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FOREWORD BY JAMES MURPHY'Literally changed the course of my life' James MurphyWhen someone says, 'You have to know your history...' this is it. A pop culture classic for over two decades, now fully refreshed and updated as part of White Rabbit's Deep Cuts series, Last...
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White Rabbit
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2022-07-07
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Deep Cuts
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Musikfestivals gelten in der Regel nicht als Orte gelebter ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit. Ein anscheinend unbedachter Umgang mit benötigten Ressourcen sowie der oftmals unverhältnismäßige Konsum von Alkohol sprechen zunächst nicht dafür, dass gerade hier eine Chance für...
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Springer VS
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2022-06-08
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ABBA blasted their way onto the global pop scene with a Eurovision Song Contest win in 1974. The song, 'Waterloo', the band's tenth single, was a top 10 hit around the world and spurred them on to enormous chart success with singles, then albums, then compilations...
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OH
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2022-05-26
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'Just be yourself, there is no one better.' From her girl squad to the Swifties to the world at large, Taylor's the BFF of the pop music world. As the go-to shoulder to cry on and chronicler of heartbreak, she relates her personal life and experiences in a 'dear diary'...
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OH
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2022-02-17
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This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously as a concept album and a visual album or “emotion picture” in spring 2018. In the previous decade, Janelle Monáe has developed into a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-01-11
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Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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"Wonderful"--The New York Times. "Provocative, opinionated, and never dull"--Down Beat. "A singular book."--Studs Terkel.
When it was first published, Alec Wilder's American Popular Song quickly became a classic and today it remains essential reading for countless...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-12-28
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The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon.Like a firework against the night sky, the DJ and producer Tim Bergling exploded onto the music scene. A musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when Swedish and European...
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Sphere
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2021-11-30
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In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early twenty-first century. Drawing together perspectives from...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-11-11
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Shimmering in maximal minimalism, joyful bleakness, and bodiless intimacy, Laurie Anderson's Big Science diagnosed crises of meaning, scale, and identity in 1982. Decades later, the strange questions it poses loom even larger: How do we remain human when our identities...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-11-09
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Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop shows how the vocal performances of girl singers in 1960s Britain defined-and sometimes defied-ideas about what it meant to be a young woman in the 1960s British pop music scene. The singing and expressive voices of...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-10-01
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Paul McCartney's songwriting output as a member of the Beatles, mainly with his co-writer John Lennon, has been exhaustively documented over the years. Now, taking 50 key songs from his five-decade career since the break-up of the Fab Four,Paul McCartney: The Stories...
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Welbeck
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2021-09-02
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***'A wonderful document of the last great gathering of the pre-internet age. No camera phones, no social media, just a band and its fans as one' Noel Gallagher'Stunning... The iconic images by Furmanovsky capture the glorious madness of it all.' Rolling...
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Cassell
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2021-08-26
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Hamilton opened on Broadway in 2015 and quickly became one of the hottest tickets the industry has ever seen. Lin-Manuel Miranda - who wrote the book, lyrics, and music, and created the title role - adapted the show from Ron Chernow's biography Alexander Hamilton....
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Oxford University Press
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2021-04-20
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'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' ObserverThe definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artistIn 2016 it was...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-04-08
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As children, many of us learn to sing, "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands." But despite the familiarity of this tune, few of us realize that what we're singing is actually part of a pervasive - and centuries-old - musical scheme. This particular pattern,...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-01-14
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Der vorliegende Doppeljahrgang ist ein Abbild der reichen und vielfältigen Musikkultur Baden-Württembergs. Die geschichtliche Bandbreite reicht vom 17. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Insgesamt 29 Autorinnen und Autoren haben zur mehrhundertjährigen Musikgeschichte...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-03
Collection :
Musik in Baden-Württemberg. Jahrbuch
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**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Astonishing... precisely crafted, emotionally-sucker-punching prose.' Daily Telegraph'Dangerous, immediate and lyrical from the jump.' Wall Street JournalHOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett...
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Sceptre
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2020-09-17
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Nearly 50 years after his death, Louis Armstrong remains one of the 20th century's most iconic figures. Popular fans still appreciate his later hits such as "Hello, Dolly!" and "What a Wonderful World," while in the jazz community, he remains venerated for his...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-05
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Although hip hop culture has widely been acknowledged as a global cultural movement, little attention has been given to women’s participation in hip hop culture in various parts of the world or how this participation interacts with and impacts the lives of other women....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-05-20
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No other pop group in recent history has faced fame with such intelligence, humour and shrewdness as the Pet Shop Boys. In 1991, the band toured North America for the first time shadowed by journalist Chris Heath and legendary rock photographer Pennie Smith. They...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2020-03-19
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