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From craft to corporate interfacing: rock musicianship in the age of music television and computer-programmed music
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Meet the New Rock. Same as the olde New Rock? Not exactly--the new New Rock is branching away from last year's explosion of incendiary bands with names ......(Continue Reading)Rock and roll entrepreneur: Frank Zappa's true legacy
Was Frank Zappa, the memorably mustachioed musician who died in 1993 of prostate cancer, rock and roll's answer to Herman Melville? Maybe so, and not ......(Continue Reading)And the salsa beat goes on: salsa is dead. Gone. Kaput. Forget about it. A comatose genre swallowed alive by other styles of Latin music: rock en espanol
(First printed in The Chicago Tribune on December 21, 2004) For the last few years, the alleged death of salsa has been morbidly discussed in publications ......(Continue Reading)Subcultures, pop music and politics: skinheads and 'Nazi rock' in England and Germany
Abstract: Timothy S. Brown, "Subcultures, Pop Music and Politics: Skinheads and 'Nazi Rock' in England and Germany" This article takes a ......(Continue Reading)
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