''True Blue''


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Nirvana


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Jews, Race and Popular Music


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Jon Stratton provides a pioneering work on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Rather than taking a narrative, historical approach the book consists of a number of case studies, looking at the American, British and Australian music industries. Stratton's primary motivation is to uncover how the racialized positioning of Jews, which was sometimes similar but often different in each of the societies under consideration, affected the kinds of music with which Jews have become involved. Stratton explores race as a cultural construction and continues discussions undertaken in Jewish Studies concerning the racialization of the Jews and the stereotyping of Jews in order to present an in-depth and critical understanding of Jews, race and popular music.







Smashing It Up: A Decade of Chaos with The Damned


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From rank outsiders to pop stardom a decade later, The Damned blazed an anarchic trail through punk rock to achieve massive chart success. A beacon for the Sex Pistols and The Clash to follow, they flung down the musical gauntlet in 1976 with Britain’s first punk single ‘New Rose’. Smashing It Up: A Decade of Chaos with The Damned is their definitive biography, drawing on new, in-depth research and interviews with associates and band members – including founders Brian James, Chris Millar (Rat Scabies), Raymond Burns (Captain Sensible) and David Lett (David Vanian). Conflict was rife: managers and labels came and went; bridges were burnt; opportunities squandered; and Kieron Tyler reveals how – and why – the wayward, wild and wilful Damned are the punk band that survived, and why they truly led the British Punk movement and outshone their contemporaries.




Australian Chart Book 1993-2009


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This book was published in 2010. It follows the previously published AUSTRALIAN CHART BOOK 1970-1992, and brings the chart data up-to-date to the end of 2009. It is based on the charts of Australian Music Report from 1993 to 1998, and from specially compiled charts from 1999 to 2009. It covers the weekly National Top 100 Singles charts (1993 to 2009), and Albums charts (Top 100 from 1993 to 1998, and Top 50 from 1999 to 2009). Features include: Alphabetical Artist Listing, with singles and albums shown together. Data includes the date of first charting, title of record, artist's name, highest position reached, number of weeks charted, and, if issued in physical formats, the original label and catalogue number; Titles, listed alphabetically, cross referenced to the Artists section; All the No.1 singles and albums, listed chronologically; Top 25 singles and albums of each calendar year; Supplementary pages to "The Australian Top 20 Book 1940 to 2006" from July 2007 to March 2010; Supplementary pages to "Australian Chart Chronicles 1940-2008" for 2009.




Principles of Pathophysiology


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TAKING IT TO THE WARD! Principles of Pathophysiology has been specifically written for local nursing and Allied Health students with the aim of clearly integrating the science of Pathophysiology with clinical practice within Australia and New Zealand. Taking a systems approach to help facilitate stronger understanding, this new Australian text is the perfect learning resource for Nursing and Allied Health students.




The Australian Top 20 Book (1940-2006)


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This book was published in 2007, and is now available in response to many requests from those who want to see the actual charts. Features include: Monthly top 20 charts (songs) from 1940-1948; Weekly top 20 charts (songs, singles) from January 1949 to June 2007; A commentary page for each year; Top 20 charts of 27 selected artists; Top 20 charts of 27 selected songwriters; Nine "Special Category" charts; Annual Top 20 charts; Decade Top 20 charts; A total of 3286 charts in one book!