The James Bond Songs

The James Bond Songs
Title The James Bond Songs PDF eBook
Author Adrian Daub
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 257
Release 2015-08-31
Genre Music
ISBN 0190234547

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Starting with 1964's Goldfinger, every James Bond film has followed the same ritual, and so has its audience: after an exciting action sequence the screen goes black and the viewer spends three long minutes absorbing abstract opening credits and a song that sounds like it wants to return to 1964. In The James Bond Songs authors Adrian Daub and Charles Kronengold use the genre to trace not only a changing cultural landscape, but also evolving conceptions of what a pop song is. They argue that the story of the Bond song is the story of the pop song more generally, and perhaps even the story of its end. Each chapter discusses a particular segment of the Bond canon and contextualizes it in its era's music and culture. But the book also asks how Bond and his music reflected and influenced our feelings about such topics as masculinity, race, money, and aging. Through these individual pieces the book presents the Bond song as the perfect anthem of late capitalism. The Bond songs want to talk about the fulfillment that comes from fast cars, shaken Martinis and mindless sex, but their unstable speakers, subjects, and addressees actually undercut the logic of the lifestyle James Bond is sworn to defend. The book is an invitation to think critically about pop music, about genre, and about the political aspects of popular culture in the twentieth century and beyond.

The Music of James Bond

The Music of James Bond
Title The Music of James Bond PDF eBook
Author Jon Burlingame
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 304
Release 2012-11-01
Genre Music
ISBN 0199986762

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The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full and extraordinary history of the sounds of James Bond, spicing the story with a wealth of fascinating and previously undisclosed tales. Burlingame devotes a chapter to each Bond film, providing the backstory for the music (including a reader-friendly analysis of each score) from the last-minute creation of the now-famous "James Bond Theme" in Dr. No to John Barry's trend-setting early scores for such films as Goldfinger and Thunderball. We learn how synthesizers, disco and modern electronica techniques played a role in subsequent scores, and how composer David Arnold reinvented the Bond sound for the 1990s and beyond. The book brims with behind-the-scenes anecdotes. Burlingame examines the decades-long controversy over authorship of the Bond theme; how Frank Sinatra almost sang the title song for Moonraker; and how top artists like Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney, Carly Simon, Duran Duran, Gladys Knight, Tina Turner, and Madonna turned Bond songs into chart-topping hits. The author shares the untold stories of how Eric Clapton played guitar for Licence to Kill but saw his work shelved, and how Amy Winehouse very nearly co-wrote and sang the theme for Quantum of Solace. New interviews with many Bond songwriters and composers, coupled with extensive research as well as fascinating and previously undiscovered details--temperamental artists, unexpected hits, and the convergence of great music and unforgettable imagery--make The Music of James Bond a must read for 007 buffs and all popular music fans. This paperback edition is brought up-to-date with a new chapter on Skyfall.

Switched on Pop

Switched on Pop
Title Switched on Pop PDF eBook
Author Nate Sloan
Publisher
Pages 225
Release 2020
Genre Music
ISBN 0190056657

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Based on the critically acclaimed podcast that has broken down hundreds of Top 40 songs, Switched On Pop dives in into eighteen hit songs drawn from pop of the last twenty years--ranging from Britney to Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson to Kendrick Lamar--uncovering the musical explanations for why and how certain tracks climb to the top of the charts. In the process, authors Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan reveal the timeless techniques that animate music across time and space.

A Charlie Brown Christmas(TM) (Songbook)

A Charlie Brown Christmas(TM) (Songbook)
Title A Charlie Brown Christmas(TM) (Songbook) PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages 35
Release 2001-09-01
Genre Music
ISBN 1458452204

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(Big Note Songbook). 10 songs from the contemporary classic Christmas soundtrack, including: Christmas Is Coming * Christmas Time Is Here * Fur Elise * Hark, the Herald Angels Sing * O Tannenbaum * Skating * What Child Is This * and more.

Diamonds are Forever

Diamonds are Forever
Title Diamonds are Forever PDF eBook
Author Ian Fleming
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 190
Release 2022-08-16
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Diamonds are Forever" by Ian Fleming. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Adele: Skyfall (Easy Piano)

Adele: Skyfall (Easy Piano)
Title Adele: Skyfall (Easy Piano) PDF eBook
Author Paul Epworth
Publisher Wise Publications
Pages 7
Release 2013-03-12
Genre Music
ISBN 1783230185

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This single chapter book contains the full sheet music for Adele's Academy Award winning theme song to the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall. The song has here been expertly arranged for easy Piano solo.

Churchill's White Rabbit

Churchill's White Rabbit
Title Churchill's White Rabbit PDF eBook
Author Sophie Jackson
Publisher The History Press
Pages 281
Release 2011-11-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0752478931

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Forest Yeo-Thomas GC was one of the bravest of the brave. A fluent French-speaker, he joined SOE and was parachuted into occupied France three times to work with the Resistance. Appalled by the lack of help the British were providing, he managed to arrange a five-minute meeting with Winston Churchill, during which he persuaded him to do more. On his third mission he was betrayed and captured by the Gestapo; he suffered horrendous torture before being sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, from where he eventually managed to escape, making it back to Allied lines shortly before the end of the war. Sophie Jackson's biography reveals new information about how the torture affected Yeo-Thomas, the state of SOE-Resistance co-operation, Gestapo typhus experiments at Buchenwald and how ' White Rabbit', Yeo-Thomas, provided the inspiration for Ian Fleming's famous secret agent, James Bond.