popular music

Profiles fourteen short stories, poems, plays, films, and songs inspired by the Civil War and its era, providing historical background, author and composer biographies, and discussion of styles and themes.

Contains photographs and descriptions of ten of the most memorable performers in music history, including Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix, and features sidebars, facts, and quotations.

"An exploration of the year in which "the Beatles played Shea Stadium and made their first major artistic statement with Rubber Soul, the Rolling Stones topped the American charts for the first time with the sexually aggressive (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, ... the Who staked out their territory with the classic My Generation, Bob Dylan released his six-minute opus Like a Rolling Stone from Highway 61 Revisited and sent shock waves through the music community when he went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, Barry Maguire sang of the Eve of Destruction, and Simon and Garfunkel released their first number-one hit with The Sounds of Silence"--Amazon.com.

Text and illustrations look at the history and development of popular music.

Discusses the connections between Hip Hop music, civil rights, and other forms of music.

"Against a backdrop of Cold War politics, rock and roll riots and a new assertive working-class youth, Billy Bragg charts--for the first time in depth--the history, impact and legacy of Britain's original pop movement. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthyite witch-hunts, who between them sparked a revolution that shaped pop culture as we have come to know it"--Dust jacket.

An overview of popular music from Louisiana that provides information on a wide range of genres and artists. Includes black-and-white photographs.

"This book is an interdisciplinary discussion of popular music performed and created by American Indian musicians, providing an important window into history, politics, and tribal communities as it simultaneously complements literary, historiographic, anthropological, and sociological discussions of Native culture"--Provided by publisher.

More than seven hundred alphabetically arranged entries provide information on the history and development of Caribbean popular music, discussing its various styles, influential artists, spread through the Western world, and other related topics.

A study of the television show "American Bandstand," and its host Dick Clark, discussing why and how the first local program was conceived, and looking at how Clark came to be host, his efforts to convince ABC to broadcast nationally, and how he used his position to build a personal fortune.