Harris, Duchess

Summary: Motown music emerged in the United States in the 1960s. It launched the careers of many African American musicians. Motown music shaped culture and society during the American civil rights movement. The Making of Motown explores the history and legacy of Motown. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J338.761 HAR

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 DEL

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 SLO

Miller, Karl Hagstrom

Summary: Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music--a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice--was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 MIL

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 BRE

Jackson, Andrew Grant

Summary: "A fascinating account of the music and epic social change of 1973, a defining year for David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Eagles, Elvis Presley, and the former members of The Beatles. 1973 was the year rock hit its peak while splintering-just like the rest of the world. Ziggy Stardust travelled to America in David Bowie's Aladdin Sane. The Dark Side of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 JAC

Suskin, Steven

Summary: "A carefully curated, cheerfully opinionated guidebook surveying 201 of the most significant selections from the Great American Songbook, ranging from celebrated masterpieces to forgotten gems"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Backbeat Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SUS

Hajdu, David

Summary: From the age of song sheets in the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era of digital streaming, pop music has been our most influential laboratory for social and aesthetic experimentation, changing the world three minutes at a time. Hajdu shows how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies of love and sex to teenagers. Exhaustively researched and rich with fresh insights, Love for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

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

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.6409 STA

Wenzel, Lynn.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.62 WEN

Docks, Les

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 Docks