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Title: THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO POP AND ROCK
By: Simon Frith (Editor), Will Straw (Editor), John Street (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521556600
ISBN 13: 9780521556606
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 16 August, 2001
Series: Cambridge Companions to Music
Pages: 324
Description: Maps the world of pop and rock: its history, its stars and its controversies.
Synopsis: This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to Public Enemy, Nirvana to the Spice Girls. They trace the way new technologies - from the amplifier to the internet - have changed the sounds and practices of pop and they analyse the way maverick entrepreneurs have given way to multimedia corporations. In particular they focus on the controversial issues concerning race and ethnicity, politics, gender and globalisation. Contains full profiles of a selection of figures from the pop and rock world.
Illustrations: 15 b/w illus.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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