Item Detail
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Hardy, Phil
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Laing, Dave
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The Faber companion to 20th-century popular music
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Book
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London; Boston, Mass.
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c1990
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Faber and Faber
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ix, 875 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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0571138373; 9780571138371
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Popular music--Bio-bibliography.
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Popular Music; Twentieth Century; Recording Artists
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ML 102 .P66 H37x 1990
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Hardy, Phil. The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music. London: Faber and Faber, 1990.
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An encyclopedia containing more than 2,000 recording artists who have contributed to the evolution of popular music in the twentieth century, bringing together popular music in all of its forms.
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Takes a comprehensive approach, listing solo recording artists, bands, song-writers, instrumentalists, record label executives, inventors of music equipmentalmost anyone who contributed to the rise of popular music, with a broad range: from Enrico Caruso to Bing Cosby to Michael Jackson; establishing links and continuity between artists, their genres, and their contributions. Includes many genres of popular music: jazz, hip-hop, country, rap, disco, Broadway, indie, pop, etc. Also includes a glossary of popular music terms used in the book.
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Contains 875 pages of alphabetical listings with no additional index or contents. Citations are concise, generally 200-600 words or less. Each listing provides basic biographical information such as birth, death where applicable, and popular hits or substantial contribution to the industry. Includes glossary of styles and genres. Cross- references within citations to other references in Companion are given bold type.
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Intuitive and concise. A particularly useful addition to the source is the glossary of terms found in the front of the book.
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Concise citations lack depth of research and book lacks a bibliography that might point one to additional research. Information on newer entities is dated (published in 1990). In the ever-changing world of popular music the expanded edition published in 1995 by Da Capo would be a more complete research source.
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BYU Mus Ref
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2093