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In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early twenty-first century. Drawing together perspectives from...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-11-11
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Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop shows how the vocal performances of girl singers in 1960s Britain defined-and sometimes defied-ideas about what it meant to be a young woman in the 1960s British pop music scene. The singing and expressive voices of...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-10-01
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Paul McCartney's songwriting output as a member of the Beatles, mainly with his co-writer John Lennon, has been exhaustively documented over the years. Now, taking 50 key songs from his five-decade career since the break-up of the Fab Four,Paul McCartney: The Stories...
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Welbeck
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2021-09-02
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***'A wonderful document of the last great gathering of the pre-internet age. No camera phones, no social media, just a band and its fans as one' Noel Gallagher'Stunning... The iconic images by Furmanovsky capture the glorious madness of it all.' Rolling...
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Cassell
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2021-08-26
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Hamilton opened on Broadway in 2015 and quickly became one of the hottest tickets the industry has ever seen. Lin-Manuel Miranda - who wrote the book, lyrics, and music, and created the title role - adapted the show from Ron Chernow's biography Alexander Hamilton....
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Oxford University Press
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2021-04-20
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As children, many of us learn to sing, "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands." But despite the familiarity of this tune, few of us realize that what we're singing is actually part of a pervasive - and centuries-old - musical scheme. This particular pattern,...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-01-14
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Der vorliegende Doppeljahrgang ist ein Abbild der reichen und vielfältigen Musikkultur Baden-Württembergs. Die geschichtliche Bandbreite reicht vom 17. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Insgesamt 29 Autorinnen und Autoren haben zur mehrhundertjährigen Musikgeschichte...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-11-03
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Musik in Baden-Württemberg. Jahrbuch
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**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Astonishing... precisely crafted, emotionally-sucker-punching prose.' Daily Telegraph'Dangerous, immediate and lyrical from the jump.' Wall Street JournalHOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett...
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Sceptre
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2020-09-17
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Although hip hop culture has widely been acknowledged as a global cultural movement, little attention has been given to women’s participation in hip hop culture in various parts of the world or how this participation interacts with and impacts the lives of other women....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-05-20
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Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched onPop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-11-15
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'If the body is a temple, at the moment mine's a windowless shed.'Danny Dyer, actor and descendant of William the Conqueror, is the nation's favourite geezer well known for his cutting one-liners and amusing outbursts and, with them, he has captured all of our hearts....
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Trapeze
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2019-05-30
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'Beautifully judged account of the Manchester scene . . . There is something of the fairy tale about Dave Haslam's sage joyful testament to the kind of life that nobody could ever plan, a happy aligning of a cultural moment and a young man who instinctively knew that it...
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Constable
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2018-05-24
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The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and features of British...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-21
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Did you know that Frank Sinatra was nearly considered for the original production of Fiddler on the Roof? Or that Jerome Robbins never choreographed the famous "Dance at the Gym" in West Side Story? Or that Lin-Manuel Miranda called out an audience member on Twitter for...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-02
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Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the conception of moving pictures, the representation of music listening has...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-01
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The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart?...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-14
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A compellingly candid memoir that details Jackson's life in seclusion, by the bodyguards who were with him in his final days - with a new introduction to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Michael Jackson's death . Hounded by the tabloid media, driven from his...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2014-06-03
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Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical theater, opera,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-03
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In 2002 - along with Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts - Kimberley Walsh won a place in the Popstars The Rivals band Girls Aloud, and her life changed forever. Ten years later, after six platinum albums, twenty top-ten singles, a Brit Award,...
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Headline
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2013-09-26
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Tulisa Contostavlos is one of the most talented and high-profile recording artists working in the UK today. She has three platinum N-Dubz albums, four MOBO awards, a groundbreaking drama series, two documentaries, a MIND award and an X Factor judge's win under her belt....
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Headline
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2012-09-27
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