Teachout, Terry.

Summary: Wall Street Journal arts columnist Terry Teachout has drawn on new sources unavailable to previous biographers, including hundreds of private recordings of backstage and after-hours conversations, to craft a sweeping new narrative biography of this towering figure that shares, for the first time, full, accurate versions of such storied events as Armstong's quarrel with President Eisenhower and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009

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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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Trynka, Paul.

Summary: Born James Newell Osterberg Jr., Iggy Pop transcended life in Ypsilanti, Michigan, to become a member of the punk band the Stooges, earning the nickname "the Godfather of Punk." He is one of the most riveting and reckless performers in music history, with a commitment to his art that is perilously total. But his personal life was often a shambles, as he struggled with drug addiction, mental...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2007

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Reynolds, Simon

Summary: We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration, band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups. But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Simon...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber 2011

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Kallen, Stuart A.

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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Summary: An anthology exploring the history of the pop art movement, drawn from art magazines, art historical journals, newspapers, and news magazines.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 Pop

Stanley, Bob

Summary: "Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century. Who were these earliest record stars--and were they in any meaningful way "pop stars"? Who was George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022

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Stewart, Christopher S.

Contents: The early years--1. John Wayne dreams--2. Taking Europe--3. How we change--4. The case of the elusive man--5. The smiling bank robber--6. We got you! No you don't!--7. Breakout--8. Hit man--9. The man Arkan didn't kill, Part II: Warlord--10. My fixer Milan and our search for truth among Serbia's crime lords--11. Cruising in the pink Cadillac--12. Lord of the soccer warriors--13. The Tigers--14....

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008

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Deluxe, Jean-Emmanuel

Contents: The 1960s -- Panorama -- Social Affairs -- Ye-Ye Girls & Marriage -- The Media -- A General View -- The Rock Papers -- Television -- The Four Aces Of Hearts -- France Gall -- Françoise Hardy -- Sylvie Vartan -- Chantal Goya -- Serge Gainsbourg's Filles De La Pop -- From Literary Chanteur to Pop Entrepreneur -- Initials B.B. -- Jane B.: Nationality: British, Sex: Female -- His Majesty Serge's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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