Bullock, Darryl W.

Summary: With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. Bullock covers the history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community, and shows how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today. He discusses how gay, lesbian, and bisexual performers influenced jazz and blues; examines the almost forgotten...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2017

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Eddy, Chuck.

Summary: "Chuck Eddy is one of the most entertaining, idiosyncratic, influential, and prolific music critics of the past three decades...Rock and Roll Always Forgets features the best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by this singular critic."--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2011

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Sheffield, Rob.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2007

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Tanzer, Myles

Summary: How are you feeling today? Content, stressed, miserable, in love-- or a million things in between? Fortunately, there's music to match any mood you can think of. This book has collected together a library of music's finest artists to get you through the good, bad, and sad times. Whatever you are feeling, these artists, have been there and played about it. Dip into the library, organized by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of Quarto Publishing 2020

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Breihan, Tom

Summary: A narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of twenty pivotal hits at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which began in 1958, reveals a remarkably fluid and connected story of music.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022

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Summary: A definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, "Hallelujah." Approved for production by Leonard Cohen just before his 80th birthday in 2014, the film accesses a wealth of never-before-seen archival materials from the Cohen Trust including Cohen's notebooks, journals and photographs, performance footage, and extremely...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Boilen, Bob.

Summary: From the beloved host and creator of NPR’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy, among others—published in association with NPR Music.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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Hornby, Nick.

Contents: Song essays : Your love is the place where I come from / Teenage Fanclub -- Thunder road / Bruce Springsteen -- I'm like a bird / Nelly Furtado -- Heartbreaker / Led Zeppelin -- One man guy / Rufus Wainwright -- Samba pa ti / Santana -- Mama, you been on my mind / Rod Stewart -- Can you please crawl out your window / Bob Dylan -- Rain / The Beatles -- You had time / Ani DiFranco -- I've had it...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2003

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Summary: Tells the story of popular western music from its beginnings in ragtime, jazz, and blues up to the rock music of the late 1970s.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeit Media 2008

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Sanneh, Kelefa

Summary: "The entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it-including rock, country, punk, R&B, dance and hip-hop-woven together into a cosmic reckoning with music's evolution as a popular art form, as a huge cultural and economic force, and as an essential component to our identities, from Black Sabbath to Black Flag to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021

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Guralnick, Peter

Summary: "Peter Guralnick's remarkable work... covers old ground from new perspectives, offering deeply felt, masterful, and strikingly personal portraits of creative artists, both musicians and writers, at the height of their powers. "You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us," rock critic Lester Bangs wrote of Guralnick's earlier work in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

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Lauterbach, Preston.

Summary: A definitive account of the birth of rock 'n' roll in black America...The Chitlin' Circuit brings us into the sweaty back rooms where such stars as James Brown, B. B. King, and Little Richard got their start.--Amazon.com

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 LAU

Summary: From album reviews, incisive commentary, and candid conversations, Joni: The Anthology includes, among other things, a review of Mitchell's first-ever show at LA's Troubadour in June of 1968, a 1978 interview by musician Ben Sidran on jazz great Charles Mingus, a personal reminiscence by Ellen Sander, a confidant of the Los Angeles singer-songwriter community, and a long "director's cut"...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2017

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Summary: Entertainer extrordinaire Michael Feinstein hosts a brand-new documentary on the evolution of the American popular music, told through stories of the greatest songwriters of all time, including Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George & Ira Gershwin and more.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GRE

Remnick, David

Summary: "The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing "Respect" or Bob Dylan performing "Blind Willie McTell," have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Summary: "Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 SHA

Myers, Marc

Summary: "Following his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed music journalist Marc Myers collects fifty-five new oral histories of iconic songs from his popular Wall Street Journal column. Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits become something more-iconic recordings that not only inspire a generation but also change the direction of music. In Anatomy of 55 More...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022

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Marsh, Dave

Summary: "Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic Dave Marsh. Ranging from Elvis Presley to Kurt Cobain, from Nina Simone to Ani DiFranco, from the Beatles to Green Day, the book gives an opinionated, eye-opening overview of 20th century popular music--offering a portrait...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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Thompson, Dave

Summary: Describes the three singer-songwriters and their rise to fame, discussing the atypical pop stars' collective body of work, including "Fire and Rain," "Somebody's Baby," and "Peace Train," and how they set the standard for other artists.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Backbeat Books 2012

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Sloan, Nate

Summary: 'Switched on Pop' illuminates the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. The text moves through close studies of 16 modern pop classics by artists from Beyoncé to Zedd, each chapter bringing out key aspects of a particular song as well as introducing core concepts such as rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and timbre. As the work progresses, more complex concepts such...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020

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