the cultural life of a country in the same way that Midnight Oil has in Australia. This book tells the story of the remarkable career of the band and its members, about its music, sensitivity, culture, integrity and passion.


(Hardback, 2nd edition)

By: Paul Hegarty

ISBN: 9781501370809
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Paul Hegarty

ISBN: 9781501370816
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Donald Clarke

ISBN: 9780306811364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Based on unrivaled access to archival interviews with those who knew her at every stage of her life, the most revealing biography of the incomparable Lady Day


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By: John Chilton

ISBN: 9780306803635
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1989
Publisher: Hachette Books
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"Anyone who has ever heard a Billie Holiday record knows the sound of her voice--sad, sexy, always relaxed but securely aware of the beat. Conveying a poignancy that cut to the heart of a song, she rede"


(Hardback)

By: Ed Sarath

ISBN: 9781538111703
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is among the first books to examine music studies reform through the lens of African American music, as well as the emergent field of consciousness studies. It is inspired by conversations on race and a rich body of literature on the place of black music in American culture.


(Paperback)

By: Ben Sidran

ISBN: 9780306801846
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 1983
Publisher: Hachette Books
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"Black Music--whether it be jazz, blues, r&b, gospel, or soul--has always expressed, consciously or not, its African "oral" heritage, reflecting the conditions of a minority culture in the midst of a whi"


(Hardback)

By: Dr. Leah Kardos

ISBN: 9781501365386
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Murray Engleheart

ISBN: 9780732289362
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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