Great Pop Things

Author: Colin B Morton
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
ISBN: 1891241702
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
The comic strips of Colin B. Morton and Chuck Death deliver an irreverent, heartfelt, and devastatingly funny history of rock and roll. Like Monty Python at its best, their version is surreal and ridiculous - yet somehow everything in it rings true. According to Morton and Death, the bass player in Led Zeppelin was Jean-Paul Sartre. And despite having been able to think up brilliant titles for their first three albums, Led Zeppelin were stuck for what to call the fourth one - so they put a load of prunes on the front. In strip after strip, Morton & Death pinpoint the absurdities and oddities of rock history. In the process, they often come closer to its truth than conventional accounts do, as well as being far more entertaining. As for the drawings, their caricatures of rock stars from Mick Jagger to Frank Zappa, Johnny Rotten to Courtney Love, are in themselves worth the price of admission.

Great Pop Things

Author: Colin B. Morton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140171563
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Great Pop

Author: White Eagle
Publisher: White Eagle
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
Do you Really Believe that there is a God and if so do you talk With Him? Do you at times doubt that God really exists? Do you know How and Why things Happen in your Life? Join in White Eagle’s exploration and discovery of the How and Why of things as he attempts to Prove that Great Pop and thereby “God” exists and is Real. This is a Real Life accounting of a Medicine Man's deep and personal relationship with The Creator whom he calls Great Pop. Also in this material, White Eagle recounts many of his experiences both in Life and Death and his observations of his experiences of both.

Major Labels

Author: Kelefa Sanneh
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525559604
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 497

Book Description
One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 • Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year “One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities. In Major Labels, Sanneh distills a career’s worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a brilliant and omnivorous reckoning with popular music—as an art form (actually, a bunch of art forms), as a cultural and economic force, and as a tool that we use to build our identities. He explains the history of slow jams, the genius of Shania Twain, and why rappers are always getting in trouble. Sanneh shows how these genres have been defined by the tension between mainstream and outsider, between authenticity and phoniness, between good and bad, right and wrong. Throughout, race is a powerful touchstone: just as there have always been Black audiences and white audiences, with more or less overlap depending on the moment, there has been Black music and white music, constantly mixing and separating. Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes, and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes, the best popular music isn’t transcendent. Songs express our grudges as well as our hopes, and they are motivated by greed as well as idealism; music is a powerful tool for human connection, but also for human antagonism. This is a book about the music everyone loves, the music everyone hates, and the decades-long argument over which is which. The opposite of a modest proposal, Major Labels pays in full.

Can't Slow Down

Author: Michaelangelo Matos
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0306903350
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenes Everybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves - until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music. Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time.

Good Pop, Bad Pop

Author: Jarvis Cocker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787330566
Category : Personal belongings
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When Jarvis Cocker starts clearing out his loft, he finds a jumble of objects that catalogue his story. And this accumulated debris of a lifetime reveals his creative process, writing and musicianship, performance and ambition, style and stagecraft

Everything Bad is Good for You

Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101158018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop culture we soak in every day—from Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons—has been growing more sophisticated with each passing year, and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper. After reading Everything Bad is Good for You, you will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again. With a new afterword by the author.

ORIGINS - Volume 2 - the Beginning of Life

Author: White Eagle
Publisher: White Eagle
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description

About - 2012 & Beyond

Author: White Eagle
Publisher: White Eagle
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
Have You wondered What will really occur on December 21, 2012? Have You wondered Why the Mayan Calendar Stops on that Date? Would You like to know what You can do Now to save All Life here on Mother Earth? Share in the means and experiences that a practicing Medicine Man takes to solve these very questions that is described and illustrated in detail within this very book! Within the pages and chapters of this book, not only does White Eagle provide detailed descriptions of what he experienced and saw, he even includes photos so that you can examine them and make your own conclusions.

The Medicine of Selves Volume 3 - Life & Survivor's Guilt

Author: White Eagle
Publisher: White Eagle
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Have you Survived, when some or many others did not? Have you ever Felt unworthy or Felt like committing Suicide because of a Loss, or from events of the recent past? Have You ever wondered Why you are still Alive? Have You ever considered What The Creator desires of and for You in Life on Mother Earth as well as in one's exit from it? Do You have any Idea as to How the Creator wants us to deal with Death as well as Guilt or Shame? Would you Like to know The Creators Remedies to all of the above? These questions and many more are now answered in this material that has become available through the channel of White Eagle and Great Pop.