Takes readers into digital labs around the world where hit songs, studded with musical "hooks" designed to snag your short-term memory, are being created using special techniques and hard-earned knowledge. Describes how this approach heralds a new trend in the music industry today.
Teens Ivy Wilde and Marla Klein, both minor celebrities, face major lifestyle changes as pop-star Ivy questions the rampant consumerism required to maintain her image, and fashionista Marla sees first-hand the appalling working conditions that allowed her to be a trend-setter.
Offers a critical history of pop music in America. Discusses the sheet music era, the rise of records, music charts, rock and roll, radio, singer-songwriters, punk, disco, music videos, hip-hop, and digitization of music.
the most important rap song from every year since 1979, discussed, debated, and deconstructed
Serrano, Shea
"This book takes readers from 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cultural and musical landscape, and comes right up to the present, with Shea Serrano ... discussing, debating, and deconstructing the most important rap song year by year"--Amazon.
"Twelve-year-old Mackenzie Lowell goes on the road with her favorite boy band when her mom gets a job as the band's tour manager"--Provided by publisher.
Fourteen-year-old Hudson is a gifted singer/songwriter like her mother, pop sensation Holla Jones, but while working on her debut album, Hudson struggles to convince her mother that she would rather stick with her own, intimate style than follow her mother's path to fame.
"A teenage girl grapples with her sister's death and her own place in the universe over the course of one fateful summer in upstate New York"--Provided by publisher.
