Music Books
Octopus Publishing Group Ever Fallen in Love: The Lost Buzzcocks Tapes
Book SynopsisA ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARA LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Fascinating'-MOJO'As close as anyone was ever going to get to really understanding Pete Shelley'-UNCUT'The memoir that Pete Shelley never had a chance to write'-LOUDER THAN WAR'Lots of great stories... A fascinating insight.'-JOHN MAHER, Buzzcocks When Pete Shelley, lead singer of legendary punk band Buzzcocks, passed away in 2018 we lost the chance to hear one of music's brightest stars tell his story. Or so it seemed.Now, recordings have surfaced of a series of remarkable interviews in which Pete tells the story of his life, his band and his place at the beating heart of the punk explosion in fascinating detail.Recorded over a series of late-night calls with a close friend, the tapes hear Pete talk song-by-song through Buzzcocks releases to reveal the personal memories behind the music and the inspiration for masterpieces such as 'Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)' and 'What Do I Get?'.Published for the first time and with the blessing of Pete's estate, Ever Fallen In Love: The Lost Buzzcocks Tapes is a tribute to a founding member of punk and a chance to hear one of music's true visionaries tell his own story at last.'Perfectly executed, highly detailed, incredibly interesting.'-HENRY ROLLINS, Black Flag'Shot through with self-doubt and mild regret, Pete Shelley's lovesick pop classics have a bittersweet charm that will forever speak to the young romantic'-JOHN COOPER CLARKE
£10.44
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Artist in Time: A Generation of Great British
Book SynopsisAn inspiring and intimate look at the work of a generation of British artists across all disciplines. The Artist in Time brings together twenty creatives from across the UK, with photographs and interviews that disclose their daily working habits and motivations. All born before 1950, this is a collective portrait of a generation who have shaped our artistic landscape. They provide a range of different answers to the question ‘what makes an artist?’, and a set of insights into what makes up a creative life. Giving you access to the studio and working spaces of a diverse group of painters, poets, choreographers, filmmakers, illustrators, musicians, photographers, sculptors, writers and creators, The Artist in Time is a handbook for creativity and inspiration, made up of artists from all backgrounds who have all in their own way shaped, and continue to shape, the creative landscape of the United Kingdom.Trade ReviewSensitively edited, Chris Fite-Wassilak's interviews have been formed into standalone monologues that, together with Ollie Harrop's intimate photographs, feel direct and personal, as though we are visiting these artists in their homes or studios. * Times Literary Supplement *... the glossy, magazine-like publication gives a platform to older painters, poets, illustrators ... there are nuggets of wisdom scattered throughout ... One of the book’s great strengths is Harrop’s sensitive and insightful photographs * Studio International *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Rhythms of Working Maggie Nicols Anne Tallentire Bob Fulcher David Hurn Wendy Cope 2. Grow Into Your Vision Frank Bowling Shirley Collins Jane May Ken Loach Roma Tomelty Margaret Busby 3. Formative Moments Michael Foreman Bud Edmonson John Fox and Sue Gill Elly Taylor Rasheed Araeen 4. Forget Style Ralph Steadman Bisakha Sarkar Marian Sandham Alastair Maclennan Afterword The Baring Foundation
£13.59
Equinox Publishing Ltd Hired Guns
Book SynopsisHired Guns: Portraits of Women in Alternative Music is a look across several decades of the music industry through the experiences and careers of a selection of professional female musicians.
£23.75
Profile Books Ltd Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir
Book SynopsisBorn in 1953 to Anglo-Jewish/Nigerian parents, Pauline Black was subsequently adopted by a white, working class family in Romford. Never quite at home there, she escaped her small town background and discovered a different way of life - making music. Lead singer for platinum-selling band The Selecter, Pauline Black was the Queen of British Ska. The only woman in a movement dominated by men, she toured with The Specials, Madness, Dexy's Midnight Runners when they were at the top of the charts - and, sometimes, on their worst behaviour. From childhood to fame, from singing to acting and broadcasting, from adoption to her recent search for her birth parents, Black By Design is a funny and enlightening story of music, race, family and roots.Trade ReviewGritty, witty and compelling * Elle *Black paints a vivid portrait of simmering racial tension in Britain after the Second World War ... Intelligent and affecting * Independent *Stories aplenty ... fascinating * Metro *The story of a brave, intelligent woman's struggle to make sense of the world around her * Mojo *
£9.99
Candy Jar Books Fab Fools: The Last Ever Untold Beatles Story
Book SynopsisThe untold story of the greatest band of all time''s real X factor, that special something which elevated them above all their competitors - the Beatles'' COMEDY. The hilarious story of John, Paul, George and Ringo''s classic films, cartoons, audio comedy - even panto! Illuminating and delightful. Stephen Fry
£15.59
Watkins Media Body of Work
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£13.50
Z2 comics Sublime: $5 at the Door
Book SynopsisCELEBRATING THE ICONIC LEGACY OF SUBLIME WITH THE OFFICIAL GRAPHIC NOVELThe laid-back Long Beach trio spawned an entire genre—fusing reggae grooves, punk grittiness, ska energy, back-porch folk introspection, and hip-hop swagger. The band goes from playing backyard parties and selling cassettes out of the trunks of their cars to creating an entirely new and revolutionary blend of chart topping music. Xanadu meets Superbad in this heartfelt anthology of SUBLIME legends brought to life by RYAN CADY (Green Lantern, Poppy’s Inferno), AUDREY MOK (Archie), ALEX DIOTTO (Youth), HAYDEN SHERMAN (Angel & Spike), LOGAN FAERBER (‘Namwolf), rising stars BILL MASUKU, ROBERT AHMAD and JULIANNE GRIEPP.
£18.70
BIS Publishers B.V. Don’t Read this Book: Time Management for
Book SynopsisAs creative people, we have ideas. Some of us have many ideas, others have really good ones, and most of us have many really good ideas. But most of these never see the light of day. Why? If you ask a creative person, the answer will always revolve around time. We simply need time to execute an idea (and do it well)—more time than we have. Don’t Read This Book focuses on how to make choices about everything you do in your daily creative practice and life. The book follows the ‘To Don’t List’ method: When you say ‘no’ to one idea, you have more time to execute another one. In short: the more you subtract, the more focus and time you get. The book is divided into three parts: Life, Workplace, and Projects. It covers everything from defining your life goals, to writing a five sentence-long email, to leaving out as much as possible in a project. Whether you are a student or professional, this book will save you time. (Of course, if you don’t read it, you will save some time directly.)
£15.29
ZE Books Twist
Book SynopsisFrom iconoclastic writer and musician Adele Bertei comes a wholly original hero's journey that wages war on the cliché of the misery memoir. Set in a 1960s and '70s American neighborhood rife with poverty and violence, fatherless Irish mothers and Italian mobsters, and women crucified into madness by misogyny, Bertei speaks through her electrically alive avatar Maddie Twist to flip the victim script. Bertei reveals what it's like to be a queer teen at a time when discovery could be fatal. Maddie peers deeply into the American psyche, refusing to consent to the systems of harm. A compelling personal history of queer culture from a working-class view and a glimpse into worlds yet unseen, Twist is good medicine: for readers who've experienced similar traumas, for teens caught in the foster care system, for the formerly incarcerated looking for hope, for writers grappling with how to tell their own stories.
£13.50
Workman Publishing Taylor Swift All the Songs
£41.25
Little, Brown Book Group Gallagher
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£18.75
Abrams 100 Years of Grand Ole Opry
Book SynopsisThe official book celebrating 100 years of the Grand Ole Opryan intimate, gorgeously illustrated behind-the-scenes look at the American institution and world-renowned stage for country music Since 1925, the Grand Ole Opry has left an undeniable mark on American culture. What began as an impromptu performance of old-time fiddle tunes has transformed into the longest-running radio broadcast in US history, as well as a live performance for millions of country music fans each year. Widely regarded as the show that made country music famous, the Opry has played an important role in the careers of country music's biggest starsincluding Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Carrie Underwood, Luke Combs, and countless otherspopularizing and preserving some of the most beloved forms of American music. As country music has broadened and its audience continues to grow, the Grand Ole Opry has evolved alongside the genre itself. This centennial celebration showcases the venerable institution
£33.75
John Wiley & Sons Keyboard For Dummies 2nd Edition
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£19.54
Rock N' Roll Colouring Motorhead The Official Colouring Book
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£12.74
Rock N' Roll Colouring The Official Megadeth Colouring Book
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£12.74
Orion Publishing Co Monolithic Undertow
Book Synopsis''An inspired and intuitive navigation of the drone continuum . . . with a compass firmly set to new and enlightening psychedelic truths'' BECKMonolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub-bass, avant-garde eccentricity, sound weaponry and fervent spiritualism. From Neolithic beginnings to bawdy medieval troubadours, Sufi mystics to Indian raga masters, cone shattering dubwise bass, Hawkwind''s Ladbroke Grove to the outer reaches of Faust and Ash Ra Temple; the hash-fueled fug of The Theatre of Eternal Music to the cough syrup reverse hardcore of Melvins, seedy VHS hinterland of Electric Wizard, ritual amp worship of Earth and Sunn O))) and the many touch points in between, Monolithic Undertow explores the power of the drone - an audio carrier vessel capable of evoking wombTrade ReviewAn inspired and intuitive navigation of the drone continuum, MONOLITHIC UNDERTOW maps the heavy underground with a compass firmly set to new and enlightening psychedelic truths -- BECKThis is a masterpiece, heavy, fun, mad, wild, inspiring, mind-blowing, massively deep though never precious, so many tangents somehow brought together with clarity and vision, love the idea of a left-hand path history, and the connections between the beginnings of the universe, ritual music and modern electronic rock is jaw-dropping. I love it, this is the music book of the year and the ultimate book on the sound of the eternal now. This is going to drop like a true fucking monolith from the skies. -- DAVID KEENANEvery now and then a book comes out that redefines a form, creates the narrative and is a startling jolt to the culture fabric . . . [MONOLITHIC UNDERTOW] is thrilling, inspiring, informative and makes you jump all over the internet looking for the soundtrack. The book is a game changer and you will never listen to music in the same way again -- John Robb * LOUDER THAN WAR *Sword is a deeply knowledgeable and perceptive advocate for a vast range of often esoteric, sometimes challenging, always extraordinary music * Quietus *Monolithic Undertow searches for our relationship to drone music: an epic playlist that begins in the womb, then criss-crosses an exhaustive thread across the lo-fi Verdantic cassettes of Alice Coltrne, the 'true British blues' of Black Sabbath, infrasonic weaponry and the gritty doom-clouds of The Velvet Underground -- ART REVIEWAddictive . . . Sword's is an impressively global ear * IRISH TIMES *Verbose and effusive when assessing recordings, Monolithic Undertow's scope is large enough that any reader will likely discover something * BUZZ *
£10.99
Candlestick Press Ten Poems about Music: The Blue Album
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£7.41
Galison Disco Life 500 Piece Foil Puzzle
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£15.29
Pearson Education Limited Edexcel GCSE 91 Anthology of Music CD
Book SynopsisPublished in partnership with Edition Peters and Faber Music, the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Anthology of Music and audio CD contains: all eight set works on one CD performances which correspond to the scores in the printed Anthology.
£50.75
Damaged Goods Books From Heaven to Heaven New Order Live
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£34.41
Harvard University Press The Harvard Dictionary of Music Harvard
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£45.01
Globe Pequot Press Cranking Up Stevie Wonder
Book SynopsisThe first entrant in Backbeat Books' new Goes to 11 series, this fun and informative book explores Stevie Wonder's place in pop music history through eleven of his most important songs. Track by track, author Arthur Lizie provides a telescopic look at each star in a brilliant, funky constellation, giving the backstory of every song along with an explanation of the musical and cultural environment into which it was released. Together they form a composite picture of an artist who is a veritable pop vortex: an artist among artists, continually drawing in and disseminating musical influence. The songs included here are fan favorites illuminating the whole of Stevie's career, from his Motown days to his transition to R&B and social activism: Fingertips Alfie Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours Do Yourself a Favor Superstition Jesus Children of America Boogie on Reggae Woman Sir Duke Happy Birthday
£14.24
Faber & Faber Finding the Raga
Book Synopsis**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE**'A splendid book.' Literary Review'A modern masterpiece.' New York Journal of BooksFinding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's revelatory exploration of North Indian classical music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose principles and practises will alter the reader's notion of what music might - and can - be. Through essay, memoir and cultural study, Chaudhuri dwells on the music's most distinctive and mysterious characteristics, resulting in a gift of a book for musicians and music lovers, and for any creative mind in search of diverse and transforming inspiration. 'Supple, intricate and uncompromising, full of delicate observation and insight.' -Geoff Dyer'[A] compelling meditation on Indian and Western art-making.' The New Yorker
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers Evening in the Palace of Reason
Book SynopsisIn one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of outdated' music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a turbulent age.Behind the pomp and flash, Prussia''s Frederick the Great was a tormented man, son of an abusive king who forced him to watch as his best friend (probably his lover) was beheaded. In what may have been one of history''s crueler practical jokes, Frederick challenged old Bach' to a musical duel, asking him to improvise a six-part fugue based on an impossibly intricate theme (possibly devised for him by Bach''s own son).Bach left the court fuming, but in a fever of composition, he used the coded, alchemical language of counterpoint to write A Musical Offering' in response. A stirring declaration of faith, it represented as stark a rebuke of his beliefs and world view as an absolute monarch has ever received,'Trade Review'Gaines has a keen eye for colour, and enjoys himself greatly regaling us with anecdotes… ‘Evening in the Palace of Reason’ is a wonderful work of popular history; intelligent, stylish, wryly witty, serious yet never solemn, and above all passionate in its celebration of a great composer.' John Banville, Guardian 'An intriguing book.' Sunday Times ‘The author presents us with a piece of theatre that is witty, instructive and often bizarre.’ Independent on Sunday 'Gaines' style is readable, crisp and compelling. He is an excellent guide: informed, unpretentious and frank… A story told with wit, knowledge, the odd flight of fancy and love.' Times Literary Supplement
£11.69
Penguin Putnam Inc The Indispensable Composers
Book SynopsisAn exploration into the question of greatness from the Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times
£17.09
Oxford University Press Inc The History of Jazz
Book SynopsisAn updated new edition of Ted Gioia''s universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music''s past, present, and future.Ted Gioia''s The History of Jazz has been universally hailed as the most comprehensive and accessible history of the genre of all time. Acclaimed by jazz critics and fans alike, this magnificent work is now available in an up-to-date third edition that covers the latest developments in the jazz world and revisits virtually every aspect of the music. Gioia''s story of jazz brilliantly portrays the most legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the scenes in which they evolved. From Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, Miles Davis''s legendary 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, and Ornette Coleman''s experiments with atonality to current innovators such as Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding, Gioia takes readers on a sweeping journey through the history of jazz. As he traces the music through the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta, the red light district of New Orleans, the rent parties of Harlem, the speakeasies of Chicago, and other key locales of jazz history, Gioia also makes the social contexts in which the music was born come alive. This new edition finally brings the often overlooked women who shaped the genre into the spotlight and traces the recent developments that have led to an upswing of jazz in contemporary mainstream culture. As it chronicles jazz from its beginnings and most iconic figures to its latest dialogues with popular music, the developments of the digital age, and new commercial successes, Gioia''s History of Jazz reasserts its status as the most authoritative survey of this fascinating music.Trade ReviewGioia's History of Jazz became an instant classic when it was first published in 1997. This third edition is approximately 20 percent longer than the first. It has been updated and revised, and includes new text. * N.J. Quinlan, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 *Possibly the best survey to date. * Ann Douglas, New York Times *If you are looking for an introduction to jazz, this is it. If you know and love jazz well, this is your vade mecum. Me, I expect to be reading around in it for the rest of my life...[It is] the definitive work: encyclopedic, discriminating, provocative, perceptive and eminently readable. With its publication, it can no longer be said that the literature of jazz falls far short of the music itself. * Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post *Magnificent book * Steve Voce, Jazz Journal *Gioia's history stands a good chance of becoming the standard guide for general readers and academics. * Greg Tate, The Village Voice *Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Prehistory of Jazz Chapter 2: New Orleans Jazz Chapter 3: The Jazz Age Chapter 4: Harlem Chapter 5: The Swing Era Chapter 6: Modern Jazz Chapter 7: The Fragmentation of Jazz Styles Chapter 8: Freedom and Fusion Chapter 9: Traditionalists and Post-Modernists Chapter 10: Jazz without Boundaries Chapter 11: Jazz Resurgent Notes Further Reading Recommended Listening Acknowledgements
£21.14
Oxford University Press Piano Quartet No. 1 Score
Book Synopsisfor piano, violin, viola, and celloThe Piano Quartet No.1 was written in 1992 and is in one movement. The composer writes: While writing it I was reminded of painting where blocks of colour meet or where objects intersect, of the mysteriousness of those moments. The painter Robert Ryman said that whatever is made should delight and have a rightness about it. That was my aim.Trade ReviewThe work has a definite personality and intent . . . There's much to enjoy here. If you've the patience and go for the brittleness of the texture, this quartet could be a valuable addition to the small but rich repertoire for this combination. * Piano, Sept 97 *There is a layer of ironic detachment, but it is overwhelmed by a manic intensity of expression, often in gleeful dance rhythms driven by some raging demon. * Robert Maycock, The Independent *
£22.75
Penguin Putnam Inc What to Listen For in Music
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC From This Broken Hill I Sing to You
Book SynopsisMarcia Pally is Professor in Multilingual Multicultural Studies at New York University, USA, and held the Mercator Guest Professorship in the Theology Faculty at Humboldt University-Berlin (Germany), where she is now a regular Guest Professor.Trade ReviewMarcia Pally offers here an immensely rich theological interpretation of the work of legendary Canadian poet-musician Leonard Cohen. The key theological theme I see is Cohen's claim that we human beings were made for covenant with God and one another and yet the way we were made – or the way we have turned out – makes it immensely difficult for us to keep the very covenants that we need. So the human condition is tragic, and the tragedy may ultimately be traceable to the very God who alone is our source and our destiny. This book makes me want to marinate in the music and poetry, though not the lifestyle, of Leonard Cohen. It also deepens my immense appreciation for the impressive intellectual range of Marcia Pally. This is a tour de force. -- David P. Gushee, Mercer University, USAMarcia Pally has written an absolutely brilliant and arresting book about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen. Cohen’s lyrics have fascinated me for many years - a descendant of rabbis, he has done the remarkable thing of writing prophecy and social criticism into his lyrics. Marcia Pally’s book analyzes his extraordinary talent. Please read it! -- Erica Jong, award-winning author of Fear of Flying, novelist, and cultural commentator, USADrawing upon the entirety of Cohen’s creative output, including his oft-overlooked novels, Marcia Pally takes Cohen seriously as a religious thinker, “a mystic for the post secular age,” in the words of Aubrey Glazer. Pally swaps out Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Irving Layton and Federico García Lorca in favor of Rosenzweig, Heschel, Levinas, and Wolfson as she recontextualizes Cohen as a poet engaged in a lifelong wrestling match with the Almighty. The listener—or reader, in this case—comes out the winner. -- Seth Rogovoy, author of Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet, USAFrom This Broken Hill I Sing to You is must reading for those like myself who are torn between our devotion to Leonard Cohen's work and our dismay at his personal history with women. By painstakingly charting the poet/singer's lifelong struggle to reconcile his covenantal relationships (with God and women) with his real-life behavior, Marcia Pally has forged a deeply compelling new covenant between Cohen and us, his acolytes. To which, I say Hallelujah! -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founding editor of Ms. magazine & author of Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female & Jewish in America, USAMarcia Pally’s From This Broken Hill I Sing to You is a superb book, from Moshe Halbertal’s inspired foreword to the piercing last chapter on Leonard Cohen’s last creed. The writing is sophisticated and accessible, fully up to the task of realizing the deep philosophic-anthropological and theological dimensions of Cohen’s work. The subtitle of the book, God, Sex Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen, is only partly accurate - the book far more. There is a movement of the study of Cohen’s terse verse, and this book summarizes that work well and advances it with a decided focus on Cohen’s struggle with the tortured relationship between the mortal and the eternal. As someone whose relationship with “Old Priest” was rooted in theological discussions (Lurianic Kabbalah), it is such a pleasure to see his depth so beautifully and originally articulated. -- Rabbi Mordecai Finley, spiritual counselor to Leonard Cohen, spiritual leader of Ohr HaTorah congregation, and professor of liturgy, mysticism and Jewish ethics, USAI have always loved Leonard's work, and loved him personally, and knew that HE was the man along with Beatles, whose work would survive musically. Marcia Pally’s masterful book reveals that as a poet, songwriter, philosopher and ultimate mensch, Leonard Cohen, his work and his spirit are here for ALL TIME!! -- David Amram, one of the "Twenty Most Performed Composers of Concert Music in the United States" and collaborator with Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Dustin Hoffman, Charlie Mingus, Elia Kazan, Odetta, Jack Kerouac, Betty Carter and Tito Puente, USATable of ContentsIntroduction and Biographical Sketch Chapter One: Theodicy: Arguments With God about Evil, Suffering, and God Himself Chapter Two: Covenantal Theology and its Place in Cohen’s Work Chapter Three: From Covenantal Theology to Theodicy: Failing Covenant with God and Persons Chapter Four: Failing Covenant with God and Persons: Doubled Imagery in Cohen’s Work Chapter Five: Those who did not fail covenant: Moses and Jesus—Cohen’s Jewish and Christian Imagery Chapter Six: The Double Bind That Is Not a Bond: Cohen and Women Chapter Seven: Betrayal of God, Betrayal of Persons, Political Betrayals—Cohen’s Trinity Concluding Remarks: You Want It Darker and Thanks for the Dance—Cohen’s Last Creed Bibliography Index
£21.84
Faber Music Ltd Gustav Mahler An Introduction to his Music
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£10.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Stone Sour
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£16.14
Alfred Publishing Co Inc.,U.S. Alfreds Premier Piano Course Lesson 2A
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£11.88
Faber Music Ltd 15 Easy Jazz Blues and Funk Etudes Eflat
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£19.76
Trinity College London Press Recorder Anthology Book 2 Grades 23
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£11.95
Trinity College London Press Piano Scales Arpeggios from 2015 Int5
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£10.95
Trinity College London Press Clarinet Scales Grades 18 from 2015
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£14.68
Taylor & Francis Ltd Modern Recording Techniques
Book SynopsisModern Recording Techniques is the bestselling, authoritative guide to sound and music recording. Whether youâre just starting out or are looking to improve your skills, this book provides an in-depth guide to the art and technologies of music production and is a must-have reference for all audio bookshelves. Using its familiar and accessible writing style, this new edition has been fully updated, presenting the latest production technologies and including detailed coverage of digital audio workstations (DAWs), networked audio, musical instrument digital interface (MIDI), signal processing and much more. Modern Recording Techniques is supported by a host of video tutorials, which provide additional listening and visual examples, making this text essential reading for students, instructors and professionals.This updated tenth edition includes: Newly expanded Art and Technology chapters, providing more tips, tricks and insights for getting the best out of your recording, mixing, monitoring and mastering An expanded MIDI chapter to include MIDI 2.0 More in-depth coverage of digital audio and the digital audio workstation Greater coverage of immersive audio, including Dolby Atmos Production Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Sound and Hearing 3. Studio Acoustics and Design 4. Microphones: Design and Application 5. The Analog Tape Recorder 6. Digital Audio Technology 7. The Digital Audio Workstation 8. Groove Tools and Techniques 9. MIDI and Electronic Music Technology 10. The iOS in Music Production 11. Multimedia and the Web 12. Synchronization 13. Amplifiers 14. Power- and Ground-Related Issues 15. Signal Processing 16. The Art and Technology of Monitoring 17. The Art and Technology of Recording 18. The Art and Technology of Mixing 19. The Art and Technology of Mastering 20. Immersive Audio 21. Media Distribution and Manufacturing 22. It's all about the Journey
£999.99
W. W. Norton & Company Well of Souls
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£14.24
Orion Publishing Co Rebel Musix Scribe on a Vibe
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£12.34
Little, Brown Book Group 1967
Book Synopsis''Memoirists rarely begin their work with a stroke of genuine inspiration, and Robyn Hitchcock''s ingenious idea to limit his account of his life to the titular year gives this sharp, funny, finely written book an unusually keen, wistful intensity without sacrificing its sense of the breath-taking sweep of time. I absolutely adored every line of 1967 and every moment I spent reading it'' MICHAEL CHABON ''1967 . . . in which our hero looks down from the future at his squeaky realm of boyhood, a world of dayglo sunsets, and would-be denizens of music and the mind. Cometh the year, cometh the groover'' JOHNNY MARR''Page Turner could be the name of a lead singer in a sixties psychedelic band, but it''s not - it''s a description of Robyn Hitchcock''s tender and hilarious memoir'' JOE BOYDA bright, obsessive compulsive boy is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school just before he reaches his thirteenth birthday; just as
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Pan Macmillan Walls Come Tumbling Down
Book SynopsisWalls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and 'the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang'. Through the voices of campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, Daniel Rachel follows the rise and fall of three key movements of the time: Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone, and Red Wedge, revealing how they all shaped, and were shaped by, the music of a generation.Composed of interviews with over a hundred and fifty of the key players at the time, Walls Come Tumbling Down is a fascinating, polyphonic and authoritative account of those crucial sixteen years in Britain's history.Trade ReviewA triumphant oral history of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge . . . a tale of resistance: first, against a surge of racism and bigotry that an inspired group of activists and musicians played a key role in rolling back; and then against a government, as the same spirit of defiance quickly resurfaced in opposition to the social revolutions of Thatcherism . . . a vivid portrait * Guardian *Charts punk, 2 Tone and then Red Wedge's subsequent battle for a multicultural Britain in a brilliant account of the period * Q Magazine *By the Eighties rock had grown a conscience, and Walls Come Tumbling Down, charts how, in the late Seventies and Eighties, musicians became engaged in struggled surrounding race, gender, sexuality and class * Choice *This incredible oral history tells the movement's story plus the rise of 2 Tone and Red Wedge, through a phenomenal range of voices - Billy Bragg, Jerry Dammers, Rhoda Dakar, Pauline Black et all all provide great insight * Mojo *It's a testament both to the topic and to Daniel Rachel's organisation of the material that even at 640 pages Walls Come Tumbling Down feels like the opening volume of a much longer history. This majestic work at once confirms and opens up a familiar but often forgotten series of moments in the relationship between music and politics in the UK . . . as always, the delight is in the details, and, finally, the glory of something so amateurish yet passion-driven coming together to change hearts and minds * Wire *Table of ContentsSection - i: List of Illustrations Introduction - ii: Poison In The Machine Section - iii: Biographical Notes Unit - BOOK ONE:: ROCK AGAINST RACISM Chapter - 1: WHO SHOT THE SHERIFF? Section - •: MAKE WAY FOR THE HOMO SUPERIOR: Eric Clapton. Black Britain. David Bowie Section - •: WHATCHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT?: Princess Alice. Sex Pistols. Punk Section - •: BEAT THE WHITES WITH THE RED WEDGE: Socialist Workers Party. Temporary Hoarding. Roundhouse Section - •: BEAT THE WHITES WITH THE RED WEDGE: Socialist Workers Party. Temporary Hoarding. Roundhouse Section - •: NAZIS ARE NO FUN: Royal College of Art. Hackney Town Hall. Sham 69 Chapter - 2: INGLAN IS A BITCH Section - •: PUNKY REGGAE PARTY: Aswad. Steel Pulse. Clash. Bob Marley Section - •: WAR AMONGST THE REBELS: Linton Kwesi Johnson. Dennis Bovell. Rastafari Section - •: NOTHING TO BE GUILTY OF: Rock Against Sexism. Slits. Mo-dettes. Poly Styrene. Poison Girls. Au Pairs Section - •: DEDICATED FOLLOWER OF FASCISM: National Front. Lewisham Section - •: ONE DOWN, A MILLION TO GO: Anti-Nazi League Chapter - 3: OH BONDAGE! UP YOURS! Section - •: THIS AIN’T NO FUCKING WOODSTOCK: Carnival Against the Nazis Section - •: POWER IN THE DARKNESS: Tom Robinson Band. Stiff Little Fingers Section - •: CARRYING PICTURES OF CHAIRMAN MAO: Northern Carnival Section - •: KNOCK HARD. LIFE IS DEAF: Carnival 2. Militant Entertainment tour Section - •: REGGAE FI PEACH: Southall Kids Are Innocent Benefit Section - •: RENOUNCE ALL SIN AND VICE: Leeds. Birmingham Section - •: RINSE OUT THE BLUE SCUM: RAR’s Greatest Hits. Northern Carnival Against Racism. Legacy Unit - BOOK TWO: 2 TONE Section - •: BLACK SKIN BLUE EYED BOYS: Bluebeat. Skinhead. Coventry Section - •: THE KINGSTON AFFAIR: Specials out on parole. Gangsters vs the Selecter Section - •: NOBODY IS SPECIAL: First 2 Tone tour. Madness Section - •: STAND DOWN MARGARET: The Beat. UB40 Section - •: CALLING RUDE GIRLS: Bodysnatchers Section - •: DOESN'T MAKE IT ALRIGHT: Specials Section - •: CELEBRATE THE BULLET: Politics. Class. Seaside tour Section - •: ALL WI DOIN IS DEFENDIN: Linton Kwesi Johnson. 1981 riots. 2 Tone legacy Unit - BOOK THREE: RED WEDGE Chapter - 1: SHOUT TO THE TOP Section - •: LIFE IN THE EUROPEAN THEATRE: Thatcherism. CND. Paul Weller Section - •: PERVERTS SUPPORT THE PITS!: Billy Bragg. Miner's Strike Section - •: THE MILKMAN OF HUMAN KINDNESS: Live Aid. GLC. Jobs For Youth. Solid Bond Section - •: DON’T GET MAD. GET ORGANIZED: Red Wedge Chapter - 2: NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SOCIALISM! Section - •: IT'S THE PARTY I LOVE: Launch. First tour Section - •: NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SOCIALISM, VOLUME 3: Day Events Section - •: IT'S JUST A RUMOUR THAT WAS SPREAD AROUND TOWN: Militant Tendency. Newcastle Section - •: AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW: Women's tour. Well Red. Gay Rights. Black Sections. Section - •: THE OSCAR WILDE SCHOOL OF SOCIALISM: Italy. Redskins. Move On Up tour. 1987 election Section - •: WAITING FOR THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD: Labour listens. 1987-90. Legacy Chapter - 3: FREE NELSON MANDELA Section - •: HATS OFF TO JERRY DAMMERS!: Artists Against Apartheid. 1992. Political pop Section - iv: Timeline Section - v: References Section - vi: Publishing Credits Index - vii: Index
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Highways and Byways
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Headline Publishing Group The Lost Music of the Holocaust
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Blondies Parallel Lines
Book SynopsisBlondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot planted firmly in the past while remaining quite forward-looking, an impulse that can be heard in its electronic dance music hit Heart of Glass. Bubblegum music maven Mike Chapman produced Parallel Lines, which was the first massive hit by a group from the CBGB punk underworld. By embracing the diversity of New York City's varied music scenes, Blondie embodied many of the tensions that played out at the time between fans of disco, punk, pop and mainstream rock. Debbie Harry's campy glamor and sassy snarl shook up the rock'n'roll boy's club during a growing backlash against the women's and gay liberation movements, which helped fuel the disco sucks battle cry in the late 1970s. Despite disco's roots in a queer, black and Latino underground scene that began in downtown New York, punk is usually celebrated by criticTrade ReviewIt’s a rare treat when an author busts out a tightly researched agenda that totally flips your perspective on a record, a band, a scene, a genre, and an entire artistic era. Kembrew McLeod provides such a treat with this gloriously revisionist history, positing that Blondie and the core of the New York punk scene’s early bands and aesthetics were a product of a wildly vital gay underground theater scene that flourished from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. * MTV News *A neat snapshot of a time of revolution, reinvention and experimentation ... [This book is] every bit as appetising as the album itself, and an astute, erudite examination of one of the greatest albums of all time. * Record Collector *An interesting thesis well made in this enjoyable addition to the 33 1/3 series. * International Times *There’s a little book I’ve been devouring on the subway this past week or two: Blondie’s Parallel Lines by Kembrew McLeod. It has had me tracing and re-tracing connections all over the place, re-examining my own assumptions about my own evolving musical tastes and cultural assumptions from the time of my first transistor radio ... Refreshing. * One Flew East *Nothing beats a great argument that makes you think of the album in question in a whole new light, then – of course – sends you right back to the music to love it all over again ... Parallel Lines – the book – is worth reading if you’re a devotee of Blondie or the 33 1/3 series (and of course for fans of both already) but if, somehow, you’ve never experienced this record in your lifetime and haven’t yet read any of the other entries into this set of snapshots of classic albums, McLeod’s book might instantly, easily, make you a fan of both. * Off The Tracks *The publisher Bloomsbury cannot be praised highly enough for the 33 1/3 series ... This volume houses countless surprising details ... [and] McLeod writes so informatively and with such inspiration that one cannot dismiss Parallel Lines or any of the other similar music covered in the book. * CulturMag (Bloomsbury translation) *[Blondie's] Parallel Lines ... gives a good critical insight into how record labels have worked up until the present day ... the whole thing reads very well. * OX Fanzine (Bloomsbury translation) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Went Walking One Day on the Lower East Side … ” Chapter One: Downtown New York in the 1960s and 1970s Blondie’s New York Genes Punk’s Bubblegum Roots The Avant-Garde Goes Pop! Children of The Velvet Underground Max’s Kansas City Chapter Two: Blondie’s Arty Antecedents Off-Off-Broadway Sets the Stage for Punk Eric Emerson Makes the Scene Two Stars Align in the Glitter Age Punk’s Trash Aesthetic Chapter Three: Parallel Scenes The Downtown Disco Underground Emerges Blondie Stumbles Into Existence CBGB and the Bowery Neighborhood The Downtown Rock Scene Coalesces Chapter Four: From the Bowery to Blondiemania Debbie and Chris Rebuild Blondie Takes Off “Going Professional” Art and Commerce Chapter Five: “Disco Sucks,” “Chicks Can’t Rock,” Blah Blah Blah “Heart of Glass” Breaks Blondie In America From CBGB to Studio 54 “Death To Disco!" Punk vs. Disco? Gender Trouble Conclusion, or, Fade Away (and Radiate) Postscript: Blondie Points To the Future, Then Ceases To Exist
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Rowman & Littlefield Audio Production Basics with Ableton Live
Book SynopsisLearn the basics of recording, processing, and mixing audio using Ableton Live software. This robust and innovative digital audio workstation opens your way to a musical toolkit used by musicians, performers, and producers worldwide. Audio Production Basics with Ableton Live will guide you through the essential audio production tasks you'll use to make the most of your Live software. The exercises in this book can be completed in any edition of Ableton Live, allowing you to get hands-on practice with Live's creative tools.With this book and the included online media files, you'll get working experience using Ableton Live, covering everything from setting up your computer to the fundamentals of audio production, including: Basic digital audio workstation operations and audio hardware options Principles of sound production and microphone use Essential Live concepts and operations MIDI fundamentals for playing and recording virtual instruments Working in the Arrangement View and the Session View Managing devices and routing signals in Live Using automation to create dynamic changes to audio Mixing your projects and exporting final mixed tracks Ableton Live is easy to set up, flexible, and fun to use. And everything you learn here will apply when you are ready to move on to more advanced study in audio production. Take a step to unleash your musical inspiration and creativity with Audio Production Basics with Ableton Live.
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Shambhala Publications Inc The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music
Book SynopsisThe Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement on many aspects of music-making, and provides playful exercises to help readers appreciate the connection between sound, music, and everyday life.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of
Book SynopsisLexicon of the Mouth surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. Questions of embodiment and agency, attachment and loss, incorporation and hunger, locution and the non-sensical are critically examined. In doing so, LaBelle emphasizes the mouth as a vital conduit for negotiating "the foundational narrative of proper speech." Lexicon of the Mouth aims for a viscous, poetic and resonant discourse of subjectivity, detailed through the "micro-oralities" of laughing and whispering, stuttering and reciting, eating and kissing, among others. The oral cavity is posed as an impressionable arena, susceptible to all types of material input, contamination and intervention, while also enabling powerful forms of resistance, attachment and conversation, as well as radical imagination. Lexicon of the Mouth argues for the revolutionary promise of the laugh, the spirited mythologies of the whisper, the schizophonics of self-talk, and the primal noise of gibberish, suggesting that the significance of voicing is fundamentally bound to the exertions of the mouth. Subsequently, assumptions around voice and vocality are unsettled in favor of an epistemology of the oral, highlighting the acts of the tongue, the lips and the throat as primary mediations between interior and exterior, social structures and embodied expressions. LaBelle makes a significant contribution to currents in sound and voice studies by reminding that to hear the voice, and to consider a politics of speech, is first and foremost to assume the mouth.Trade ReviewLaBelle shows how the mouth envelops and develops bodies, languages and subjectivities. He constructs what he calls the ‘oral imaginary’, the forms of figuration and function that define the role of the mouth as a cultural artefact … the many choreographies of the mouth that he presents and the many ways in which those choreographies envelop and inflect voice, culture and politics leaves us in a dizzying, vertiginous space of possibility and potentiality. -- John Melillo * Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies *An artist and a sound culture theorist, LaBelle offers a wide-ranging epistemology of oral gestures, arguing for the mouth as a contested space in which the politics and psychology of speech and the body are embodied. In a dozen chapters, he explores the oral cavity (and some associated physiology), illustrates its verbal and nonverbal productions, and connects them to topics in cultural theory such as decolonization and transgression …The exemplification favors critical theory (Butler, Kristeva, Lacan, Cixous, Freud) and performance art, and the book will be of special interest to art historians, cultural theorists, and performers. There are also many intriguing observations about such topics as ear and neck biting, kissing protests, and hysterical laughter… Summing Up: Optional. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- E. L. Battistella, Southern Oregon University * CHOICE *In the decade since, a stunning range of new offerings from a variety of publishers has become readily available, and sound studies is a far more expansive discipline. This fact is nowhere more evident than in Bloomsbury Academic’s excellent sound studies catalog ... the scholarship here shows how adept the cultural study of sound can be at unearthing the thorny political and social tensions that define contemporary culture. -- Nicholas C. Laudadio, University of North Carolina Wilmington * Journal of Popular Music Studies *Future studies will now be able to explore the more hidden cavities and diaphragms of the humanoid body, which oscillate and resonate. Brandon LaBelle's volume is a perfect start and an ideal reference point for these journeys. -- Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen * Seismograf *To simultaneously emancipate the ear and the mouth is a great accomplishment. To do so with care and love a gift. Lexicon of the Mouth offers erudite ruckus, expansive erotics, destabilizing poetics, liberatory politics. By revealing how 'the drama of the mouth' is greater than that of the word, Brandon LaBelle opens new horizons for performance, music, and the sound arts. * Allen S. Weiss, Performance Studies and Cinema Studies, New York University, and author of Phantasmic Radio (1995), Breathless (2002), and Varieties of Audio Mimesis (2008) *Tuning his ear to the poetics and politics of the mouth, Brandon LaBelle makes a highly original and significant contribution to our understandings of voice in its various modalities and performativities. This is a breathtaking transdisciplinary accomplishment, beautifully written and deeply scholarly; it deftly re-focuses our attention on the multiform assemblages of the mouth -- from the individual to the inter-subjective, from the social to the political, from the bodily interior to public spaces –- and thus evokes a vital new cartography of auditory culture. * Norie Neumark, Professor and Chair in Media Studies, Director of the Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe University, Australia *Table of ContentsPreface: Associative Introduction: Movement 1. Bite, Chew, Eat 2. Burp, Choke, Cough, Gag, Spit, Vomit 3. Cry, Scream, Shout, Sing 4. Gasp, Growl, Grunt, Sigh, Yawn 5. Gibberish, Gobbledygook 6. Inner voice, Self-talk 7. Kiss, Lick, Suck 8. Laugh 9. Murmur, Whisper 10. Lisp, Mute, Stutter 11. Recite, Repeat, Vow 12. Whistle Conclusion: Dirty Etc. Notes Bibliography Index
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Penguin Random House Group The Endless Refrain
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