The pop festival: history, music, media, culture
Essays on popular music festival culture as a whole, from its origins to a wide range of contemporary manifestations
Essays on popular music festival culture as a whole, from its origins to a wide range of contemporary manifestations
Med omtale af bl.a. Françoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, Sheila, Mireille Mathieu, France Gall, Chantal Goya, Jane Birkin, Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Nico, Louise Cordet m.fl.
Presents the history of Cuba and its music, beginning with the collision of Spain and Africa and continuing through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsenio Rodriguez, Benny More, and Perez Prado. This book offers an examination of music from a Cuban point of view, making the case t…
From Muddy Waters to Mick Jagger, Elvis to Freddie Mercury, and from Jeff Buckley to Justin Timberlake, masculinity in popular music has been an issue explored by performers, critics, and audiences. Oh Boy! is the first serious study of how forms of masculinity are negotiated, c…
It's long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? Written by an award-winning popular music scholar, this book argues that aesthetic value is just as important in popular listening as it is with "serious" music.
Diplo (aka Wesley Pentz) is at the nexus of music and the cultural collateral it collects in the process of being created and released. His record label Mad Decent has helped bring the sounds of baile funk from Brazil, cumbia from Mexico, and other unknown musik to clubs around …
Modeller til analyse og fortolkning af populærmusik