Author: Brian Nash
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781906802981
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Author: Iain Blair
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780809252756
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Publisher: Crescent
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780517469620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Simon Reynolds
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-02-17
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1101201053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the video-savvy synth-pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdotes and populated by charismatic characters, Rip It Up and Start Again re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.
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Publisher:
Published: 2019-08
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781862181618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays has been assembled and developed from papers given at the Ambient@40 International Conference held in February 2018 at the University of Huddersfield. The original premise of the conference was not merely to celebrate Enos work and the landmark release of Music for Airports in 1978, but to consider the development of the genre, how it has permeated our wider musical culture, and what the role of such music is today given the societal changes that have occurred since the release of that album. In the context of the conference, ambient was considered from the perspectives of aesthetic, influence, appropriation, process, strategy and activity. A detailed consideration of each of these topics could fill many volumes. With that in mind, this book does not seek to provide an in-depth analysis of each of these topics or a comprehensive history of the last 40 years of ambient music. Rather it provides a series of provocations, observations and reflections that each open up seams for further discussion. As such, this book should be read as a starting point for future research, one that seeks to critically interrogate the very meaning of ambient, how it creates its effect, and how the genre can remain vital and relevant in twenty-first century music-making.
Author: Karen McNally
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-04-20
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 025209820X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This first in-depth study of Frank Sinatra’s film career explores his iconic status in relation to his many performances in postwar Hollywood cinema. When Frankie Went to Hollywood considers how Sinatra’s musical acts, television appearances, and public commentary impacted his screen performances in Pal Joey, The Tender Trap, Some Came Running, The Man with the Golden Arm, and other hits. A lively discussion of sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, and male vulnerability in postwar American culture illuminates Karen McNally’s investigation into Sinatra’s cinematic roles and public persona. This entertainment luminary, she finds, was central in shaping debates surrounding definitions of American male identity in the 1940s and ’50s.
Author: Holly Johnson
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1995-04-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780099393412
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Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780862832858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Timothy Warner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-01-18
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1351774514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title was first published in 2003.This highly original and accessible book draws on the author’s personal experience as a musician, producer and teacher of popular music to discuss the ways in which audio technology and musical creativity in pop music are inextricably bound together. This relationship, the book argues, is exemplified by the work of Trevor Horn, who is widely acknowledged as the most important, innovative and successful British pop record producer of the early 1980s. In the first part of the book, Timothy Warner presents a definition of pop as distinct from rock music, and goes on to consider the ways technological developments, such as the transition from analogue to digital, transform working practices and, as a result, impact on the creative process of producing pop.