Kategoria BISAC: Music >> General

At the outset of summer in 1990, a Houston gangsta rap group called the Geto Boys was poised to debut its self-titled third album under the guidance of hip-hop guru Rick Rubin. What might have been a low-profile remix release from a little-known corner of the rap universe began to make headlines when the album's distributor refused to work with the group, citing its violent and depraved lyrics. When The Geto Boys was finally released, chain stores refused to stock it, concert promoters canceled the group's performances, and veteran rock critic Robert Christgau declared the group...

Hangin' Tough, the second album by the New Kids on the Block, has sold more than seventeen million copies worldwide since it was released in 1988. But the album and the band have also been dismissed, derided and deemed uncool by the music establishment.

Almost thirty years later, the New Kids still perform the songs from Hangin' Tough.Hundreds of thousands of grown women still flock to their concerts to hear-and go bat-shit crazy for-the songs they first heard when they were teenagers. Is this mere nostalgia or can the science of music help explain the enduring success...

This is the album that sent a shockwave of empowerment through the nation's cultural underground. In 1985, Olympia, Washington band Beat Happening released their eponymous debut of lo-fi pop songs on K Records and challenged every conception held about music. At the center of the group was the enigmatic Calvin Johnson and his revolutionary vision of artistic creation. His foresight and industriousness allowed him to recruit to the K Records roster other free-spirited artists like Beck, Modest Mouse, and Built to Spill long before they gained widespread acclaim.

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Das Buch befasst sich mit dem modernen Runengebrauch der Black-Metal-Musikszene. Germanische Runen gelten gemeinhin als eine Schrift der Vergangenheit. Dabei wird haufig auer Acht gelassen, dass dieses altertumliche Skript auch heute noch in verschiedenen kulturellen Kontexten verwendet wird. Florian Busch beschreibt, welche sozialen und kommunikativen Motivationen hinter der Verwendung von Runenschrift stehen. Mittels der Integration von Methoden der Soziolinguistik, Diskursanalyse und Sozialsemiotik zeigt er, wie Runen im visuellen...

Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot planted firmly in the past while remaining quite forward-looking, an impulse that can be heard in its electronic dance music hit "Heart of Glass." Bubblegum music maven Mike Chapman produced Parallel Lines, which was the first massive hit by a group from the CBGB punk underworld. By embracing the diversity of New York City's varied music scenes, Blondie embodied many of the tensions that played out at the time...

This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation. McNelis includes case studies of Hollywood and independent US youth films that have had commercial and/or critical success to illustrate how films draw on specific discourses surrounding popular music genres to convey ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and other aspects of identity. He develops the concept of 'musical agency', a term he uses to discuss the...

Steampunk themed Summer 2015 issue includes Art, Entertainment, Fashion, Interviews, Life and Style, Film and Literature, Music, Reviews, and Technology. Steampunk defined, The Art of Tea, Neocore Games, Voltaire, G.D. Falksen, Fractured Fairytales, Natasha Cox, Die Kur, Dark Corner's Poetry, and much more