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- The rough guide to world music / by Broughton, Simon.; Burton, Kim.;
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- Subjects: World music.; Popular music.;
- © 1994., Penguin,
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- The Complete guitar player songbook / by Shipton, Russ.;
- Suzanne / Leonard Cohen -- If you could read my mind ; The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald / Gordon Lightfoot -- Both sides now / Joni Mitchell -- Sundown ; Early mornin' rain / Gordon Lightfoot -- Bird on the wire / Leonard Cohen -- The night they drove old Dixie down / J. Robbie Robertson -- That's no way to say goodbye / Leonard Cohen.
- Subjects: Guitar music.; Popular music;
- © c1989., Amsco Publications,
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- Women icons of popular music : [electronic resource] : The rebels, rockers, and renegades / by Havranek, Carrie,1974-; ProQuest (Firm);
- Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.v. 1. Tori Amos ; Joan Baez ; Mary J. Blige ; Patsy Cline ; Ani DiFranco ; Missy Elliott ; Aretha Franklin ; Emmylou Harris ; Debbie Harry ; Chrissie Hynde ; The Indigo Girls ; Janis Joplin -- v. 2. Carole King ; Madonna ; Sarah McLachlan ; Joni Mitchell ; Dolly Parton ; Liz Phair ; Bonnie Raitt ; Linda Ronstadt ; Diana Ross ; Patti Smith ; Tina Turner ; Suzanne Vega.Popular music owes greatly to the spirit of rebellion. In all of its diversified, experimental, modern-day micro-genres, music's roots were first watered by good old-fashioned social dissension- its incendiary heights pushed heavenward by radicals and rogue revolutionaries. And perhaps none are more influential and non-conformist than women. Always first in line to give convention a sound thrashing, women in music have penned sonic masterpieces, championed sweeping social movements, and breathed life into sounds yet unimagined. Today's guitar-wielding heroines continue to blaze the trail, tapp.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
- Subjects: Women singers.; Women rock musicians.;
- © 2009., Greenwood Press,
- On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=497137 -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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- Banding together : how communities create genres in popular music / by Lena, Jennifer C.;
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-231) and index.Covering the grown of twentieth-century American popular music, this work explores the question of why some music styles attain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches.Music genres. What is a theory of sociocultural classification? ; What are genre forms and how are they identified? ; Organizations and money ; Genre ideals and style ; What genres are not ; Outline of the book -- Three musics, four genres : rap, bluegrass, and bebop jazz. Avant-garde genres ; Scene-based genres ; Industry-based genres ; Traditionalist genres ; After the tradition ; Conclusion -- Music trajectories. Two genre trajectories ; Scene-based origins ; IST trajectories ; On genre trajectories ; Inhibiting factors on musical trajectories ; Absorption into other musics, other streams ; Niche music ; The racist organization of musical production ; Conclusion -- The government-purposed genre. Attributes of government-purposed genres ; China ; Chile ; Nigeria ; Serbia ; Conclusion -- On classification systems. Classification in music ; Toward a model of classification systems ; On science, markets, and memory ; The future of music ; In closing.
- Subjects: Popular music; Popular music genres.;
- © c2012., Princeton University Press,
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- Listen to pop! : exploring a musical genre / by Perone, James E.,author.; Gale (Firm);
- Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Background -- 2. Must-hear music -- 3. Impact on popular culture -- 4. Legacy.This book discusses the evolution of pop music in America, with all of its various subgenres, from the 1950s to the present, diving into its impact on American culture, particularly through its association with television, its enduring legacy, and the history of the pop music genre. Includes analysis of musical examples, which include artists, songs, and albums, and the impact of pop music on American popular culture and its legacy, including film, television, and TV ads.Description based on print version record.
- Subjects: Popular music;
- On-line resources: https://libproxy.kirtland.edu/login?url=https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/83ZD/GVRL?sid=gale_marc&u=lom_kirtlandcc -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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- Playing along : digital games, YouTube, and virtual performance / by Miller, Kiri.;
- Playing along with Grand theft auto -- Straight outta Ganton: virtual tourism, fieldwork, and performance -- Jacking the dial: radio, race, and place in San Andreas -- Playing along with Guitar hero and Rock band -- How musical is gGuitar hero? -- Just add performance: staging schizophonia -- Playing along with communities of practice -- Music lessons 2.0 -- Amateur-to-amateur.Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects: Video games.; Video games; Interactive videos.; Video game music.; Popular music.;
- © c2012., Oxford University Press,
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- Yesterdays : popular song in America / by Hamm, Charles.cn;
- Bibliography: p. [495]-503.
- Subjects: Popular music;
- © c1979., Norton,
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- The secrets of songwriting : leading songwriters reveal how to find inspiration & success / by Tucker, Susan,1950-;
- Brett Beavers -- Jason Blume -- Chuck Cannon -- Bob DiPiero -- Stewart Harris -- Carolyn Dawn Johnson -- Gretchen Peters -- Hugh Prestwood -- Mike Reid -- Steve Seskin -- Allen Shamblin -- Tia Sillers -- Craig Wiseman.
- Subjects: Popular music; Composers;
- © c2003., Allworth Press,
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- 1001 songs you must hear before you die / by Dimery, Robert.;
- Pre-fifties -- The fifties -- The sixties -- The seventies -- The eighties -- The nineties -- The noughties/tens.Compiles a list of over one thousand landmark songs in the history of popular music, including their influences, how the songs helped influence others on the list, and provides their historical significance to the genre.
- Subjects: Sound recordings; Popular music;
- © 2010., Universe,
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- Switched on pop : how popular music works, and why it matters / by Sloan, Nate,1986-author.; Harding, Charlie,1986-author.; Gottlieb, Iris,illustrator.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.'Switched on Pop' illuminates the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. The text moves through close studies of 16 modern pop classics by artists from Beyoncé to Zedd, each chapter bringing out key aspects of a particular song as well as introducing core concepts such as rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and timbre. As the work progresses, more complex concepts such as syncopation, counterpoint, rhyme, and modulation are covered, culminating in an examination of genre, identity, and musical meaning. Accessible prose and engaging illustrations break down pop hits and musical ideas in clear, jargon-free language, and point toward a new way of listening to the modern soundtrack of pop.
- Subjects: Popular music; Popular music; Popular music;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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