The main songs of the twentieth century. From dixelus to hip-hop

Art reflects time, and forms it. The song is the most democratic, simplest and most popular form of art. It is often created almost spontaneously, instantly reacting to a particular event.
In this book, the cultural, historical and political portrait of the century is shown through the history of the popular song, each of which is devoted to a separate chapter.

The main ones - Not necessarily the best, although often these concepts coincide. Some songs reflect the most important political events of the eyelids - war, revolutions, turning points of history. Others anticipate them. Some often, in addition to, or in contrast to the intentions of their authors, suddenly unusually accurately reflect the moods of huge masses of people and turn into a generation hymn. Some discover popular music, and through it the mass consciousness previously forbidden, or even unknown layers of human being. The songs are located in chronological order, and the book reflects all decades of the twentieth century and all the genres of popular music-from blues and Spirichuel to musical and jazz, from rock to disco, from ballad to hip-hop. Created in the book “The Portrait of the Century” will allow the reader to see sometimes an unobvious connection between popular music and social and socio-political processes in society of different countries throughout the twentieth century