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Author : Victor Coelho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107030269
The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.
Author : Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828436
A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative output. The first Part approaches Dylan's output thematically, tracing the evolution of Dylan's writing and his engagement with American popular music, religion, politics, fame, and his work as a songwriter and performer. Essays in Part II analyse his landmark albums to examine the consummate artistry of Dylan's most accomplished studio releases. As a writer Dylan has courageously chronicled and interpreted many of the cultural upheavals in America since World War II. This book will be invaluable both as a guide for students of Dylan and twentieth-century culture, and for his fans, providing a set of new perspectives on a much-loved writer and composer.
Author : Kenneth Womack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139828061
From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection of essays tells the fascinating story of the Beatles – the creation of the band, their musical influences, and their cultural significance, with emphasis on their genesis and practices as musicians, songwriters, and recording artists. Through detailed biographical and album analyses, the book uncovers the background of each band member and provides expansive readings of the band's music. • Traces the group's creative output from their earliest recordings through their career • Pays particular attention to the social and historical factors which contributed to the creation of the band • Investigates the Beatles' unique enduring musical legacy and cultural power • Clearly organized into three sections, covering Background, Works, and History and Influence, the Companion is ideal for course usage, and is also a must-read for all Beatles fans
Author : Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521886945
A lively set of new essays on Dylan's work as a writer and composer and on his place in American culture.
Author : Michael Maas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1139826875
This book introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Roman century and the first flowering of Byzantine culture. Dominated by the policies and personality of emperor Justinian I (527–565), this period of grand achievements and far-reaching failures witnessed the transformation of the Mediterranean world. In this volume, twenty specialists explore the most important aspects of the age including the mechanics and theory of empire, warfare, urbanism, and economy. It also discusses the impact of the great plague, the codification of Roman law, and the many religious upheavals taking place at the time. Consideration is given to imperial relations with the papacy, northern barbarians, the Persians, and other eastern peoples, shedding new light on a dramatic and highly significant historical period.
Author : Christopher Sandford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0857201042
In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnations and playing blues guitar) and the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, and the potential was obvious. During the 1960s and 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in Britain, admired in some quarters for their flamboyance, creativity and salacious lifestyles, and reviled elsewhere for the same reasons. Confidently expected never to reach 30 they are now approaching their seventies and, in 2012, will have been together for 50 years. In The Rolling Stones, Christopher Sandford tells thehuman drama at the centre of the Rolling Stones story. Sandford has carried out interviews with those close to the Stones, family members (including Mick's parents), the group's fans and contemporaries - even examined their previously unreleased FBI files. Like no other book before The Rolling Stoneswill make sense of the rich brew of clever invention and opportunism, of talent, good fortune, insecurity, self-destructiveness, and of drugs, sex and other excess, that made the Stones who they are.
Author : Simon Frith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521556606
This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to Public Enemy, Nirvana to the Spice Girls. They trace the way new technologies - from the amplifier to the internet - have changed the sounds and practices of pop and they analyse the way maverick entrepreneurs have given way to multimedia corporations. In particular they focus on the controversial issues concerning race and ethnicity, politics, gender and globalisation. Contains full profiles of a selection of figures from the pop and rock world.
Author : Nick Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108548474
Musicians are always quick to adopt and explore new technologies. The fast-paced changes wrought by electrification, from the microphone via the analogue synthesiser to the laptop computer, have led to a wide range of new musical styles and techniques. Electronic music has grown to a broad field of investigation, taking in historical movements such as musique concrète and elektronische Musik, and contemporary trends such as electronic dance music and electronica. The first edition of this book won the 2009 Nicolas Bessaraboff Prize as it brought together researchers at the forefront of the sonic explorations empowered by electronic technology to provide accessible and insightful overviews of core topics and uncover some hitherto less publicised corners of worldwide movements. This updated and expanded second edition includes four entirely new chapters, as well as new original statements from globally renowned artists of the electronic music scene, and celebrates a diverse array of technologies, practices and music.
Author : Justin A. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107037468
This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.
Author : Ben Etherington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108471374
This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.