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One-Hit Wonders

An Oblique History of Popular Music

Herausgeber: Hill, Sarah

Beschreibung

The one-hit wonder has a long and storied history in popular music, exhorting listeners to dance, to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, to ponder mortality, to get a job, to bask in the sunshine, or just to get up and dance again. Catchy, memorable, irritating, or simply ubiquitous, one-hit wonders capture something of the mood of a time. This collection provides a series of short, sharp chapters on one-hit wonders from the 1950s to the present day, with a view toward understanding both the mechanics of success and the socio-musical contexts within which such songs became hits.

Autor

Sarah Hill is Associate Professor of Popular Music and Tutorial Fellow at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, UK. She is Co-ordinating Editor of the journal Popular Music and Chair of the UK/Ireland branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. She is the author of 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music (2007), Peter Gabriel, from Genesis to Growing Up (2010), and San Francisco and the Long 60s (Bloomsbury 2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781501368417
• ISBN-10: 1501368419
• Artikelnr.: 62268081