商品簡介
Experiencing Billy Joel 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. Along the way, author Thomas MacFarlane outlines how Billy Joel's recorded works as a whole serve as the foundation for a complex and enduring musical legacy. As part of the Listener's Companion series, this volume gives readers an enhanced experience of key works by exploring the environments in which the works were written and first performed as well as the environments in which the works are enjoyed today.
作者簡介
Thomas MacFarlane teaches courses in music research and composition at New York University while also working as a composer and a writer. MacFarlane is the author of The Beatles' Abbey Road Medley: Extended Forms in Popular Music and The Beatles and McLuhan: Understanding The Electric Age, and has also contributed chapters to various scholarly studies on popular music.
