Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé (eBook)

Bob Stanley (Autor)

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2014
624 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-24270-6 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;[Stanley is] as clear-eyed about music as he is crazy in love with it."e; Mikael Wood, Los Angeles TimesA monumental work of musical history, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! traces the story of pop music through songs, bands, musical scenes, and styles from Bill Haley and the Comets Rock around the Clock (1954) to Beyoncs first megahit, Crazy in Love (2003). Bob Stanleyhimself a musician, music critic, and fanteases out the connections and tensions that animated the pop charts for decades, and ranges across the birth of rock, soul, R&B, punk, hip hop, indie, house, techno, and more. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!is a vital guide to the rich soundtrack of the second half of the twentieth century and a book as much fun to argue with as to quote.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 20th century • 50s • 60s • 70s • 80s • 90s • albums • American • artists • Bands • Beach Boys • Beatles • Bee Gees • brill building • British • Britpop • Culture • Dance • Disco • Elvis • Folk • Funk • Guide • Hip Hop • History • monkees • Motown • Musicians • Phil Spector • Rock and Roll • rollings stones • saint etienne • Songs • Soul • Sound • Survey • Twentieth century
• ISBN-10: 0-393-24270-6 / 0393242706
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24270-6 / 9780393242706