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Pink Floyd : behind the wall : the complete psychedelic history from 1965 to today
A complete illustrated history of one of the most popular rock bands of all time, Pink Floyd. With more than 250 images and a complete discography.
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Reading the Beatles : cultural studies, literary criticism, and the Fab Four
Addresses the band's resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music.
Despite the enormous amount of writing devoted to the Beatles during the last few decades, the band's abiding intellectual and cultural significance has received scant attention. Using various modes of literary, musicological, and cultural criticism, the essays in Reading the Beatles firmly establish the Beatles as a locus of serious academic and cultural study. Exploring the group's resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music, the contributors trace not only the literary and musicological qualities of selected Beatles songs but also the development of the Beatles' artistry in their films and the ways in which the band has functioned as a cultural, historical, and economic product. In a poignant afterword, Jane Tompkins offers an autobiographical account of the ways in which the Beatles afforded her with the self-actualizing means to become less alienated from popular culture, gender expectations, and even herself during the early 1960s.
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The Cambridge companion to the Beatles
Traces the group's creative output from their earliest recordings and throughout their career, paying particular attention to the social and historical factors which contributed to the creation of the band.
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Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album
How the British rock band Radiohead subverts the idea of the concept
album in order to articulate themes of alienation and anti-capitalism is the focus
of Marianne Tatom Letts's analysis of Kid A and Amnesiac. These experimental albums
marked a departure from the band's standard guitar-driven base layered with complex
production effects. Considering the albums in the context of the band's earlier
releases, Letts explores the motivations behind this change. She places the two
albums within the concept-album/progressive-rock tradition and shows how both resist
that tradition. Unlike most critics of Radiohead, who focus on the band's lyrics,
videos, sociological importance, or audience reception, Letts focuses on the music
itself. She investigates Radiohead's ambivalence toward its own success, as
manifested in the vanishing subject of Kid A on these two albums.
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All these years. Volume 1, Tune in
Part one of three explores the formative pre-fame years of the Beatles up through 1962.
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The Songs of Genesis
Quintessentially British, Genesis spearheaded progressive rock in the 1970s, evolving into a chart-topping success through the end of the millennium.Influencing rock groups such as Radiohead, Phish, Rush, Marillion and Elbow, the experimental format of Genesis' songs inspired new avenues for music to explore.
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The Rolling Stones : all the songs : the story behind every track
A visual, song-by-song history of The Rolling Stones covers their studio albums, compilation albums, and more than one hundred singles, providing photographs, musician lists, and recording and song development information.
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Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics
This volume offers a comprehensive range of approaches to the work of Mark E. Smith and his band The Fall in relation to music, art and politics. Mark E. Smith remains one of the most divisive and idiosyncratic figures in popular music after a recording career with The Fall that spans thirty years. Although The Fall were originally associated with the contemporaneous punk explosion, from the beginning they pursued a highly original vision of what was possible in the sphere of popular music. While other punk bands burned out after a few years, only to then reform decades later as their own cover bands, The Fall continue to evolve while retaining a remarkable consistency, even with the frequent line-up changes that soon left Mark E. Smith as the only permanent member of the group. The key aspect of the group that this volume explores is the invariably creative, unfailingly critical and often antagonistic relations that characterize both the internal dynamics of the group and the group's position in the pop cultural surroundings. The Fall's ambiguous position in the unfolding histories of British popular music and therefore in the new heritage industries of popular culture in the UK, from post-punk to anti-Thatcher politics, to the 'Factory fiction of Manchester' and on into Mark E. Smith's current role as ageing enfant terrible of rock, illustrates the uneasy relationship between the band, their critical commentators and the historians of popular music. This volume engages directly with this critical ambiguity. With a diverse range of approaches to The Fall, this volume opens up new possibilities for writing about contemporary music beyond traditional approaches grounded in the sociology of music, Cultural Studies and music journalism - an aim which is reflected in the variety of provocative critical approaches and writing styles that make up the volume.
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The Beatles lyrics : the stories behind the music, including the handwritten drafts of more than 100 classic Beatles songs
The definitive book of Beatles songs, shown as first written by their own hands and put into authoritative context, for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to America. For the Beatles, writing songs was a process that could happen anytime-- songs we all know by heart often began as a scribble on the back of an envelope or on hotel stationery. These original documents have ended up scattered across the world at museums and universities and with collectors and friends. Many have never been published before. More than 100 songs and lyrics are reproduced in 'The Beatles Lyrics,' providing Hunter Davies a unique platform to tell the story of the music. The intimacy of these reproductions-- there are sections crossed out and rewritten, and words tossed into the final recordings that were never written down-- ensures that 'The Beatles Lyrics' will be a treasure for musicians, scholars, and fans everywhere.
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Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play
Since the 1960s, British progressive rock band Jethro Tull has pushed the technical and compositional boundaries of rock music by infusing its musical output with traditions drawn from classical, folk, jazz, and world music. The release of Thick as a Brick (1972) and A Passion Play (1973) won the group legions of new followers and topped the Billboard charts in the United States, among the most unusual albums ever to do so. Tim Smolko explores the large-scale form, expansive instrumentation, and complex arrangements that characterize these two albums, each composed of one continuous song. Featuring insights from Ian Anderson and in-depth musical analysis, Smolko discusses the band's influence on popular culture and why many consider Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play to be two of the greatest concept albums in rock history.
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