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      American StudiesPopular Music StudiesPopular MusicAmerican Popular Music
Stairway to Paradise reveals how American Jewish entrepreneurs, musicians, and performers influenced American popular music from the late nineteenth century till the mid-1960s. From blackface minstrelsy, ragtime, blues, jazz, and Broadway... more
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      The BeatlesCole PorterAmerican Popular MusicHarold Arlen
My objective with this thesis is to investigate and document the extent to which Jamerson appropriated the skills he acquired in jazz and blues environments into a popular music context, arguably transforming the role of the bass guitar.... more
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      Music HistoryEthnomusicologyAfrican American CultureHistory of Popular Music
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Both "Something Wild" (Jonathan Demme, 1986) and "Blue Velvet" (David Lynch, 1986) question contemporary conservative social agendas, but also subtly confirm traditional, paternalistic images of masculinity by using music to undermine... more
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      Gender StudiesFilm StudiesFilm Music And SoundMasculinities
M. Smółka, San Francisco Sound. Charakterystyka i znaczenie [in:] Eyes on America II, ed. R. Rybkowski, AT Wydawnictwo: Kraków 2015, pp. 33-47. W latach sześćdziesiątych na scenie muzycznej San Francisco wytworzyło się specyficzne... more
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By 1971, DIANA ROSS has already had her fair share of challenge and achievement. Music could do the talking.
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Filling a gap in existing scholarship, this essay explores philosopher Alan Watts’ engagements with Hindustani (North Indian classical) music by examining excerpts of Watts’ written work and considering the significance of his personal... more
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      Music History1960s (U.S. history)Psychedelics (Psychology)Hindustani music
L'articolo riflette sull'importanza della scrittura e sulla produzione del cantautore ebraico-canadese Leonard Norman Cohen.
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M. Smółka, Wyborcza ścieżka dźwiękowa. Wykorzystanie muzyki w amerykańskich kampaniach prezydenckich lat 1824-2012 [in:] Czas wojny, czas pokoju. Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki w XX i XXI wieku. Tom II, ed. Ł. Niewiński, Napoleon V: Oświęcim... more
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