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Bazillion Points Murder In The Front Row: Bay Area Bangers and the
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£33.96
University of Nevada Press Under the Western Sky: Essays on the Fiction and
Book SynopsisThis original collection of essays by experts in the field weave together the first comprehensive examination of Nevada-born Willy Vlautin’s novels and songs, as well as featuring 11 works of art that accompany his albums and books.Brutally honest, raw, gritty, down to earth, compassionate and affecting, Willy Vlautin’s writing evokes a power in not only theme, but in methodology. Vlautin’s novels, The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete and The Free (2006-2014) chart the dispossessed lives of young people struggling to survive in difficult economic times and in regions of the U.S. West and Pacific Northwest traditionally viewed as affluent and abundant. Yet as his work shows, are actually highly stratified and deprived.Likewise, Vlauntin’s songs, penned as lead singer of the Americana band Richmond Fontaine chart a related territory of blue-collar landscapes of the American West and Northwest with a strong emphasis on narrative and affective soundscapes evocative of the similar worlds defined in his novels.Featuring an interview with Vlautin himself, this edited collection aims to develop the first serious, critical consideration of the important novels and songs of Willy Vlautin by exploring relations between region, music, and writing through the lens of critical regionality and other interdisciplinary, cultural, and theoretical methodologies. In so doing, it will situate his work within its regional frame of the American New West, and particularly the city of Reno, Nevada and the Pacific Northwest, whilst showing how he addresses wider cultural and global issues such as economic change, immigration shifts, gender inequality, and the loss of traditional mythic identities.The essays take different positions in relation to considerations of both novels and music, looking for links and relations across genres, always mindful of their specificity. Under the Western Sky shows how although apparently rooted in place, Vlautin’s work traces diverse lines of contemporary cultural enquiry, engaging in an effective and troubling examination of regional haunting.Trade ReviewBringing a sophisticated set of contemporary lenses to bear upon the musical and novel-writing career of Willy Vlautin, Under the Western Sky makes a strong case for Vlautin as a resonant voice in a new kind of West a considerable distance from earlier regional mythologies. In fact, Vlautin emerges as not only a representative, but a central figure whose fictions and songs evoke a series of landscapes - urban, rural, desert - characterized by marginalization, failure, and transience in many forms. Vlautin emerges as a literary son of Raymond Carver, but one who writes in his own voice and for whom music forms a profound and intimate complement to the fiction."" - Alan Weltzien, University of Montana Western
£28.46
Ugly Duckling Presse The Final Nite 2nd Edition
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Z2 Comics One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer Three Tales of
Book SynopsisLegendary bluesman John Lee Hooker lived more life in one of his songs than the collective lifetimes of many.Spanning several decades of the American experience, One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer tells three tales of Hooker's storied life through the perspective of those who lived within his massive orbit, weaving textured and interpretative stories that rise to the lofty creative heights of his music and fall to the gritty reality of trying to thrive in several unforgiving eras.
£22.50
Fantoons LLC Frank Zappa Coloring Book
Book SynopsisAn officially licensed colouring book packed with original art that will delight any Frank Zappa fan, from diehards to newcomers!
£999.99
Ma Non Troppo Jim Morrison: La Historia del Gran Mito del Rock
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£21.28
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Crowded Houses Together Alone
Book SynopsisBarnaby Smith is an award-winning writer, editor, critic, poet and musician based in New South Wales, Australia. He has written about music, art, literature and film for publications including The Quietus, The Guardian, Rolling Stone Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Book Review, the BBC, the ABC and numerous others.
£16.14
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Untold Story of Scott Hoying Pentatonix Star
Book SynopsisConnie Hoying is a retired physical therapist and mother of three children: Lindsay, Lauren, and Scott. By sharing her experiences and contributions to her son's growth, Connie is a resource for parents who want to guide their children toward successfully pursuing their passions. She and her husband Rick live in Fort Worth, Texas.
£19.99
Weldon Owen Oasis the Masterplan
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£42.50
Oxford University Press All Shook Up
Book SynopsisRock 'n roll seemed to be everywhere during the decade, exhilarating, influential, and an outrage to those Americans intent on wishing away all forms of dissent and conflict. As vibrant as the music itself, All Shook Up reveals how rock 'n roll challenged and changed American culture and laid the foundation for the social upheaval of the sixties.Trade Review"One of the first to do rock-and-roll the significant service of locating it within the cultural and political maelstrom it helped to create. Altschuler does so with a good ear for the music and a deft hand, making this account a pleasure to read and ponder. He is not a flashy writer, but so much the better for his storytelling, which shows intelligence and narrative discipline.... Altschuler surpasses the admittedly sparsely populated field in the nuanced way he places the music within the conflicts--racial, sexual, commercial, and political--that it variously helped to encourage, exacerbate, and (occasionally) ameliorate. Altschuler tells a story of liberation and fear, of inspiration and exploitation, of repeated attempts to homogenize a form of cultural expression that sprang from somewhere so authentic in Western youth culture that it proved bigger and more powerful than any combination of its myriad opponents."--Eric Alterman, The Atlantic Monthly"A well thought out, well researched work, peppered with evocative archival photos and full of terse, sharp comment and considerable feel for the music and its performers."--Toronto Globe and Mail"In All Shook Up, Glenn C. Altschuler vividly demonstrates that Rock 'n' Roll--as music, lyric, and gesture--provides the guide, the Ariadne's thread, through the labyrinth of social, cultural, generational, and sexual upheaval that was post-World War II America."--Kevin Starr, author of Americans and the California Dream"While incorporating extensive research and quotes from the most astute rock music critics, past and present, he manages to craft prose that will suit a general audience."--Library Journal"A book rich with shocking and humorous anecdotes.... Also offers insight into the often complicated racial and legal issues surrounding rock 'n' roll in the 1950s."--AP Weekly"A soulful, scholarly, and thoroughly fascinating examination of the transforming power of rock and roll in American culture. Brandishing the chops of a loving fan and a scrupulous historian, Altschuler nimbly tracks the rock-propelled revolutions in manners and morality that first rumbled forth from the 1950s, a decade that seems ever more the epoch of Elvis not Eisenhower. His is a finely tuned, perfectly pitched appreciation of the rhythms of a music that became not only a soundtrack but a heartbeat to American life."--Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University"Includes enough tantalizing tales along with thumbnail sketches of the forefathers and key moments from the annals of pioneer rock to keep the narrative lively and flowing.... This PhD is such an enthusiastic fan, my '50s generation awards him our ultimate accolade: he's obviously a 'Good Rockin' Doc.'"--Miami Herald"A fascinating and important look at a pivotal decade in American history.... Put on those old 45s and curl up for an enlightening and eminently readable story."--PW Daily"A remarkably thorough short history of the birth of rock and roll and its cultural contexts. Glenn Altschuler manages to weave the stories of musicians and record producers, cultural critics and legislators, psychologists and sociologists, businessmen and teenaged consumers into a lively, astute narrative of cultural change. The result is not just an especially informative history of rock, but an important cultural history of the 'long' 1950s."--Tom Lutz, author of Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears and American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History
£18.49
Bloomsbury USA 3pl The Words and Music of Ice Cube
Book SynopsisIce Cube is one of the most influential figures in the history of rap and hip hop. Best known for the vitriol of his 'angry black man' recordings of the late 1980s and mid 1990s, he epitomizes the genre often referred to as gangsta rap. This book examines the entirety of Ice Cube's recorded catalog.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Reinventions of Ice Cube 1. The Cultural Politics of Gangsta Rap 2. Plenty Attitude: The NWA Years, 1988 1990 3. Early Solo Successes: The Years 1990-1993 4. Collaborations and a New Direction, 1994-1998 5. Actor, Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Lyricist, Rapper: The Years 1999-2007 Afterword Discography Filmography Notes Annotated Bibliography
£41.25
Hachette Books Passion Is a Fashion
Book SynopsisThe definitive biography of legendary punk band the Clash, and the first to draw on original interviews with the band
£19.00
Hachette Books Bird Lives
Book SynopsisThis work on Charlie Bird Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; his great appetites; the extent of his influence; and his work.Table of Contents* At Billy Bergs: An Obbligato Part I * Heavenly City * Getting Straight * Kansas City Mystique * Trials of Manhood * Modes * The Making of a Jazzman Part II * Woodshedding in the Ozarks * The Apple * Hootie * The Band That Played the Blues * The Bebop Laboratory * The Last of the Big Bands * The Street * A Dizzy Atmosphere Part III * The Independent Record Derby * Yardbird in Lotus Land * Sparrows Last Jump * Relaxin at Camarillo * Klactoveesedstene * Bird at Work * Birdland Part IV * Travels with a Genius * A Queer Night in Brussels * The Jazz Baroness * King Pleasure * Down and Out in New York * At the Hotel Stanhope * Coda: Six Pretty Horses Pullin Me
£999.99
Hachette Books Chicago Blues
Book SynopsisChicago has always had a reputation as a wide open town with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also been the home for countless black musicians and the birthplace of a distinctly urban blues,more sophisticated, cynical, and street-smart than the anguished songs of the Mississippi delta,a music called the Chicago blues. This is the history of that music and the dozens of black artists who congregated on the South and Near West Sides. Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Howlin'' Wolf, Elmore James, Tampa Red, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson, Junior Wells, Eddie Taylor,all of these giants played throughout the city and created a musical style that had imitators and influence all over the world.Table of Contents* Foreword: Whats He Singing? * The Prewar Blues * From Farm to Factory * Sweet Home Chicago * The Aristocrat of Records * King of the Chicago Blues * The Small Labels * The Chess Set * The Peppiest in the Biz * Decline and Fall * The West Side * Chicago Today * Why Chicago?
£12.34
Bloomsbury USA 3pl Discovering Country Music
Book SynopsisDiscovering Country Music chronicles the incredible evolution of country music in America - from the fiddle to the pop charts - and provides an insightful account of the reasons and motives that have determined its various transformations and offshoots over the years.Trade Review…this is a history of country music that shows how business aspects have decisively molded the genre. Cusic,…presents many valuable facts and insights only an insider would have… Including some footnotes and an extensive bibliography, this accessible title will be useful for students and fans of the music business and the history of country and popular music. Readers will be amazed to realize how much influence money and technology have had on country music… Recommended. All readers, all levels. * Choice *Table of Contents1: COUNTRY MUSIC: WHAT IS IT? 2: EARLY COUNTRY MUSIC 3: ON RADIO & THE IN THE MOVIES 4: COUNTRY MUSIC IN THE 40s 5: COUNTRY MUSIC IN THE 50s 6: POLITICS AND COUNTRY MUSIC 7: COUNTRY MUSIC & THE NATIONAL MEDIA 8: COUNTRY MUSIC IN THE 60s AND 70s 9: THE 80s AND 90s 10: COUNTRY RADIO 11: INTERNATIONAL 12: POLITICS AND RELIGION 13: THE 21ST CENTURY 14: THE ROAD AHEAD Notes Bibliography
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Transworld Publishers Ltd A Long Strange Trip
Book SynopsisThe Grateful Dead were one of the most fascinating rock bands and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. Despite having few mainstream hits, from 1965 to 1995 the Dead blazed an extraordinary incendiary trail across the rock firmament. Exploding from the roots and folk scene of the early 1960s, the Dead went on to provide the soundtrack to the Dionysiac revels of the burgeoning counterculture. Their history is the history of the modern American Revolution in the years of rage and rebellion, which were to change the country forever. Here is the band''s full story. Not just a brilliant rock biography, it forms a compelling portrait of America''s West Coast from the halcyon days of Magic Buses and Merry Pranksters to the corporate dawn of the twenty-first century.Trade Review'No novelist, sane or otherwise, could have invented the ethereal saga of the Grateful Dead. Dennis McNally's backstage portrait of the world's most liberated rock band is full of unforgettable images, wild and funny and fascinating' -- Carl Hiaasen'McNally's writing on the music is great, his critical judgements are precise and it's the kind of book to send you scurrying back to the records' * Sunday Herald *'This is an exceptionally candid account of the band and its career...Deadheads will lap up this book' * Daily Telegraph *'[McNally] uses his unique access and intimacy to tell a gripping story that even the most inventive novelist really would have struggled to make up...Combining the objectivity of the trained historian with the commitment of a true believer, McNally has surely written the best Dead book ever' * Uncut *'Some of the most vivid writing about the rock 'n' roll experience...A fascinating glimpse into a side of American culture that is still thriving, still evolving, and will simply not fade away' * Independent *
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Nashville City Blues My Journey as an American
Book SynopsisFor many diehard music fans and critics, Oklahoma-born James Talley ranks among the finest of American singer-songwriters. In this engaging, down-to-earth memoir, Talley recalls the highs and lows of his nearly fifty-year career in country music.Trade Review“James Talley is an American artist. Putting on a Talley vinyl, I always feel as if I am getting a tour of John Steinbeck’s basement and Woody Guthrie’s garage and Dorothea Lange’s darkroom. There are nights when my wife and I go two-stepping around the dining room to a Talley tune. Now the world has this wonderful memoir, as honest and plainspoken and direct and American in its sentence rhythms as the beautiful songs themselves. I read it in a sitting and wanted even more.”—Paul Hendrickson, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and author of Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost“An inspiring, yet harrowing memoir by an outstanding singer-songwriter who made a landmark album in 1975 in the populist, folk-country tradition of Woody Guthrie and Merle Haggard, only to spend decades in the nightmarish record business in hopes of getting his music the wide audience that it deserved. Like his songs, Talley’s text has a warm and resilient spirit.”—Robert Hilburn, author of Johnny Cash: The Life and Paul Simon: The Life“A well-penned journey through the Nashville music business, told by someone who was positioned to become a keen observer of the Music Row scene ‘back in the day.’”—Robert K. Oermann, coauthor of Songteller (with Dolly Parton) andLittle Miss Dynamite (with Brenda Lee) “Talley’s book is unlike almost all others: it tells the hardest truths and captures the greatest achievements of someone who started with nothing, never flinches and is still doing his best to follow his dream.”—Americana Highways"Nashville City Blues is as straightforward, understated and affecting as Mr. Talley’s true-life songs, which have been covered by performers from Johnny Cash to Moby. The book is also a field guide for any outsider without connections or prospects who wonders how to persevere despite long odds and plenty of bad luck and bad choices."—Wall Street Journal
£18.86
John Wiley & Sons Going Back to TTown Volume 2
Book SynopsisTerritory bands traveled from town to town, performing jazz and swing music, and Tulsa-based musician Ernie Fields (1904-97) led one of the best. In Going Back to T-Town, Ernie’s daughter, Carmen Fields, tells a story of success, disappointment, and perseverance extending from the early jazz era to the 1960s.Trade Review“This perceptive book is an insightful account, appealing to the aficionado and scholar alike, of the career and musical journey of bandleader Ernie Fields.”—Todd Wright, Professor and Director of Jazz Studies, Hayes School of Music, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina“In piecing together her father’s musical journey, Carmen Fields highlights an important untold story, but also paints a fuller picture of the strength that emanated from the much talked about Tulsa, Oklahoma, of twentieth-century America.”—Wil Haygood, author of Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
£20.66
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Blues and Trouble
Book SynopsisExploring the diverse landscape of American life, the stories in Blues and Trouble capture the lives of people caught between circumstance and their own natures or on the run from fate, from a Jewish couple encountering a dealer in Nazi memorabilia to the troubled family of a Gulf Coast fisherman awaiting a hurricane.
£15.26
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Funkiest Man Alive Rufus Thomas and Memphis Soul
Book SynopsisRufus Thomas may not be a household name, but he is widely regarded as the patriarch of Memphis R&B, and his music influenced three generations. Matthew Ruddick reveals the amazing life and career of Thomas, and examines the social fabric of the city of Memphis, analyzing the factors behind the array of talent that appeared in the late 1950s.
£26.55
Legends Publishing The Grand Illusion of David Bowie
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£999.99
HarperCollins Burning Down the House
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£24.00
Columbia University Press Do You Have a Band
Book SynopsisDuring the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In "Do You Have a Band?", Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge.Trade ReviewDaniel Kane's 'Do You Have a Band' illuminates the connection of Richard Hell, Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith to Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, and beyond. The dialogue among poets hanging out at CBGB and punk rock pioneers reading at the Poetry Project in early-seventies NYC is where so many of us in the sonic-lit lineage enter, charmed into the future. -- Thurston Moore, recording artist and cofounder of Sonic Youth Daniel Kane's incisive study confirms what poets have known for years: that punk rock was spawned by the New York School. Meticulously researched, "Do You Have a Band?" is a must-read for any literature buff, poet, or punk rock fan. This book seamlessly blends historical analysis with literary critique, pop culture, and just the right amount of dirt. -- Gillian McCain, coauthor of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk "Do You Have a Band?" is a formidably researched and galvanizing cultural history of the poetry-punk rock connection, with its lofty aspirations, history, gossip, and genius. This tome continues Kane's passionate scholarship of the formative years of the downtown New York performance/poetry worlds. When were we ever so free to incubate our wild desires in language and sound? Current and next generations of artists, rockers, scholars, and fans will love this book. -- Anne Waldman, author of Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet to Be Born Critics have long remarked that Lou Reed, Richard Hell, Patti Smith and other musicians associated with the emergence of punk rock began their careers in the New York poetry world. Why then are timeless evocations of the Rimbaudian maudit all we ever hear about their interest in poetry? Banishing these cliches with a critical power chord, Daniel Kane's "Do You Have a Band?" finally brings into view the actual landscape of later New York School poetics in which (and often against which) New York punk rock took shape. -- Lytle Shaw, New York University, author of Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of CoterieTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Fugs Are Coming 2. Lou Reed: "In the Beginning Was the Word" 3. Proto-Punk and Poetry on St. Mark's Place 4. Richard Hell, Genesis: Grasp, and the Making of the Blank Generation 5. "I Just Got Different Theories": Patti Smith and the New York School of Poetry 6. Giorno Poetry Systems 7. Eileen Myles and the International Fuck Frank O'Hara Movement 8. "Sit on My Face!": Dennis Cooper, the First Punk Poet Afterword: People Who Died Notes Index
£28.00
University of Illinois Press Bluegrass Bluesman
Book SynopsisThe life and music of a bluegrass pioneer, in his own wordsTrade ReviewCertificate of Merit for Excellence for Best Research in Recorded Country Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards, 2013. Fred Bartenstein (editor), Bluegrass/Media Person of the Year, International Bluegrass Music Awards (IBMA), 2013. "Mesmerizing . . . especially for lovers of bluegrass."--Booklist "One comes away from this interesting read with a keen understanding of a man who influenced country music, dobro playing in particular, in a way few have. Recommended."--Choice "A fascinating look at the musical culture of the South. . . . Thoroughly Southern, spicy, real, and lots of fun." --Library Journal "The legendary musician provides interesting insight into the ways of his long-time boss, Earl Scruggs." --MountainTimes.com "Graves's name won't ring a bell for many outside musicians' circles, but Burkett "Uncle Josh" Graves helped take bluegrass from southern Appalachia to college campuses and beyond, to the world-music status it enjoys today. . . . Bluegrass Bluesman is unfiltered, off-the-cuff oral history."--The Wall Street Journal"In this welcome memoir, Graves proves himself a born storyteller. . . . Rarely is a guitarist's memoir such a rich read."--Vintage Guitar"Josh Graves inspired hundreds of musicians to pick up the steel bar and slide it over the strings of the Dobro. . . . It's good and fitting that the story of this talented and influential musician is being preserved in his own words." --from Neil Rosenberg's foreword to the book "Because Graves tells his own story in his own voice, readers do truly get a sense for whom Josh Graves was and what he and his dobro contributed to Bluegrass music." --Winchester Sun"Yet another must-read book from the University of Illinois Press."--Bluegrass Unlimited "An excellent autobiography of a highly creative musician. Graves was a first-rate storyteller with a discerning sense of what was important in his many memorable experiences." --John Wright, author of Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music"Fred Bartenstein has done a beautiful job in covering the career of one of the great figures in bluegrass. . . . A hard book to put down." --County Sales Newsletter
£16.14
Hachette Books Backbeat
Book SynopsisThere he is, drumming on Tutti Frutti, You''ve Lost That Lovin'' Feelin'', and thousands of other songs. As a studio player in New Orleans and Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1970s, Earl Palmer co-created hundreds of hits and transformed the lope of rhythm and blues into full-tilt rock and roll. He was, as a result, one of the first session men to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Palmer''s distinctive voice alternates with the insights of music journalist and historian Tony Scherman in an unforgettable trip through the social and musical cultures of mid-century New Orleans and the feverish world of early rock.
£999.99
Hal Leonard Corporation SYSTEM OF A DOWN TOXICITY TAB Toxicity Guitar
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Alphabet Legends Pty Ltd Rolling Stones Legends Alphabet
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£14.24
Epic Ink Adele Is Life
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£13.49
Chelsea House Publishers JayZ HipHop Stars
Book SynopsisBorn Shawn Carter in New York City in 1970, Jay-Z enjoys the kind of rags-to-riches success that few can only dream of. On the strength of seven consecutive best-selling albums, Jay-Z quickly established himself and Roc-A-Fella as powerful forces in the music industry. This biography traces the meteoric rise of Jay-Z.
£12.30
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. Led Zeppelin and Philosophy
Book Synopsis Led Zeppelin, who bestrode the world of rock like a colossus, have continually grown in popularity and influence since their official winding up in 1980. They exasperated critics and eluded classification, synthesizing blues, rock, folk, rockabilly, funk, classical, country, Indian, and Arabic techniques. They performed the alchemical trick of transmuting base led into goldand platinumand diamond. They did what they would, finding wisdom through personal excess and artistic self-discipline. Not a coda to Zeppelin’s legacy, but a blast of metaphysical graffiti as relevant today as the first time we heard the opening chords of Stairway to Heaven’. From Kant to Kashmir’, from Freud to Fool in the Rain’, Calef and company explore Zeppelin’s music in an introspective, suggestive manner worthy of both a blistering Page solo and a bawdy Bonham stomp.” BRANDON W. FORBES, co-editor of R
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Sharing in the Groove
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£24.75
Orion Publishing Co The Absence
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£18.75
Bloomsbury Academic Last Waltz
Book SynopsisCraig Harris is a music historian, educator, storyteller, percussionist, photographer, radio show host, and author of six books. A skilled percussionist, he has appeared onstage with C. J. Chenier, Greg Brown, Jonathan Edwards, Rod MacDonald, Melanie, Mustard's Retreat, Merl Saunders, Rick Danko (The Band), and Los Texmaniacs. He co-hosts the Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour on the DreamVisions7 Radio Network and hosts The Craig Harris Show on Washington, DC's Bluegrass Country/WAMU-FM.
£36.54
Information Age Publishing Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk
Book SynopsisArising from the street corners and underground clubs, Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk, challenges standardized schooling and argues for equity, peace, and justice. Rebel Music is an important, one-of-a-kind book that takes readers through fun, radical, educational chapters examining Hip Hop and Punk songs, with each section addressing a particular social issue. Rebel Music values the experiences found in both movements as cultural capital that is de-valued in the current oppressive, standard, test-driven, rule-bound, and corporate schooling experience, making youth “just another brick in the wall.” This collection is a “rebel yell” to administrators, teachers, parents, police, politicians, and counsellors who demonize Hip Hop and Punk to listen up and respect youth culture. Finally, Rebel Music is a celebration of radical voices and an organizing tool for those who use music to challenge oppression.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk
Book SynopsisArising from the street corners and underground clubs, Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk, challenges standardized schooling and argues for equity, peace, and justice. Rebel Music is an important, one-of-a-kind book that takes readers through fun, radical, educational chapters examining Hip Hop and Punk songs, with each section addressing a particular social issue. Rebel Music values the experiences found in both movements as cultural capital that is de-valued in the current oppressive, standard, test-driven, rule-bound, and corporate schooling experience, making youth “just another brick in the wall.” This collection is a “rebel yell” to administrators, teachers, parents, police, politicians, and counsellors who demonize Hip Hop and Punk to listen up and respect youth culture. Finally, Rebel Music is a celebration of radical voices and an organizing tool for those who use music to challenge oppression.
£82.80
Academic Studies Press On Counter-Enlightenment, Existential Irony, and
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and demonstrates their historical and sociological importance. The essays in this book explore the concepts of “existential irony” and “sanctification,” which have been mentioned or discussed by music scholars, historians, and musicologists only either in connection with specific composers’ works (Shostakovich’s, in the case of “existential irony”) or very parenthetically, merely in passing in the biographies of composers of “classical” musics. This groundbreaking work illustrates their generality and sociological sources and correlates in contemporary Western art musics.Table of ContentsTable of Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. On Horizons and Research Agendas for the Sociology of Musics: Changes under the Pandemic and Social Distancing2. On “Ethno-Existential Irony” in Western Art Musics3. Counter-Enlightenment, the Other, and Existential Irony4. On Migration and the Social Demography of Western Art Musics5. On the Sociology of Musics and Counter-Enlightenment in Israel6. On Modern Jewish Atlantic Rim and Black Atlantic Migrations7. On the Sanctification of Western Art Musics8. Sociological Perspectives on the Sanctification of Secular MusicsReferencesIndex
£72.24
Legenda Cortázar and Music
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Bonnier Books Ltd Taylor Swift The Ultimate Puzzle Book
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Empire Publications Ltd Hanging Around Musicians
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Omnibus Press Smile
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£22.50
Bazillion Points Nyhc: New York Hardcore 1980-1990
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£23.96
Verlag Peter Lang Hindemith-Interpretationen: Hindemith Und Die
Book SynopsisPaul Hindemith versuchte sich früh von dem ganzen Conservatoriumskram zu lösen und schlug einen eigenen künstlerischen Weg ein, der stets die Auseinandersetzung mit den Strömungen der jeweiligen Gegenwart suchte. Damit bot er ab 1934 auch die Voraussetzung, um selber zum Fall Hindemith zu werden. Im Zentrum der Referate und Aufsätze, die zur Studienwoche Hindemith und die zwanziger Jahre der Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich entstanden sind, stehen Hindemiths Kunstwerke und Stellungnahmen in der Zwischenkriegszeit. Dabei geht es auch um Hindemiths Positionen gegenüber Strömungen wie Expressionismus, Neoklassizismus und Neue Sachlichkeit. Überdies vermitteln Einblicke in seine Kontakte zu Schriftstellern, die ihm auch als Librettisten zur Seite standen, zu Interpreten und Choreographen ein lebendiges Bild des damals noch suchenden, aber schon berühmten Komponisten und Interpreten Hindemith.
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Z2 Comics Lifeform Vivian
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PM PR In China with Green Day
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Faber And Faber Ltd. Radiohead The Piano Songbook
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Ebury Publishing Lennon
Book SynopsisMusic historian and journalist Tim Riley''s biography challenges many popular assumptions about Lennon''s life, from his widely misunderstood ''Working Class Hero'' origins to his epic romance with Yoko Ono. Riley also explores Lennon in all his contradictions: the misogynist turned peace activist, the moralist who loved to outrage and the ''bigger than Christ'' LSD enthusiast who settled down to become a house-husband.A pre-eminent scholar of Beatles music, Riley has consulted some of the most important Beatles scholarship of the past two decades. In a field littered with untrustworthy memoirs, he has culled the most reliable information from hundreds of books, and tracked down even more insightful sources among Lennon''s friends, enemies, confidantes, celebrity associates and business contacts. He also writes brilliantly about the music and about Lennon''s artistic and creative processes. The Beatles have just enjoyed their most successful sales decade ever, and this bTrade ReviewThis exhaustively researched life of the Beatles' chief cynic, John Lennon, aims to get beneath the surface gloss ... a compelling account -- Mark Edmonds * The Sunday Times *
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Wymer Publishing Down To Donington
Book SynopsisDown To Donington looks back at the first Monsters Of RockFestival in 1980. It explores behind the scenes, as well as the day inquestion, and even the aftermath.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Red River Blues The Blues Tradition in the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 1987. "The opening chapters are among the best things ever published on the blues. It's a thoughtful, substantial, solidly constructed, information packed work, and should be in every serious blues enthusiast's library. But more than that, it is a major contribution to the study of popular culture."--Paul Oliver, Juke Blues"A brilliant and exhaustive study of Afro-American secular music in the Southeast in this century. And it is a broader tradition, and not the blues per se, that is being examined here. . . . Bastin illuminates the importance of black string band traditions, balladry, music derived from minstrel and medicine show traditions as well as sacred forms not just as blues antecedents, but as significant parallel strains to blues in the repertories of many musicians up to the present."--Art Rosenbaum, Georgia Historical Quarterly
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