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Experiencing Billy Joel : A Listener's Companion.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Listener's Companion SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (199 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442257696
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Experiencing Billy JoelDDC classification:
  • 782.42166092
LOC classification:
  • ML420.J72M33 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- 1 A Portrait of the Artist -- 2 The Streetlife Serenader -- 3 I've Loved These Days -- 4 The Stranger on 52nd Street -- 5 Genre Games -- 6 Famous Last Words -- 7 Fantasies, Conclusions, and the Girl at the Party -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Selected Reading -- Selected Listening -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: This work analyzes each of Joel's albums, laying out their appeal to musicians and non-musicians alike while exploring the production styles that have characterized Joel's development in the recording studio. MacFarlane outlines how Billy Joel's recorded works as a whole serve as the foundation for a complex and enduring musical legacy.
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Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- 1 A Portrait of the Artist -- 2 The Streetlife Serenader -- 3 I've Loved These Days -- 4 The Stranger on 52nd Street -- 5 Genre Games -- 6 Famous Last Words -- 7 Fantasies, Conclusions, and the Girl at the Party -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Selected Reading -- Selected Listening -- Index -- About the Author.

This work analyzes each of Joel's albums, laying out their appeal to musicians and non-musicians alike while exploring the production styles that have characterized Joel's development in the recording studio. MacFarlane outlines how Billy Joel's recorded works as a whole serve as the foundation for a complex and enduring musical legacy.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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