Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201) and index.
Get your 45s on : Terry Melcher, lost in the surf and sun of the 1960s sound waves -- How the midwest was won : the Chicago suburbs seven, a mid 1960s regional rotation -- Covering outside the lines : Hans Fenger and the Langley Schools music project -- Geffen Records v. Neil Young : the battle of the brands -- Music and movie mutuality : Ry Cooder, the involved bystander -- World music missionaries : cross culture convergences -- The vital visual voice of the videotape editor : seamlessly sculpting Graceland : the African concert -- Rock around the cop : Bochco's Broadway blue print as television musical muse and martyr -- Must sing TV : pop rock sitcom cameo obscuras -- Umbilical musical chords : lineage, legacy, and mom and pop pedigree -- Die another day : Warren Zevon's desperado deteriorata.
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There are undercurrents and peripheral taste preferences that are a defining part of our individual and collective cultural experience. Music is no exception. Professor George Plasketes adapts the iconic 'A-side/B-side' dichotomy from the 45 r.p.m. for use as a unique conceptual, critical, historical, and cultural framework for exploring and threading together a variety of popular music and media texts. The profiles and perspectives focus on the peripheries; on texts which might be considered 'B-sides' - overlooked, underappreciated, and unsung cases, creators, patterns and productions that ha.
B-sides, undercurrents and overtones.
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Music-- United States-- History and criticism.
Popular music-- United States-- History and criticism.