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Bridge and Tunnel Boys
Born four months apart, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel both released their debut albums in the early 1970s, quickly becoming two of the most successful rock stars of their generation. While their critical receptions have been very different, surprising parallels emerge when we look at the arcs of their careers and the musical influences that have inspired them.Bridge and Tunnel Boys compares the life and work of Long Islander Joel and Asbury Park, New Jersey, native Springsteen, considering how each man forged a distinctive sound that derived from his unique position on the periphery of the Big Apple. Locating their music within a longer tradition of the New York metropolitan sound, dating back to the early 1900s, cultural historian Jim Cullen explores how each man drew from the city's diverse racial and ethnic influences. His study explains how, despite frequently releasing songs that questioned the American dream, Springsteen and Joel were able to appeal to wide audiences during both the national uncertainty of the 1970s and the triumphalism of the Reagan era. By placing these two New York-area icons in a new context, Bridge and Tunnel Boys allows us to hear their most beloved songs with new appreciation.
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Sells like Teen Spirit
Music has always been central to the cultures that young people create, follow, and embrace. In the 1960s, young hippie kids sang along about peace with the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and tried to change the world. In the 1970s, many young people ended up coming home in body bags from Vietnam, and the music scene changed, embracing punk and bands like The Sex Pistols. In Sells Like Teen Spirit, Ryan Moore tells the story of how music and youth culture have changed along with the economic, political, and cultural transformations of American society in the last four decades. By attending concerts, hanging out in dance clubs and after-hour bars, and examining the do-it-yourself music scene, Moore gives a riveting, first-hand account of the sights, sounds, and smells of teen spirit.Moore traces the histories of punk, hardcore, heavy metal, glam, thrash, alternative rock, grunge, and riot grrrl music, and relates them to wider social changes that have taken place. Alongside the thirty images of concert photos, zines, flyers, and album covers in the book, Moore offers original interpretations of the music of a wide range of bands including Black Sabbath, Black Flag, Metallica, Nirvana, and Sleater-Kinney. Written in a lively, engaging, and witty style, Sells Like Teen Spirit suggests a more hopeful attitude about the ways that music can be used as a counter to an overly commercialized culture, showcasing recent musical innovations by youth that emphasize democratic participation and creative self-expression - even at the cost of potential copyright infringement.
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Rock chronicles : every legend, every line-up, every look
\"Rock Chronicles offers a fascinating, encyclopedic study of the ever-shifting line-ups, appearances, labels, sounds and successes of 250 of the most important rock acts of the past fifty years.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Southern history remixed : on rock 'n' roll and the dilemma of race
How popular music reveals deep histories of racial tensions
in southern culture
Southern History Remixed
spotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South
from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock ‘n’ roll in the 1940s,
’50s, and ’60s. While musical activities are often sidelined in historical
narratives of the region, Michael Bertrand shows that they can reveal much about
social history and culture change as he connects the rise of rock ‘n’ roll to
the civil rights movement for racial equality.
In this book, Bertrand traces a long-term
culture war in which white southerners struggled over the region’s cultural
complexion with music serving as an engine that both sustained and challenged
white supremacy. He shows how rock ‘n’ roll emerged as a working-class genre with
biracial sources that stoked white racial anxieties and engaged the region’s
color and culture lines. This book discusses the conflict over southern identity
that played out in responses to jazz, barn dance radio, Pentecostal and gospel
music, Black radio programming, and rhythm and blues, concluding with a close
look at the popularity of Elvis Presley within a racially segregated society.
Southern
History Remixed suggests that both Black and white
southerners have used music as a tool to resist or negotiate a rigid regional hierarchy. Urging
readers and scholars to take the study of popular music seriously, Bertrand
argues that what occurs in the music world affects and reflects what happens in
politics and history.
A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and
Randall M. Miller
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Rock 'n' Roll plays itself : a screen history
When rock 'n' roll burst into life in the 1950s the shockwaves echoed around the world, amplified by images of untamed youth projected on cinema screens. But for the performers themselves showbusiness remained in control, contriving a series of cash-in movies to exploit the new musical fad. In this riveting cultural history, John Scanlan explores rock's relationship with the moving image over seven decades in cinema, television, music videos, advertising and YouTube. Along the way he shows how rock was exploited, how it inspired film pioneers, and, not least, the transformations it caused over more than half a century. From Elvis Presley to David Bowie, and from Scorpio Rising to the films of Scorsese and DIY documentarists like Don Letts, this is a unique retelling of the story of rock - from birth to old age - through its onscreen life.
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Rock 'n' Roll Plays Itself
A raucous cultural history of rock's relationship with the moving image. When rock 'n' roll burst into life in the 1950s, the shockwaves echoed around the world, amplified by images of untamed youth projected on cinema screens. But for the performers themselves, corporate showbusiness remained very much in control, contriving a series of cash-in movies to exploit the new musical fad. In this riveting cultural history, John Scanlan explores rock's relationship with the moving image over seven decades in cinema, television, music videos, advertising, and YouTube. Along the way, he shows how rock was exploited, how it inspired film pioneers, and, not least, the film transformations it caused over more than half a century. From Elvis Presley to David Bowie, and from Scorpio Rising to the films of Scorsese and DIY documentarists like Don Letts, this is a unique retelling of the story of rock—from birth to old age—through its onscreen life.
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