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Author: Rob Durkee
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDurkee provides a complete history of the highly successful radio countdown program, from its beginnings in the 1960s through the years of success and decline, its disappearance, and its rebirth. 40 illustrations.
Author: Pete Battistini
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 1452050384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPete Battistini released "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1970's)" in 2005. Now comes the follow-up, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1980's)." Battistini painstakingly documented approximately 425 weekly, Casey Kasem-hosted countdown programs from the 80s, and compiled individual program summaries for each week exclusively for this book. In addition, the text includes a complete list of all radio stations, in the U.S. and around the world, that carried the program. Coupled with numerous testimonials of both AT40 insiders and listeners, and more than a hundred illustrations from the 80s, this book is brimming with highlights of the greatest radio program ever!
Author: Eric Weisbard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-11-27
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0226896188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA capacious and stimulating tour de force of the mainstream music industry that reveals the cultural import of even the most deliberately banal performers and songs. Weisbard finds depths in our culture s shallows as he investigates and articulates the cultural construction of such phenomena as Dolly Parton, Elton John, the Isley Brothers, A&M Records, and the rise of radio populism. He further sheds new light on the upheavals in the music industry over the last fifteen years and the implications of them for the audiences the industry has shaped. Each chapter brings us to see afresh precisely that music and those musicians that have become the most familiar and overexposed, by delving into the minutiae of how pop stars and their music were made and framed for repeated consumption in the era dominated by radio."
Author: Casey Kasem
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780448155753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joel Whitburn
Publisher: Billboard Books
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9780823075119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA descriptive list of top 40 hits with information on the performers, the names of their hits, number of weeks on the charts, and accompanying record labels.
Author: Nate Sloan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019-12-13
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0190056657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPop 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 on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits. Through close studies of sixteen modern classics, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding shift pop from the background to the foreground, illuminating the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. In 1939, Aaron Copland published What to Listen for in Music, the bestseller that made classical music approachable for generations of listeners. Eighty years later, Nate and Charlie update Copland's idea for a new audience and repertoire: 21st century pop, from Britney to Beyoncé, Outkast to Kendrick Lamar. Despite the importance of pop music in contemporary culture, most discourse only revolves around lyrics and celebrity. Switched on Pop gives readers the tools they need to interpret our modern soundtrack. Each chapter investigates a different song and artist, revealing musical insights such as how a single melodic motif follows Taylor Swift through every genre that she samples, André 3000 uses metric manipulation to get listeners to "shake it like a Polaroid picture," or Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee create harmonic ambiguity in "Despacito" that mirrors the patterns of global migration. Replete with engaging discussions and eye-catching illustrations, Switched on Pop brings to life the musical qualities that catapult songs into the pop pantheon. Readers will find themselves listening to familiar tracks in new waysand not just those from the Top 40. The timeless concepts that Nate and Charlie define can be applied to any musical style. From fanatics to skeptics, teenagers to octogenarians, non-musicians to professional composers, every music lover will discover something ear-opening in Switched on Pop.
Author: Neil Cossar
Publisher:
Published: 2014-08
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781783055104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBirths, deaths and marriages, No1 singles, drug busts and arrests, famous gigs and awards... all these and much more appear in this fascinating 50 year almanac.Using a page for every day of the calendar year, the author records a variety of rock and pop events that took place on a given day of the month across the years.This Day in Music is fully illustrated with hundreds of pictures, cuttings and album covers, making this the must-have book for any pop music fan.
Author: Ron Smith
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2001-08
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0595196144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic charts have been around as long as recorded music and radio programs from Your Hit Parade to American Top 40 have capitalized on the idea of counting down the day's top hits. Chicago Top 40 Charts 1960-1969 documents those songs that dominated the Midwestern airwaves during that decade- considered by many to be top 40's "golden age." Many of the songs listed did not appear at all on the national charts. Others, including local acts, fared much better in Chicago than in the rest of the country. Chicago Top 40 Charts 1960-1969 contains an alphabetical listing by title and by artist of every tune listed on the WLS Silver Dollar Surveys during those years. It also lists the top 40 songs of each year and for the entire decade, as well as a supplemental listing of songs on the station's Rhythm-and-Blues chart of 1964. For those who grew up listening to radio in the Windy City as well as for record collectors from anywhere, Chicago Top 40 Charts 1960-1969 will be a valued addition to any music reference library.
Author: Frank DeAngelis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-02
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781542469159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essential reference guide to the styles, artists, writer, musicians, producers, record labels, and trends in popular music in this year-by-year complete analysis of Billboard Top 40 singles from the 1970s and 1980s. Two decades of hit singles are documented in one fact-filled book, including peak positions, trivia, interesting stories behind the artists and hits, and the evolution of pop music from bubblegum to disco to the second British Invasion, and everything in between!
Author: Loren Pope
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-07-25
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1101221348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProspective college students and their parents have been relying on Loren Pope's expertise since 1995, when he published the first edition of this indispensable guide. This new edition profiles 41 colleges—all of which outdo the Ivies and research universities in producing performers, not only among A students but also among those who get Bs and Cs. Contents include: Evaluations of each school's program and "personality" Candid assessments by students, professors, and deans Information on the progress of graduates This new edition not only revisits schools listed in previous volumes to give readers a comprehensive assessment, it also addresses such issues as homeschooling, learning disabilities, and single-sex education.
