We Didn't Start the Fire (eBook, PDF)

Billy Joel and Popular Music Studies
Redaktion: Duchan, Joshua S.; Bañagale, Ryan Raul

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Billy Joel has sold over 150 million records, produced thirty-three Top-40 hits, received six Grammy Awards, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fans celebrate him, critics deride him, and scholars have all but ignored him. This first-of-its-kind collection of essays offers close analysis and careful insight into the ways his work has impacted popular music during the last fifty years. Using diverse approaches, this volume serves as a model for how any scholar can approach the study of popular music. Ultimately, these chapters interrogate how popular music frames our experiences, constitutes our history and culture, and gains importance in our daily lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978785670
• Artikelnr.: 74399662

Autorenporträt

Joshua S. Duchan is associate professor of music and director of graduate studies in the Department of Music at Wayne State University. Ryan Raul Bañagale is associate professor of music and director of performing arts at Colorado College.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Billy Joel
Introduction: "The Stranger": Locating Billy Joel in Popular Music Studies
Ryan Raul Bañagale and Joshua S. Duchan
Part I: "Somewhere Along the Line": Considering Tradition
Chapter One: From Liverpool to Hicksville: Sgt. Pepper Meets The Nylon
Curtain
Joshua S. Duchan
Chapter Two: Movin' Out on Thunder Road: Images of Ambition, Escape, and
Authenticity in Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen
John J. Sheinbaum
Part II: "This Is the Time": Performance Analysis
Chapter Three: Billy Joel, Piano Culture, and Rock's Road Not Taken
Jonathan D. Bellman
Chapter Four: Form, Lyrics, and the "Short-Short-Long" Pattern in Billy
Joel's Music
Don Traut
Part III: "You're My Home": Imagined Locations
Chapter Five: "The Downeaster 'Alexa'": Billy Joel Signifies Folk
Morgan Jones
Chapter Six: "Nothing Rhymes With Bethlehem": City Branding Schemes and the
Strategic Deployment of Billy Joel's "Allentown"
Sarah Messbauer
Part IV: "Stop in Nevada": Live Performance
Chapt