Erte Sculpture

Erté

Alastair Duncan

Marshall, Lee

E.P.Dutton

Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star

Bob Dylan's contribution to popular music is immeasurable. Venerated as rock's one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new range of topics and new lyrical complexity into popular music. Without Bob Dylan, rock critic Dave Marsh once claimed, there would be no popular music as we understand it today. As such an exalted figure, Dylan has been the subject of countless books and intricate scholarship considering various dimensions of both the man and his music. This book places new emphasis on Dylan as a rock star. Whatever else Dylan is, he is a star - iconic, charismatic, legendary, enigmatic. No one else in popular music has maintained such star status for so long a period of time. Showing how theories of stardom can help us understand both Bob Dylan and the history of rock music, Lee Marshall provides new insight into how Dylan's songs acquire meaning and affects his relationship with his fans, his critics and the recording industry. Marshall discusses Dylan's emergence as a star in the folk revival (the "spokesman for a generation") and the formative role that Dylan plays in creating a new type of music - rock - and a new type of star. Bringing the book right up to date, he also sheds new light on how Dylan's later career has been shaped by his earlier star image and how Dylan repeatedly tried to throw off the limitations and responsibilities of his stardom. The book concludes by considering the revival of Dylan over the past ten years and how Dylan's stardom has developed in a way that contains, but is not overshadowed by, his achievements in the 1960s.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Polity Pr

Polity

The Weimar Republic has long held a special fascination for the modern historian and many studies are now available on its internal development, its cultural life and its eventual destruction by Nazism. Meanwhile, although diplomatic history has been less in the limelight, a great deal of fresh and important work has been done on Weimar foreign policy. Both authors have been in the forefront of this research and have now pooled thier intimate knowledge of German domestic and foreign affairs to produce this brilliant synthesis which at the same time raises major questions of continuity fom the Kaiser to Hitler.

German Foreign Policy 1917-1933; Continuity or Break?

Politics & Social Sciences

Wolfgang Michalka

Politics & Government

Berg

Simon Frith has been one of the most important figures in the emergence and subsequent development of popular music studies. From his earliest academic publication, The Sociology of Rock (1978), through to his recent work on the live music industry in the UK, in his desire to ’take popular music seriously’ he has probably been cited more than any other author in the field. Uniquely, he has combined this work with a lengthy career as a music critic for leading publications on both sides of the Atlantic. The contributions to this volume of essays and memoirs seek to honour Frith’s achievements, but they are not merely ’about Frith’. Rather, they are important interventions by leading scholars in the field, including Robert Christgau, Antoine Hennion, Peter J. Martin and Philip Tagg. The focus on ’sociology and industry’ and ’aesthetics and values’ reflect major themes in Frith’s own work, which can also be found within popular music studies more generally. As such the volume will become an essential resource for those working in popular music studies, as well as in musicology, sociology and cultural and media studies.

Popular Music Matters: Essays in Honour of Simon Frith (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

Arts & Photography

Laing, Dave.

Music

Routledge

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