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Rock Music Icons
The music, image, performances, and cultural impact of some of the most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. A rock …
The People We Meet in Stories
Literary characters attract, challenge, and entertain us. Stories bring us into fictional worlds where we encounter their lives, their struggles, and their dreams. Why do we care …
Music and Literary Modernism
In Music and Literary Modernism, the intersections of music, literature and language are examined by an international group of scholars who engage in studies of modernist art and …
The Rock Music Imagination
The Rock Music Imagination is an exploration of rock artists in their social and artistic contexts, particularly between 1964 and 1980, and of rock music in relation to literature, …
Charles Dickens's American Audience
From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, …
Movies in the Age of Obama
The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the …
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, with their distinct vocal harmonies, blending of rock, jazz, folk, and blues, and political and social activism, have remained one of the most …
Finding God in the Devil's Music
Finding God in the Devil's Music explores the relationship between religion/spirituality and rock music. Much has been written on the history of religious music itself, but not …
Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and The Modernist Novel
Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel is a study of the novel and consciousness in James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. This …
Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s
The 1970s saw a wave of singer-songwriters flood the airwaves and concert halls across the United States. This book organizes the stories of approximately 150 artists whose songs …
The Healing Magic of Music
The Who and Philosophy
The Who were one of the most memorable and influential of the 1960s British Invasion bands—memorable because of their loudness and because they destroyed instruments during …