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Bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past fifty years. Choosing one essential track from each year, Questlove unpacks each song's significance, revealing the pivotal role that American music plays around issues of race, gender, politics, and identity. Whether he is exploring how Black identity reshaped...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The author examines the years after World War II and before the Beatles, when Italian American singers rose to prominence. Follows the music from opera houses and piazzas of southern Italy, to the barrooms of the Bronx and Hoboken, to the Copacabana, Brooklyn's Paramount Theatre, and the Vegas Strip.
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English
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"Be My Baby is the behind-the-scenes story -- newly updated, and with an especially timely message -- of how the original bad girl of rock and roll, Ronnie Spector, survived marriage to a monster and carved out a space for herself amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene and beyond. Ronnie's first collaboration with producer Phil Spector, 'Be My Baby,' shot Ronnie and the Ronettes to stardom. No one sounded like Ronnie, with her alluring blend of innocence...
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Publisher
Roc Lit 101, One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"From one of the preeminent cultural critics of her generation, a radiant weave of memoir, criticism, and biography that tells the story of black women in music--from the Dixie Cups to Gladys Knight to Janet, Whitney, and Mariah-- as the foundational story of American pop"--
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A personal, idiosyncratic history of pop music traces the sheet-music era at the end of the nineteenth century and the invention of records through favorite chart-topping songs and the ways his mother shaped him as an aficionado.
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Publisher
Dey Street, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race."--Provided by publisher.
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