Body Count's Body Count 33 1/3 by Ben Apatoff
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
On Ice-T's 1991 classic O.G. Original Gangster, he introduced his all-Black hardcore band Body Count with lead guitarist Ernie C, bringing them on the first-ever Lollapalooza tour that summer. The next year, Body Count's self-titled debut album, rounded out by rhythm guitarist D-Roc the Executioner, bas ...Show more
'70s Teen Pop by Lucretia Tye Jasmine
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Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Teen pop is a sub-genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging romantic eroticism and autonomy. But tweens and teens buy music that isn't primarily marketed to them, too. Teen pop encompasses several kinds of musical styles, not ...Show more
Little Richard's Here's Little Richard by Jordan Bassett
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
From male bisexuality to religion in pop, Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging for the mainstream. As a Black multimillionaire rock star, he was the most exciting person on the planet between 1955 and 1957, the years in which his seismic debut album was created. ...Show more
Krautrock 33 1/3 Genre series by Marshall Gu
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Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Krautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history. In May 1945, the Allies defeated Nazi Germany, putting an end to the European front of World War II and the Third Reich. In ...Show more
Chain's Toward the Blues 33 1/3 by Peter Beilharz; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam War and consumerism. The birth of Oz blues rock. Influenced by American blues after Robert Johnson, parallel to developments with Paul Butterfield, the Bluesbreakers and Canned Heat, Chain's music also developed in distinct ways ...Show more
Madonna's Erotica 33 1/3 by Michael Dango
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Everyone wanted Madonna's 1992 album Erotica to be a scandal. In the midst of a culture war, conservatives wanted it to be proof of the decline of family values. The target of conservative loathing, gay men reeling from the AIDS epidemic wanted it to be a celebration of a sexual culture that had rapid ...Show more
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber
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Category: Music
'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on in ...Show more
Ringside: A Tale of Music and Mayhem From the Man Behind Rock and Roll Superstars Cold Chisel by Rod Willis
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Category: Music
A tale of music and mayhem from the man who made Cold Chisel rock and roll superstars.
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
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Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle by Philip Norman
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Category: Music
From the premiere Beatles biographer--author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation--a rare and revealing portrait of George Harrison, the most misunderstood and mysterious Beatle, based on decades-long research and unp ...Show more
Lamestains - Grunge, Sub Pop and the Music of the Loser by Nicholas Attfield
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Category: Music
A surprising history of Seattle's Sub Pop Records, pioneer of grunge . . . and champion of losers. This book is a critical history of Sub Pop Records, the Seattle independent rock label that launched the careers of countless influential grunge bands in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It focuses in parti ...Show more