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The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.83 — 577,670 ratings — published 2023
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,791 ratings — published 2013
Switched On Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.03 — 563 ratings — published 2019
Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,778 ratings — published 2016
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 61,956 ratings — published 2004
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.55 — 6,011 ratings — published 2024
I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,286 ratings — published 2016
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.29 — 225 ratings — published 2022
But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.03 — 539 ratings — published 2023
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.21 — 355,798 ratings — published 2010
Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.86 — 223 ratings — published 2017
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,551 ratings — published 2021
Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.08 — 409 ratings — published 2020
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,859,237 ratings — published 2019
The Age of Bowie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.44 — 685 ratings — published 2016
Different for Girls: A Girl's Own True-life Adventures in Pop (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,178 ratings — published 2010
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,820 ratings — published 2015
Born to Run (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 55,321 ratings — published 2016
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.83 — 36,688 ratings — published 2015
High Fidelity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 215,712 ratings — published 1995
Cut `n' Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music (Comedia)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.96 — 90 ratings — published 1986
Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.39 — 388 ratings — published 2009
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,736 ratings — published 1989
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,706 ratings — published 2007
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,016 ratings — published 2010
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,108 ratings — published 2009
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,044 ratings — published 2001
Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pop-music)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,370 ratings — published 2005
Real Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 133 ratings — published 2025
Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.13 — 163 ratings — published 2025
Bread of Angels: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,197 ratings — published 2025
Lowdown: The Music of Boz Scaggs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published
Mary Jane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 112,885 ratings — published 2021
Good Pop, Bad Pop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,816 ratings — published 2022
Vagabond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.37 — 5,576 ratings — published 2025
Pop Scars: A memoir on fame, addiction and the dark side of 90s pop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.23 — 188 ratings — published
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,202 ratings — published 2025
Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.06 — 325 ratings — published
The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 939 ratings — published 2014
Open Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.09 — 114,318 ratings — published 2020
Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 3.91 — 216 ratings — published 2001
Lady Gaga (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,148 ratings — published 2011
The Dollhouse Academy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 3.51 — 4,258 ratings — published 2025
Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 3.99 — 575 ratings — published 2000
This One's for You (SAB Choral with Optional Guitar, Percussion and Electric or String Bass)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Bless Me Father: A Life Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 4.06 — 200 ratings — published
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 3.83 — 685 ratings — published 2019
Heatwave: The Summer of 1976 – Britain at Boiling Point (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 3.97 — 68 ratings — published
Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,489 ratings — published 2025
The Velvet Underground and Nico (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pop-music)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,176 ratings — published 2004
“Guitars (except when played in "classical"—that is, archaic—style) are low [status] by nature, and that is why they were so often employed as tools of intentional class degradation by young people in the 1960s and '70s. The guitar was the perfect instrument for the purpose of signaling these young people's flight from the upper-middle and middle classes, associated as it is with Gypsies, cowhands, and other personnel without inherited or often even earned money and without fixed residence.”
― Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
― Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
“I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend.”
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