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Listening to Bob Dylan
\"Listening to Bob Dylan seeks to reposition music and musical performance as central, essential aspects of Bob Dylan's art. Countering the tendency on the part of many scholars, journalists, fans, and casual listeners to regard Dylan primarily or even exclusively as a poet, or as a writer of lyrics, Starr presents Dylan's work as a complete package and a personal, unique synthesis of words, music, and performance. Starr aims to provide an unpretentious guide that will help readers enjoy Dylan's music and music performance to the fullest. By way of clarifying Starr's methodology, consider the question \"How does it feel?\" By itself it's an everyday, unremarkable expression: a salesperson hoping that the new shoes are fitting properly; a doctor or dentist assessing a patient's condition. Now imagine these same words being sung at you intensely by another person: \"How does it feeeeel?\" This is no longer that everyday question. Shaped by a familiar melody, rhythm, and vocal color, this can be one thing only, an evocation of Bob Dylan performing his iconic \"Like a Rolling Stone.\" The words \"How does it feel?\" become \"Like a Rolling Stone\" only when Dylan's characteristic melody, rhythm, and vocal style are synthesized with them, becoming parts of an inseparable whole. The book is organized conceptually, in terms of what might be called listening focus: turning detailed attention first to Bob Dylan's varied vocal styles, then to his harmonica playing, then to the compositional elements of his songs, then to his choices of instrumentation, and so forth. This allows the reader to build a repertoire of listening experiences\"-- Provided by publisher.
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American Popular Music
Preface Lyric Credits 1. Themes and Streams of American Popular Music Theme One: Listening Theme Two: Music and Identity Theme Three: Music and Technology Theme Four: The Music Business Theme Five: Centers and Peripheries Streams of Tradition: The Sources of Popular Music 2. \"Choo Choo Ch' Boogie\": The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll, 1945-1955 Popular Music and Technology in the Postwar Era Pop Crooners Urban Folk Music: The Weavers Southern Music in the Postwar Era Rhythm & Blues Women in R&B: Ruth Brown and Big Mama Thornton Country and Western Music Hank Williams 3. \"Rock around the Clock\": Rock n' Roll, 1954-1959 Cover Versions and Early Rock 'n' Roll The Rock 'n' Roll Business Early Rock 'n' Roll Stars on the R&B Side Early Rock 'n' Roll Stars on the Country Side Songwriters and Producers of Early Rock 'n' Roll 4. \"Good Vibrations\": American Pop and the British Invasion, 1960s The Early 1960s: Dance Music and \"Teenage Symphonies\" The Beatles, the British Invasion, and the American Response 5. \"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag\": Country, Soul, Urban Folk, and the Rise of Rock, 1960s Patsy Cline and the Nashville Sound Ray Charles and Soul Music James Brown and Aretha Franklin Urban Folk Music in the 1960s: Bob Dylan The Counterculture and Psychedelic Rock Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band San Francisco Rock: Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead Guitar Heroes: Hendrix and Clapton 6. The 1970s: Rock Music and the Popular Mainstream Country Music and the Pop Mainstream A 1970s Jukebox: Some Characteristic Sounds of the Decade Rock Comes of Age 7. Outsiders' Music: Progressive Country, Reggae, Punk, Funk, and Disco, 1970s The Outlaws: Progressive Country Music \"I Shot the Sheriff\": The Rise of Reggae \"Psycho Killer\": 1970s Punk and New Wave \"Tear the Roof Off the Sucker\": Funk Music \"Night Fever\": The Rise of Disco 8. The 1980s:
Digital Technology, MTV, and the Popular Mainstream Digital Technology and Popular Music A 1980s CD Changer A Tale of Three Albums \"Baby I'm a Star\": Prince, Madonna, and the Production of Celebrity 9. \"Smells Like Teen Spirit\": Hip-Hop, \"Alternative\" Music, and the Entertainment Business \"Droppin' Science\": Hip-Hop Culture and Rap Music Techno: Dance Music in the Digital Age Alternate Currents 10. Conclusion Music and Identity Technology and the Music Business Centers and Peripheries Glossary Bibliography Index.
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American popular music : from minstrelsy to MP3
\"Explore the rich terrain of American popular music with the most complete, colorful, and authoritative introduction of its kind\"-- Provided by publisher.
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