Query: Books that are only about pop music
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Be My Baby (book)
Switched on Pop
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
The Manual
Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles
File Under Popular
The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation
Like Punk Never Happened
The Label
Mean Deviation (book)
Empire of Dirt
How Music Got Free
Evidence from documents: Be My Baby (book): '''''Be My Baby: The Autobiography of Ronnie Spector''''') is a memoir by Ronnie Spector co-written with Vince Waldron, which recounts her roller-coaster career as lead singer of the Ronettes and her emotionally abusive marriage to Phil Spector.
Switched on Pop: a 2019 nonfiction book written by Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan with illustrations provided by Iris Gottlieb. The book covers pop music from a musicological perspective.
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs: irst edition(publ. Andrews McMeel Publishing)
'''''Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs''''' is a 1997 humor book written by ''Miami Herald'' columnist Dave Barry, chronicling the results of his bad song survey. The survey started when he wrote a column about a song he thought was particularly bad (Neil Diamond's "I Am...I Said")
Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music: In this book the authors discuss the quest for authenticity in popular music and the influence that that quest has had in the type of music that is played and listened, in particular a preference for raw, simple, underproduced music as opposed to sophisticated, complex, carefully produced music.
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present: '''''The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present''''' is a book released in November 2021 by the English musician Paul McCartney and the Irish poet Paul Muldoon. It is published by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom, W.W. Norton/Liveright in the United States of America and C.H. Beck in Germany.
The book consists of McCartney's discussions with Muldoon of the lyrics of 154 of his songs written during his time as a member of the rock bands the Beatles and Wings and as a solo artist. The songs are arranged alphabetically over two volumes. The book also includes many previously unseen photographs, paintings and handwritten texts. Muldoon spoke with McCartney over five years in two- to three-hour sessions during the creation of the book and felt that McCartney's "insights into his own artistic process confirm a notion at which we had but guessed—that Paul McCartney is a major literary figure who draws upon, and extends, the long tradition of poetry in English". Muldoon felt that their conversations mimicked McCartney's writing sessions with John Lennon as they were both "determined never to leave the room without something interesting".
File Under Popular: '''''File Under Popular: Theoretical and Critical Writings on Music''''' is a collection of seven essays on the political theory of popular music written by English percussionist, lyricist and music theorist, Chris Cutler. The essays were written between 1978 and 1983, four of them in response to requests and the rest unprompted. Two of the essays were first published in two German publications, and two were originally presented by Cutler at two international symposia on popular music. The book was first published in 1985 in London by November Books, the publishing wing of Cutler's independent record label, Recommended Records. It was also published in Polish, German and Japanese.
The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation: '''''The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation''''' is a book covering the history of the made-for-TV rock band, The Monkees.
Like Punk Never Happened: ''Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop''' is a 1986 book about 1980s pop by music journalist Dave Rimmer.
The Label: '''''The Label: The Story of Columbia Records''''' is a 2007 book by Gary Marmorstein, about the rise of Columbia Records. It covers how it made its way from the beginning: from signing its own artists, to making them celebrities.
Mean Deviation (book): '''''Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal''''' is a non-fiction book written by former ''Metal Maniacs'' magazine editor Jeff Wagner.
Empire of Dirt: In chapter 1 the author discuss 'What Is "Indie"?'. A problem with defining indie is that any precise definition will exclude music and performers which indie fans and insiders feel should be included or include ones that should be excluded.
How Music Got Free: Artists such as Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Eminem, Kanye West, and Jay Z have their material distributed online due to Glover's actions. Witt states that Glover and RNS became the world’s premier music pirates, possibly costing the record industry millions of dollars.