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Bezig met laden... Love for Sale: Pop Music in America (editie 2016)door David Hajdu (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A very light-hearted, personalized look at the author's late night forays into pop music via his transistor radio (which left him partially deaf in the ear he and his radio slept on). Hadju covers every historical base - race music, punk, blues, folk, swing, disco, rap, rock, soul, cowboy ballads, American Songbook. He gives props and credit where it's due. Love For Sale reads as though you were speaking with an old friend who grew up when you did, and each 45, every album mentioned, evokes the thrill and the passion of the sounds, times, and places. ( ) David Hajdu’s “Love For Sale: Pop Music in America” is an insightful and enjoyable survey of the key genres and aspects of American popular music and its surrounding culture. It is neither a chronological treatise nor a fully comprehensive study, but rather a series of essays, generally light in tone, infused with good humor, and filled with anecdotes and insights from the author’s perspective over the years as a music journalist as well as his childhood recollections. Hajdu’s title premise that all popular music has been basically selling love and sex is only loosely and sporadically woven through the essays; overall, he paints a much broader picture of the evolving role of popular music and its continuing significance. Rather than a dry scholarly approach, this instead is a fun and refreshing take on the history of pop music aimed clearly at the casual music lover. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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From the age of song sheets in the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era of digital streaming, pop music has been our most influential laboratory for social and aesthetic experimentation, changing the world three minutes at a time. Hajdu shows how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies of love and sex to teenagers. Exhaustively researched and rich with fresh insights, Love for Sale details pop music from Eva Tanguay, who upended Victorian conceptions of feminine propriety, to Blondie, the scandal of disco; from Bessie Smith and the 'blues queens' of the 1920s to Jimmie Rodgers, a former blackface minstrel performer who created the country music sound. At every turn, Hajdu surprises and challenges readers to think about our most familiar art in unexpected ways. -- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)781.640973The arts Music General principles and musical forms Traditions of music Western popular music {equally instrumental and vocal} Biography And History North AmericaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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