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Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen
David R. Shumway
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Description for Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen
Hardback. Filled with memorable photographs, Rock Star will appeal to anyone interested in modern American popular culture or music history. Num Pages: 264 pages, 26, 26 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
"All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are stars," states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of rock stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of rock icons. Shumway looks at the careers and cultural legacies of seven rock stars in the context of popular music and culture - Elvis Presley, James Brown, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, and Bruce Springsteen. Granted, there are many more names that fall into the rock icon category and that might rightfully appear on ... Read more
"All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are stars," states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of rock stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of rock icons. Shumway looks at the careers and cultural legacies of seven rock stars in the context of popular music and culture - Elvis Presley, James Brown, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, and Bruce Springsteen. Granted, there are many more names that fall into the rock icon category and that might rightfully appear on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421413921
SKU
V9781421413921
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About David R. Shumway
David R. Shumway is a professor of English and literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University and author of Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline.
Reviews for Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen
Elvis was the prototype, but he wasn't a template. Shumway's other examples of the rock star share a penchant for capturing and expressing social issues and cultural conflicts in both their songs and how they present themselves, onstage and off.
Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed Will appeal to anyone interested in modern American popular culture or music history.
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Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed Will appeal to anyone interested in modern American popular culture or music history.
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