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TV-a-go-go [[electronic resource] ] : rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol / / Jake Austen



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Autore: Austen Jake Visualizza persona
Titolo: TV-a-go-go [[electronic resource] ] : rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol / / Jake Austen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : Chicago Review Press, c2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
Disciplina: 791.45/6578
Soggetto topico: Rock music on television
Music television - United States - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-351) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Rock Around the Box: Proto TV Rock and the Order of St. Sullivan; 2 Lip-Synch Traces: Dick Clark, Jack Good, and TV Dance Shows; 3 Faking the Band: Keeping It Unreal with Monkees, Partridges, and Their Play Pals; 4 The Hippest Trip in Town: Black-on-Black Music TV; 5 Never Mind the Bollocks: Here's the Chipmunks!: Rock 'n' Roll Cartoons; 6 Rock Concert: 1970's TV Rock; 7 BEEF BEEF BEEF BEEF BALONEY!: Punk Rock on TV; 8 Video Vanguard: MTV, Music Videos, and the History of Rock 'n' Roll on TV
9 Idol Bands Are the Devil's Workshop: Rock 'n' Roll Reality TV 10 Michael Jackson: Chronicle of a Life on TV; Appendix 1: International TV Rock; Appendix 2: Rock 'n' Roll TV Guide; Source Notes; Index
Sommario/riassunto: From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-show contests, television as this critical look brilliantly shows has done a superb job of presenting the energy of rock in a fabulously entertaining but patently ""fake"" manner. The dichotomy of ""fake"" and ""real"" music as it is portrayed on television is presented in detail through many generations of rock music: the Monkees shared the charts with the Beatles, Tupac and Slayer fans voted for corny American Idols, and shows like
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ISBN: 1-55652-680-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451179603321
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