An invaluable resource and an absorbing read, Canuck Rock spans from the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s through to today's international recording industry.
I don't sound like nobody: remaking music in 1950s America
by Zak, Albin
fromTracking pop
Popular music and television in Britain
by Inglis, Ian
fromAshgate popular and folk music series
Popular music and television in Britain
by Inglis, Ian
fromAshgate popular and folk music series
Covering the grown of twentieth-century American popular music, this work explores the question of why some music styles attain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches.
This book analyses the relationships between music and contemporary media, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator. This will involve considering music as a means of understanding events, and also of establishing, confirming or subverting the 'meaning' of events. …
This book analyses the relationships between contemporary media and popular music, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator. It does so through a series of original interviews with key practitioners: musicians, writers, magazine editors, radio presenters and major …
This book explores the connections between popular music genres and politics in Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. Over the past several decades the countries of Southeast Asia have reverberated to the musi…