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University of Chicago Press Samson Young Silver Moon or Golden Star Which
Book SynopsisFor his first US museum exhibition, Hong Kong-based sound artist Samson Young looks to the idealism presented at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago to explore varying concepts of social progress and utopia through a trilogy of animated music videos. The catalog addresses questions of how people adapt to societal changes that they have little control over. For Young, progress as it was defined in the 1933 fair's subtitle A Century of Progress represents a specific variant of aspirational thinking. From cars to shopping malls and houses designed for the future to political change, progressive thinking has had contrasting consequences as it made its impact felt across the globe in the decades that followed. The accompanying catalog acts both as an introduction to Young's work and a lavishly illustrated document of the exhibition. It features an essay by curator Orianna Cacchione contextualizing Young's work, an essay by G. Douglas Barrett exploring the tension between modern visions of utopia and the musical version of the contemporary, and an interview between Seth Kim Cohen and Young about the form of the music video and its variations in the exhibitions. Additionally, the catalog also contains full-color video stills of the works, original drawings, and archival materials included in the exhibition.
£27.55
A L-J A S Enterprises, L. P. My Son Jimi
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498 Productions, LLC The Beatles Rubber Soul to Revolver
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£33.99
East End Press A Passionate Journey
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£16.10
St. Martin's Griffin Enter Night
Book SynopsisSprung from the roots of 70s hard rock, Metallica defined the look and sound of 1980s heavy metal, just as Led Zeppelin had for hard rock and the Sex Pistols for punk before them. Inventors of thrash metalSlayer, Anthrax and Megadeth followedit was always Metallica who led the way, who pushed to another level, who became the last of the superstar rockers. Though plagued by adversities, including the death of their bassist in a bus crash, infighting and substance abuse, they survived to became the biggest-selling band in the world. With 100 million records sold worldwide, their music has extended its reach beyond rock and metal, and into the pop mainstream, as they went from speed metal to MTV with their hit single Enter Sandman. Until now there hasn''t been a critical, authoritative, in-depth portrait of the band. Mick Wall''s thoroughly researched, insightful work is enriched by his interviews with band members, record company execs, roadies, and fellow musicians. He tells
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Griffin Publishing Deal
Book SynopsisThe Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound systems and fan recordings, they were forward-thinking champions of artistic control and outlaw artists who marched to the beat of their own drums.In Deal, Bill Kreutzmann, one of their founding members and drummer for every one of their over 2,300 concerts has written an unflinching and wild account of playing in the greatest improvisational band of all time. Everything a rock music fan would expect is here, but what sets this apart is Bill''s incredible life of adventure that was at the heart of the Grateful Dead experience. This was a band that knew no limits and Bill lived life to the fullest, pushing the boundaries of drugs, drums and high times, through devastating tragedy an
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Picador USA Joni
Book SynopsisNearly 50 years' worth of critical efforts to solve Mitchell's mysteries have now been rounded up in Barney Hoskyns's Joni: The Anthology....what comes through most consistently is a possessive impulse, a desire to really know an artist whose fierce privacy has often seemed at odds with the impression of intimacy conveyed by her music. --The Atlantic Nine Grammys. More than ten million albums sold. Named one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time by Rolling Stone. Joni: The Anthology is an essential collection of writings on Joni Mitchell that charts every major moment of the famed troubadour's extraordinary career, as it happened. From album reviews, incisive commentary, and candid conversations, Joni: The Anthology includes, among other things, a review of Mitchell's first-ever show at LA's Troubadour in June of 1968, a 1978 interview by musician Ben Sidran on jazz great Charles Mingus, a personal remin
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Castle Point Books Dolly An Unauthorized Collection of Wise Witty
Book SynopsisA book of quotes from America’s most beloved country singer.
£11.39
St. Martin's Griffin And in the End
Book SynopsisKen McNab takes an in-depth look at The Beatles'' acrimonious final year in And in the End.This is the story of the last days of The Beatles, a final chapter reconstructing for the first time the seismic events of 1969, the year that saw the band reach new highs of musical creativity and new lows of internal strife. Two years after Flower Power and the hippie idealism of the Summer of Love, the Sixties dream had perished on the vine. By 1969, violence and vindictiveness had replaced the Beatles'' own mantra of peace and love, and Vietnam and the Cold War had supplanted hope and optimism. And just as the decade foundered on the altar of a cold, harsh reality, so too did the Beatles.In the midst of this rancour, however, emerged the disharmony of Let It Be and the ragged genius of Abbey Road, their incredible farewell love letter to the world.
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Picador USA Let Love Rule
Book SynopsisTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERI see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection.Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor.My life is all about opposites, he writes. Black and white. Jewish and Christian. The Jackson 5 and Led Zeppelin. I accepted my Gemini soul. I owned it. I adored it. Yins and yangs mingled in various parts of my heart and mind, giving me balance and fueling my curiosity and comfort.Let Love Rule covers a vast canvas stretching from Manhattan's Upper East Side, Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Los Angeles's Baldwin Hills and Beverly Hills, and finally to France, England, and Germany.It's the story of a wildly creative kid who, despite tough struggles at school and extreme tension at home, finds salvation in music.We see him grow as a musician and ultimately become a master songwriter, producer, and pe
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Random House USA Inc Whatever You Say I Am
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Hal Leonard Corporation Music for Piano
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£22.09
Hal Leonard Corporation Guitar PlayAlong Volume 130 Iron Maiden
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£21.59
Pelican Publishing Company Professor Longhair
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£17.95
Kendall Hunt Publishing Company Essential Skills for Composing Effectively
£47.60
History Press Hidden History of Music Row
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£19.79
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Storied South Voices of Writers and Artists
£35.96
Orion Publishing Co Spaceships Over Glasgow
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is like being in the pub with a friend who has all the best stories * The Skinny *Will provide comfort and inspiration to all those souls abducted by music * The Guardian *Exuberant * Mojo *Candid and articulate * The Herald *Shows how well his infectious enthusiasm and taste for therapeutic noise have served him * Uncut *A love song to rock n roll * The Scots Magazine *It's hard to think of a better book written about the realities of being in a band in the 21st century * Record Collector *
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Simon & Schuster MJ The Genius of Michael Jackson
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Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Jersey Boys The Story Of Frankie Valli The Four
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Hal Leonard Corporation ComposerS Choice Randall Hartsell Early to
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Hal Leonard Corporation Nirvana
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Globe Pequot Press To Hell and Back
Book SynopsisThere have been many books written about Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, but only by people who weren't there. Walter Lure wasfrom the band's chaotic beginnings on New York's Lower East Side, through a now-legendary UK tour with the Sex Pistols and the Clash, and on to a yearlong stay in Londoneyewitness and midwife to the birth of UK punk.Now, he tells his story in To Hell and Back, a thrilling ride through the clubs and dives of two continents, in the company of one of the most notorious junkies in rock 'n' roll history. Drawing from his own contemporary journals, Lure paints a vivid portrait of life in both cities, during perhaps the most crucial musical uprising of the past forty yearsthe music, the characters, the clothes, the fights, the drugs, the orgies, the lot.Lure lays bare his own battle with drugs, and reflects upon his life after the band's splitrising to become a Wall Street fixture yet still finding time to make music.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Elegant People
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Hal Leonard Corporation Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Book SynopsisThis landmark album celebrates its fiftieth year in March 2022, and McEuen tells the story of the making of the album, discusses each of its thirty-eight songs, and includes never-before-seen photos taken by the author and his brother Bill McEuen, who produced the album.
£36.10
Hal Leonard Corporation Buddy Guy Guitar PlayAlong Volume 183
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£14.72
Hal Leonard Corporation Kenny Wayne Shepherd Guitar PlayAlong Volume 184
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Hal Leonard Corporation Grateful Dead Guitar Anthology
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£33.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Ed Sheeran for Ukulele
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£14.24
Hal Leonard Corporation Stevie Ray Vaughan Drum PlayAlong Volume 40 Hal
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£13.77
Hal Leonard Corporation Slide Slack Key Ukulele A Collection of Songs
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£15.19
Boosey & Hawkes Inc UFO Reduction for Solo Percussion and Piano
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£23.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Edna Mae Burnam Step By Step AllInOne Edition
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£14.39
Hal Leonard Corporation Guitar Play Along The Beatles BookOnline Audio
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£21.24
Hal Leonard Corporation Best of the Beatles
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£15.29
Hal Leonard Corporation Emeli Sand Long Live the Angels
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£16.19
Hal Leonard Corporation Queen Cello PlayAlong Volume 8 HalLeonard Cello
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£13.49
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Chains Toward the Blues
Book SynopsisPeter Beilharz is Professor of Critical Theory at Sichuan University, China, and has previously held chairs at La Trobe, Harvard, Leeds and Curtin Universities. He has published thirty books including Socialism and Modernity (2009) and Intimacy in Postmodern Times (2020). He founded the journal Thesis Eleven in 1980, and played as support to Chain in 1971.Trade ReviewThat Peter Beilharz’s writing has an inimitable, flowing backbeat will not surprise those familiar with his writing. Nor does it distract from Chain’s own. In fact, you may be well advised to use the book as the score while you ‘plug in those cans and travel across time, towards the blues, close to the sun.’ -- Harry Blatterer, Macquarie University, Australia * Thesis Eleven Journal *Table of ContentsTrack listing Preface 1. Once Around The Block 2. Tracks: Text 3. Before and After: Context 4. Time and Place: Big Context 5. Back Pages Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
Book SynopsisCount Basie was one of America’s pre-eminent and influential jazz pianists, bandleaders, and composers, known for such classics as “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” “Goin’ to Chicago Blues,” “Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today,” and “One O’Clock Jump.” In Good Morning Blues, Basie recounts his life story to Albert Murray, from his childhood years playing ragtime with his own pickup band at dances and pig roasts, to his years in New York City in search of opportunity, to rollicking anecdotes of Basie’s encounters with Fats Waller, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Sammy Davis Jr., Quincy Jones, Billie Holliday, and Tony Bennett. In this classic of jazz autobiography that was ten years in the making, Albert Murray brings the voice of Count Basie to the printed page in what is both testimony and tribute to an incredibly rich life.
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Ebury Publishing A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life
Book SynopsisForeword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was 'Heartbreak Hotel' by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy who was destined to take the hit parade by storm as Cliff Richard fell in love with rock and roll. It gave him the thrill, the purpose and the mission that has shaped his life ever since.Cliff lives in and for music. And with 65 years as a hitmaker, the music filling his head is a broad category. His soundtrack begins by blasting us all back into that first life-changing explosion of rock and also includes great soul soul stars such as Aretha Franklin, longtime colleagues like Elton John, and much-missed close friends Cilla Black and Olivia Newton-John.This book is meaningful to Cliff on many levels. The 30 or so songs here that make up the soundtrack to his life have each moved him deeply, but it's also about the legendary artists he met, and often got to know. He shares those stories and memories with you, too.A Head Full of Music is a vibrant personal journey for Cliff, and it's a joy to accompany him on it. Get wired for sound with him and read on.
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Ebury Publishing A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life
Book SynopsisForeword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was 'Heartbreak Hotel' by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy who was destined to take the hit parade by storm as Cliff Richard fell in love with rock and roll. It gave him the thrill, the purpose and the mission that has shaped his life ever since.Cliff lives in and for music. And with 65 years as a hitmaker, the music filling his head is a broad category. His soundtrack begins by blasting us all back into that first life-changing explosion of rock and also includes great soul soul stars such as Aretha Franklin, longtime colleagues like Elton John, and much-missed close friends Cilla Black and Olivia Newton-John.This book is meaningful to Cliff on many levels. The 30 or so songs here that make up the soundtrack to his life have each moved him deeply, but it's also about the legendary artists he met, and often got to know. He shares those stories and memories with you, too.A Head Full of Music is a vibrant personal journey for Cliff, and it's a joy to accompany him on it. Get wired for sound with him and read on.
£23.71
Hal Leonard Corporation Working Class Audio Journal
Book SynopsisWORKING CLASS AUDIO JOURNAL VOLUME 1
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Vehicule Press Off the Books: A Jazz Life
Book SynopsisMany jazz lives have unfolded as marginal existences, as jazz guitarist Peter Leitch attests in this honest memoir of a life lived in search of excellence in music and art, but also a life lived battling depression, alienation, and narcotics addiction. Leitch vividly relates trying to eke out a living in jazz clubs, nightclubs, and studios in Montreal, Toronto, and New York. He tells of growing up as an Anglophone in Montreal’s working-class and predominantly French-speaking East End refinery district, discovering jazz on CBC radio and learning to play it—outside of the academy. Peter Leitch has played with many musicians in his long career including Oscar Peterson, Jaki Byard, Renee Rosnes, Jeri Brown, and Sadik Hakim. He lived and played in Montreal during his early years, Toronto in the 1970s, and in New York since 1982, which comprises the largest section of the book, chronicling the inner workings of the jazz business.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Background; History; The Assaults Across the Moro & the Capture of San Leonardo; The Capture of Cider Crossroads; The Fight for the Town; Operations West of Ortona & the Advance of Torre Mucchia; Tour 1: The Assaults Across the Moro & the Capture of San Leonardo; Tour 2: The Capture of Cider Crossroads; Tour 3: The Fight For the Town; Tour 4: Operations West of Ortona & the Advance of Torre Mucchia; The Liri Valley; Operations of the First Special Service Force; Operation "Diadem" & the Breaking of the Gustav Line; The Approach To the Hitler Line & Operation Chesterfield; The Melfa Crossing & the Road to Rome; Tour 1: Operations of the First Special Service Force; Tour 2: Operation "Diadem" & the Breaking of the Gustav Line; Tour 3: The Approach to the Hitler Line & Operation "Chesterfield"; Tour 4: The Melfa Crossing & the Road to Rome; Additional Information; Travel Information; Hotels & Restaurants; Canadian Order of Battle.
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Chicago Review Press The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and
Book SynopsisThis vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy’s stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs will marvel at his unique perspective and firsthand accounts of the 1927 Mississippi River flood, vagrancy laws, makeshift courts in the back of seed stores, plantation life, and the Depression.Trade Review"A valuable record of a way of life that has all but disappeared." -- Washington Post"Magnificent! I've been waiting for this book since I was a kid." --Taj Mahal"The most central contribution to blues history." --Boston Globe"A deeply moving memoir...one of the last true country blues musicians...[a]story of a troubadour and of survival." --Studs Terkel
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Chicago Review Press I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues
Book SynopsisSkip James (1902–1969) was perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. Drawing on hundreds of hours of conversations with James himself, Stephen Calt here paints a dark and unforgettable portrait of a man untroubled by his own murderous inclinations, a man who achieved one moment of transcendent greatness in a life haunted by failure. And in doing so, Calt offers new insights into the nature of the blues, the world in which it thrived, and its fate when that world vanished.Trade Review"Less a biography of one blues legend than a biography of Mississippi blues . . . Calt's interviews with James just before his death in 1969 imbue this book with a true survivor's voice." -- Publishers Weekly"[Calt] writes with a knowledge and intelligence that make even his most extreme statements interesting . . . His greatest virtue is his insistence on painting James as a real, albeit infuriating, person ." -- Boston Globe"The appearance of a book on Skip James and his worlds as thorough, clearheaded, and insightful as Calt's should be considered a gift of fate. To say I'd Rather Be the Devil is the best book on the subject of 'country blues' for the layperson would be an understatement on the order of 'Air is good for your body.'" --Village Voice"This is the real thing. I drink up every word. This and Calt's life of Charlie Patton are the best books ever written on the subject of old-time blues." --R. Crumb, author, R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz and Country"Intimate, learned, trenchant, chilling, and true . . . This work surpasses its task with comprehensive research and insight suggestive of far, uncharted travels." --Alan Greenberg, author, Love in Vain"An extraordinary work devoted to blues, and more specifically, to one of the true enigmas of country blues." --Lawrence Cohn, editor, Nothing But the Blues"Penetrating and idiosyncratic . . . A remarkable book." --Minneapolis City Pages"Entertaining and on the mark . . . Calt's narrative is always interesting and often spellbinding . . . Fascinating reading." --Acoustic Guitar"A fascinating and disturbing book, containing a lot of truth, a lot of interesting historical research, and a lot of food for thought." --Living Blues
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Chicago Review Press The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence
Book SynopsisIn the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history—the Supremes—told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the surprising identity of the man by whom she was raped prior to her entering the music business, the details of her love-hate relationship with Motown Records czar Berry Gordy, her drinking problem and pleas for help, a never-ending desire to be the Supremes’ lead singer, and her attempts to get her life back on track after being brutally expelled from the group. This is a tumultuous and heartbreaking story of a world-famous performer whose life ended at the age of 32 as a lonely mother of three who had only recently recovered from years of poverty and despair.Trade Review"Flo Ballard's remarkable story is a personal Greek tragedy. In his wonderful The Lost Supreme , Peter Benjaminson tells it masterfully, with all the drama and empathy her life deserves. In Benjaminson's talented hands, Flo Ballard earns the lasting stardom she was deprived of in life." --Gerald Posner, author, Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power"Get to know the real Flo, from the beginning to the end. A must read." --Otis Williams, the Temptations"Peter Benjaminson has done a stellar job in capturing [Florence Ballard] and telling her story. Florence deserved a biographer with the skill and talent of Benjaminson. If this book were a record, it would top the charts." --Al Abrams, publicity director, Motown Records, 1964-1966"Provides details Ballard wouldn't or couldn't discuss." -- Onion
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Chicago Review Press Bowie on Bowie Volume 8: Interviews and
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University of North Texas Press,U.S. A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van
Book SynopsisThis is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas’—and America’s—greatest songwriters. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour. A Deeper Blue traces Van Zandt’s background as the scion of a prominent Texas family; his troubled early years and his transformation from promising pre-law student to wandering folk singer; his life on the road and the demons that pursued and were pursued by him; the women who loved and inspired him; and the brilliance and enduring beauty of his songs, which are explored in depth.The author draws on eight years’ extensive research and interviews with Townes’ family and closest friends and colleagues. He looks beyond the legend and paints a colorful portrait of a complex man who embraced the darkness of demons and myth as well as the light of deep compassion and humanity, all “for the sake of the song.”
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