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  • Chicagoland at 45 RPM
    George Plasketes
    The greater Chicagoland area of the Midwest--Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa--well represented the profuse pop rock playlist of the mid-1960s. This prolific area produced a significant soundtrack from late 1965 into 1972 that reverberated across the country. The vibrant suburban scene produced nearly 40 singles that reached the record charts locally and regi...
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    58,68 €

  • True Disbelievers
    George Plasketes
    The legion of fans who refuse to believe that Elvis Presley died August 16, 1977 has been a major force behind the ever-expanding, elusive, and enduring Elvis myth during the past seventeen years ...
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    82,32 €

  • Warren Zevon
    George Plasketes
    George Plasketes provides a comprehensive chronicle of Warren Zevon’s 40-year, 20-record career and his enduring cultural significance. Throughout, Plasketes explores the musical, cinematic, and literary influences that shaped Zevon’s distinctive style and songwriting themes. ...
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    45,87 €

  • B-Sides, Undercurrents and Overtones
    George Plasketes
    In this book, 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...
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    95,01 €

  • Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself
    George Plasketes
    These essays bring together the stories of 23 debut albums over a nearly fifty year span, ranging from Buddy Holly and the Crickets in 1957 to The Go! Team in 2004. In addition to biographical background and a wealth of historical information about the genesis of each album, essayists look back at the albums and place them within multiple contexts, particularly the artist’s car...
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    98,83 €

  • Play it Again
    George Plasketes
    The cover phenomenon in popular culture may be viewed as a postmodern manifestation in music as artists revisit, reinterpret and re-examine a significant cross section of musical styles, periods, genres, individual records, and other artists and their catalogues of works. The cover complex, with its multiple variations, issues, contexts, and re-contextualizations comprises an i...
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    106,91 €