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iUniverse Rock n Politics A State of the Union Address
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Beatles For Classical Guitar
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Real Book
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Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Pat Metheny One Quiet Night for Guitar TAB Pvg
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Hal Leonard Nirvana The Lyrics
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Mitchell Media The Life and Times of Tom Watson
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Simon & Schuster Improvising Jazz A Fireside Book
Book SynopsisThis work offers useful information on how jazz music can be improvised.
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Touchstone Books The Real Frank Zappa Book
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Martin Productions Tupac 187 The Red Knight
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Martin Productions Tupac 187 The Red Knight
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University Press of Kansas Elvis Culture Fans Faith and Image
Book SynopsisThis text explains why Elvis Presley is an enduring image in American popular culture. It demonstrates the power of pictures in visual culture and reveals much about American attitudes toward religion, sex, race and celebrity, and the construction of American identity in the late 20th century.Trade ReviewAn intelligent cultural analysis of one of this century's most revered, reviled, and reviewed fan phenomena. - Publishers Weekly; ""An exuberantly detailed and illustrated study that succeeds in demonstrating the complexity of Elvis culture and absolutely compels us to take the fundamental question about popular culture ('Why Elvis?') to heart."" - American Studies; ""A welcome addition to the growing body of work that explores America's star-saturated culture and its effects. For Doss, Elvis has become an important catalyst for diverse Americans' understandings of themselves, their relationships to others, and their experience of the modern world."" - American Quarterly; ""One of the best books on Elvis that I've ever read.... A stellar piece of cultural criticism."" - Gilbert B. Rodman, author of Elvis after Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend ""The book itself is a remarkable Presley artifact,"" - New York Times Book Review; ""Offers rich insights into the culture and logic of fandom."" - Lynn Spigel, author of Make Room for TV; ""A fascinating account and a great read!"" - Elaine Tyler May, author of Homeward Bound
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Omnibus Press Phil Lynott The Rocker
Book SynopsisThe classic bestseller re-issed in a paperback edition.This eye-opening biography traces Lynott''s life from 1950s Dublin through to Thin Lizzy and his tragic death. Using dozens of frank interviews with family friends and band members, this is a touching and shocking account of the life of the Irish legend.Mark Putterford''s eye opening biography traces Lynott''s visionary ambitions to fuse dance music and heavy rock as well as influences on the early careers of future stars like Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, Huey Lewis and Mark Knopfler.Using dozens of frank interviews with family, friends and band members, Putterford gives us a touching and sometimes shocking account of the life of the one and only black Irish rock legend.Includes full discography. Trade Review'Mark Putterford has faithfully reconstructed the life of an illegitimate black child who rose from a childhood of petty taunts because of the colour of his skin to become a hero worldwide, but more importantly, an Irish icon, a person that the whole nation adored...This book is an incisive but easy read; it is not a weighty tome that scrutinises every aspect of Phil Lynott's life in lengthy, drawn out passages...This is a brilliant book about one of rock's true superstars.'
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HarperCollins Publishers Entertain Us The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties
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Alfred USA HOT ROCKS GTAB BY ROLLING STONESAUTHORPAPERBACK
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Dover Publications Inc. Jazz Standards Female Voice Volume 1 Deluxe
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Alfred Music The Giant Classic Rock Piano Sheet Music
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Popular Music in Theory
Book Synopsisaeo This is a clear and straightforward introduction to the main issues raised by the study of popular music, written by a leading authority in the field. aeo It is wide--ranging and covers the main studies and theoretical contributions to the field, including studies of the industry, and of the reception and use of popular music in everyday life.Trade Review"An excellent critical introduction to major theoretical issues and debates in the study of contemporary popular music, drawing on illustrative case studies that will be familiar to a wide readership. Clearly written and well argued, the book will be essential reading for students, researchers and teachers." Sara Cohen, University of Liverpool "A bumper primer for the field as a whole ... instructive and enlightening." Q Magazine "The book functions both as an introduction to theories in the field, and as an outline of a coherent theoretical model of its own." European Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Audiences. 2. Industry. 3. Mediations. 4. Identities. 5. Histories. 6. Geographies. 7. Politics. Bibliography. Index.
£21.53
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Nico Songs They Never Play on the Radio
Book SynopsisRecords the never-ending antics of a picaresque circus of addicts, outsiders and misfits who travelled the world encountering an equally bizarre and extraordinary mixture of people. John Cale, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso are among those who appear in the ultimately tragic story of Nico, the last Bohemian. Originally published in 1992.
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Little, Brown Book Group Steven Tyler The Biography
Book SynopsisSteven Tyler is one of life''s natural born survivors. With an exhaustively vibrant personality, this dynamic lead singer has been one of the most distinctive figures in rock music for more than three decades. Although he was raised in a close knit, loving family, Tyler survived a tough upbringing in the Bronx. His inherent passion for performing and a talent for playing instruments propelled him into rock music as a teenager. He fronted a succession of local bands before meeting the guys with whom he would form Aerosmith in 1970. Laura Jackson reveals the stories behind Tyler''s relationships with band members and the many women in his life, his battle with Hepatitis C, and his drug-fuelled meltdown during the late ''70s and early ''80s when he was snorting pure heroin. She also explores his visits to rehab in the 1980s which saved his life. Tyler has lived a roller coaster life of excess - spending over a million dollars on drugs - but is miraculously still performing. Steven Tyler: Trade ReviewWhen it comes to getting close to the rich and famous Laura Jackson is second to none. * Sky TV *Laura Jackson is the queen of biographers. * Daily Express *
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Little, Brown Book Group Sharon Osbourne Survivor
Book Synopsis''Vintage Sharon . . . fiery and passionate'' - HEAT''The formidable Mrs O is just as honest and open in this second instalment of her life story as the first . . . a real page-turner'' - WOMAN''Shazza goes even deeper to reveal the secrets behind the headlines'' - LOOK''Like Extreme, Survivor is eye-wateringly frank, and very funny'' - EVENING STANDARDSharon Osbourne''s life has always been full of drama, heartbreak and passion. When she completed her bestselling first book, Extreme, she had hoped to find some peace and stability after her rollercoaster years. It was not to be. In Survivor, her brand-new memoir, she reveals what really happened next. From famous celebrity feuds, to her eventful experiences on The X Factor, to her turbulent relationship with her father and the tragic impact of his death, Sharon remains as frank and insightful as ever. Never afraid to admit to her Trade ReviewVintage Sharon . . . fiery and passionate * HEAT *The formidable Mrs O is just as honest and open in this second instalment of her life story as the first . . . a real page-turner * WOMAN *Shazza goes even deeper to reveal the secrets behind the headlines * LOOK *Like Extreme, Survivor is eye-wateringly frank, and very funny * EVENING STANDARD *
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Orion Publishing Co Pretty Vacant
Book SynopsisThe definitive history of punk, told by one of punk's most knowledgeable experts.Trade ReviewPowerfully narrated and phenomenally well-informed, Strongman's book is less about punk as a street-level cultural movement than an epic account of its leading figures * Sunday Times *An accessible and entertaining account of a period that changed British culture * Choice *
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Ebury Publishing The Rolling Stones On Air in the Sixties
Book SynopsisBe there again! The Christmas present that brings back the sixties.From their first TV appearance on Thank Your Lucky Stars!, buttoned up in matching hounds-tooth suits at manager Andrew Loog Oldham''s insistence, to the louche rockers who appeared on stage for the televised free concert in London''s Hyde Park in 1969, this book looks back at their career-defining broadcasts, remembering the music, the clothes, the fans, the rivals and friends, and the world at large around them, divided by generation between broad-sheet moral panic and hysterical teen riots.Featuring previously unseen facsimile documents from the BBC and commercial TV and radio archives and many stunning unseen images, this is history as it happened, in context, immediate and vivid, offering new insights and a fresh unexplored perspective on the story of one of the greatest great rock ''n'' roll bands the world has ever seen.Trade ReviewPainstakingly researched ... the photographs are gold ... reaquaints us with the ingenuous vulnerability, humility and humanity that originally rocketed [the Stones] to stardom. * Classic Rock *Handsomely illustrated ... thrills the inquisitive. * Mojo *A brilliant book. -- Robert Elms * BBC Radio London *A great kind of rock and roll archaeology of the beginnings of, not only a band, but of popular culture on radio and TV - it's fascinating. -- Nicola Meighan * BBC Radio Scotland *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Kate Bush and Hounds of Love
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Warner Drum Techniques of Led Zeppelin NoteForNote
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AltaMira Press Torch Singing
Book SynopsisIn this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer''s eye, she observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly performing critiques of the very lyrics they sing. From this perspective, we see the singer giving expression not not only to desire but also to an incipient determination to resist and change. Holman Jones also reveals points of contact in the opposition between spectators and performers, emotion and intellect, and love and power. Instead of interpreting the expression of love as a woman''s violent mistakeas willing deception and passive fateHolman Jones allows us to hear an active search for hope.Trade ReviewThis is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. It provides ground zero—the starting place for the next generation of performance scholars who study desire, intimacy, the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, torch singers, love's wounds, healing and hearing new musical sounds, lyrics for torching, new ways of writing and breathing our selves into being. -- Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTorch Singing is as lyrical and inviting as the songs that Stacy Holman Jones takes as her subject. The text itself is like a torch song, calling out for a response from the reader/listener. Moving among autobiography, critical ethnography, musicaland performance analysis, and music history (especially of the blues and Tin Pan Alley), this book is self-conscious and self-reflexive politically, intellectually, and methodologically. Holman Jones is deeply conversant with feminist theory, critical ethnography, performance theory, and the history of popular music, and her writing calls up the singers and songs with acuity and evocative detail. Holman Jones also performs herself in the text and foregrounds the process of research and scholarship, the affective, desirous nature of fandom, and the political exigencies of feminism to re-examine this music and these singers. This is a fascinating study of the history of torch songs and divas, including Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Barbra Streisand, and k.d. lang, as well as many other singers whom the author saw perform and often interviewed. Torch Singing documents and celebrates the form of ?singers of suffering? as a resistant, pleasurable, political, feminist performance practice. A -- Stacy Wolf, Associate Professor, Performance as Public Practice Program, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin, anThis book is a virtuoso performance of the desiring self shaped by the contexts and lyrics of others—some real, some hauntingly remembered, and some fully imagined—through a voice every bit as soulful, ironic, sexy, and full of longing as the torch singers she brings to life. Greil Marcus says somewhere that the only books about music worth reading are those that make the experience of listening to the music better. Stacy Holman Jones does that in this remarkably sensuous little volume, so full of deep personal knowledge of women who are called to torch singing and called by it, so rich in historical and critical resources, and ultimately so deliciously feverish to the ear. -- H.L. (Bud) Goodall, Professor and Head of the Hugh Downs School of Communication at Arizona State UniversityTorch Singing is as lyrical and inviting as the songs that Stacy Holman Jones takes as her subject. The text itself is like a torch song, calling out for a response from the reader/listener. Moving among autobiography, critical ethnography, musical and performance analysis, and music history (especially of the blues and Tin Pan Alley), this book is self-conscious and self-reflexive politically, intellectually, and methodologically. Holman Jones is deeply conversant with feminist theory, critical ethnography, performance theory, and the history of popular music, and her writing calls up the singers and songs with acuity and evocative detail. Holman Jones also performs herself in the text and foregrounds the process of research and scholarship, the affective, desirous nature of fandom, and the political exigencies of feminism to re-examine this music and these singers. This is a fascinating study of the history of torch songs and divas, including Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Barbra Streisand, and k.d. lang, as well as many other singers whom the author saw perform and often interviewed. Torch Singing documents and celebrates the form of “singers of suffering” as a resistant, pleasurable, political, feminist performance practice. A beautiful, engaging song of a book. -- Stacy Wolf, Associate Professor, Performance as Public Practice Program, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin, andTable of Contents1 Interpreter of Lies 2 The Scene of Desire 3 Sing Me a Torch Song 4 The Way You Haunt my Dreams 5 Hearing Voices 6 Love's Wounds 7 Hopeful Openness 8 Circular Breathing 9 Music for Torching
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Motorbooks Fender Telecaster
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Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Seven Decades of Deep Purple
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Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Ultimate Pop Divas Coloring Book
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Crown Hip Hoptionary Tm The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology
Book SynopsisThe bumpin’ book for hip-hop disciples (a.k.a. fiends), songwriters, all other writers, pop culture fans, linguists, and parents who are just trying to figure out what their kids are saying.The inventive sounds of hip-hop (which became America’s number two music genre in 2001, outselling country) have echoed far from their Bronx beginnings of twenty years ago. Making its way from Compton sidewalks to suburban malls, garnering commentary from The Wall Street Journal alongside Vibe, hip-hop by definition delivers its messages in the most creative language possible. Celebrating hip-hop’s boon to the realm of self-expression, Hip Hoptionary™ translates dozens of phrases like “marinating in the rizzi with your road dawg” (relaxing in your car with your friend), including:• Big bodies: SUVs or luxury vehicles• Government handle: registered birth name• 411: the latest scoop or information
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Hachette Books No Woman No Cry
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Hyperion Jazz 101
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Rizzoli Universe George Michael
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Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation charlesmingusmorethanafakebook
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Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Jazz Blues Boogie Swing for Piano
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Ultimate Fake Book C Edition Fake Books
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Rlpg/Galleys Jazz Essentials Nuts and Bolts Instruction for
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Hal Leonard Corporation Nirvana Unplugged in New York Tab Guitar School
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University of Oklahoma Press Where Next Columbus Volume 27
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Beacon Press No New York
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Rlpg/Galleys Sting and The Police
Book SynopsisIn Sting and The Police: Walking in Their Footsteps, Aaron J. West explores the cultural and musical impact of Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, and Sting. West details the distinctive hybrid character of The Police’s musical output, which would also characterize Sting’s post-Police development as a musician.Trade ReviewHistorian and musician West’s book is an excellent look at how the Police accomplished success by synthesizing disparate influences into 'marketable, mainstream music, which has remained viable for generations.' The band combined Stewart Copeland’s reggae-influenced drumming, Andy Summer’s progressive rock–style rhythm guitar, and the punk-inspired bass and literary pretensions of primary songwriter Sting. West’s musical biography consists of a series of essays that examine Sting and the Police within larger cultural and musical contexts, from early songs such as 'Bring on the Night' ('a colorful mosaic of musical styles like dub, classical guitar, ska, and even psychedelic rock') to Sting’s later solo work. West is especially good at examining how the band used the nascent MTV to define themselves through videos filmed at exotic locations around the world: 'The image of the Police as international travelers certainly reinforced their equally multicultural music.' He also insightfully analyses how Sting’s musical mission to have a global appeal dovetailed perfectly with various activist movements, observing that 'the cultural gravitas of Band Aid set the stage for his more mature persona.' * Publishers Weekly *Aaron J. West’s Sting and The Police: Walking in Their Footsteps isn’t concerned with how often Sting bickered and brawled with drummer Stewart Copeland, or what choice insults guitarist Andy Summers had for the Police bassist. Instead, West worries over the trio’s aesthetic impetus, stylistic genesis, and enduring cultural influence some thirty decades removed from their disintegration as a creative unit. . . .So who were The Police, and where did they get their sound? Which band members wrote what songs? Why did the band pack it in at the height of success rather than ride celebrity’s lucrative wave? Was 'Roxanne' a real person? What did Sting mean by being 'Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis?' Who was 'the old man in that book by Nabokov?' Was there a real 'Englishman in New York?' A fan since procuring Every Breath You Take: The Singles on cassette in the mid ‘80s, West sifts his Police survey into seven easy-to-digest theses, with each musing over a different topic. * Examiner.com *[Sting and The Police: Walking in Their Footsteps] is the perfect book for you . . . if you want to know how their music grew up, as author West thoroughly delves into how the band's songs were constructed from style mosaics. * antiMusic *If you’re looking for thoughtful analysis of the band’s music and career Sting and the Police: Walking in Their Footsteps delivers. * My Big Honkin Blog *Table of ContentsSeries Editor Foreword Timeline Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Police and the Progressive Rock, Punk, and Reggae Styles Chapter 2: The Police and the Style Mosaic Chapter 3: Sting and the Album Mosaic Chapter 4: Selling The Police and Sting to the World Chapter 5: Sting in the Age of Global Activism Chapter 6: The Police and the Rock Trio Chapter 7: The Music After The Police For Further Reading For Further Listening Index About the Author
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Warren Zevon
Book SynopsisGeorge Plasketes provides a comprehensive chronicle of Warren Zevonâs 40-year, 20-record career and his enduring cultural significance. Throughout, Plasketes explores the musical, cinematic, and literary influences that shaped Zevonâs distinctive style and songwriting themes. Trade ReviewWarren Zevon (1947–2003) was one of the most innovative songwriters in recent popular music history, and Plasketes captures the full range of Zevon’s skills in the first full-length biography of the artist. Plasketes provides a comprehensive analysis of Zevon’s entire body of work—from his self-titled debut in 1976 to The Wind, recorded and released during his last year alive—that serves as an almost definitive look at his 'legacy of tortured brilliance,' which still attracts new admirers today. Especially fascinating is Plasketes’s look at how Zevon’s debut 'endures as one of the most delightfully dark visions of Southern California culture, demystifying the Hollywood scene, its desperation and decadence.' Also good are his in-depth looks at some works that critics overlooked at the time of their release, such as 'Transverse City' ('Zevon’s most ambitious record') and 'Life’ll Kill Ya' ('a gem, a modest masterpiece'). Plasketes admits his reliance on 'I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon'—the exhaustive posthumous oral history compiled in 2007 by Zevon’s ex-wife, Crystal—but he adds plenty of original work to fully illuminate the art behind the wild stories from Zevon’s alcohol and drug binges. * Publishers Weekly *By taking Zevon’s music chronologically, pulling each record apart down to its smallest constitutive parts, Plasketes crafts a highly readable account of Zevon’s life that is also chock full of information. Even the tangential factoids, such as a lengthy aside about how the rise of MTV led to the reinforcement of the music industry, feel relevant and closely tied to Zevon’s under-the-radar career.... What Plasketes has achieved with Desperado of Los Angeles is a book that on the whole resides somewhere between the fandom/objectivity continuum, the tenuousness of that construction notwithstanding. Zevon has been long overdue for a scholar’s examination, and Plasketes proves himself more than up to the task. This volume is both a helpful bedrock for future studies of Zevon’s music and an interesting case study in what it means to do academic music writing. Fans of Zevon’s music will quickly gobble up Plasketes’ carefully assembled critical history, and curious newcomers to Zevon’s oeuvre would do well in using this book as a guide. But Plasketes’ research has value beyond the reaches of Zevon’s musical output; anyone interested in the business of writing about music critically would learn a great deal from the strengths and weaknesses of analysis in this book. Undoubtedly, Zevon would be proud that his work has inspired conversations like these. * Popmatters *[Warren Zevon: Desperado of Los Angeles is] one of the most interesting and in-depth books I've ever read about a musician.... Plasketes does an admirable job in exposing this truth in astounding detail while making it a very enjoyable read, giving us a much larger understanding and empathy for one of the most underrated but important musical artists of our time. * The Corner News *Warren Zevon: Desperado of Los Angeles is a full-on academic analysis of Zevon’s discography by a straight-up uber fan of his who happens to be an uber intelligent writer too. Plasketes’ unique perspective makes for a wonderful book, a serious study happily colored by the writer’s genuine love for Zevon and his work. One wonders why there are not more books like this when it comes to Zevon’s canon, which offers much to take apart and delve into. * Red Paint Hill Publishing & Poetry Journal *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Join Me in L.A. Chapter2: The Asylum IconocLAst Chapter 3: Knee Deep in Gore with Glee Chapter 4: Rock Bottom: The Crack Up and Resurrection Chapter 5: Swear to God I’ll Change Chapter 6: Looking for the Next Best Thing Chapter 7: Intruder in the Dirt Chapter 8: That Amazing Grace Sort of Passed You By Chapter 9: Die Another Day: A Desperado Deteriorata Posthumous Script: “Eat My Dust”
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Women Drummers
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Random House Publishing Group To a Young Jazz Musician Letters from the Road
Book SynopsisIn To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music-and to leading a good life.Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,” Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed to a young musician coming up-and to any of us at any stage of life. He writes that having humility is a way to continue to grow, to listen, and to learn; that patience is necessary for developing both technical proficiency and your own art rather than an imitation of someone else’s; and that rules are indispensable because “freedom lives in structure.” He offers lessons learned from his years as a performer and from his great forebears Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and others; he explores the art of swing; he discusses why it is important to run toward your issues, not away; and he talks about what to do w
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Random House USA Inc Decoded
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Wayne State University Press The Stooges Head On A Journey Through the Michigan Underground Painted Turtle Painted Turtle Books Paperback
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AMSCO Music The Wall Guitar Tab Pink Floyd
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Music Sales Limited Straight No Chaser The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk
Book SynopsisBiography of the legendary pianist/composer. Based on scores of interviews with family and friends, the book gives rare insights into the elusive personality of this legendary hero of jazz.
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