Popular music, easy listening

Music/video: histories, aesthetics, media

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Part 1. Music Video Histories in, outside, and beyond MTV -- Part 2. Gender, Embodiment, and Sexual Representation -- Part 3. The Art of the Music Video -- Part 4. Digital Media and Mutations -- Notes -- Videography -- Works Cited -- Index. "This book is a lively, comprehensive…

Music/video: histories, aesthetics, media

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"This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively under-explored i…

Once upon a time

by Jeffery, Alex

from33 1/3

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"Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella story,…

Popular music in Japan: transformation inspired by the West

by Mitsui, Toru

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Transformation inspired by the West (1) -- The French Revolution and the emergence of enka -- Transformation inspired by the West (2) -- Songs in tripe time were composed, but they are still sung in duple time -- Transformation inspired by the West (3) -- "Sing Me a Song of Arab…

Popular music in Japan: transformation inspired by the West

by Mitsui, Toru

0 Type: Book

"Popular music in Japan has been under the overwhelming influence of American, Latin American and European popular music remarkably since 1945, when Japan was defeated in World War II. Beginning with gunka and enka at the turn of the century, tracing the birth of hit songs in th…