[PDF] The Billboard Book Of Gold Platinum Records eBook

Author : Adam White
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN :

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Identifies every recording artist in the 20th-century whose music has been certified as gold or platinum.

Author : Adam White
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Music
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Documents the history of rhythm and blues music by examining every song to top the Billboard R & B singles chart between 1965 and 1990 and offers inside stories from the singers, musicians, songwriters, arrangers, and producers who created the hits.

Author : Frank Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135868867

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The field of Popular Music Studies is growing, but still lacks some basic reference materials. The Chronology of American Popular Music, 1899-2000 fills this gap by offering a comprehensive overview of the field. It will be a must-own for libraries and individuals interested in this growing field of research.

Author : Gary Haggerty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 1995-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0313387710

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A guide to locating information on popular music and the people who create it, this volume is designed as a desk reference—to locate answers to specific questions and to direct library users to key resources. More than 400 comprehensive titles are carefully annotated, describing content, scope, and special features. The focus is on the musical styles that have developed measurable commercial success through recordings and live performance. Along with academic titles, many important titles from the popular press are included, as well as selected electronic resources. A necessary reference tool for any library, scholar, student, and popular music buff. The work covers bibliographies, indexes, discographies, dictionaries and encyclopedias, biographical resources, directories, almanacs, yearbooks, and guidebooks on styles that include jazz, swing, Tin Pan Alley, country, gospel, blues, rhythm and blues, soul, rockabilly, rock, heavy metal, musical theater, and film music. Its extensive appendices feature discographies and bibliographies of individual artists and ensembles. A detailed index combining authors, titles, and subjects makes cross-referencing easy. The entries are modeled after the immensely useful The Guide to Reference Books.

Author : José Ramón Sánchez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814783570

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Where does power come from? Why does it sometimes disappear? How do groups, like the Puerto Rican community, become impoverished, lose social influence, and become marginal to the rest of society? How do they turn things around, increase their wealth, and become better able to successfully influence and defend themselves? Boricua Power explains the creation and loss of power as a product of human efforts to enter, keep or end relationships with others in an attempt to satisfy passions and interests, using a theoretical and historical case study of one community–Puerto Ricans in the United States. Using archival, historical and empirical data, Boricua Power demonstrates that power rose and fell for this community with fluctuations in the passions and interests that defined the relationship between Puerto Ricans and the larger U.S. society.

Author : Don Cusic
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 1617036420

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Saved by Song returns to print with its sweeping overview of the history of gospel music. Powerful and incisive, the book traces contemporary Christianity and Christian music to the sixteenth century and the Protestant Reformation after examining music in the Bible and early church. In America, gospel music has been divided between white and black gospel. Within these divisions are further divisions: southern gospel, contemporary Christian music, spirituals, and hymns. Don Cusic has provided background and insight into the developments of all these rich facets of gospel music. From the psalms of the early Puritans through the hymns of Isaac Watts and the social activism of the Wesleys, to the camp meeting songs of the Kentucky Revival, the spirituals that came from the slave culture, and the hymns from the great revival after the Civil War, gospel music advanced through the nineteenth century. The twentieth century brought the technologies of recordings and the electronic media to gospel music. Saved by Song is ultimately the definitive and complete history of a uniquely American art form. It is a must for anyone interested in the musical and spiritual life of a nation.

Author : Joel Whitburn
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN :

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Every album to reach the Top 40 of Billboard's "Top Pop Albums", including the top classical, country, Christmas, and soundtracks, is listed in thisupdated companion volume to The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. Offering complete data on each release, this edition contains hundreds of new album titles covering 1955 to the present. Facts about the artists and biographicalinformation are also featured.t printing.

Author : Eric Charry
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819578967

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This concise yet lively textbook explores the history and significance of American popular music from Tin Pan Alley to Public Enemy. Ethnomusicologist Eric Charry provides a strong foundation for understanding how music, the music industry, and American culture intersect. His innovative teaching style presents the material in a dynamic format suitable for general education courses in music. The book is organized around a series of timelines, tables, and figures, providing fresh perspectives on the social and cultural importance of the music. Charry lays out key contemporary theoretical issues, covers the technical foundations of the music industry, and provides a capsule history of who did what when, with particular emphasis on the rapid emergence of distinct genres and subgenres. The book’s figures distill the history and provide new insight into understanding trends. Over a thousand artists, albums, and songs are covered, such as Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, the Velvet Underground, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Madonna, Talking Heads, and many more.