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1) Bitches brew
Author
Series
33 1/3 volume 110
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams. Following the circumscribed grooves and ambiance of In A Silent Way; coming off a tour with a burning new quintet-called 'The Lost Band'-with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops-the sterile products of a lab environment-replacing it with one in which game sounds constituted a legitimate form of artistic expression. Andrew Schartmann takes us through the various external factors (e.g., the video game crash of 1983, Nintendo's marketing tactics) that coalesced into a ripe environment...
11) Marquee moon
Author
Series
33 1/3 volume 83
Publisher
Continuum
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Bryan Waterman examines Television's album Marquee Moon and its significance within the cultural history of SoHo, the East Village, and the beginnings of American punk rock
Author
Series
33 1/3 volume 56
Publisher
Continuum
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
John Darnielle describesMaster of Reality in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric center in southern California in 1985. The narrator explains Black Sabbath like an emissary from an alien race describing his culture to his captors: passionately, patiently, and lovingly.
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