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Small Town, Big Music
Relying on oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, and original music reviews, this book explores the countercultural fringes of Kent, Ohio, over four decades. Firsthand reminiscences from musicians, promoters, friends, and fans recount arena shows featuring acts like Pink Floyd, The Clash, and Paul Simon as well as the grungy corners of town where Joe Walsh, Patrick Carney, Chrissie Hynde, and DEVO refined their crafts. From back stages, hotel rooms, and the saloons of Kent, readers will travel back in time to the great rockin' nights hosted in this small town. More than just a retrospective on performances that occurred in one midwestern college town, Prufer's book illuminates a fascinating phenomenon: both up-and-coming and major artists knew Kent was a place to play—fertile ground for creativity, spontaneity, and innovation. From the formation of Joe Walsh's first band, The Measles, and the creation of DEVO in Kent State University's art department to original performances of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and serendipitous collaborations like Emmylou Harris and Good Company in the Water Street Saloon, the influence of Kent's music scene has been powerful. Previously overshadowed by our attention to Cleveland as a true music epicenter, Prufer's book is an excellent and corrective addition. Extensively researched for eight years and lavishly illustrated, Small Town, Big Music is the most comprehensive telling of any of these stories in one place. Rock historians and fans alike will want to own this book.
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The Music Documentary
The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural artefact in documenting stars and icons, and musicians and their times - particularly for those figures whose fame was achieved posthumously.
In this collection of fifteen essays, the reader will find comprehensive discussions of the history of music documentaries, insights in their production and promotion, close studies of documentaries relating to favourite bands or performers, and approaches to questions of music documentary and form, from the celluloid to the digital age.
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Rock atlas USA : 650 great music locations
Organized by state, a guide to 650 locations in the United States associated with rock music.
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The Ascendancy of Europe 1815-1914
This new edition of the seminal and best selling history of Europe's century of global ascendancy includes a new introduction and bibliography. The carefully drawn discussions are pulled together and reinforced by a new afterword. Presented in a new textbook format and thoroughly revised throughout, the survey provides students with an invaluable guide to a notoriously complex period. Lucidly written and constructed as a series of essays, the text covers the political and economic balance of power, the mechanics of government, economy and society, states, nations, europe and the world, Armed Forces and war and romanticism, evolution and consciousness.Reviews of the previous editions`Anderson's book is one of the few that explains economic, social, military, intellectual and colonial developments in a clear, precise and engaging manner.'Teaching History `Packed with shrewdness, wisdom and well-directed erudition...invaluble to university students and teachers.' British Book News
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K-pop live : fans, idols, and multimedia performance
\"1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture. These seismic shifts had a profound impact on the media industry and the rise of K-pop. In K-pop Live, Suk-Young Kim investigates the meteoric ascent of Korean popular music in relation to the rise of personal technology and social media, situating a feverish cross-media partnership within the Korean historical context and broader questions about what it means to be \"live\" and \"alive.\" Based on in-depth interviews with K-pop industry personnel, media experts, critics, and fans, as well as archival research, K-pop Live explores how the industry has managed the tough sell of live music in a marketplace in which virtually everything is available online. Teasing out digital media's courtship of \"liveness\" in the production and consumption of K-pop, Kim investigates the nuances of the affective mode in which human subjects interact with one another in the digital age. Observing performances online, in concert, and even through the use of holographic performers, Kim offers readers a step-by-step guide through the K-pop industry's variegated efforts to diversify media platforms as a way of reaching a wider global network of music consumers. In an era when digital technology inserts itself into nearly all social relationships, Kim reveals how \"what is live\" becomes a question of how we exist as increasingly mediated subjects, fragmented and isolated by technological wonders while also longing for a sense of belonging and being alive through an interactive mode of exchange we often call \"live.\"\"--Publisher's description.
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A study of the limitations of musical experience in Ancient Chinese Poetry - The case of the creation concert of Wei's Music Score
Ancient poetry, with profound artistic and literary value, holds a prominent position among China's vocal works. Against the backdrop of vigorously promoting China's outstanding traditional culture in the new era, it has witnessed a revival in interpretations both domestically and internationally. At present, ancient poetry faces dissemination challenges including constraints in performance environments and limitations in historical comprehension. These experiential restrictions impede recipients' cultural identity, cultural confidence and cultural inheritance. This study adopts a literature review methodology, integrating the conceptual framework of leisure constraints and tourism research. It conducts systematic research on ancient poetry concerts to develop a scale measuring the limiting factors of ancient poetry experience. Using this scale, the study investigates and analyzes statistical results from three Weishi Yuepu (Wei Dynasty Music Score) creative concerts through the PLS-SEM method. Results indicate that constraints on ancient poetry experience exhibit a three-factor structure comprising personal constraints, interpersonal constraints, and structural constraints. This confirms the sequential pathway of ancient poetry experience: Preference→Participation; Personal Constraint→Preference; Structural Constraints→Participation. The study extends the application of the leisure restrictions model to traditional music, benefiting the domestic and international dissemination of China's outstanding traditional culture while enhancing recipients' understanding and interest in ancient poetry.
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