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The music librarySanneh, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 SANRemnick, 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: Explores the history of American pop music and features the famous acts associated with each stage, including Scott Joplin, Hank Williams, the Carpenters, and Justin Bieber.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 781.640973 KALMarsh, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 MARBreihan, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 BRESummary: "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 SHAGuralnick, 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