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
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
The Age of Bowie
I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend. ...more
Nuno Roque

Greil Marcus
Because I don't make the mistake that high-culture mongers do of assuming that because people like cheap art, their feelings are cheap, too,” the late filmmaker Dennis Potter once said, explaining why pop songs were so important in his work, from Pennies from Heaven to The Singing Detective to Lipstick on Your Collar, his paean to the 1950s, the time he shared with the Independent Group—and Potter was also defining a pop ethos, defining what I think is happening in Paolizzi's collage. "When peop ...more
Greil Marcus, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years

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