Pop Music


The Woman in Me
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
Switched On Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters
Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop
Chronicles, Volume One
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups
Just Kids
Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America
Daisy Jones & The Six
Pop is not music. Pop is celebrity. Fabricated personas that are all style, no substance. Pop is a celebration of fakeness. Artifice is the only cultural currency left, now that the internet has erased all contextual borders.
David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song

Logically, when Maestro Gott some years ago, after an especially cruel critic had compared him to "a zombie who causes acute depression to innocent radio listeners", decided to stop performing in protest, the situation was considered so grave that the Minister of Culture himself went to console the deeply insulted star. ...more
Terje B. Englund, The Czechs in a Nutshell

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