New book - As heard on TV

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As Heard on TV:Popular music in advertising by Bethany Klein has arrived in the library(both print and electronic)


Portions of the book have appeared before in the journals Media culture and Society and Popular Music and Society.

The books and journals are available electronically through Library Search on and off campus (make sure you sign in).

If you are interested in doing your own research on the topic - look at the substantial bibliography at the back of the book (pp. 149-159) and try some key words such as "music" "song" "commercial" "advertising" in the library e-resources for music.

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90 Free Thursdays + Westminster University presents!

***THURSDAY 27TH JANUARY 2011***

@ 93 FEET EAST, 150 Brick Lane E1C 6QL

FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT!

With Live performances from:

THE LITTLE PICTURESPOISONETTE feat. Danny Gager

BENEATH THE BEACH, BENEATH THE PAVEMENT

HANA PIRANHA

TALKING TIMBERRUN CHLOE RUN

***THIS GIG IS GETTING FILMED! PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AND SPREAD THE WORD!***

Doors 7:15pm. First band ONSTAGE at 7:45pm.

ID May Be Required, please bring it!

BBQ Outside in the Courtyard.Main bar opens at 5pm.

Nearest Tube Stations:Shoreditch, Aldgate East, Liverpool St, Bethnal Green Road More info....

Googlemap.

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Patti Smith talk - 25th January

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Tickets are still available for Intelligence Squared conversations with rock's poet laureate Patti Smith talking about her artistic coming-of-age in 1970s New York.
Go to www.intelligencesquared.com/events for more details.

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New book in the library - She's so fine

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For those who are interested in gender and music a new book has just been added to the library

She's so fine: reflections on whiteness, femininity, adolescence and class in 1960s music edited by Laurie Stras covers the topic of British and American women singers during the 50s and 60s. The book includes chapters and sections on Sandie Shaw, Tina Turner, Welsh pop star -Mary Hopkin, Marianne Faithfull, Cilla, Lulu, Dusty and a section on vocal techniques of girl singers in the 60s.

A review by Lee Barron (principal lecturer, department of media, Northumbria University. His research focuses on celebrity, gender and popular music.) in the Times Higer Educational Supplement states:
"The book's standout chapters include those written by Jacqueline Warwick, Annie J. Randall and Susan Fast. Warwick analyses He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss), detailing the ways in which Gerry Goffin's lyric appears to condone male domestic violence in a mainstream pop-song setting, while Randall charts Dusty Springfield's emergence from the Mod "revolution" and her later reign as Britain's "White Queen of Soul". Both chapters approach the issue of gender in differing, but highly convincing ways" Read more of the book review...

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