"We didn't start the fire" : Billy Joel and popular music studies /: Billy Joel and popular music studies. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Joshua S. Duchan and Ryan Raul Bañagale ; foreword by Billy Joel.
• Editors: Duchan, Joshua S; Bañagale, Ryan Raul
• Other Names: Joel, Billy writer of foreword.
• Contents: Introduction. "The Stranger" : Locating Billy Joel in Popular Music Studies / Ryan Raul Bañagale and Joshua S. Duchan -- "SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE" : CONSIDERING TRADITION. From Liverpool to Hicksville : Sgt. Pepper Meets The Nylon Curtain / Joshua S. Duchan ; Movin' Out on Thunder Road : Images of Ambition, Escape, and Authenticity in Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen / John J. Sheinbaum -- "THIS IS THE TIME" : PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS. Billy Joel, Piano Culture, and Rock's Road Not Taken / Jonathan D. Bellman ; Form, Lyrics, and the "Short-Short-Long" Pattern in Billy Joel's Music / Don Traut -- "YOU'RE MY HOME" : IMAGINED LOCATIONS. "The Downeaster 'Alexa' : Billy Joel Signifies Folk / Morgan Jones ; "Nothing Rhymes With Bethlehem" : City Branding Schemes and the Strategic Deployment of Billy Joel's "Allentown" / Sarah Messbauer -- "STOP IN NEVADA" : LIVE PERFORMANCE. "She's Got a Way" : Gendered and Physical Embodiment in Interpreting Billy Joel in American Sign Language / Elyse Marrero ; Twenty-First-Century Patronage : The Road to Billy Joel's Madison Square Garden Concert Residency / Stan Soocher -- "JUST THE WAY YOU ARE" : ARRANGING BILLY JOEL, ARRANGING OURSELVES. Scenes From a Music Museum : The Piano Man's Notebooks in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame / Jason Hanley and Kathryn Metz ; Disavowing Billy Joel : Taste Shaming and "Schlock" Fandom / James Deaville ; My Lives : Greatest Hits and the Arranging of a Career / Ryan Raul Bañagale -- TRANSCRIPT. "Take the Phone Off the Hook" : A Public Interview with Billy Joel, interviewed by Ryan Raul Bañagale and Joshua S. Duchan.
• Publisher Details: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 782.42166092 B; Popular music -- History and criticism; Popular music -- Analysis, appreciation; Musique populaire -- Histoire et critique; Popular music; Popular music -- Analysis, appreciation; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1793601828; 9781793601827
• Related ISBNs: 9781793601810
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 15, 2020).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.