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Penguin Putnam Inc Barefoot in Babylon The Creation of the Woodstock
Book SynopsisThe perfect gift for music fans and anyone fascianated by Woodstock, Barefoot in Babylon is an in-depth look at the making of 1969’s Woodstock Music Festival—one of Rolling Stone’s “50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.”“Mr. Spitz feeds us every riveting detail of the chaos that underscored the festival. It makes for some out-a-sight reading, man.”—The New York Times Book Review Fifty years ago, the Woodstock Music Festival defined a generation. Yet, there was much more than peace and love driving that long weekend the summer of 1969. In Barefoot in Babylon, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bob Spitz gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Woodstock, from its inception and the incredible musicians that performed to its scandals and the darker side of the peace movement. With a new introduction, as well as maps, set list
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Penguin Putnam Inc Rip It Up and Start Again
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Penguin Putnam Inc Letters of Note Music 2
Book SynopsisFrom Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to John Lennon Prince and Kim Gordon, tune in to the evocative expressions of treasured composers, musicians, singers, and songwriters in this enchanting volume from the compiler of the bestselling Letters of Note collectionsVerdi writes to his publisher about a man who hated Aida so much that he wants his money back. Keith Richards tells his aunt about bumping into a former schoolmate named Mick Jagger, who also loves Chuck Berry. Yo-Yo Ma wonders whether Leonard Bernstein remembers introducing him onstage as a young boy. A Harvard psychiatrist begs CVS to change their on-hold music. Riffing on their passions and surroundings, the artists and entertainers in this volume candidly reveal the sources of their inspiration, what music means to them, why they create it, and so much more. This rich and engaging collection of 30 letters celebrates the resonance that music, in its many forms and variations, brings to our lives.
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OUP India The Pop Rock and Soul Reader Histories and
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Oxford University Press Inc Early Jazz Its Roots and Musical Development
Book SynopsisEarly Jazz provides a musical tour of the early American jazz world. A classic study, it is both a splendid introduction for students and an insightful guide for scholars, musicians, and jazz afficionados.Trade Review'Here at last is the definitive work...clear, thorough, objective, sophisticated, original. A remarkable book by any standard, it is unparalleled in the literature of jazz.' New York Times Book Review'an almost unprecedented approach for a writer on jazz, he has described and analysed the music itself.' The Times'an excellent work ... Without doubt, the book is masterly in its approach and would serve as both an ideal introduction to the young student of jazz and to the established fan who wants to delve more deeply into the music origins.' The Star'Schuller has a rare gift for conveying his wonderment and love of his subject matter without ever compromising academic discipline...for all his painstaking precise academic exactitudes, he is never dry or overly technical...It would be hard to imagine this book ever being superceded. As far as I can see, it is definitive.' Music and Musicians'it remains one of the most significant contributions to jazz scholarship to this day.' Music Teacher
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Oxford University Press Inc The Classroom Guide to Jazz Improvisation
Book SynopsisYou don''t have to be a jazz expert to give your students a great introduction to improvisation. The Classroom Guide to Jazz Improvisation provides what music educators have sought for decades: an easy, step-by-step guide to teaching jazz improvisation in the music classroom. Offering classroom-tested lesson plans, authors John McNeil and Ryan Nielsen draw on their combined 54 years of teaching experience and extensive work as professional jazz musicians to remove the guesswork and mystique from the teaching process. Each lesson is founded in the authors'' realization that the brain responds differently to improvisation than it does rote memory. The resulting lesson plans are flexible, easy to use, and equip students with a quick understanding of the simple choices they can make to create effective jazz lines. Lessons are designed for a range of settings, from ensemble rehearsal to private instruction. Music educators may find relief in the concrete, straightforward materials on rhythm
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Oxford University Press Inc Elvis Presley
Book SynopsisIn Elvis Presley, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society--indeed, American society--in the second half of the twentieth century. Author of The Crucible of Race and William Faulkner and Southern History, Joel Williamson is a renowned historian known for his matchless ability to write compelling narratives. In this tour de force biography, he captures the drama of Presley''s career and offers insights into the social upheavals following World War II. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley was a contradiction, flamboyant in pegged black pants with pink stripes, yet soft-spoken, respectfully courting a decent girl from church. Then he wandered into Sun Records, and everything changed. He first went onstage in 1954. I was scared stiff, Elvis recalled. Everyone was hollering and I didn''t know what they were hollering at. Girls did the hollering--at his snarl and swagger. Williamson calls it the revolution of the Elvis girls. They took command, insisting on his sexually charged performances. They lived in an intense moment, this generation raised by their mothers, when men had been at war. The first Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education occurred two weeks before Elvis''s first gig, turning high schools into battlegrounds of race. Explosively, white girls went wild for a white man singing a black man''s songs, wiggling erotically. The book illuminates the zenith of Presley''s career, his period of deepest creativity, which captured a legion of fans and kept them fervently loyal throughout years of army, wine, and women. Williamson shows how Elvis himself changed--and didn''t. The deferential boy with downcast eyes became the bloated, demented drug addict who, despite his success, never escaped his sense of social inferiority. He bought Graceland in part to escape the judgment of his wealthy, established neighbors.Appreciative and unsparing, musically attuned and socially revealing, Elvis Presley will deepen our understanding of the man and his times.Trade ReviewJoel Williamson's biography of Elvis Presley is an ambitious book that manages to hold the historical panorama of Southern white cult ure in the viewfinder while also probing into the more visceral details literally at one point, as we hear about the unpleasant facts revealed by the autopsy on Elvis's corpse and subconscious forces of Elvis's sexuality. * Tribune Magazine, Martin Griffin *This is a highly readable, 350 page biography of Elvis Preseley and the text is so compelling that there were several oaccasions when I couldn't put it down. * Country Music People, Spencer Leigh *loaded with insights and data, and written in such a way that you might for a moment think that Williamson was actually there in Germany helping Elvis to write his love letters to Anita Wood, and insisting she remained "clean and wholesome". * Methodist Recorder, Tony Jasper *Elvis's sex secrets are disclosed in [this] riveting new book * Caroline Howe, Mail Online *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ; Foreword by Ted Ownby ; Introduction: The Death of Elvis ; Part One: The Bubble ; Ch. 1 The Dream ; Ch. 2 The Killers of the Dream ; Part Two: Why Elvis? ; Ch. 3 Vernon and Gladys ; Ch. 4 East Tupelo and Tupelo ; Ch. 5 Memphis ; Ch. 6 Dixie Locke and Sam Phillips ; Ch. 7 A Girl in the Bed ; Part Three: Comeback and Die ; Ch. 8 The Comeback Special ; Ch. 9 Girls and Guns ; Ch. 10 Psycho ; Part Four: The Fall ; Ch. 11 The Bodyguard Book ; Ch. 12 Saved ; Ch. 13 Graceland ; Ch. 14 The Last Day ; Conclusion: The Meditation Garden ; Notes ; Index
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Pearson Education Jazz Classics CDs for Concise Guide to Jazz
Book SynopsisJazz Classics 2 CD set for Concise Guide to Jazz — Includes the 36 historical recordings that are analyzed in the text. This set provides students with a broad overview of jazz styles discussed in the text, and it spares students and instructors from searching for hard-to-locate, high-quality examples of each style.
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Hachette Books To the Limit
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Hachette Books Seven Deadly Sins
Book SynopsisFrom the lead singer of the internationally acclaimed bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, the New York Times bestselling manifesto reflecting on the subject and nature of sinTrade ReviewSeattle Weekly, 7/1/12 "If you haven't read it yet, do yourself that favor. Corey is one of the more enlightened guys roaming the planet at this moment."
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The Perseus Books Group Iron Man
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Hachette Books This Is a Call
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] engaging and insightful bio...Brannigan puts Grohl's influences, inspirations, and early musical career into context...Those who want to get a better understanding of the musician will find this an entertaining and perhaps educational read." Gibson.com, 12/12/11"Some rock biographies stand tall above others, revealing much more than a straight chronology of recording and touring. This is a Call is one such book...It draws on a decade of frank interviews with Dave Grohl and friends, and is peppered with fascinating nuggets about Grohl's own thoughts on his ascent to megastardom. From Grohl being the "goofy" hardcore drummer with Scream, through stardom behind the drumkit with the troubled Nirvana, to his blossoming as the guitar-toting frontman of Foo Fighters, This is a Call tells Grohl's story with style and candor...One of the definitive rock books of 2011." San Francisco Book Review, December 2011"Brannigan's knowledge of the underground punk scene fills out this Dave Grohl biography. He essentially traces the evolution from the Sex Pistols to Nirvana, via Washington D.C., to create an entertaining retelling of the history of hardcore punk." LitReactor.com, 12/13/11 Slug, April issue "A refreshing and thorough look into the life and psyche of one of the most vital and relevant forces in rock music today. Get it, 'cause it'll probably rank as the definitive one." FHM, August 2012"Grohl's story is some tale to tell...[and] Brannigan tackles it adeptly." Curled Up with a Good Book, 8/21/12"Illuminating...This is the first fully-fleshed look at the musician...Brannigan looks at a young Grohl finding his way as a musician and follows him as he becomes part of Nirvana, one of the most influential bands of the grunge movement. A large part of the book is dedicated to this period, and the author makes sense of the phenomenon. This Is a Call is a well-written book." Hudson Valley News, 1/30/13"If you're a fan of that kind of music and the guys that make it, you'll want to gobble up This Is a Call." ClevelandMusicExaminer.com, 3/15/13 NeonTommy.com, 11/30/11 "[Brannigan] manages to paint a picture of the musical atmosphere that tracks Grohl's beginnings in punk, through his place in grunge history with Nirvana and up to the Foo's latest album, 'Wasted Light.' The book is filled with vivid details of the different worlds while following Grohl's growing influence on them...Brannigan throws color into moments and sets musical scenes that you can actually hear...Brannigan knows exactly where to put in a quote and when to use his own knowledge and criticism to push the story forward. His writing has the rhythms and attitudes of the music he describes...A book worth reading for its scope as a series of snapshots of a legendary musical journey." New York Journal of Books, 11/29/11 Buffalo News, 9/23/11 "Getty Images Offers a thorough-if unauthorized-biography touching on all aspects of Grohl's career, and paints a fully detailed portrait of the man. Brannigan's knowledge of his subject is encyclopedic, based on his own interviews, and worth celebrating simply for the manner in which he is able to place Grohl's work in the context of post-punk history." Booklist, 11/1/11"Brannigan not only offers a penetrating portrait of Grohl the man but also presents an indelible portrait of the American underground-rock scene." Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/11 "Brannigan salutes a musician who's surfaced, prosperous and sane, from the perils of an extended punk-rock adolescence that not all of his friends survived. Reverent and informative." Alternative Press, December 2011 "[A] well-researched bio...A fascinating read, This Is a Call doesn't skimp on entertaining anecdotes, juicy gossip or evidence of Grohl's immense songwriting talent." Mojo, December 2011 "As a summation of Grohl's career to date, This Is A Call is packed with information; the extensive discography is another plus. Dave Grohl fans will welcome this comprehensive look at Grohl's life and work." Stuff I Like blog, 2/16/12"Brannigan does a good job in This Is A Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl of bringing him alive, putting his personality upfront for us, and showing that Grohl has become a kind of spokesperson for quality music." Charleston Post & Courier, 2/12/12"Cool descriptions of the '80s underground punk movement." Rock Cellar Magazine, February 2012 "A richly-detailed (and endlessly entertaining) insider account of the eventful career of the Foo Fighters front man and ex-Nirvana drummer...This is a Call presents a side of Grohl that the fans and public aren't always allowed to see." Warren Tribune Chronicle, 2/18/12"Brannigan doesn't turn Grohl into a saint, but he does create a portrait of a man whose love of music is absolute." Midwest Book Review, February 2012 Any rock music collection will find this an outstanding and popular choice." "Brannigan's biography of musician Dave Grohl and his era, reaches ambitiously out of bounds for the conventional pop bio, cradling its subject in layers of context, political and social history...Brannigan's excellent segues, characterizations, and lyrical zip ensure This Is a Call occasionally tips but never topples under its own weight. The result is an educational and highly entertaining read...Brannigan loops a fascinating narrative around a compelling and likeable character...This is high quality, street cred music journalism, artfully meshed with undoubted musicological and cultural history grunt." New Music Michael, 12/6/11 "Brannigan's book is an exceptional companion piece to the documentary, though certainly has the ability to stand alone as an extraordinary work of the history of Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters, and Nirvana, as well as a host of other local scenes and the music world in general...Most of us already know a lot of the stories that go along with Nirvana, but certainly not to the extent, and not to the depth that Brannigan covers...if you're a fan of Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters, Nirvana, punk music, hell just music in general, you'll want to get this book for yourself and dogear the pages." Publishers Weekly, 12/12/11 "Grohl and his groups [are] dissected with gumption." New York Daily News, 10/28/11 "The leader of the Foo Fighters comes off as music's most affable man, but it turns out there's more turmoil in the ranks than it seems." Q Magazine, January 2011"Quite an achievement...Brannigan draws on his own interviews with Grohl, among others, to plot a compelling journey...A big-hearted, fascinating read." Loudwire.com, 11/30/11"There is a lot to like about this book in which Brannigan gives us a real insider's view of Grohl and his rise to the top...The stories are interesting in that they show Grohl as not just a rock hero but as a huge admirer of music who basically just wanted to join the scene that moved him so. There are also more than a share of personal stories that humanize Grohl and his various band mates exposing their vulnerabilities perhaps more than ever before." "Offers both a journalistic and fan perspective on the Nirvana/Foo Fighters icon, along with a keen eye for detail and context...While This is a Call is clearly about Grohl, Brannigan does a commendable job of putting everything into context beginning with quite possibly the best written documentary of the D.C. punk and hardcore scene Grohl was raised in...[A] well-researched, passionately written book by an author who is a clearly an unabashed fan, but still objective enough to give an unvarnished look at a great band that has struggled through some rough waters at times but ultimately righted the ship." Record Collector, January 2012"Dave Grohl's tale covers so many bases after 30 or so years in the business that it takes a biographer of consummate skill to get it all down on paper without missing anything out. Fortunately, ex-Kerrang! editor Paul Brannigan has what it takes...What lingers most is the expert way in which so many disparate slices of history are interlaced. After reading This Is a Call, you'll know much more than you did before about the way that US hardcore merged into Seattle grunge, and how rock shed its skin in the 90s...It's info such as that which makes this book essential." Bookviews blog, January 2012 "The first serious attempt to place Grohl and his body of work in the context of rock history...A thoughtful and entertaining rock biography that easily stands among classics by the likes of Mick Wall, Nick Kent, and Neil Strauss...Brannigan, ever the rock journalist, goes far beyond simply telling stories-he prefaces the key periods of the book with engaging essays on how various musical movements grew, what the attitudes were that informed those movements and how they fit into the rock and roll landscape...Impeccably-researched, thoroughly entertaining, and packed with rich new insights, This is a Call will enjoy a place among the absolute best music biographies of the past twenty years." The Music Mamas, 12/6/11"A must-read for music fans." Calgary Herald, 12/13/11 "A well-told testament to a true believer's perseverance." Blurt Online, 12/22/11 "The ups and downs of Grohl's life will no doubt be of interest to rock fans...The biography is quite a ride." InfoDad.com, 1/5/12"Fans of Grohl's work, up to and including his appearances with Them Crooked Vultures, will get plenty of name-dropping and behind-the-scenes insights from a writer who has known Grohl since 1997 and does a good job of pulling together many sorts of musical and personal minutiae...Brannigan delivers a nicely written biographical sketch of Grohl." Sydney Morning Herald, 12/17/11 "Brannigan...scored amazing access to his subject and the people with whom Grohl worked...Brannigan explores Grohl's early punk influences in great detail and the meteoric rise of Nirvana, offering a frightening insight into the music industry...Grohl's road to success post-Nirvana is an inspiring, honest story." New York Times Book Review, 1/22/12 "A rich history of recent pop music as it moves from punk and hard-core to -grunge to indie bands...Students of that period will find much to dwell on here."AOL Noisecreep, 2/13/12"The book vividly recounts Grohl's incredible, one-of-a-kind rock 'n' roll journey." PowerlineMag.com
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Hachette Books 27
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for 27 "This fine study looks at the tragic history of the 27 Club... Much of the book's power lies in its refusal to pander to the romantic-melancholy notion of the tortured young artist who lives fast and dies young. Instead the squalor and chaos of their everyday existence is exposed in uncompromising detail... This book is not about more rock star mythologizing. It's about skewering the mystery of the 27-connection, by exposing its all-too-tragic reality."--Sunday Times (UK) "In a multi-stranded biography, Howard Sounes has set himself the task of finding a link between the lives and deaths of these six rock stars... Sounes's masterstroke is to unearth forensic levels of detail on his subjects... He has pulled off what could have been a tasteless project with sensitivity."--The Times (UK) "This book is the first time that these committee members, as it were, of the 27 Club have been buried together under the same cover...a gruesomely enjoyable read."--The Spectator (UK) "The 27 Club is the exclusive members-only society that music stars don't want to join. Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Brian Jones all died aged 27 and the biographer Howard Sounes uses this unhappy coincidence [to look] at the rock-star trajectory that brought them all to a premature end... Recommend[ed]."--New Statesman (UK) "Sounes mixes biography with investigative journalism, social science, and rock history into a work that is as engrossing as it is depressing...Though he doesn't pull any punches when it comes to sensitive information about his subjects, he does write with a care that is refreshing for a topic that could easily devolve into ambulance chasing. Sounes, a true crime writer, is especially incisive when it comes to dispatching conspiracy theories built around many of these deaths. He captures the sad truth behind a club for which a youthful death is the only entree."--Publishers Weekly, 9/23/13 "If you like reading about brilliant young people destroying themselves, this is your book...Hard living started early will take its toll, and it's not a complete coincidence they all died when they did, but it's not a mystic number either, and Sounes disposes easily with the conspiracy theories that have collected around the dead stars."--The Age (Australia), 9/21/13 "[Sounes] is a tenacious researcher...[He] painstakingly demolishes conspiracy theories and other forms of magical thinking."--The Observer (UK), 8/17/13 "Sounes offers a stern corrective to the adage that it's better to burn out than to fade away. The author takes a refreshingly skeptical view of the belief that a conspiracy accounts for the deaths of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse, dismissing urban legends and murder theories to reveal the similarities among them...A compelling examination of the effects of sudden fame on mentally fragile artists."--Kirkus Reviews, 11/1/13 "As much as one may have hoped, Sounes dissects the conspiracy theories and puts to bed the lunacy that surrounds these idols deaths. He also succeeds in producing a highly detailed, expertly researched book, with both personal family and close friend interviews, making it a tour de force private biography that belongs on both the shelves of bio fans and anyone that may have been touched by any of the included artists music."--Huffington Post UK, 10/13/13 "Sounes delves into the lives of the 'Big Six'...sewing the common threads they share in life and death."--USA Today, 11/13/13 BookNews.com, December 2013 "While the book begins and ends with the story of Amy Winehouse to appeal to the younger demographic, older readers will also enjoy the depth of research and insights from the author's original interviews with friends and family of those profiled." Word Bookstores (Tumblr), 1/2/2014 "[A] comprehensive (but not overwhelming) history of the members of The 27 Club. Sounes writes of their lives realistically, pointing out numerous similarities in their upbringings, relationships, and behaviors that link them in their tragically early deaths. Also, there's no glorifying of the rock star life or the ones who lived it, which makes this an especially intriguing study...A great read for any music fan or curious mind." WomanAroundTown.com, 12/16/2013 "While some have credited a supernatural reason for the performers' untimely demise, Sounes presents a clear-headed evaluation, and neither judges nor idolizes the lives and deaths of the performers about whom he has written." Houston Press Rocks Off blog, 1/7/14 "Sounes completed an impressive list of original interviews for this book, which shed further light on area like Jim Morrison's last days in Paris, Cobain's fragile mental state, and Winehouse's seemingly insane drinking bouts."
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Hachette Books Some New Kind of Kick
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Hachette Books They Just Seem a Little Weird
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Hachette Books Confess The Autobiography
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Hachette Books Dave Brubeck
Book SynopsisTHE DEFINITIVE, INVESTIGATIVE BIOGRAPHY OFJAZZ LEGENDDAVE BRUBECK(TAKE FIVE) In 2003, music journalist Philip Clark was granted unparalleled access to jazz legend Dave Brubeck. Over the course of ten days, he shadowed the Dave Brubeck Quartet during their extended British tour, recording an epic interview with the bandleader. Brubeck opened up as never before, disclosing his unique approach to jazz; the heady days of his classic quartet in the 1950s-60s; hanging out with Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, and Miles Davis; and the many controversies that had dogged his 66-yearlong career. Alongside beloved figures like Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, Brubeck has achieved name recognition beyond jazz. But finding a convincing fit for Brubeck''s legacy, one that reconciles his mass popularity with his advanced musical technique, has proved largely elusive. In Dave Brubeck: A Life inTime, Clark provides us with a thoughtful, thorough, and long-overdue biography of an extraordinary man whose influence continues to inform and inspire musicians today. Structured around Clark''s extended interview and intensive new research, this book recounts one of the last untold stories of jazz, unearthing the secret history of Take Five and many hitherto unknown aspects of Brubeck''s early career-and sharing details about his creative relationship with his star saxophonist, Paul Desmond. Woven throughout are cameo appearances from a host of unlikely figures, from Sting, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, and Keith Emerson to John Cage, Leonard Bernstein, Harry Partch, and Edgard Varèse. Each chapter explores a different theme or aspect of Brubeck''s life and music, illuminating the core of his artistry and genius. To quote President Obama, as he awarded the musician with a Kennedy Center Honor: You can''t understand America without understanding jazz, and you can''t understand jazz without understanding Dave Brubeck.
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Hachette Books Ill Be Your Mirror The Collected Lyrics
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Hachette Books The First 21
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Hachette Books Stories I Might Regret Telling You
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Hachette Books Unrequited Infatuations
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Random House USA Inc The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums
Book SynopsisThe author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest albums, which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized and presented to its public from the 1940s until the very recent decline of the CD. It is through their albums that Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, and the rest of the glorious honor roll of jazz and pop singers have been most tellingly and lastingly appreciated, and the history of the album itself, as Will Friedwald sketches it, can now be seen as a crucial part of musical history. We come to understand that, at their finest, albums have not been mere collections of individual songs strung together arbitrarily but organic phenomena in their own right. A Sinatra album, a Fitzgerald album, was planned and structured to show these arti
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Blues
Book SynopsisExamining the blues genre by region, and describing the differences unique to each, make this a must-have for music scholars and lay readers alike.Trade ReviewBlues: A Regional Experience should be purchased by every library and by every blues researcher. * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *A valuable reference book for any blues researcher and an interesting approach to rethinking arbitrary categories. * Living Blues *A Selected Artists CD discography and a bibliography complete the offer. It is difficult to imagine that anyone can possibly write seriously about blues in the future without this book at their elbow. It's an absolute classic and absolutely indispensable. * Names and Numbers *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Abbreviations Chronology 1. The Blues as Culture 2. King Cotton 3. On Her Daddy's Sugar Farm 4. State of Origin 5. Fleeing the Fields 6. Ecoregions 7. Arranging the Ecoregions 8. Artists by Ecoregion of Birth 9. Vaudeville Era by Birth State 10. State Only Known Selected Artists' CD Discography Selected Bibliography Index
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Back Bay Books Set the Night on Fire
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Little, Brown & Company I Saw the Light
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Back Bay Books Its a Long Story My Life
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Hachette Books Come from Away Welcome to the Rock
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Little, Brown & Company Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and HipHop
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jazz Theory Second Edition Textbook and Workbook
Book SynopsisJazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook for those with no previous study in jazz, as well as those in advanced theory courses. Written with the goal to bridge theory and practice, it provides a strong theoretical foundation from music fundamentals to post-tonal theory, while integrating ear training, keyboard skills, and improvisation. It hosts play-along audio tracks on a Companion Website, including a workbook, ear-training exercises, and an audio compilation of the musical examples featured in the book.Jazz Theory Workbook accompanies the successful textbook and contains all the written exercises in addition to brand-new keyboard drills. It works in tandem in the same format as the 27-chapter book yet is also designed to be used on its own, providing students and readers with quick access to all relevant exercises without need to download or print pages that inevitably must be written out.
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MCD High School
Book SynopsisNOW AN 8-EPISODE FREEVEE TELEVISION SERIES! From the iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their humble beginnings.High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, who grew up at the height of grunge and rave culture in the nineties, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know today. While grappling with their identity and sexuality, often alone, they also faced academic meltdown, their parents' divorce, and the looming pressure of what might come after high school. Written in alternating chapters from both Tegan''s and Sara's points of view, the book is a raw account of the drugs, alcohol, love, music, and friendship they explored in their formative years. A transcendent story of first loves and first songs, High School ca
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Random House USA Inc With Billie
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Random House USA Inc Jelly Roll
Book SynopsisIn this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see / civilization start”), only to end up lamenting the loss of love (“No use driving / like rain, past / where you at”). As Young conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but the bittersweet wonder of triumphing over adversity at all. Sexy and tart, playfully blending an African American idiom with traditional lyric diction, Young’s voice is pure American: joyous in its individualism and singing of
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dream Brother
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WW Norton & Co Elvis Presley The Rebel Years Schirmers Visual
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WW Norton & Co Bob Marley Spirit Dancer
Book SynopsisA photographic and textual meditation on the life of a legend, reissued in special CD-size format.
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W. W. Norton & Company Jazz
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W. W. Norton & Company Recordings For Jazz Student Ancillary
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Big Payback The History of the Business of
Book Synopsis“There has never been a better book about hip-hop…a record-biz portrait that jumps off the page.”—A.V. ClubThe perfect read for music lovers and business aficionados alike, The Big Payback reveals the secret histories of the early long-shot successes of Sugar Hill Records and Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC’s crossover breakthrough on MTV, the marketing of gangsta rap, and the rise of artist/entrepreneurs like Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs.THE INSPIRATION FOR THE VH1 SERIES THE BREAKSThe Big Payback takes readers from the first $15 made by a “rapping DJ” in 1970s New York to the multi-million-dollar sales of the Phat Farm and Roc-a-Wear clothing companies in 2004 and 2007. On this four-decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records were made to the boardrooms where the big deals were inked, The Big Payback tallies the list of who lost an
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Turner Publishing Company Untitled on Bob Dylan
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFrom Publishers Weekly: The legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan matures from “feckless, foolish poseur” to calculating, canny poseur in this gleefully acid-etched biography. New York Times scribe McDougal (The Last Mogul) chronicles Dylan’s project of “‘building a character that will sell’” by transforming himself from a middle-class Jewish boy with nice parents in Minnesota into an ersatz orphaned carnie and hallucinatory folk-rock oracle (and later into a country-western balladeer and born-again Christian). Along the way, he argues, Dylan stole the personas and stylings of other entertainers, and plagiarized tunes, words, and paintings (sometimes copyrighting them as originals). Amid makeovers and appropriations, the truly authentic constants of Dylan’s character in this critical portrait are a hard-nosed drive to succeed, self-centered betrayals of intimates, incessant misrepresentations, and voracious appetites for booze, drugs, and women. McDougal eschews gushing exegeses of lyrics and other staples of Dylanolatry; while he acknowledges a body of great music and perceptively analyzes its resonance, he’s happier tossing jibes. (“A tale told by an idiot-savant on PCP” is his review of Dylan’s novel Tarantulas.) Few of his revelations are novel, but McDougal presents his caustic indictment with energy and panache. (May) From Kirkus Reviews: "The biographer of Lew Wasserman, Jack Nicholson and Otis Chandler returns with a sometimes-scholarly, sometimes-snarky life of the songwriting and singing legend." McDougal leaves few doubts about his seriousness in this long account of Robert Zimmerman, who grew up in the small town of Hibbing, Minn. Many pages feature footnotes, some of which are substantial, others adding but a dollop of color. The author’s admiration for Dylan’s artistic accomplishments is patent—in the preface, he compares him with Shakespeare, Twain and Dickens—though he does not hesitate to blast Dylan for shoddy performances, weak records, personal coldness (even cruelty), drug and alcohol abuse, and a serial sex life that would make Casanova’s grave glow green. McDougal’s work is starkly traditional: He begins with family background and marches steadily forward in 4/4 time, showing how this small-town kid went to New York City and eventually owned it to the core. It was “Blowin’ in the Wind,” writes the author, that shot him to fame, distancing him from the many other wannabes in Greenwich Village, but Dylan later abandoned protest songs (and, soon, his acoustic guitar) and spent the next decades in a continual reinvention—of his music and his persona. But patterns emerged: He eventually wore out even the most indulgent of wives; he abruptly dropped business acquaintances and fellow musicians; he wished always to have the spotlight on him; he “borrowed” lyrics and images for his paintings; and he remained intensely private, probably realizing that too much exposure would remove the “mystery.” McDougal offers engaging details about the major records, as well as Dylan’s books and films. He even finds some good things to say about Dylan’s dreadful performance in Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Richly detailed, though the author places Dylan on a higher shelf in the cultural library than history may permit. "Whether you agree or disagree with the author, you will likely never read a book as purely entertaining about Dylan."—Tom Waldman, nohoartsdistrict.com Praise for Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times "Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood reporter: honest, fearless, nobody's fool. This is unvarnished Jack for Jack-lovers and Jack-skeptics but, also, for anyone interested in the state of American culture and celebrity. I always read Mr. McDougal for pointers."—Patrick McGilligan, author of Jack's Life and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light Praise for Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty "A great freeway pileup--part biography, part dysfunctional family chronicle, and part institutional and urban history, with generous dollops of scandal and gossip."—Hendrick Hertzberg, The New Yorker "McDougal has managed to scale the high walls that have long protected the Chandler clan and returned with wicked tales told by angry ex-wives and jealous siblings." —The Washington Post Praise for The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood "Real glamour needs a dark side. That is part of the fascination of Dennis McDougal's wonderful book."—The Economist "Thoroughly reported and engrossing . . . the most noteworthy trait of MCA was how it hid its power." —The New York Times Book Review "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top." —Michael Blowen, The Boston GlobeTable of ContentsPreface Part I -- Rebel Without Applause 1941-1966 Chapter 1: Hibbing Chapter 2: Minneapolis Chapter 3: Greenwich Chapter 4: Fourth Street Chapter 5: On the Road Chapter 6: Chelsea Hotel Part II -- Goin' Up the Country 1966-1978 Chapter 7: Woodstock Chapter 8: Return to Greenwich Chapter 9: California Chapter 10: On the Road Again Chapter 11: Renaldo and Sara Part III -- Get on Board, Lil’ Children 1978-1989 Chapter 12. Slow Train Chapter 13. Soul Train Chapter 14. Love Train Chapter 15. Mystery Train Chapter 16. Money Train Part IV -- Sometimes a Man Must Be Alone 1989-Present 17. Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind 18. Unplugging 19. Not Dark Yet 20. Millennium 21.N.E.T. Gains & Losses Epilogue Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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The University of Michigan Press Grit Noise and Revolution
Book SynopsisA guide for rock aficionados, this book surveys the Detroit music scene of the 1960s and 70s - a pivotal era in rock music history, producing such legendary bands as The MC5, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, SRC, the Bob Seger System, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes, and Grand Funk Railroad.Trade Review...a great blow-by-blow account of an exciting and still-legendary scene. - Marshall Crenshaw ""Carson reveals in rich and engaging detail exactly why the Motor City is world renowned as a musical mecca."" - Dennis ""Machine Gun"" Thompson, MC5 ""What the book does magnificently is provide the context and show the connections within a music scene filled with powerful DJs, club owners, label heads and - oh, yeah - an abundance of badass visionary musicians."" - Metro Times Detroit ""...[a] definitive history of Detroit's early rock scene.... Carson spends considerable space chronicling the rise of legendary bands such as the MC5, Iggy, and Alice Cooper, and he recounts the downfalls...."" - Detroit Free Press
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