This book is about the subjects of most popular songs' lyrics in the years between 1950-1990.

Popular Music Perspectives: Ideas, Themes, and Patterns in Contemporary Lyrics


If I could find the similar one for the contemporary songs, I'll post it too.

 

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What has America been singing about? Trends in themes in the U.S. top-40 songs: 1960–2010
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0305735617748205

 

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That book was antique. I'm sure its author would be so happy that someone reads it and gets acquainted with his thoughts and does not write such lyrics. He seemed very furious about the songs' themes.

Anyway, I'll not post such materials.

 

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I'm pretty sure that you could find *somewhere* to post it (*wink*wink*nudge*nudge,) that won't be concerned if it's copyrighted....

 

Death, destruction, desolation, poverty, solitude, suicide, homicide. I love cheerful and pleasant subjects like that.

 

Some people even celebrate 911, did you ever try to write a ditty about that ?

 

Original song by Charlotte Gainsbourg

I'll burn an effigy out of the past
Then our clothes catch fire as we dance
And I wonder how long it would last
Walking through a room full of broken glass

 

Most of its chapters have been summed up in this post:

But if you're still interested in spending your time to cordially loathe youth culture, I'll PM you.

 

Unfortunately they have the lowest interest for the young purchasers. You can peddle them to their parents.

 

I did, but you know that...Sometimes At Night/The World's Insane

Well, it wasn't a celebration but rather a reflection of my feelings in the aftermath.

 

I just kidded ...........

 

I noticed the graph for sex/sexual desire goes up and down a lot.

 

@Herr Durr I'm sorry. Let's kiss and make up. It was just for fun and quite irreverent to 9/11.

Popular scenes change so fast and as you see in the TOC, it's dead as a dodo and not much valid at present juncture. Writing lyrics individually and apart from the major songwriting societies is so frustrating without long-term prospects.

 

American Pop [4 volumes]: Popular Culture Decade by Decade

Pop culture is the heart and soul of America, a unifying bridge across time bringing together generations of diverse backgrounds. Whether looking at the bright lights of the Jazz Age in the 1920s, the sexual and the rock-n-roll revolution of the 1960s, or the thriving social networking websites of today, each period in America's cultural history develops its own unique take on the qualities define our lives.American Pop: Popular Culture Decade by Decade is the most comprehensive reference on American popular culture by decade ever assembled, beginning with the 1900s up through today. The four-volume set examines the fascinating trends across decades and eras by shedding light on the experiences of Americans young and old, rich and poor, along with the influences of arts, entertainment, sports, and other cultural forces.

Whether a pop culture aficionado or a student new to the topic, American Pop provides readers with an engaging look at American culture broken down into discrete segments, as well as analysis that gives insight into societal movements, trends, fads, and events that propelled the era and the nation. In-depth chapters trace the evolution of pop culture in 11 key categories: Key Events in American Life, Advertising, Architecture, Books, Newspapers, Magazines, and Comics, Entertainment, Fashion, Food, Music, Sports and Leisure Activities, Travel, and Visual Arts. Coverage includes: How Others See Us, Controversies and scandals, Social and cultural movements, Trends and fads, Key icons, and Classroom resources. Designed to meet the high demand for resources that help students study American history and culture by the decade, this one-stop reference provides readers with a broad and interdisciplinary overview of the numerous aspects of popular culture in our country. Thoughtful examination of our rich and often tumultuous popular history, illustrated with hundreds of historical and contemporary photos, makes this the ideal source to turn to for ready reference or research.

https://www.amazon.com/American-Pop-volumes-Popular-Culture/dp/0313344108

 

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Culture doesn't actually exist. Culture is just an 'idea' that we co-create and agree on as a boundary. How could you possibly spend your time -which is another imaginery concept anyway- loathing something that doesn't exist. And which 'youth culture' are you referring to? There are many, and they're all different.

 

This seems to be a contradiction....

 

Popular Culture Association
https://pcaaca.org
https://pcaaca.org/about-us
Topics:

1. Academics and Collegiate Culture
2. Adaptation (Film, TV, Lit., and Electronic Gaming)- See Cultural Adaptations
3. Adolescence in Film and Television
4. Advertising
5. African-American Culture
6. Aging and Senior Culture
7. American Indian Literatures and Cultures
8. American Literature
9. Animation
10. Appalachian Studies
11. Armed Conflict
12. Art & Design Culture
13. Asian Popular Culture
14. Australian and New Zealand Popular Culture
15. Baby-Boomer Culture
16. Beer Culture
17. Biographies
18. Black Performing Arts Area
19. Black Popular Culture- Special Topic 2019
20. Body and Culture
21. Border Studies, Cultural Economy & Migration
22. Brazilian Popular Culture
23. British Popular Culture
24. Celebrity & Popular Culture
25. Cemeteries & Gravemarkers
26. Children/Young Adult Series Books and Dime Novels
27. Children's and YA Literature and Culture
28. Circuses & Sideshow Culture (formerly Circus and Circus Culture)
29. Civil War & Reconstruction
30. Collecting & Collectibles
31. Comedy & Humor
32. Comics and Comic Art
33. Communication & Digital Culture
34. Copyright and Intellectual Property
35. Creative Fiction Writing
36. Cultural Adaptation
37. Dance & Dance Culture
38. Disability Studies (Special Topics Area)
39. Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes
40. Ecology & Culture
41. Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture
42. Eros, Pornography & Popular Culture
43. Fairy Tales
44. Fan Culture & Theory
45. Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design
46. Fat Studies
47. Film
48. Film & History- SEE FILM
49. Film Adaptation - See Cultural Adaptation
50. Fitness, Exercise and Physical Culture
51. Folklore
52. Food in Popular Culture
53. Game Studies
54. Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Studies
55. Gender & Media Studies
56. Gender Studies
57. Generation X
58. German Literature & Culture
59. Gothic Literature, Film & Culture
60. Health and Disease in Popular Culture
61. History of Popular Culture Studies
62. Horror (Text, Media, Culture)
63. Indian Culture, Art & Media
64. Internet Culture
65. Jack London's Life & Works
66. Journalism & Media Culture
67. Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics
68. Latin American Film and Media
69. Latin American Literature and Culture
70. Latin Americans and Latinos: Identity Issues and Cultural Stereotypes
71. Law and Popular Culture
72. Libraries, Archives & Museums
73. Literature & Madness
74. Literature and Science
75. Literature, Politics, & Society
76. Material Culture
77. Medieval Popular Culture
78. Memory & Representation
79. Men and Men's Studies
80. Mental Health and Mental Illness (see Psychology and Popular Culture)
81. Midwestern Literature and Culture (Special Topic)
82. Motherhood/Fatherhood & Popular Culture
83. Music
84. Musicals, Stage & Film
85. Mystery & Detective Fiction
86. Mythology in Contemporary Culture
87. New England Studies
88. Non-Fiction Writing
89. Philosophy and Culture
90. Poetry Studies and Creative Poetry
91. Politics Portrayed in Electronic Print and Media
92. Popular Art, Architecture, and Design
93. Popular History in American Culture
94. Professional Development
95. Psychology and Popular Culture
96. Pulp Studies
97. Punk Culture
98. Radio and Audio Media
99. Religion and Culture
100. Rhetoric, Composition, and Popular Culture
101. Romance
102. Science & Popular Culture
103. Science Fiction and Fantasy
104. Sea Literature, History, and Culture
105. Shakespeare on Film and Television
106. Soap Opera and Serialized Storytelling
107. Sports
108. Stephen King
109. Tarot & Other Methods of Divination
110. Television
111. The Sixties
112. Theatre and Drama
113. Tolkien Studies
114. Travel and Tourism
115. Undergraduate Sessions
116. Vampire Studies
117. Vehicle Culture
118. Virtual Identities and Self-Promoting
119. Visual Culture
120. War After 1945: Literature, History, Culture, and the Arts
121. Westerns and the West
122. Women's Studies
123. World's Fairs and Expositions