Paperback. Good. ISBN 184792218X 9781847922182 [GB]

Paperback. Very Good. ISBN 184792218X 9781847922182 [GB]

ISBN10: 184792218X, ISBN13: 9781847922182, [publisher: The Bodley Head] Softcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]

ISBN10: 184792218X, ISBN13: 9781847922182, [publisher: Bodley Head] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]
Show/Hide image

Bodley Head Ltd, Date: 2015-01-01. Hardcover. New. 9x6x1. Bodley Head Ltd ISBN 184792218X 9781847922182 [US]

ISBN10: 184792218X, ISBN13: 9781847922182, [publisher: Bodley Head, London] Hardcover First Edition This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in laminated, illustrated paper covered boards. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars of the twentieth century to the omnipresence of music in our lives, in hit singles, ringtones and on Spotify. Over that time, popular music has transformed the world in which we live. Its rhythms have influenced how we walk down the street, how we face ourselves in the mirror, and how we handle the outside world in our daily conversations and encounters. It has influenced our morals and social mores; it has transformed our attitudes towards race and gender, religion and politics. From the beginning of recording, when a musical performance could be preserved for the first time, to the digital age, when all of recorded music is only a mouse-click away; from the straitlaced ballads of the Victorian era and the 'coon songs' that shocked America in the early twentieth century to gangsta ...