Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth
| Editor | Kim Cooper, David Smay |
| Contributor | Jake Austen, Peter Bagge, Keith Bearden, Derrick Bostrom, Mary Burt, Carl Cafarelli, Don Charles, Chinta Cooper, Morgan Cooper, Chris Davidson, Katrina Dixon, Brian Doherty, Becky Ebenkamp, Chuck Eddy, Dennis P. Eichhorn, Peter Geiberger, Chas Glynn, Gary Pig Gold, Margaret Griffis, Bill Holmes, Elizabeth Ivanovich, Gloria Keeley, P. Edwin Letcher, Steve Mandich, Mike McPadden, Alec Palao, The Partridge Family Temple, Robert L. Pela, Bill Pitzonka, James Porter, Domenic Priore, Glenn Sadin, Metal Mike Saunders, Gene Sculatti, Greg Shaw, Jack Stevenson, Vern Stoltz, Lisa Sutton, Dave Thompson, Tom Walls, Glynis Ward, J.R. Williams |
| Publisher | Feral House |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Pages / Font | 327 pages |
| ISBN | 0-922915-69-5 |
| Chapters | Introduction 1 Overview 13 Artists 42 Producers and Impresarios 97 Bubblegum Fantasies 141 International Scene 149 Related Genres 185 Bubblegum Invades the Media 192 Record Labels 228 Unlikely Bubblegum 240 It Won't Go Away! 252 Up Close and Personal 274 Artifacts 286 Cereal Box Records 289 Recommended listening 294 Index 301 About the Contributors 323 |
| Notes | The First Ever Book on The Music We All Love to Hate - Yet Secretly Love!; Bubblegum may be 30 years past its peak, but the word can still inflame passions. To fans, its everything great about pop music, stripped of pretentious 'authenticity' and delivering a potent jolt to the reptile brain. To its detractors, bubblegum is a joke, a plan hatched by svengali producers intent on profiting off rock's noble back. But the reality lies somewhere in between, in a place where the basest of motives can result in real and timeless art. From the Archies to Britney Spears, bubblegum music has excited every generation of music lovers. Featuring interviews with many of the genre's major creators, this ambitious anthology dismantles the worst myths about how bubblegum is produced and identifies the gum tendencies of artists as various as the Sex Pistols, Abba, The Monkees, Talking Heads and The Ramones. The book reveals the light and dark sides of the music, telling bitter tales of litigious backstabbing, pistol-wielding producers, and the perversities behind the jingles. |
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