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  • The Oxford Handbook of Pop Music

    Edited by Eric Weisbard ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Pop music, by definition, is commercial music: motivated by profit more than artistry, changing to fit the needs of audiences and industry, not codes of genre, seeking a mainstream appeal that forbids too much fussiness about aesthetic absolutes. This resistance to firm definition beyond ledger sheets has left no precise field of pop studies to glean from. Nevertheless, academics and writers ... Read more

    $158.39 USD

  • Top 40 Democracy

    The Rival Mainstreams of American Music

    by Eric Weisbard ...
    If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American music has created an array of rival mainstreams, complete with charts in multiple categories. Love it or hate it, the world that radio made has steered ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II

    by Eric Weisbard ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    It was the season of the blockbuster. Between August 12 and November 26 1991, a whole slew of acts released albums that were supposed to sell millions of copies in the run-up to Christmas. Metallica, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Garth Brooks, MC Hammer, and U2 - all were competing for the attention of the record-buying public at the same time. But perhaps the most attention-seeking act of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Songbooks

    The Literature of American Popular Music

    by Eric Weisbard ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer to Jay-Z's 2010 memoir Decoded. Drawing on his background editing the Village Voice music section, coediting the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and organizing the Pop Conference, Weisbard connects American music writing from memoirs, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Hound Dog

    A Song by Big Mama Thornton and Interpreted by Elvis Presley and Others

    by Eric Weisbard ...
    Series series Singles
    Many listeners first heard “Hound Dog” when Elvis Presley’s single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the song from Big Mama Thornton’s earlier recording, a giant but exclusively R&B hit. In Hound Dog Eric Weisbard examines the racial, commercial, and cultural ramifications of Elvis’s appropriation of a Black woman’s anthem. He rethinks the history and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Listen Again

    A Momentary History of Pop Music

    by W. T. Lhamon Jr., Marybeth Hamilton, Josh Kun, Ned Sublette ...
    Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, the essays in Listen Again pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences. Listen Again collects some of the finest presentations from the celebrated Experience Music Project Pop ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Pop When the World Falls Apart

    Music in the Shadow of Doubt

    Edited by Eric Weisbard ...
    Hearing Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan once said, was “like busting out of jail.” But what happens when popular music isn’t as simple as rock-and-roll rebellion? How does pop respond to such events as a decade-long war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina? In Pop When the World Falls Apart, a diverse array of music writers, scholars, and enthusiasts reflect on popular music’s role—as commentary, as refuge, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Good Booty

    Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music

    by Ann Powers ...
    NPR Best Books of 2017In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art ... Read more

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  • Hidden in the Mix

    The African American Presence in Country Music

    Edited by Diane Pecknold ...
    Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership between Lesley Riddle and A. P. Carter produced much of the Carter Family's repertoire; the street musician Tee Tot Payne taught a young Hank Williams Sr.; the guitar playing of Arnold Schultz ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Queer Country

    by Shana Goldin-Perschbacher ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    A Variety Best Music Book of 2022A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022A Library Journal Best Arts and Humanities Book of 2022A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022A Boot Best Music Book of 2022A Ticketmaster Best Music Book of 2022A Happy Magazine</em... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Black Diamond Queens

    African American Women and Rock and Roll

    by Maureen Mahon ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Country Boys and Redneck Women

    New Essays in Gender and Country Music

    Edited by Kristine M. McCusker, Diane Pecknold ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Country music boasts a long tradition of rich, contradictory gender dynamics, creating a world where Kitty Wells could play the demure housewife and the honky-tonk angel simultaneously, Dolly Parton could move from traditionalist "girl singer" to outspoken trans rights advocate, and current radio playlists can alternate between the reckless masculinity of bro-country and the adolescent girlishness ... Read more

    $21.59 USD