Girls Rock!: Fifty Years of Women Making Music
ISBN: 9780813123103 / Angielski / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a foreword by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Girls Rock explores the many ways women have defined themselves as rock musicians in an industry once dominated and controlled by men. Integrating history, feminist analysis, and developmental theory, the authors describe how and why women have become rock musicians -- what inspires them to play and perform, how they write, what their music means to them, and what they hope their music means to listeners. As these musicians tell their stories, topics emerge that illuminate broader trends in rock's history. From Wanda... With a foreword by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Girls Rock explores the many ways women have defined themselves as rock mus... |
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Rock And Roll: A Social History
ISBN: 9780813343068 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now updated with two new chapters and an extraordinary collection of photographs, this second edition of Paul Friedlander's Rock and Roll: A Social History is a smash hit. The social force of rock and roll music leaps off the page as Paul Friedlander provides impressive insights based on hits from Johnny B. Goode to Smells Like Teen Spirit and beyond. In this musical journey, Friedlander offers the melodious strains and hard-edged riffs of Elvis, the Beatles, The Who, Dylan, Clapton, Hendrix, Motown, the San Francisco Beat, Punk, New Wave, rap, metal, 90's grunge, plus file...
Now updated with two new chapters and an extraordinary collection of photographs, this second edition of Paul Friedlander's Rock and Roll: A Soc...
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299,51 zł |
Progressive Rock Reconsidered
ISBN: 9780815337140 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of essays on the history of progressive rock and its reception by fans and critics. Although often faulted by critics, the music proved tremendously popular and was successful in melding elements of classical style into the rock repertoire. These essays aim to offer illuminating information on the most popular bands and their recordings.
This volume is a collection of essays on the history of progressive rock and its reception by fans and critics. Although often faulted by critics, the...
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685,43 zł |
Progressive Rock Reconsidered
ISBN: 9780815337157 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of essays on the history of progressive rock and its reception by fans and critics. Although often faulted by critics, the music proved tremendously popular and was successful in melding elements of classical style into the rock repertoire. These essays aim to offer illuminating information on the most popular bands and their recordings.
This volume is a collection of essays on the history of progressive rock and its reception by fans and critics. Although often faulted by critics, the...
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223,35 zł |
Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock
ISBN: 9780815410652 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As told by the musicians who made it happen, Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock revisits country rock's rise to the top of the charts. Music scholar John Einarson delves into the years from 1963, when Buck Owens and his Buckaroos brought an electric edge to their Texas honky-tonk tunes, to 1973, when The Eagles released their album "Desperado" on David Geffen's label. Einarson examines how folk, rockabilly, blues, Nashville country, Tejano, bluegrass, and other musical idioms influenced a generation of journeyman musicians. He traces the paths taken by the songsmiths, the bands in which...
As told by the musicians who made it happen, Desperados: The Roots of Country Rock revisits country rock's rise to the top of the charts. Music schola...
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85,68 zł |
Rock 'n' Roll Jews
ISBN: 9780815607052 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A disciplined study that reveals the many contributions of Jews throughout the history of rock 'n' roll.
A disciplined study that reveals the many contributions of Jews throughout the history of rock 'n' roll.
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The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll in American Popular Music
ISBN: 9780819562579 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philip Ennis presents a major social and cultural study of the origins and evolution of "rocknroll." With masterful command of general trends and telling details, he describes the artistic, economic, and political context that nurtured this radically new popular music. This "seventh stream," which drew from existing forms of pop music, began as a youth movement of rebellion and remains a worldwide banner of youth in search of alternatives. "Rocknroll" emerged, he shows persuasively, from the successive meeting and melding of the other six "streams"--pop, black pop, country pop, jazz,...
Philip Ennis presents a major social and cultural study of the origins and evolution of "rocknroll." With masterful command of general trends and tell...
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Dissonant Identities: The Rock 'n' Roll Scene in Austin, Texas
ISBN: 9780819562760 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music of the bars and clubs of Austin, Texas has long been recognized as defining one of a dozen or more musical "scenes" across the country. In Dissonant Identities, Barry Shank, himself a musician who played and lived in the Texas capital, studies the history of its popular music, its cultural and economic context, and also the broader ramifications of that music as a signifying practice capable of transforming identities. While his focus is primarily on progressive country and rock, Shank also writes about traditional country, blues, rock, disco, ethnic, and folk musics. Using empirical...
Music of the bars and clubs of Austin, Texas has long been recognized as defining one of a dozen or more musical "scenes" across the country. In Disso...
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101,29 zł |
False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground
ISBN: 9780819566683 / Angielski / Miękka / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1988 through 1993, guitarist/vocalist Steven Taylor toured the U.S. and Europe with the alternative rock group False Prophets, keeping a detailed journal with the intent of documenting the role of musicians in the international anarchist youth movement. His fieldnotes form the core of the book, accounting with honesty and aplomb the sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing, always engaging highs and lows of life on the road. False Prophet situates punk, and the diary itself, in relation to contemporary critiques of identity and ethnographic representation, and links punk's emergence...
From 1988 through 1993, guitarist/vocalist Steven Taylor toured the U.S. and Europe with the alternative rock group False Prophets, keeping a detailed...
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111,45 zł |
But is it Garbage? : On Rock and Trash
ISBN: 9780820325361 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trash has been blowing across the rock n roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, wasted fans, crappy reviews, junk bins of remaindered albums: much of rock s quintessence is handily conveyed in terms of disposability and impermanence. Steven L. Hamelman sums up these rubbishy affinities as rock s trash trope. Trash is an obvious physical presence on the rock scene---think of Woodstock s littered pastures or the many hotel rooms redecorated by the Who. More intriguingly, Hamelman says, trash is the catalyst for a powerful... Trash has been blowing across the rock n roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, ... |
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342,05 zł |
But Is It Garbage?: On Rock and Trash
ISBN: 9780820325873 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trash has been blowing across the rock n roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, wasted fans, crappy reviews, junk bins of remaindered albums: much of rock s quintessence is handily conveyed in terms of disposability and impermanence. Steven L. Hamelman sums up these rubbishy affinities as rock s trash trope. Trash is an obvious physical presence on the rock scene---think of Woodstock s littered pastures or the many hotel rooms redecorated by the Who. More intriguingly, Hamelman says, trash is the catalyst for a powerful... Trash has been blowing across the rock n roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, ... |
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189,12 zł |
Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture
ISBN: 9780822312659 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part. In Present Tense, Anthony DeCurtis brings together writers from a wide variety of fields to explore how rock & roll is made, consumed, and experienced in our time.
In this collection, Greil Marcus creates a collage of words and pictures that evokes and explores Elvis Presley's grisly fate as an American cultural image, while Robert... The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship ...
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133,56 zł |
Rhythm and Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock
ISBN: 9780822317432 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Gracyk addresses a difficult and too-long-overlooked subject--that is, defining a comprehensible rock aesthetic--with consistent intelligence, depth, and insight. His knowledge of aesthetics, musicology, and the history of rock & roll is up to the ambitious task he sets himself."--Anthony DeCurtis, author of "Rocking My Life Away"
"Gracyk addresses a difficult and too-long-overlooked subject--that is, defining a comprehensible rock aesthetic--with consistent intelligence, depth,...
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Rocking My Life Away: Writing about Music and Other Matters
ISBN: 9780822321842 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "New in paperback
Rocking My Life Away" represents nearly twenty years of writing by one of the premier critics of popular music in America today. In these pieces from "Rolling Stone," the "New York Times," and other publications, Anthony DeCurtis reveals his ongoing engagement with rock & roll as artistic forum, source of personal inspiration, and compelling site of cultural struggle. Including significant new work--liner notes commissioned for the Phil Spector box set and a spirited discussion with Peter Buck of R.E.M. about rock criticism, for example--DeCurtis also ventures with... "New in paperback
Rocking My Life Away" represents nearly twenty years of writing by one of the premier critics of popular music in America today. ... |
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Rocking My Life Away: Writing about Music and Other Matters
ISBN: 9780822324195 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Rocking My Life Away" represents nearly twenty years of writing by one of the premier critics of popular music in America today. In these pieces from "Rolling Stone," the "New York Times," and other publications, Anthony DeCurtis reveals his ongoing engagement with rock & roll as artistic forum, source of personal inspiration, and compelling site of cultural struggle. Including significant new work--liner notes commissioned for the Phil Spector box set and a spirited discussion with Peter Buck of R.E.M. about rock criticism, for example--DeCurtis also ventures with insight and power beyond...
"Rocking My Life Away" represents nearly twenty years of writing by one of the premier critics of popular music in America today. In these pieces from...
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Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture
ISBN: 9780822329152 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection brings new voices and new perspectives to the study of popular and particularly rock music. Focusing on a variety of artists and music forms, Rock Over the Edge asks what happens to rock criticism when rock is no longer a coherent concept. To work toward an answer, contributors investigate previously neglected genres and styles, such as lo fi, alternative country, and rock en espanol, while offering a fresh look at such familiar figures as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and Kurt Cobain.
Bridging the disciplines of musicology and cultural studies, the collection has two... This collection brings new voices and new perspectives to the study of popular and particularly rock music. Focusing on a variety of artists and music...
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144,25 zł |
Rockin' Las Americas : The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America
ISBN: 9780822942269 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every nation in the Americas from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. "Rockin Las Americas" is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil, the Andes, and the Southern Cone as well as among Latinos in the United States. The contributors include experts in music, history, literature, culture, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing "rockeros" and "rockeras." The multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative... Every nation in the Americas from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. "Rockin Las Am... |
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371,45 zł |
Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America
ISBN: 9780822958413 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every nation in the Americas--from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba--has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin' Las Americas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil, the Andes, and the Southern Cone as well as among Latinos in the United States. The contributors include experts in music, history, literature, culture, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing rockeros and rockeras. The multidisciplinary, transnational,... Every nation in the Americas--from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba--has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin' L... |
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137,09 zł |
Tori Amos - For Easy Piano
ISBN: 9780825616938 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Music Sales America). A collection of classic Tori Amos songs, arranged for easy piano with full lyrics and chord symbols. Includes: Bliss * Cornflake Girl * Pretty Good Year * Silent All These Years * Winter * and more.
(Music Sales America). A collection of classic Tori Amos songs, arranged for easy piano with full lyrics and chord symbols. Includes: Bliss * Cornflak...
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115,91 zł |
The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street
ISBN: 9780826416735 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing the creation of" Exile on Main Street "from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles, Bill Janovitz explains how an album recorded by a British band in a villa on the French Riviera is pure American rock & roll. Looking at each song individually, Janovitz unveils the innovative recording techniques, personal struggles, and rock & roll mythmaking that culminated in this pivotal album.
Tracing the creation of" Exile on Main Street "from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles, Bill...
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50,73 zł |