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An intimate history of the crooner in popular music from the 1950s to the present. In this book, Alex Coles explores the history of the crooner--someone who sings close to the mic in a soft style--in popular music from the 1950s to the present. Each chapter focuses on how one song by one artist contributes to the image of the crooner in the popular imagination. The book describes the rich diversity of crooners throughout music history, includi...

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Interesting and ambitious . . . identifies a serious and significant development within contemporary art., David Batchelor, Royal College of Art, London Significant and timely. I see the book as recommended reading for courses in contemporary art. . . . Excellent., Barry Schwabsky, "ArtForum" For well over 100 years artists have blurred the distinction between art and design

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Comprehensively surveys and looks beyond the phenomenon of 'design art' that has emerged since the Pop and Minimalist era: practices that blur traditional boundaries between art, architecture, graphics, and product design. This book includes debates about form and function, the everyday, the collective and the utopian contextualized historically.

The first anthology to address the rise of the "design-art" phenomenon--the breakdown of boundaries between art and architectural, graphic, or product design begun in the Pop and Minimalist eras.