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'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
Dance-Punk 33 1/3 Genre Series by Larissa Wodtke
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Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Beginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define. Also sometimes referred to as disco-punk and funk-punk, it skirts, overlaps, and blurs into other genres including post-punk, post-disco, new wave, mutant disco, and synthpop. This book explores the historic ...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
Math Rock 33 1/3 Genre Series by Jeff Gomez
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Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Math rock sounds like blueprints look: exact, precise, architectural. This trance-like progressive metal music with indie rock and jazz influences has been captivating and challenging listeners for decades. Bands associated with the genre include King Crimson, Black Flag, Don Caballero, Slint, American ...Show more
Neue Deutsche Welle by Claudia Lonkin
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Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW), or "German New Wave," was made extraordinarily popular in the 1970s and 1980s by the likes of Nena's "99 Luftballoons" and Trio's "Da Da Da"-and then left as quickly as it came. Conventional wisdom among artists dictates that it's better to burn out than fade away, but this do ...Show more
South African Popular Music by Lior Phillips
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Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the '40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house explosion of the '00s, this book explores vignettes taken from across South Africa's popular music history. There are moments in time where music can be a mighty weapon in the fight for freed ...Show more
Trip-Hop (Genre - a '33 1/3' series) by R. J. Wheaton
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Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas. The music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice. It emerged amid the social tensions of the late 1980s, and as part of hip-hop's rise to global dominance. It carried the innovations ...Show more
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