Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
La historia del pop moderno
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- 17,99 $US
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- 17,99 $US
Description de l’éditeur
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.
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For anyone who's unfamiliar with the terrain of pop music, critic Stanley's survey offers a solid introduction to many facets of popular music. While fans of musicians mentioned will not find much new, the author nevertheless provides an intriguing view of the shifting ground of pop music. Of the Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks incarnation of Fleetwood Mac, for example, he writes: Buckingham's guitar "felt like a continuation of the Macs that had gone before... they still felt like a walk beside a seashore on a windy day, collar pulled up against the spray." Paul Revere and the Raiders' "noise was the most commercially successful variant of garage punk." Stanley covers every musical style that makes up pop music, including country and western, new wave, hip hop, and grunge, and he devotes individual chapters to groups and individuals the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna that changed the shape of pop music. In the end, he observes, that "pop music doesn't have the desirability it once had; it's not as wantable."
