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Rock stars who "went disco" crossed a musical rubicon and forever smashed cultural conformity. The ongoing dance-rock phenomenon demonstrates the impact of this unique place and time. The disco crossover forever changed rock.

In 1981, David Bowie and Queen both happened to be in Switzerland: They met and made "Under Pressure." Recorded on a lark, the song broke the path for subsequent pop anthems. In Under Pressure, Max Brzezinski tells the classic track's story, charting the relationship between pop music, collective politics, and dominant institutions of state, corporations, and civil society. Brzezinski shows that, like all great pop anthems, "Under Pressure" harnesses collective sentiments in order to model new ways of thinking and acting.

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop meets Girls to the Front in this essential and long overdue history of hip-hop’s female pioneers and its enduring stars. Every history of hip-hop previously published, from Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop to Shea Serrano’s The Rap Yearbook, focuses...

"ROCK SCHOOL": Eine Ode an die geilste Musik der Welt: Leidenschaft, Einblicke hinter die Bühne und natürlich "Sex, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll". Fans und Freunde des Rocks sind eingeladen, zusammen mit Andy Brings und Stargästen der Branche in der neuen Serie "ROCK SCHOOL" über die einflussreichsten Größen der Musikszene zu philosophieren und zu schwärmen. "ROCK SCHOOL" wäre dabei nicht "ROCK SCHOOL", wenn es nicht mit einem Knall beginnen würde.

In the New York Times bestseller From Pieces to Weight, rap mogul 50 Cent, a.k.a. Curtis Jackson, lifts the veil on his complicated life, from the murder of his mother when he was twelve, to hustling on the streets; from the assassination attempt that nearly finished him to his meteoric rise to...