Author :
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Music
ISBN :
Similar in format to the authors' Cash Box Singles Charts, this authorized compilation makes available the data contained in Cash Box's country music singles (78 rpm and 45 rpm) charts over a 25-year period. This information, previously available only through a search of the weekly charts themselves, has been completely integrated and accessed via artist and song title entries in a week-by-week listing of song chart positions.
Author : Frank Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2569 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2004-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135949506
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Brock Helander
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0857128116
The Rockin' '60s is a comprehensive guide through the decade that produced the greatest music of all time: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Phil Spector, The Beach Boys, Aretha Frankin and hundreds more emerged from this era. Delve into a narrative history of each group and examine the people behind the music, along with an analysis of key recordings, discography, and archival photos throughout.
Author : Gary Haggerty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 1995-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0313387710
A guide to locating information on popular music and the people who create it, this volume is designed as a desk reference—to locate answers to specific questions and to direct library users to key resources. More than 400 comprehensive titles are carefully annotated, describing content, scope, and special features. The focus is on the musical styles that have developed measurable commercial success through recordings and live performance. Along with academic titles, many important titles from the popular press are included, as well as selected electronic resources. A necessary reference tool for any library, scholar, student, and popular music buff. The work covers bibliographies, indexes, discographies, dictionaries and encyclopedias, biographical resources, directories, almanacs, yearbooks, and guidebooks on styles that include jazz, swing, Tin Pan Alley, country, gospel, blues, rhythm and blues, soul, rockabilly, rock, heavy metal, musical theater, and film music. Its extensive appendices feature discographies and bibliographies of individual artists and ensembles. A detailed index combining authors, titles, and subjects makes cross-referencing easy. The entries are modeled after the immensely useful The Guide to Reference Books.
Author : Richard Carlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135361118
This illustrated A-Z guide covers more than 700 country music artists, groups, and bands. Articles also cover specific genres within country music as well as instruments used. Written in a lively, engaging style, the entries not only outline the careers of country music's greatest artists, they provide an understanding of the artist's importance or failings, and a feeling for his or her style. Select discographies are provided at the end of each entry, while a bibliography and indexes by instrument, musical style, genre, and song title round out the work. For a full list of entries, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary website.
Author : Donald William Krummel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252014505
Author : Frank Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135839638
How does rock music impact culture? According to authors B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney, it is central to the definition of society and has had a great impact on shaping American culture. In Rock Music in American Popular Culture, insightful essays and book reviews explore ways popular culture items can be used to explore American values. This fascinating book is arranged alphabetically for quick and easy reference to specific topics, but the book is equally enjoyable to read straight through. The influence of rock era music is evident throughout the text, demonstrating how various topics in the popular culture field are interconnected. Students in popular culture survey courses and American studies classes will be fascinated by these unique explorations of how family businesses, games, nursery rhymes, rock and roll legends, and other musical ventures shed light on our society and how they have shaped American values over the years.
Author : Thom Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135477876
First published in 2006. This guide is an A to Z trade reference aimed at music students, technophiles and audio-video computer users. The world of music technology has exploded over the last decades thanks to introductions of new digital formats. At the same time there has been a renaissance in analog high fidelity equipment and resurgent interest in turntables, long playing records and vintage stereo systems. Music students, collectors and consumers will appreciate the availability of a guide to all things musical in the technological universe.
Author : B. Lee Cooper
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879725051
In thirteen essays, this book probes ideas and themes that are prominent in contemporary song lyrics. The essays take social change, human interaction, technology, and intellectual development as points of departure for specific examinations of public education, railroads, death, automobiles, and rebels. The essays also examine humor, traditions, and historical events found in answer songs, cover recordings, nursery rhyme adaptations, and novelty tunes.
Author : Roman Iwaschkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317223446
This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986. Its main focus is on American and British works, but it includes significant works from other countries, making it truly international in scope.
