Kategoria BISAC: Music >> General

The relationship between popular music and fashion has been culturally significant since the 1950s, and this book explores the ways in which music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity, taste and consumption. Using a range of historical and contemporary examples, this book uncovers the way in which fashion and music have worked to shape contemporary attitudes to bodies and identities.

Focusing on performers as much as fans, on the mainstream as much as the underground, Fashion and Music provides a lens through which to examine themes of gender, sexuality,...

"AsEverWas, " along with Ed Sanders' "Tales of Beatnik Glory "are the two most important tomes I've seen recounting those decades of the twentieth century. -- Larry Sawyer, Editor, "Milk Magazine"

Hammond takes you places you want to linger and others that cause you to shudder with fears you might not know you had. It was the sixties, but you haven't read this story before. -- Comment on Amazon.com from a reader in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Hammond's book may be one of the quintessential freak histories. -- Michael Simmons, "LA Weekly" columnist

It brought back memories I've...

This proposed addition to the ISOR series is perhaps the most novel application of OR techniques ever conceived: the mathematical and computational modeling of tonality. This is the first book ever to apply problem-solving computational analysis to the realm of music, and author Elaine Chew is the one person in the world bringing together the mathematical and computational in a sharply focused coherent text/reference book. An accomplished scholar, pianist, and instructor (OR) at the Viterbi School of Engineering, USC, Chew has also just completed a year-long Fellowship at the Harvard...

Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop.

In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne, California to become emissaries of a post-war American dream that fused middle-class aspiration and mobility with images of youth. Led by dream master Brian Wilson, their music gave voice to a Southern California mythos and compelled an audience across the nation and beyond to live out their own versions of the fantasy. By 1966, the encroaching counterculture added new...