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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bob Stanley |
| ISBN: | 9780393242690 0393242692 9780393351682 0393351688 |
| OCLC Number: | 1264798736 |
| Notes: | "First published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited [in 2013] under the title Yeah, yeah, yeah : the story of modern pop"--Title page verso. |
| Description: | xxii, 599 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Part one. 1. Flip, Flop, and Fly: Bill Haley and Jump Blues ; 2. Mess of Blues: Elvis Presley ; 3. Pur Your Cat Clothes On: Sun Records and Rockabilly ; 4. Teenage Wildlife: Rock 'n' Roll ; 5. Rock with the Cavemen: Skiffle and British Rock 'n' Roll ; 6. Whispering Bells: Doo Wop ; 7. 1960: It Will Stand ; 8. Walk with Me in Paradise Garden: Phil Spector and Joe Meek ; 9. Trouble with Boys: The Brill Building and Girl Groups -- Part two. 10. Act Naturally: The Beatles ; 11. Needles and Pins: The Beat Boom ; 12. Who's Driving Your Plane? The Rolling Stones ; 13. This Is My Prayer: The Birth of Soul ; 14. Rake's Progress: Bob Dylan ; 15. America Strikes Back: The Byrds and Folk Rock ; 16. Up the Ladder to the Roof: Tamla Motown ; 17. 1966: The London Look ; 18. Endless Summer: The Beach Boys ; 19. Golden Road: San Francisco and Psychedelia ; 20. Pop Gets Sophisticated: Soft Rock ; 21. Crying in the Streets: Deep Soul ; 22. I Can't Sing, I Ain't Pretty, and My Legs Are Thin: Hard Rock ; 23. Bubblegum Is the Naked Truth: The Monkees -- Part three. 24. 1970: Everything's Gone Gray ; 25. Freddie's Dead: Electrified Soul ; 26. State of Independence: Jamaica ; 27. It Came from the Suburbs: Glam ; 28. Sound of Philadelphia: Soft Soul ; 29. Progressive Rock (and Simpler Pleasures) ; 30. Young Love: Weenyboppers and Boy Bands ; 31. See That Girl: Abba ; 32. Beyond the Blue Horizon: Country and Western ; 33. Before and After the Gold Rush: Laurel Canyon ; 34. 1975: Storm Warning -- Part four. 35. Courage, Audacity and Revolt: The Sex Pistols, the Clash, and Punk Rock ; 36. Cranked Up Really High: Punk Rock ; 37. Pleasantly Antagonistic: New Wave ; 38. Supernature: Disco ; 39. Islands in the Stream: The Bee Gees ; 40. Routine Is the Enemy of Music: Post-punk ; 41. Shark in Jet's Clothing: America after Punk ; 42. This Is Tomorrow: Kraftwerk and Electropop ; 43. Adventures on the Wheels of Steel: Early Rap ; 44. Here Comes That Feeling: New Pop ; 45. American Rock (Ooh Yeah) ; 46. Just a King in Mirrors: Michael Jackson ; 47. Highs in the Mid-Eighties: Prince and Madonna ; 48. Some Kind of Monster: Metal ; 49. Poised over the Pause Button: The Smiths, REM, and the Birth of Indie ; 50. 1985: What the Fuck Is Going On? ; 51. We Were Never Being Boring: Pet Shop Boys and New Order -- Part five. 52. Chicago and Detroit: House and Techno ; 53. Smiley Culture: Acid House and Manchester ; 54. 1991: Bassline Changed My Life ; 55. All Eyez on Me: Hip Hop ; 56. This Is How You Disappear: Bristol, Shoegazing, and a New Psychedelia ; 57. As a Defense, I'm Neutered and Spayed: Grunge ; 58. Ever Decreasing Circles: Blur, Suede, and Britpop ; 59. Vision of Love: R&B. |
| Other Titles: | Story of pop music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé |
| Responsibility: | Bob Stanley. |
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Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
"Like War and Peace, but with a beat...[E]ndlessly readable." -- James Reed - Boston Globe "As good 'a story of pop music' as a fan could hope for." -- Ryan Little - Washington Post "[An] exuberant celebration of the silly and the sublime...[Stanley's] writing delights and surprises, and his description of the music makes you want to dance to it." -- Sarah Larson - The New Yorker "Breezy, opinionated and totally delicious." -- David Kirby - Wall Street Journal "Rich with musical history lived, worked, and felt...Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is smart, funny, surprisingly deep for just how broad it is, but, most of all, for stars and songs great and small, it is full of love" -- Joshua Joy Kamensky - Los Angeles Review of Books "Quixotic and kaleidoscopic, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! serves up erudite irreverence on every page. Like its sprawling subject, it invites everyone in for a listen." -- Chris Vognar - Dallas Morning News "An ambitious undertaking... Stanley's bold positions connect pop's many dots in fresh and fascinating patterns." -- Christian Science Monitor "This book will be remembered and deserves to be." -- Robert Christgau - Barnes & Noble Review "A landmark celebration, rumination and encapsulation of just about everything worth knowing-and arguing-about the pop landscape... A book for the ages." -- Matt Damsker - USA Today "Bob Stanley loves and finds surprising connections between a thousand kinds of pop. He makes me want to run to the nearest record store-and move in." -- Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! ties together the disparate strands of pop's shape-shifting history to create a vivid living document of the music of our lives." -- Greg Milner, author of Perfecting Sound Forever Read more...
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