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by Ray Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1983
The Beatles wrote 176 of the greatest songs ever to appear in popular music. This songbook includes every single one of them.
Each piece is arranged for Piano and Voice, with full lyrics and chord symbols. These simplified arrangements are accompanied by original photographs and some of the...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The Hits Of The Year: Guitar Chord Songbook contains 28 of the biggest, most popular hit songs of the past year, arranged for Voice and Guitar from the actual recordings and in the original keys.
Each track includes full lyrics and accurate Guitar chord symbols and chord boxes, so that you...
The Lord's Radio
Gospel Music Broadcasting and the Making of Evangelical Culture, 1920-1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Evangelical Christianity—the faith professed by one in four Americans—exerts an enormous influence in American society. Believed by some to have originated as a reaction to the social revolution of the 1960s, evangelicalism as a distinct subculture in fact dates to the advent of radio. The evangelical...
Gone Dollywood
Dolly Parton’s Mountain Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Dolly Parton isn’t just a country music superstar. She has built an empire. At the heart of that empire is Dollywood, a 150-acre fantasy land that hosts three million people a year. Parton’s prodigious talent and incredible celebrity have allowed her to turn her hometown into one of the most popular...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Glee Songbook: Season 1, Volume 1 features 17 songs from the hit TV show Glee in Piano, Vocal and Guitar arrangements.
This songbook includes the runaway hit Don't Stop Believin'; originally released by Journey, both the original and the Glee version raced into the charts in January 2010 following...
by Brian James Schill
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This is the story of the books punks read and why they read them. The Year’s Work in the Punk Bookshelf challenges the stereotype that punk rock is a bastion of violent, drug-addicted, uneducated drop outs. Brian James Schill explores how, for decades, punk and postpunk subculture has absorbed,...
Sounding the Color Line
Music and Race in the Southern Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. Yet, though we may speak of white or black music, rock or rap, sounds constantly leak through...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The Complete Piano Player: Billy Joel is a superb collection of easy Piano arrangements of 15 songs by prolific American pianist and singer-songwriter Billy Joel. With a selection of popular chart hits and fan favourites, this compilation presents the stand-out songs from the six-time Grammy Award...
A Small Boy and Others
Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1998
In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a vital contributon to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
What defines pop music? Why do we consider some styles as easier listening than others? Arranged in three parts: Aesthetics and Authenticity - Groove, Sampling and Industry - Subjectivity, Ethnicity and Politics, this collection of essays by a group of international scholars deals with these questions...
PopLit, PopCult and The X-Files
A Critical Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
For six acclaimed seasons, FBI paranormal detectives Mulder and Scully have been chasing monsters and little green men and exposing government conspiracies, while espousing the mantras "trust no one" and "the truth is out there." This work takes a close look at the popular television...
The Country of Football
Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Brazil has done much to shape football/soccer, but how has soccer shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the...
The Mind's Eye
The Art of Omni
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Omni was a jewel among popular science magazines of its era (1978–1998). Science Digest, Science News, Scientific America, and Discover may have all been selling well to armchair scientists, but Omni masterfully blended cutting edge science news and science fiction, flashy graphic design, a touch...
A Culture of Conspiracy
Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding...