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Cargando... Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop (2013)por Bob Stanley
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) sarnaizb | Sep 1, 2019 | 
 This excellent book enacts its own version of pop justice as it spotlights not only bands that have suffered condescension – such as the Bee Gees – but also forgotten DJs like the Light Programme's Jack Johnson and Detroit's The Electrifying Mojo.  Like an overenthusiastic Mastermind contestant, Stanley's remit is very broad – too broad, maybe – but you can't help but salute his dedication and loving tone. Stanley downgrades sacred cows, sprinkles in delicious droplets of arcane trivia as if he’s hosting the best pub quiz on the planet and pulls things together with analogies and metaphors that are erudite and apt but never feel as if he’s showing off. The overwhelming influence of Liverpool’s popular beat combo is a problem for music historians. One is faced with either writing a revisionist account that stresses the importance of the Swinging Blue Jeans, say, or else telling a story that everyone knows far too well, from Yeah Yeah Yeah to Ono. Stanley gets around the problem by focusing on each new flowering of pop, in 65 essays. I repeat: 65. This is a hefty work. No one who knows the history of Stanley's indie-dance band, Saint Etienne, will be surprised at his choice of heroes. When he and schoolfriend Pete Wiggs started the group it was with the intention of drafting in female singers for one use only (before they very sensibly decided to stick with Sarah Cracknell). So it is the faceless writers of the Brill Building, and studio mavericks like Joe Meek and Phil Spector, that earn his veneration. Pertenece a las series editoriales
Tan divertido de criticar como de citar, "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! La historia del pop moderno" explora las raíces de la música pop a través del nacimiento del rock, soul, R&B, punk, hip hop, indie, house y techno, englobando canciones, grupos, escenarios y estilos desde "Rock around the Clock" de Bill Haley y The Comets, hasta el primer megahit de Beyoncé.Trabajando con una definición amplia de pop (que incluye country, metal, disco, Dylan, skyffle y glam), separa las conexiones y las tensiones que dan vida a los rankings ydefiende que son una parte vital de nuestra historia. Yeah! es la mayor y más ecléctica de las gramolas hecha libro, una guía para la banda sonora de nuestras vidas, y un regalo para cualquiera que haya alucinado con las primeras notas de una canción pop. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — Cargando...GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)781.6409The arts Music General principles and musical forms Traditions of music Western popular music {equally instrumental and vocal} Biography And HistoryClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio: (4.34)
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