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Popular Culture and Acquisitions
Here is an accessible book containing strategies to help librarians expand their popular culture collections in an organized manner. Many publications explain why libraries should collect popular culture materials; this one explains how. Packed full of useful information, Popular Culture and Acquisitions provides numerous practical approaches to collecting this ever-expanding, often unwieldy mass of information. It aids both beginning and experienced librarians as they sort through the vast array of materials available to them. Discussions ranging from what to collect and how to collect it to what to do with the material once it’s obtained give librarians solid information on how to establ...
The Marlburian
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More Than Just the Music
This investigation of public memory and popular music assesses sound recordings from a thematic perspective. Lyric analysis is utilized to identify and interpret several persistent topics that resonate in the words of hundreds of popular recordings. The specific topics highlighted in this study include answer songs, bridges, bees, Christmas recordings, coffee, obesity, tears and weeping, technological innovations, teenage imagery, and the Vietnam War. Thematic diversity prevails. As the audio lens provides numerous lyrical snapshot of American life, each chapter in this volume becomes a topical gallery.
Popular Music Scholarship
A collection of articles, book and compact disc reviews, discographies and bibliographies covering a wide range of rock music topics. The features cover hyperbole in song lyrics, Huey "Piano" Smith, the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, and Wilson Pickett. The focus in the 1950-1970 although popular music throughout the 20th century is covered.
Twentieth-century Popular Culture in Museums and Libraries
Although libraries and museums for many centuries have taken the lead, under one rational or another, in recovering, storing, and displaying various kinds of culture of their periods, lately, as the gap between elite and popular culture has apparently widened, these repositories of artifacts of the present for the future have tended to drift more and more to what many people call the aesthetically pleasing elements of our culture. The degree to which our libraries and museums have ignored our culture is terrifying, when one scans the documents and artifacts of our time which, if history in any wise repeats itself, will in the immediate and distant future become valuable indices of our present culture to future generations. As Professor Schroeder dramatically states it, "No doubt about it, it is the contemporary popular culture that is the endangered species." The essays in this book investigate the reasons for present-day neglect of popular culture materials and chart the various routes by which conscientious and insightful librarians and museum directors can correct this disastrous oversight.
Discs of Distinction
Most record reviews consist of a single paragraph. These brief commentaries usually highlight the artist's recent releases, the style of music being performed, personal reactions to two or three tunes on the CD, and a critical judgment of the 12-song audio endeavor. This study offers much more. The remarkable recordings and exceptional artists presented below warrant more thorough, thoughtful reviews. These performers are placed within historical context and assessed for both particular CDs as well as their lifetime recording outputs. Featured songs are discussed as sociological subsets that help to define American popular culture.
More Discs of Distinction
Most record reviews consist of a single paragraph. These brief commentaries usually highlight the artist's recent releases, the style of music being performed, personal reactions to two or three tunes on the CD, and a critical judgment of the 12-song audio endeavor. This study - the second in an ongoing series - offers much more. The remarkable recordings and exceptional artists presented below warrant more thorough, thoughtful reviews. These performers are placed within historical context and assessed for both particular CDs as well as their lifetime recording outputs. Featured songs are discussed as sociological subsets that help to define American popular culture.
Persistent Themes in Sound Recordings
During the past century recorded music has echoed from phonographs, jukeboxes, car radios, televisions, portable Walkmen, and contemporary digital devices. In addition to general listeners and record buyers, music scholars have taken interest in audio imagery and prominent themes in lyrics. This volume continues that academic tradition. However, it should be noted that rather than just naming isolated subjects in songs, this investigation probes for clusters of ideas that constitute important audio themes. This is the fourth of several volumes in the "Persistent Themes" Series being sponsored by The Paw Paw Press. Each volume examines a few highly important general themes by breaking them do...
Wallace's Monthly
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