{"id":24540,"date":"2022-12-13T16:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?page_id=24540"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:59:40","slug":"books-by-bill-kopp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/books-by-bill-kopp\/","title":{"rendered":"Books by Bill Kopp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-29661 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/big_idea_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/big_idea_cover.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/big_idea_cover-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>What&#8217;s the Big Deal: 30 Great Concept Albums<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>by Bill Kopp \/ Available NOW \/ HoZac Books<\/strong><br \/>\nAs long as there has been music, the form has been used as a vehicle for storytelling. Artists who have something to say often find that putting it into music is the ideal means of communicating thoughts and feelings to others. And the concept-album form is a logical extension of that storytelling impulse, often writ large. It allows the writer to tackle bigger themes, more involved story lines, more finely textured characters and ideas. In the pages of <em>What&#8217;s the Big Idea<\/em>, author Bill Kopp explores 30 remarkable concept albums, drawing on new, firsthand interviews with the artists behind their creation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/30conceptalbums.com\/\">Read more at <em>30conceptalbums.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21403\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/disturbing3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/disturbing3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/disturbing3-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><em>Disturbing the Peace: 415 Records and the Rise of New Wave<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>by Bill Kopp \/ Published 2022 \/ HoZac Books<\/strong><br \/>\nSan Francisco-based 415 Records was a groundbreaking independent record label founded by Howie Klein and Chris Knab. The label released punk and new wave singles, EPs and albums, and the label\u2019s creative success attracted the attention of the major labels. Published by HoZac Books, Bill Kopp\u2019s book, <i>Disturbing the Peace: 415 Records and the rise of New Wave<\/i>, tells the story of that label\u2019s rise and fall, and chronicles the stories of the nearly 30 bands that released music on 415 Records.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/415book.com\/\">Read more at <em>415book.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hozacrecords.com\/product\/disturbing-the-peace\/\">Order direct from the publisher <strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24541\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rpf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rpf.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rpf-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Reinventing Pink Floyd<\/i>: <em>From Syd Barrett to<\/em> <i>The Dark Side of the Moon<\/i><\/h2>\n<p><strong>by Bill Kopp \/ Published 2018 \/ Rowman &amp; Littlefield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When founding member Syd Barrett left Pink Floyd in early 1968, there was good reason to think that the band was over. Five years later, the band would release one of the most popular albums in the history of the recording medium, <i>The Dark Side of the Moon. Reinventing Pink Floyd<\/i> charts the creative path the band would navigate in the years leading up to that landmark album.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reinventingpinkfloyd.com\/\">Read more at <em>reinventingpinkfloyd.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the Big Deal: 30 Great Concept Albums by Bill Kopp \/ Available NOW \/ HoZac Books As long as there has been music, the form has been used as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24540","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-book","cat-10-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24540"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30381,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24540\/revisions\/30381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}