Popular Music

Brad Benedict and Linda Barton's Phonographics: Contemporary Album Cover Art and Design (New York: Collier Books/Macmillan Publishing, 1977—$9.95, paper)

George McCue, ed. Music in American Society, 1776-1976: From Puritan Hymn to Synthesizer (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Inc., 1977—$14.95/3.95)

Dean Tudor and Andrew D. Armitage, comps. Popular Music Periodicals Index, 1975 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976—$15.00)

Derek Jewell, Duke: A Portrait of Duke Ellington (New York: Norton, 1977—$9.95)

Stanley Dance, The World of Earl Hines (New York: Scribner's, 1977—$14.95/7.95     

Popular Music

Brian Rust The American Record Label Book (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1978— $20.00)

Bill Harry Mersey Beat: The Beginnings of the the Beatles (London: Omnibus Press/New York: Quick Fox, 1978—E2.50/$4.95, paper)

Mary Laverne Dimmick The Rolling Stones: An Annotated Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978—$7.95)

Judith Glassman The Year in Music: 1978 (New York: Crown Publishers, 1978—$15.95)

Lionel Salter The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Classical Music: A Guide to Composers and Recommended Recordings (New York: Crown Books (Harmony Books)/London: Salamander Books, 1978—$17.95/8.95)

Gerald Bordman American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$35.00)     

Popular Music

Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik (eds.) All Together Now: The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961-1975 (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976—$5.95, paper)

Edwin Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky's The Complete Beatles Quiz Book (New York: Warner Books, 1975—$1.25, paper)

Irwin Stambler's Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976—$6.95, paper)

Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton's Folk Music: More than a Song (New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1976—$14.95)

Cole Porter: A Musical Anthology (New York: Chappell Music Co., 1976—$14.95)

David Reck's Music of the Whole Earth (New York: Scribner's, 1977—$19.95/9.95)     

Popular Music

Donald M. Marquis' In Search of Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1978—$9.95)

David A. Jasen and Trebar Jay Tichenor's Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History (New York: Seabury Press, 1978—$14.95)

Arnold Shaw's Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues (New York: Macmillan, 1978—$19.95/9.95)

Robert Stephen Spitz's The Making of Superstars: Artists and Executives of the Rock Music World (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978—$8.95)

Vivian Claire's Judy Collins, and Linda Ronstadt (New York: Quick Fox (33 West 60th St.), 1978—$3.95, each, paper)

Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton, and Ivan March's The Penguin Stereo Record Guide (New York: Penguin Books, 1977—$8.95, paper)     

Popular Music

John Brown's Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans (Gretna, La.: Pelican, 1978— $12.50)

Elizabeth Schlappi's Roy Acuff: The Smoky Mountain Boy (Gretna, La.: Pelican, 1978—$12.50)

Ray Charles and David Ritz' Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story (New York: Dial Press, 1978 —$9.95)

Nicholas Schaffner's The Beatles Forever (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978—$8.95, paper)

Julie Coryell and Laura Friedman's Jasz-Rock Fusion: The People, The Music (New York: Dell Delta Books, 1978—$9.95, paper)     

Popular Music

Frank Tirro Jazz: A History (New York: Norton, 1977—$16.95 in trade edition; $12.95 in text edition, both hardback)

Leonard Feather Inside Jazz (New York: Da Capo, 1977—$4.95, paper)

Jim Haskins The Cotton Club (New York: Random House, 1977—$15.00, with paperback edition available)

Jeff Todd Titon Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977—$16.50)     

Music and Popular Culture

Gaye Tuchman, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, and James Benet, eds. Hearth and Home: Ima9es of llomen in the Mass Media (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—no price given, but available in hardback and paperback)

Maurice Horn's Women in the Comics (New York: Chelsea House, 1977—$15.00)

Charles K. Wolfe's Tennessee Strings: The Story of Country Music in Tennessee (Knoxville, Yniversity of Tennessee Press, 1977—$3.50, paper)

Anthony Hopkins' Downbeat Music Guide (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1977—$4.95)

Peter L. Skolnik's Fads: America's Crazes, Fevers & Fancies From the 1890s to the 1970s (New York: Crowell, 1978—$9.95)     

The World of Popular Music

Tony Palmer's All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music (New York: Viking Press, 1976---$15.00)

Ron Schaumburg's Growing Up with the Beatles (New York: Pyramid Books, 1976---$5.95, paper)

Paul Gambaccini's Paul McCartney in His Own Words (New York: Flash Books/Quick Fox Inc., 1976---$3.95, paper)

Ritchie Yorke's The History of Rock 'n Roll (New York: Methuen/Two Continents, 1976---$5.95, paper)

Sharon Lawrence's So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star (New York: Dell, 1976---$1.75, paper)

Geoffrey Stokes' Star-Making Machinery: The Odyssey of an Album (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1976---$8.95)

Dave Dexter, Jr.'s Playback: A Newsman/Record Producer's Hits and Misses from the Thirties to the Seventies (New York: Billboard Publications, Inc., 1976---$9.95)

Ralph J. Gleason's Celebrating the Duke, and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy, and Other Heroes (New York: Delta Books, 1976---$3.95, paper)

Alec Wilder's American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975---$6.95, paper)     

Popular Music Periodicals in the Library

In the face of intensive and far-reaching social changes, it is imperative for library collections to reflect the needs and interests of their users and potential users in order to remain a vital force in contemporary society. This article attempts to provide libraries with a blueprint to facilitate the evaluation and selection of popular music periodicals. An annotated list of periodicals is appended to the text.     

Factors Affecting Hits in Japanese Popular Music

This article explores the hit chart period of Japanese popular music between January and March in 1990 and in 2004, using the survival model, and examines the factors involved in producing a hit. First, the results showed that fame of the artist, ties with other media, and compilation albums featuring several artists prolonged the hits chart period. Second, the music's survival period on the charts was shorter in 2004 than in 1990. This means that more titles appeared on the charts in 2004.     

Record and Hold: Popular Music between Personal and Collective Memory

Recorded music is vital to the construction of personal and collective cultural memory. My examination of the interrelation between personal and collective memories of popular music assumes both that human memory is simultaneously embodied, enabled, and embedded, and that (re)collective experiences are constructed through narratives. Analysis of an online set of narrative responses to a national radio-event, the Dutch Top 2000, shows that we need public spaces to share narratives and to create a common musical heritage.     

The Representation of Altruistic and Egoistic Motivations in Popular Music over 60 Years

Content analyses examining the values expressed in popular music have been predominantly ad hoc, limited to antisocial themes, and lacking a comprehensive theoretical coding scheme. We applied a content analytic scheme based in the model of intuitive morality and exemplars (MIME) to examine altruistic and egoistic values in popular music over 60 years. Findings show (a) more frequent representation of egoistic than altruistic motivations, and (b) the profusion of egoistic motivations focused mostly on romantic (in adult-targeted music) but also platonic (in child-targeted music) relationships.     

Popular Culture

Edited by Ray B. Browne, Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1980, 21.95 cloth, 10.95 paper)

The Buyer's Guide (Dynapubs Enterprises, 15800 Rt. 84 North, East Moline, IL 61244, 10.00/26 issues)

Mort Walker, Lexicon of Comicana (Port Chester, NY: Museum of Cartoon Art, Comly Ave., 1980, 95p, pb,) 4.95 plus 50* postage)

Geoffrey O'Brien, Hardboiled America: the Lurid Years of Paperbacks (New York: Van Nostrand, 1981, 144 pp., 16.95, cloth )

The Armchair Detective (Mysterious Press, 129 W. 56th St., NYC 10019, $16 USA, $20 elsewhere)

Bruce Pollock's When Rock Was Young: A Nostalgic Review of the Top 40 Era (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981, 214pp., 6.95 pb)

Jack Ziegler's Hamburger Madness (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978, 5.95 pb)

Vincent Lynch and Bill Henkin's Jukebox, the Golden Age (Berkeley: Lancaster-Miller, 1981, llOpp., 12.95 cloth)

Blamin Technology: The Irrational Search for Scapegoats (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981, -207 pp., 12.95 cloth)

Terry Hounsome and Tim Chambre's Rock Record (NY: Facts on File, Inc., 1981, 9.95 pb)

David Dary's Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984, 17.95, cloth)     

Popular Illustration

Jim Kalett People and Crowds: A Photographic Album for Artists and Designers (New York: Dover Publications, 1978—$5.00, paper)

W.H. Hutchinson The World, The Work & the West of W.H.D. Koerner (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978—$35.00)

Philippe Garner, ed. The Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts: 1890-1940 (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979—$35.00)

Colin Naylor and Genesis P-Orridge, eds. Contemporary Artists (London: St. James Press/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977—E25.00/$50.00)     

Popular Culture

WAITING FOR PRIME TIME: THE WOMEN OF TELEVISION NEWS by Marlene Sanders and Marcia Rock (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988—$19.95, ISBN 0-252-01435-9)

FAIR PLAY: CBS, GENERAL WESTMORELAND, AND HOW A TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY WENT WRONG by Burton Benjamin (New York: Harper &; Row, 1988—$17.95, ISBN 0-06-015928-6)

BEHIND THE FRONT PAGE: A CANDID LOOK AT HOW THE NEWS IS MADE by David S. Broder (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987—$8.95, paper, ISBN 0-671-65721-6)

BAD TIDINGS: COMMUNICATION AND CATASTROPHE edited by Lynne Masel Walters, Lee Wilkins, and Tim Walters ((Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989—price not given, ISBN 0-89859-951-2)

MEDIA, MYTHS AND NARRATIVES: TELEVISION AND THE PRESS edited by James W. Carey (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1988—$35.00/16.95, ISBN 0-8039-3049-6, paper)

PREDICTIONS OF PUBLIC OPINION FROM THE MASS MEDIA: COMPUTER CONTENT ANALYSIS AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING by David P. Fan (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988—$42.95, ISBN 0-313-26296-9)

JOURNALISTS AT WAR: THE DYNAMICS OF NEWS REPORTING DURING THE FALKLAND'S CONFLICT by David E. Morrison and Howard Tumber (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1988—$49.95/18.95, ISBN 0-8039-8057-4, hard 0-8039-8058-2, soft)

NEWS COVERAGE OF THE SANDINISTA REVOLUTION by Joshua Muravchik (American Enterprise Institute, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706—$19.95/9.95, ISBN 0-8447-3661-9 hard, and 0-8447-3662-7, soft)

IMAGE WARS: PROTECTING YOUR COMPANY WHEN THERE'S NO PLACE TO HIDE by Stan Sauerhaft and Chris Atkins (New York: John Wiley, 1989—$22.95, ISBN O471-60936-6)

THE IQ CONTROVERSY: THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC by Mark Snyderman and Stanley Rothman (Rutgers, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988—$24.95, ISBN 0-88738-151-0)

NEWS AS HEGEMONIC REALITY: AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE FRAMING OF NEWS ACCOUNTS by Allan Rachlin (New York: Praeger, 1988—$37.95, ISBN 0-275-92534-X)

BEYOND MALICE: THE MEDIA'S YEARS OF RECKONING by Richard M. Clurman (Transaction Books, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903—$24.95, ISBN 0-88738-234-7)

MASS MEDIA, CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS AND STREET GOSSIP: HOW COMMUNICATION AFFECTS THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN AN URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD by W. Phillips Davison (New York: Gannett Center for Media Studies, Columbia University, 1988—price not given, paper, ISBN not provided)

NEWS AND NUMBERS: A GUIDE TO REPORTING STATISTICAL CLAIMS AND CONTROVERSIES IN HEALTH AND OTHER FIELDS by Victor Cohn (Iowa State University Press, 2121 South State Ave., Ames, Iowa 50010—$17.95, ISBN 0-8138-1442-1)     

Popular Culture

10 titles (some from Frank Oglesbee) are described     

Popular culture

SEX, ART, AND AMERICAN CULTURES by Camille Paglia (New York: Vintage, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–679–74101 ‐1,335 pp.)

SHELF LIFE: MODERN PACKAGE DESIGN, 1920–1945 by Jerry Jankowski (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992— $14.95 paper, ISBN 0–8118–0075‐X, 119 pp.)

STAR WARS: FROM CONCEPT TO SCREEN TO COLLECTIBLE by Stephen J. Sansweet (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992—$29.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8118–0101–2 hard, 0–8118–0092–2 soft, 131 pp.)

LAURIE ANDERSON by John Howell (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992—$11.95, paper, ISBN 1–56025–029–1,160 pp.)

JANE & MICHAEL STERN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POP CULTURE (New York: HarperCollins, 1992—$35.00, ISBN 0–06–096972–5, 593 pp.)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FADS by Frank Hoffman and Bill Bailey (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1992—$19.95 paper, ISBN 0‐ 918393–72–8, 377 pp.)

HARD AT PLAY: LEISURE IN AMERICA, 1840–1940 edited by Kathryn Grover (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1992— $50.00/16.95, ISBN, 0–87023–792–6 hard, 0–87023–793–4, soft, 262 pp.)

CULTURE WARS: THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE AMERICA by James Davison Hunter (New York: Basic Books, 1992— $13.00, paper, ISBN 0–465‐ 01534–4, 416 pp.)

FREE SPEECH FOR ME—BUT NOT FOR THEE: HOW THE AMERICAN LEFT AND RIGHT RELENTLESSLY CENSOR EACH OTHER by NatHentoff (New York: HarperCollins, 1992— $25.00, ISBN 0–06–019006‐X, 405 pp.),

HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICA: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE WAR ON TRADITIONAL VALUES by Michael Medved (New York: Harper Collins, 1992—$20.00, ISBN 0–06–016882‐X, 386 pp.)

CARNIVAL CULTURE: THE TRASHING OF TASTE IN AMERICA by James B. Twitched (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992—$24.95, ISBN 0–231–07830–7, 305 pp.)

THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE: MEDIA AND THE URBAN ARTS by Diana Crane (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992— $14.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–3693–1, 198 pp.),

THE CREATION OF JAZZ: MUSIC, RACE, AND CULTURE IN URBAN AMERICA by Burton W. Peretti (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1992—$29.95, ISBN 0–252–01708–0, 277 pp.)     

Popular Illustration

Posterbooks, a roundup of seven paperback titles

Images of an Era: The American Poster, 1945-75 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1975---$12.50, paper)

Harry Harrison's Mechanismo (London: Pierrot Publishing Ltd./Morgans Run, Danbury, N.H.: Reed Books (Addison House)

John Lewis' Typography: Design and Practice (New York: Taplinger, 1978---$17.50 with a paperback also apparently available)

W.R. Miller et al's Graphic Arts (Bloomington, Ind.: McNight Publishing Co. (distributed by Taplinger in New York), 1978--- $3.96/2.64)

Bill Gray's More Studio Tips for Artists and Graphic Designers (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978---$4.95, paper)