Author: Asif Siddiqi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000640167
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces—cultural, aesthetic, and technical—the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short, discrete, and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song brings together 16 writers to weigh in on 16 iconic tracks from the history of modern popular music. Arranged chronologically in order of release of the tracks, and spanning nearly five decades, these essays zigzag across the cultural landscape to present one possible history of pop music. There are detours through psychedelic rock, Afro-pop, Latin pop, glam rock, heavy metal, punk, postpunk, adult contemporary rock, techno, hip-hop, and electro-pop here. More than just deep histories of individual songs, these essays all expand far beyond the track itself to offer exciting and often counterintuitive histories of transformative moments in popular culture. Collectively, they show the undiminished power of the individual pop song, both as distillations of important flashpoints and, in their afterlives, as ghostly echoes that persist undiminished but transform for succeeding generations. Capitalism and its principal good, capital, help us frame these stories, a fact that should surprise no one given the inextricable relationship between art and capitalism established in the twentieth century. At the root, readers will find here a history of pop with unexpected plot twists, colorful protagonists, and fitting denouements.
One-Track Mind
Author: Asif Siddiqi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000640167
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces—cultural, aesthetic, and technical—the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short, discrete, and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song brings together 16 writers to weigh in on 16 iconic tracks from the history of modern popular music. Arranged chronologically in order of release of the tracks, and spanning nearly five decades, these essays zigzag across the cultural landscape to present one possible history of pop music. There are detours through psychedelic rock, Afro-pop, Latin pop, glam rock, heavy metal, punk, postpunk, adult contemporary rock, techno, hip-hop, and electro-pop here. More than just deep histories of individual songs, these essays all expand far beyond the track itself to offer exciting and often counterintuitive histories of transformative moments in popular culture. Collectively, they show the undiminished power of the individual pop song, both as distillations of important flashpoints and, in their afterlives, as ghostly echoes that persist undiminished but transform for succeeding generations. Capitalism and its principal good, capital, help us frame these stories, a fact that should surprise no one given the inextricable relationship between art and capitalism established in the twentieth century. At the root, readers will find here a history of pop with unexpected plot twists, colorful protagonists, and fitting denouements.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000640167
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces—cultural, aesthetic, and technical—the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short, discrete, and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song brings together 16 writers to weigh in on 16 iconic tracks from the history of modern popular music. Arranged chronologically in order of release of the tracks, and spanning nearly five decades, these essays zigzag across the cultural landscape to present one possible history of pop music. There are detours through psychedelic rock, Afro-pop, Latin pop, glam rock, heavy metal, punk, postpunk, adult contemporary rock, techno, hip-hop, and electro-pop here. More than just deep histories of individual songs, these essays all expand far beyond the track itself to offer exciting and often counterintuitive histories of transformative moments in popular culture. Collectively, they show the undiminished power of the individual pop song, both as distillations of important flashpoints and, in their afterlives, as ghostly echoes that persist undiminished but transform for succeeding generations. Capitalism and its principal good, capital, help us frame these stories, a fact that should surprise no one given the inextricable relationship between art and capitalism established in the twentieth century. At the root, readers will find here a history of pop with unexpected plot twists, colorful protagonists, and fitting denouements.
One Track Mind: What Running 150 Miles in a Day Can Teach You about Life
Author: Michael Stocks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838323400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Into the mind of an athlete running 155 miles in 24 hours around an athletics track, to qualify to run for Great Britain at the age of 50. The mental tools that make it possible, and the life lessons revealed at the extremes of endurance.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781838323400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Into the mind of an athlete running 155 miles in 24 hours around an athletics track, to qualify to run for Great Britain at the age of 50. The mental tools that make it possible, and the life lessons revealed at the extremes of endurance.
Growth
Author: Paul Super
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Management
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Industrial efficiency
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial efficiency
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Weekly
Author: George Brinton McClellan Harvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Single Track Mind: an Illustrated Guide to Mountain Bike Racing, Technique and Training
Author: Paul Skilbeck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884737084
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884737084
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Harvey's Weekly
Author: George Brinton McClellan Harvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
North American Review's War Weekly
Author: George Brinton McClellan Harvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Railroad Men
A Man from Maine
Author: Edward William Bok
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ladies Home Journal
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ladies Home Journal
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description