Billy Joel has sold over 150 million records, produced thirty-three Top-40 hits, received six Grammy Awards, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fans celebrate him, critics deride him, and scholars have all but ignored him. This first-of-its-kind collection of essays on the music of Billy Joel offers close analysis and careful insight into the ways his work has impacted popular music during the last fifty years. Using a diversity of approaches, including those not traditionally found within popular musicological studies, this volume serves as a model for how any scholar can approach the study of popular music, regardless of their methodological leanings. These chapters interrogate how popular music frames personal and collective experiences, participates in the construction of history and culture, and invites us to reflect on its importance in our daily lives.
| ISBN: | 9781793601810 |
| Publication date: | 10th August 2020 |
| Author: | Ryan Raul Bañagale, Joshua S Duchan, Billy Joel |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 260 pages |
| Series: | For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music |
| Genres: |
Popular music Popular culture |
Billy Joel has sold over 150 million records, produced thirty-three Top-40 hits, received six Grammy Awards, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fans celebrate him, critics deride him, and scholars have all but ignored him. This first-of-its-kind collection of essays on the music of Billy Joel offers close analysis and careful insight into the ways his work has impacted popular music during the last fifty years. Using a diversity of approaches, including those not traditionally found within popular musicological studies, this volume serves as a model for how any scholar can approach the study of popular music, regardless of their methodological leanings. These chapters interrogate how popular music frames personal and collective experiences, participates in the construction of history and culture, and invites us to reflect on its importance in our daily lives.
"We Didn't Start the Fire" features in the following genres: Popular music, Popular culture
"We Didn't Start the Fire" is available in Hardback
"We Didn't Start the Fire" was written by Ryan Raul Bañagale, Joshua S Duchan, Billy Joel and published by Lexington Books
"We Didn't Start the Fire" has 260 pages
Yes it is part of For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music series