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<b>From Yours Truly to Wicked, Dangerous Woman to Eternal Sunshine, this is the ultimate and most up-to-date music biography of Ariana Grande, taking you on a fascinating journey through her eras.</b><br/><br/>Pop icon, cultural superstar and the wearer of the most successful high ponytail in music history, Ariana Grande is the most streamed female artist ever. She has countless number one singles and albums under her belt but shows no sign of slowing down.<br/><br/>And how could she? Ariana's voice is a once-in-a-generation calling card. It's helped her transform from a children's TV actress to a debutante pop girlie in the making, on to a dominant force in pop music and someone who has shaped the careers of artists coming after her, and, now on to her latest and most surprising role yet; Oscar-nominated actress.<br/><br/><b>But who is Ariana Grande? And what does her music say about her?<br/><br/>This is the ultimate fan's book that will delve into the creation of her inimitable songs, as well as the astonishing woman who sings them.</b>

<b>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BILLY BRAGG</b><br/><br/>Over the last seven decades, some of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theatre of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall kitting themselves out in Nazi uniforms to Siouxsie Sioux and Sid Vicious brandishing swastikas in the pomp of punk, generations of performers have associated themselves in troubling ways with the aesthetics, mass hysteria and even ideology of Nazism. Whether shock factor, stupidity, or crass attempt at subversion, rock 'n' roll has indulged these associations in a way not accepted by any other artform. But how accountable should fans, the media, and the music industry be for what has often seemed a sleazy fascination with the eroticised perversions of a fascist regime?<br/><br/>In <i>This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll</i>, award-winning music historian Daniel Rachel navigates these turbulent waters with extraordinary delicacy and care, asking us to look anew at the artists that have defined us, inspired us and given us joy - and consider why so many have been drawn to the imagery of a movement responsible for the twentieth century's worst atrocities. Alongside a sensitive history of the Holocaust and an examination of the place it holds in our cultural consciousness, Rachel asks essential questions of actions often overlooked or underplayed, whilst neither casting sweeping judgement nor offering easy answers. In doing so, he asks us to reassess the history of rock 'n' roll and sheds new light on the grim echoes of the Third Reich in popular culture and the legacy of twentieth (and twenty-first) century history as it defines us today.