"Popular Music" downloads in documents / ebooks

"Understanding Popular Music" is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the history and meaning of popular music. It begins with...

This extensively revised new edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribu......

Now in an updated 3rd edition this popular A-Z student handbook provides a comprehensive survey of key ideas and concepts...

A unique Israeli national culture-indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness"-remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories...

How does popular music produce its subject? How does it produce us as subjects? More specifically, how does it do this...

Popular musicians acquire some or all of their skills and knowledge informally, outside school or university, and with little help...

Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines...

Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music courses, the second edition of Understanding Society through Popular Music uses...

Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships...

Television commercials are now a standard environment through which we experience popular music. The use of popular music in advertising...

In this book, George Plasketes adapts the iconic 'A-side/B-side' dichotomy from the 45 r.p.m. for use as a unique conceptual,...

This book focuses on the 'dark side' of popular music by examining the ways in which popular music has been...

Arsenio Rodríguez was one of the most important Cuban musicians of the twentieth century. In this first scholarly study, ethnomusicologist...

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to...

Musicians strive to "keep it real"; listeners condemn "fakes"; ... but does great music really need to be authentic?Did Elvis...

"A product of old-fashioned, back-wearying, foundational scholarship, yet very readable, this book is certain to feature importantly in future studies...

Cumbia villera—literally, cumbia from the shantytowns— is a musical genre quite popular with Argentine youth who frequent urban dance halls....

Since the emergence of rock'n'roll in the early 1950s, there have been a number of live musical performances that became...