All Music Guide to Soul
Title | All Music Guide to Soul PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Bogdanov |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 918 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780879307448 |
With informative biographies, essays, and "music maps, " this book is the ultimate guide to the best recordings in rhythm and blues. 20 charts.
All Music Guide to Rock
Title | All Music Guide to Rock PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Bogdanov |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 1430 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780879306533 |
This fun-to-read, easy-to-use reference has been completely updated, expanded, and revised with reviews of over 12,000 great albums by over 2,000 artists and groups in all rock genres. 50 charts.
All Music Guide
Title | All Music Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Bogdanov |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 1508 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780879306274 |
Arranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.
All Music Guide to Rock, Pop and Soul
Title | All Music Guide to Rock, Pop and Soul PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Woodstra |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 1399 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Popular music |
ISBN | 9780879306533 |
Listen to Soul!
Title | Listen to Soul! PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Perone |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2021-02-23 |
Genre | Music |
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Listen to Soul! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of soul music for fans of the genre, with a focus on 50 must-hear singers, songs, and albums that define it. Listen to Soul! Exploring a Musical Genre provides both an overview and a critical analysis of what makes soul music in the United States. A list of 50 songs, albums, and musicians includes many of the best-known hits of the past and present as well as several important popular successes that are not necessarily on the "best-of" lists in other books. Like the other books in this series, this volume includes a background chapter followed by a chapter that contains 50 critical essays on must-hear albums, songs, and singers, approximately 1,500 words each. Chapters on the impact of soul music on popular culture and the legacy of the genre further explain the impact of these seminal compositions and musicians. This volume additionally includes a greater focus on soul music as a genre, making it a stand-out title on the topic for high school and college readers.
The Sound of Stevie Wonder
Title | The Sound of Stevie Wonder PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Perone |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2006-03-30 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0313051089 |
Since his professional debut in 1962, Stevie Wonder has recorded sixty-four singles that have made the Billboard top 100, including ten that reached number one. Wonder was one of the first Motown artists to have complete control over the writing, arranging, and recording of his songs, and achieved that stature before he was 20 years old. He has won 17 Grammy awards, was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and earned the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. Equally important, his work as a producer, arranger, and instrumentalist on other artists' recordings has put him in the highest rank of musical collaborators. This is the first work of criticism on this important documentarian of American life, as well as the introductory volume in The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection. Through a combination of biography and critical analysis, James Perone's groundbreaking new book reveals the many ways in which Stevie Wonder's body of work emerged, developed, reflected its time, and influenced myriad other artists. After revealing the social, cultural, and political context of Wonder's work, the book provides detailed analysis of his compositions and recordings, with a focus on both his well-known songs and those known only to his hardcore fans. The volume also contains discussions of cover versions of Wonder's compositions, a discography of his recordings, a song title index, an annotated bibliography, and a general index.
Soul in Seoul
Title | Soul in Seoul PDF eBook |
Author | Crystal S. Anderson |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2020-09-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 149683013X |
K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music itself. She demonstrates how contemporary K-pop references and incorporates musical and performative elements of African American popular music culture as well as the ways that fans outside of Korea understand these references. K-pop emerged in the 1990s with immediate global aspirations, combining musical elements from Korean and foreign cultures, particularly rhythm and blues genres of black American popular music. Korean solo artists and groups borrow from and cite instrumentation and vocals of R&B genres, especially hip-hop. They also enhance the R&B tradition by utilizing Korean musical strategies. These musical citational practices are deemed authentic by global fans who function as part of K-pop’s music press and promotional apparatus. K-pop artists also cite elements of African American performance in Korean music videos. These disrupt stereotyped representations of Asian and African American performers. Through this process K-pop has arguably become a branch of a global R&B tradition. Anderson argues that Korean pop groups participate in that tradition through cultural work that enacts a global form of crossover and by maintaining forms of authenticity that cannot be faked, and furthermore propel the R&B tradition beyond the black-white binary.