Undercover-Journalist Kuban hat unter Lebensgefahr die Machenschaften der rechten Musikszene dokumentiert. Die packende Reportage schildert eine Neonaziszene von erschreckendem Selbstbewusstsein, deren Netzwerk bis in die Mitte der Gesellschaft reicht. Was passiert im Untergrund…
From Elvis Presley's Sun Sessions to Radiohead's OK Computer, here is the very best of rock and pop music of the Twentieth Century. A consumer's critical guide to the music, enabling the reader to select the very best of an artist's repertoire before making a buying decision.
"A Social History of Early Rock `n' Roll in Germany explores the people and spaces of St. Pauli's rock'n'roll scene in the 1960s. Starting in 1960, young British rockers were hired to entertain tourists in Hamburg's red-light district around the Reeperbahn in the area of St. Pau…
'Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc' explores the rise of youth as consumers of popular culture and the globalization of popular music in Russia and Eastern Europe. This collection of essays challenges assumptions that Communist leaders and Western-influenced youth cultures were …
This title offers a study of creativity in the context of expert popular music instrumental performance. Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the creative behaviours of a specific subset of popular music instrumentalists, Bill Bruford demonstrat…
Among other topics, individual chapters of the book focus on the redefinition of German identity in the music of Kraftwerk, Can, and Neu!; on community and conflict in the music of Amon Duul, Faust, and Ton Steine Scherben; on 'cosmic music' and New Age; and on Donna Summer's an…
In this book, Stephen Graham examines the largely unexplored terrain of underground music-exploratory forms of music-making, such as noise, free improvisation, and extreme metal, that exist outside or on the fringes of mainstream culture, generally independent from both the mark…
This is a study of the creation of jazz, swing and R & B music within the multicultural, multi-ethnic terrain of Los Angeles. It presents a lively account of Mexican American urban culture in wartime and postwar LA as seen through the evolutions of dance styles, nightlife and - …
A study of the creation of jazz, swing, and R & B music within the multicultural, multiethnic terrain of Los Angeles during and after World War II.
