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Faber Music & Decca Records What Happened To The Heart
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Faber Music Best Of George And Ira Gershwin
Book SynopsisContains over 30 classic songs with a short biography.Table of ContentsSwanee **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; Do It Again; (I'll Build A) Stairway To Paradise **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; Somebody Loves Me **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009 **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; The Man I Love; Oh, Lady, Be Good! **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009; Fascinating Rhythm **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; That Certain Feeling; Do, Do, Do; Someone To Watch Over Me **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009 **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; 'S Wonderful; How Long Has This Been Going On?; Liza; But Not For Me **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; Embraceable You; Bidin' My Time **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; I Got Rhythm **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009 **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; Summertime **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009; It Ain't Necessarily So **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009; Bess, You Is My Woman; I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009 **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; By Strauss **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009 **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; Let's Call The Whole Thing Off; They Can't Take That Away From Me; They All Laughed **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009; Nice Work If You Can Get It **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009 **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; A Foggy Day; Love Walked In **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009; Love Is Here To Stay **ABRSM selected piece: Singing syllabus from 2009 **Trinity Guildhall selected piece: Singing syllabus 2010-2012; Foe You, For Me, For Evermore.
£15.99
Faber Music 6 Of The Best Nirvana
Book SynopsisSix of the best songs from American rockers Nirvana, arranged for guitar. 6 Of The BestA" simply does what it says - six of the best hits from leading artists available in a new and competitively priced format.Table of ContentsThe Man Who Sold The World; Smells Like Teen Spirit; Heart-Shaped Box; Come As You Are; About A Girl; Lithium
£10.99
Faber Music These Streets
Book SynopsisAn album that records the artist's experiences of moving to London and checks the places in which he grew up. It contains songs including "Last Request", "Rewind" and "Jenny Don't Be Hasty".Table of ContentsJenny Don’t Be Hasty; Last Request; Rewind; Million Faces; These Streets; New Shoes; White Lies; Loving you; Autumn; Alloway Grove; Bonus Song: Last Request (Piano Version)
£15.99
Faber Music Demon Days
Book SynopsisGorillaz are one of the biggest animated band in the world. They grabbed a Grammy for 'Best pop collaboration' and are wowing fans with their 3D performances, including their virtual appearance with Madonna at the Grammys. Their Brit-nominated album "Demon Days" has gone platinum and includes "Feel good Inc" and "Dirty Harry".Table of ContentsLast Living Souls; Kids With Guns; O Green World; Dirty Harry; Feel Good Inc.; El Manana; Every Planet We Reach Is Dead; November Has Come; All Alone; White Light; Dare; Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey’s Head; Don’t Get Lost In Heaven; Demon Days
£15.99
Berklee Press Publications Jazz Improvisation for Guitar A Melodic Approach
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£27.00
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Steve Cropper Soul Man Guitar Recorded Versions
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£22.49
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation KORN GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1 GUITAR RECORDED
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£23.79
Hal Leonard Singers Musical Theatre Mezzo Soprano Volume 2
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£18.99
Hal Leonard Corporation The Best of Hank Williams Jr Strum It Guitar
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£16.14
Hal Leonard Corporation slipknot
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£21.59
Music Sales Ltd All The Blues Chords Youll Ever Need Sheet Music
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£7.50
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Dire Straits The Very Best Of TAB Sultans of
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£23.74
Hal Leonard Europe Limited Fado Portugues Songs from the Soul of Portugal
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£23.74
Alfred Publishing Co Inc.,U.S. The Van Morrison Guitar Songbook Authentic Guitar
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£18.50
Ebury Publishing Daniel ODonnell My Story
Book SynopsisFrom humble beginnings in County Donegal in Ireland to worldwide recording success, Daniel O''Donnell recounts the incredible story of his life, charting the ups and downs with remarkable honesty.Through wonderful anecdotes, Daniel recalls his early years and the moment he set his heart on becoming a singer, and gives a personal acount of his speading popularity and subsequent perfomances all over the world. With distinctive charm and modesty, he takes us behind the scenes of his phenomenal professional success, providing unique access to the man behind the hits and headlines.A bestseller when it was first published, Daniel O''Donnell: My Story has been fully revised and updated with a wealth of brand new material. for the first time Danel gives an intimate account of his romance and high-profile wedding to Majella McLennan as well as his deeply personal observations on worldwide success and his recent breathrough to stardom in the USA.Trade ReviewGripping and entertaining. * Sunday World *Ireland's number-one statesman. * Irish Post *
£999.99
Motorbooks Alice Cooper
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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)
£34.16
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Jazz Dance
Book SynopsisUnique in its focus on history rather than technique, Jazz Dance offers the only overview of trends and developments since 1960. Editors Lindsay Guarino and Wendy Oliver have assembled an array of seasoned practitioners and scholars who trace the many histories of jazz dance and examine various aspects of the field.
£26.06
MD - Duke University Press Incongruous Entertainment
Book SynopsisA look at the camp cult appeal of MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s to gay men today, along with an historical analysis of the films' production historiesTrade Review“Steven Cohan’s Incongruous Entertainment brings together two fascinating subjects—camp and the musical—that are often casually linked but have never been explored as carefully and usefully as they are here.”—Pamela Robertson Wojcik, author of Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna“Steven Cohan’s scholarship is impeccable and his writing elegant and witty. He pulls together all the previous approaches to camp and uses them to explore the mgm musical and its stars from every angle I could think of—and a few I would never have thought of.”—Alexander Doty, author of Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon“Cohan meticulously supports his argument with detailed examples while eloquently and often humorously bringing the musicals and their stars to life. Both fans and novices are invited to rethink the political import of the MGM musicals from the studio era through the present. . . . Because of Cohan's revisionist scholarship, this book is also an essential read for anyone who studies camp and musicals.” -- Leah Perry * Journal of Popular Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Improbable Stuff: Camp and the MGM House Style 41 2. The Lady is a Camp: Glamour, Star Turns, and the Boys in the Chorus 88 3. Dancing with Balls: Sissies, Sailors, and the Camp Masculinity of Gene Kelly 149 4. What a Glorious Classic: Singin’ in the Rain and Mass-Camp Recycling 200 5. Hollywood’s Most Precious Jewels: The MGM Musical’s Return As a Camp Commodity 246 6. Judy on the Net: Garland, Camp, and Contemporary Fandom 287 Conclusion 337 Notes 343 Works Cited 353 Index 361
£27.90
MD - Duke University Press HipHop Japan
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study of Japanese hip-hop.Trade Review“I found Hip-Hop Japan fascinating. Ian Condry writes with both authority and intimacy. Taking on the movement of musicians, CDs, soundtracks, graffiti, breakdancing, fashion, racialized culture, style, musical genre, lyrics, and history from the United States to Japan, he offers a groundbreaking transcultural study of popular culture explored through an ethnography of the local.”—Anne Allison, author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination“Ian Condry’s book moves masterfully between ground-level observation of the Japanese hip-hop scene and sharp insight into the global flows of cultural influence. His analysis of the urban spaces in which Japanese hip-hop culture unfolds is fascinating and smart. So, too, is the book’s careful mapping of hip-hop’s place within the complex history of Japanese popular music since World War II. Condry is one of the handful of writers breathing new life into popular music ethnography with lively, evocative writing and a firm grasp of contemporary cultural theory.”—Will Straw, author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America"Ian Condry's years of contact with the main players in Japanese hiphop allow him to create a keenly observed oral history of rap in Japan from its very earliest days, and the story is longer and more complex than might be expected. . . . Hip Hop Japan is initially academic in focus, but Condry has done his research in clubs and the studios, and as a result it's of considerably wider interest." * The Wire *Table of ContentsReferences 235 Index 247 Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Hip-Hop, Japan, and Cultural Globalization 1 1. Yellow B-Boys, Black Culture, and the Elvis Effect 24 2. Battling Hip-Hop Samurai 49 3. Genba Globalization and Locations of Power 87 4. Rap Fans and Consumer Culture 111 5. Rhyming in Japanese 134 6. Women Rappers and the Price of Cutismo 164 7. Making Money, Japan-Style 181 Conclusion: Lessons of Hip-Hop Globalization 205 Notes 221
£25.19
Chicago Review Press Nightfly
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£15.29
Orion Publishing Co Kill Em and Leave
Book Synopsis''A formidable free-style book that isn''t straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching'' Rolling Stone magazineA Guardian best music book of 2016The music of James Brown was almost a genre in its own right, and he was one of the biggest and most influential cultural figures of the twentieth century. But the singer known as the ''Hardest Working Man in Show Business'' was also an immensely troubled, misunderstood and complicated man. Award-winning writer James McBride, himself a professional musician, has undertaken a journey of discovery in search of the ''real'' James Brown, delving into the heartbreaking saga of Brown''s childhood and destroyed estate, and uncovering the hidden history of Brown''s early years.
£11.69
John Murray Press Uncommon People
Book SynopsisWhen Miranda Sawyer interviewed Noel Gallagher in 1995, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news. This fascinating pop history, exploring the mid-90s moment when British music suddenly meant everything, explains why. Picking out twenty key songs, delving into the surprising stories behind them and their unlikely creators, Uncommon People takes us back to when Jarvis Cocker became a national hero, Trainspotting was a global hit, fire-starting seemed like a good night out - and it felt as though the revolution was happening.Initially a music press nickname, Britpop became an unexpected musical movement centred around outsiders and misfits, drop-outs and weirdos who refused to compromise on their ideas, even when they were thrust into the international spotlight. Not just a scene for white guys with guitars, but something wilder and more interesting, with songs that have proved timeless. Exploring the era''s key artists - Oasis, Blur, Tricky, Pulp, Underworld, Manic Street Preachers, The Prodigy, Suede, Chemical Brothers, Garbage, Supergrass, Radiohead, PJ Harvey and more - through their definitive anthems, Miranda Sawyer transports us back to the beating heart of the nineties.Uncommon People re-lives the mad exhilaration of what it was like to hear these songs for the very first time - and what it was like to make them. With amazing new interviews, and I-was-there insights, this book offers a backstage pass to all the most interesting bits of Britpop''s Greatest Hits.Forget New Labour, forget earnest trend theories, this book is all about the music, the people and being right there, right now.
£21.25
Hal Leonard Corporation Downbeat the Great Jazz Interviews A 75th
Book SynopsisFeatures interviews and photographs from the illustrious history of one of the world's top jazz magazine, "DownBeat". This work includes some of the greatest of "DownBeat"'s Jazz Hall of Famers: from early legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie; to bebop heroes like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.
£31.06
The University of North Carolina Press Break Beats in the Bronx
Book SynopsisThe origin story of hip-hop - one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx - has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains to be told. In vibrant prose, he combines never-before-used archival material with searching questions about the symbolic boundaries that have divided our understanding of the music.
£999.99
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina I Dont Like the Blues Race Place and the
Book SynopsisIn this illuminating work, B. Brian Foster takes us where not many blues writers and scholars have gone: into the homes, memories, speculative visions, and lifeworlds of black folks in contemporary Mississippi to hear what they have to say about the blues and all that has come about since their forebears first sang them.Trade ReviewFoster's thoughtful and well-researched look at race and the blues via an exploration of a distressed and declining Southern rural town will be useful to music and sociology academics." —Library Journal
£23.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Sound of Navajo Country Music Language and
Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of Navajo (Dine) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music's connections to the Indigenous politics of language and belonging.
£23.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina I Dont Like the Blues Race Place and the
Book SynopsisIn this illuminating work, B. Brian Foster takes us where not many blues writers and scholars have gone: into the homes, memories, speculative visions, and lifeworlds of black folks in contemporary Mississippi to hear what they have to say about the blues and all that has come about since their forebears first sang them.Trade ReviewFoster's thoughtful and well-researched look at race and the blues via an exploration of a distressed and declining Southern rural town will be useful to music and sociology academics." —Library Journal
£78.40
University Press of Mississippi Vibe
Book SynopsisDrawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North Carolina use vibe' as a mode of knowing and communication, author Corey Miles illustrates how Black feeling and unfeeling offer entry points into the contemporary South that challenge static and monolithic notions of the region.Trade ReviewVibe is an important exploration of the aesthetics of Black life and hip hop in the rural American South." - Dasan Ahanu, alumni Nasir Jones HipHop Fellow and cofounder and managing director of Black Poetry Theater"In a fresh and personable style, Corey J. Miles examines and theorizes trap music as a necessary emotional response to cyclical, racialized trauma. Vibe is a refreshing and needed addition to the growing body of hip hop scholarship on the contemporary American South." - Regina Bradley, author of Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South"Vibe is a lesson on emotions, hip hop, the Black South, and storytelling. A must-read." - B. Brian Foster, author of I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life
£19.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Time of My Life A Jazz Journey from London to
Book SynopsisNew Orleans is a Mecca for jazz pilgrims. This memoir tells the story of one aspiring pilgrim, Clive Wilson, who fell in love with New Orleans jazz in his early teens while in boarding school in England. It is also his story of becoming disenchanted with his family and English environment and finding acceptance and a new home in New Orleans.
£21.21
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Cant Be Faded Twenty Years in the New Orleans
Book SynopsisA collaboration between Kyle DeCoste and more than a dozen members of the Stooges Brass Band, past and present. Told with humor and candour, this book is as much a personal account of the Stooges' careers as it is a story of New Orleans' musicians and a coming-of-age tale about black men in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century.
£19.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Outside and Inside Race and Identity in White
Book SynopsisOffers the first full-length study of key autobiographies of white jazz musicians. Outside and Inside features insights into the development of jazz styles and culture in the urban meccas of twentieth-century jazz in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Making Music The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian
Book SynopsisThe banjo has been emblematic of the southern Appalachian Mountains since the late twentieth century. Making Music takes a close look at the instrument and banjo players in Haywood County, North Carolina, and presents the oral histories of thirty-two banjo players.
£22.49
Ebury Publishing Oasis Forever
Book SynopsisThe ultimate Christmas gift for this 'Noël'!Show your loyalty to the ultimate Rock 'n' Roll Stars with this Supersonic celebration of the Gallagher brothers. Featuring Liam and Noel's most outrageous quotes and the quizzes and questions you need to prove you deserve to be at the concerts more than anyone else, this is the ultimate celebration of the band that defined an era. Learn:Where Oasis recorded their iconic first albumWhat Noel said about Liam after the band broke up in 2009Which Oasis song is Liam's favouriteAnd more
£9.49
University of South Carolina Press Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina:
Book SynopsisThis book offers an oral history of musical genres from the Palmetto state musicians who helped define the sounds.From Jabbo Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, and Drink Small to Johnny Helms, Dick Goodwin, and Chris Potter, South Carolina has been home to an impressive number of well-known jazz and blues musicians. Through richly detailed interviews with 19 South Carolina musicians, Franklin presents an oral history of the tradition and influence of jazz and the blues in the Palmetto State.Franklin takes as his subjects a range of musicians born between 1905 and 1971, representing every decade in between, to trace the progression of these musical genres from Tommy Benford's and Jabbo Smith's first recording sessions in the summer of 1926 to the present day. Diverse not only in age but also in race, gender, instruments, and style, these musicians exemplify the breadth of jazz and blues performers from South Carolina.In their own colorful words, the performers recall their love affairs with the distinctive sounds of jazz and blues, indoctrinations into the musical word, early gigs, life on the tour bus, fans, drugs, military service, amateur night at the Apollo Theater, and influential friendships with other well-known musicians. As the story of South Carolina musical scene is tightly interwoven with that of the nation, these narratives also include appearances by Tony Bennett, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Herman Lubinsky, Helen Merrill, Pharoah Sanders, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and other significant musicians.
£24.65
University of North Texas Press,U.S. Classic Keys: Keyboard Sounds That Launched Rock
Book SynopsisClassic Keys is a beautifully photographed and illustrated book focusing on the signature rock keyboard sounds of the 1950s to the early 1980s. It celebrates the Hammond B-3 organ, Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, the Vox Continental and Farfisa combo organs, the Hohner Clavinet, the Mellotron, the Minimoog and other famous and collectable instruments. From the earliest days of rock music, the role of keyboards has grown dramatically. Advancements in electronics created a crescendo of musical invention. In the thirty short years between 1950 and 1980, the rock keyboard went from being whatever down-on-its-luck piano awaited a band in a bar or concert hall to a portable digital orchestra. It made keyboards a centerpiece of the sound of many top rock bands, and a handful of them became icons of both sound and design. Their sounds live on: Digitally, in the memory chips of modern keyboards, and in their original form thanks to a growing group of musicians and collectors of many ages and nationalities.Classic Keys explores the sound, lore, and technology of these iconic instruments, including their place in the historical development of keyboard instruments, music, and the international keyboard instrument industry. Twelve significant instruments are presented as the chapter foundations, together with information about and comparisons with more than thirty-six others. Included are short profiles of modern musicians, composers, and others who collect, use, and prize these instruments years after they went out of production. Both authors are avid musicians, collect and restore vintage keyboards, and are well-known and respected in the international community of web forums devoted to these instruments.Trade ReviewThe story of keyboard development, the people who built them, and the part they played in our musical history has never been fully told up until now. This book is a must for all who love keyboards and their history and indeed, music in general. It should be on every music lover's bookshelf."--Rick Wakeman, keyboard player for Yes, solo artist and session player"Classic Keys tells you everything you always wanted to know about vintage keyboards. It's not for squares."--Donald Fagen, keyboard player, singer and co-founder of Steely Dan"A 'dream book' for us keyboard players. Beautiful depictions of classic instruments, both in pictures and text. Accurate and well-written histories of these vintage pieces that we all love and respect. I'm still drooling over each page!"--Chuck Leavell, keyboard player for The Allman Brothers Band and musical director of The Rolling Stones"A true gem. It contains information that even an avid fan with deep knowledge of the subject will find rewarding... I am stunned by the depth and detail in this wonderful tome, and the wealth of photographs. Everything is chronicled with care and love."--Steve Nieve, keyboard player for Elvis Costello and the Attractions, session player and composer"An extremely thorough and informative book that reveals the evolution and inner workings of keyboard instruments that changed contemporary music for the good, forever. As an educator, I feel that this book should be required reading for every contemporary keyboardist."--Dave Limina, Piano Department Chair, Berklee College of Music, and author of Hammond Organ Complete"Needed, brilliant and timeless. Thank you!"--John Novello, Hammond B-3 player for jazz fusion trio Niacin
£48.00
University of North Texas Press,U.S. The Performing Set: The Broadway Designs of
Book SynopsisThe large-scale Broadway musical is one of America's great contributions to world theatre. Bill and Jean Eckart were stage designers and producers at the peak of the musical, and their designs revolutionized Broadway productions. At a time when sets were meant to remain simply backdrops that established time and place but not much else, an Eckart set became part of the performance on stage, equal at times to an actor. Anyone who has seen Phantom of the Opera or Les Miserables has seen the innovations that the Eckarts brought to the large Broadway-style musical production. They were best known for their designs for Damn Yankees (1955); Once Upon a Mattress (1959), in which Carol Burnett made her Broadway debut; and Mame (1966) with Angela Lansbury. Andrew B. Harris uses production stills and the Eckarts' sketches from every show they worked on to illustrate the magic behind an Eckart design. This lavishly illustrated book, with more than 500 full-color illustrations, is a fitting tribute to both the great American theatre and the couple who helped make it great.
£23.96
University of North Texas Press,U.S. Cedar: The Life and Music of Cedar Walton
Book SynopsisGrammy Award–winning pianist, bandleader, and composer Cedar Walton (1934–2013) is a major figure in jazz, associated with a variety of styles from bebop to funk and famous for composing several standards. Born and raised in Dallas, Walton studied music in Denver, where he jammed with musicians such as Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. In 1955, Walton moved to New York, immediately gaining recognition from notable musicians and nightclub proprietors. When Walton returned to the U.S. after serving abroad in the Army, he joined Benny Golson and Art Farmer’s Jazztet. Later, he became both pianist and arranger for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Next, he worked as part of Prestige Records’s house rhythm section, recording with numerous greats and releasing his own albums. One hallmark of Walton’s impact is his numerous long-term collaborations with giants such as trombonist Curtis Fuller and drummer Billy Higgins. By the end of his career, Walton’s discography, as both band member and bandleader, included many dozens of vaunted recordings with some of the most notable jazz musicians of the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Ben Markley conducted more than seventy-five interviews with friends and family members, musicians who played with or were otherwise influenced by Walton, and industry figures such as club owners. Musicians interviewed include such stars as Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson, and Ron Carter. Walton’s wife Martha shared her extensive archives of photos, ephemera such as fliers and tour itineraries, and letters.
£27.96
University Press of Mississippi Jazz Planet
Book SynopsisJazz is typically characterized as a uniquely American form of artistic expression, and narratives of its history are almost always set within the United States. Yet, from its inception, this art form exploded beyond national borders, becoming one of the first modern examples of a global music sensation. Jazz Planet collects essays that concentrate for the first time on jazz created outside the United States. What happened when this phenomenon met with indigenous musical practices? What debates on cultural integrity did this ""American"" styling provoke in far-flung places? Did jazz's insistence on individual innovation and its posture as a music of the disadvantaged generate shakeups in national identity, aesthetic values, and public morality? Through new and previously published essays, Jazz Planet recounts the music's fascinating journeys to Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. What emerges is a concept of jazz as a harbinger of current globalization, a process that has engendered both hope for a more enlightened and tranquil future and resistance to the anticipated loss of national identity and sovereignty. Essays in this collection describe the seldom-acknowledged contributions non-Americans have made to the art and explore the social and ideological crises jazz initiated around the globe. Was the rise of jazz in global prominence, they ask, simply a result of its inherent charm? Was it a vehicle for colonialism, Cold War politics, and emerging American hegemony? Jazz Planet provokes readers to question the nationalistic bias of most jazz scholarship, and to expand the pantheon of great jazz artists to include innovative musicians who blazed independent paths. E. Taylor Atkins is an associate professor of history at Northern Illinois University and is the author of Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan, awarded the John W. Hall Prize of the Association of Asian Studies in 2003 as the best book on Northeast Asia. His work has appeared in such periodicals as Japanese Studies and East-West Connections: Review of Asian Studies.
£18.66
University Press of Mississippi Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats
Book SynopsisWhen a jazz hero dies, rumors, speculation, gossip, and legend can muddle the real cause of death. In this book, Frederick J. Spencer conducts an inquest on how jazz greats lived and died pursuing their art. Forensics, medical histories, death certificates, and biographies divulge the way many musical virtuosos really died. An essential reference source, Jazz and Death strives to correct misinformation and set the story straight. Reviewing the medical records of such jazz icons as Scott Joplin, James Reese Europe, Bennie Moten, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Wardell Gray, and Ronnie Scott, the book spans decades, styles, and causes of death. Divided into disease categories, it covers such illnesses as ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), which killed Charlie Mingus, and tuberculosis, which caused the deaths of Chick Webb, Charlie Christian, Bubber Miley, Jimmy Blanton, and Fats Navarro. It notes the significance of dental disease in affecting a musician's embouchure and livelihood, as happened with Joe ""King"" Oliver. A discussion of Art Tatum's visual impairment leads to discoveries in the pathology of what blinded Lennie Tristano. Heavy drinking, even during Prohibition, was the norm in the clubs of New Orleans and Kansas City and in the ballrooms of Chicago and New York. Too often, the musical scene demanded that those who play jazz be ""jazzed."" After World War II, as heroin addiction became the hallmark of revolution, talented bebop artists suffered long absences from the bandstand. Many did jail time, and others succumbed to the ravages of ""horse."" With Jazz and Death, the causes behind the great jazz funerals may no longer be misconstrued. Its clinical and morbidly entertaining approach creates an invaluable compendium for jazz fans and scholars alike. Frederick J. Spencer is a professor and associate dean emeritus of the School of Medicine (Medical College of Virginia) at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Public Health, and Modern Medicine, among other publications.
£37.46
Texas A & M University Press Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound
Book SynopsisTexas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world.Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs - many never before published - ""Texas Blues"" provides comprehensive and authoritative documentation of a musical tradition that has changed contemporary music. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Alan Govenar here builds on his previous groundbreaking work documenting these musicians and their style with the stories of 110 of the most influential artists and their times.From Blind Lemon Jefferson and Aaron ""T-Bone"" Walker of Dallas, to Delbert McClinton in Fort Worth, Sam ""Ligntnin'"" Hopkins in East Texas, Baldemar (Freddie Fender) Huerta in South Texas, and Stevie Ray Vaughan in Austin, ""Texas Blues"" shows the who, what, where, and how of blues in the Lone Star State.
£31.96
Texas A & M University Press I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting
Book SynopsisThe writer of such influential songs as Pancho and Lefty, To Live’s to Fly, If I Needed You, and For the Sake of the Song, Townes Van Zandt exerted an influence on at least two generations of Texas musicians that belies his relatively brief, deeply troubled life. Indeed, Van Zandt has influenced millions worldwide in the years since his death, and his impact is growing rapidly. Respected singer/songwriter John Gorka speaks for many when he says, ""Pancho and Lefty changed—it unchained—my idea of what a song could be.” In this tightly woven, intelligently written book, Brian T. Atkinson interviews both well-known musicians and up-and-coming artists to reveal, in the performers’ own words, how their creative careers have been shaped by the life and work of Townes Van Zandt. Kris Kristofferson, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Rodney Crowell, Lucinda Williams, and Lyle Lovett are just a few of the established musicians who share their impressions of the breathtakingly beautiful tunes and lyrics he created, along with their humorous, poignant, painful, and indelible memories of witnessing Van Zandt’s rise and fall. Atkinson balances the reminiscences of seasoned veterans with the observations of relative newcomers to the international music scene, such as Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Josh Ritter, and Scott Avett (the Avett Brothers), presenting a nuanced view of Van Zandt’s singular body of work, his reckless lifestyle, and his long-lasting influence. Forewords by “Cowboy” Jack Clement and longtime Van Zandt manager and friend Harold F. Eggers Jr. open the book, and each chapter begins with an introduction in which Atkinson provides context and background, linking each interviewee to Van Zandt’s legacy. Historians, students, and fans of all music from country and folk to rock and grunge will find new insights and recall familiar pleasures as they read I’ll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt.Trade ReviewWhen I got to Austin in 1973, the songwriter's songwriter was Townes Van Zandt. It's been that way ever since. As each and every songwriter in Brian Atkinson's wonderful book attests to, it's all for the sake of the song.- Joe Nick Patoski, author of Willie Nelson: An Epic Life and Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire;“Atkinson takes testimony from the right people—those close enough to Townes Van Zandt in his best days to be there at the telling moments, and some moved by him later and able to talk about it—and comes away with a memorable, telling, often funny group portrait. Commendably, I’ll Be Here in the Morning celebrates the sporadically brilliant, artful song maker and intellect Van Zandt was at his best, and avoids further romanticizing the driven, sadly self-destructive man lurking behind the songs.”- Barry Mazor, journalist and author, Meeting Jimmie Rodgers;""My friend and fellow musician, Professor Craig Clifford at Tarleton State University, ranks Townes Van Zandt at the top of his list of 'Ruthlessly Poetic Songwriters.' This insightful phrase truly captures the essence of Townes, his work, and his legacy. Brian Atkinson brilliantly brings the term, 'Ruthlessly Poetic,' to life and into context with his new biography of Townes, I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt.""- Craig Hillis, Austin musician and Musicologist;""I'll Be Here in the Morning stands as an affectionate look at Van Zandt that doesn't fall into the trap of romanticizing the reason he needs to be remembered posthumously in the first place.""- Andrew Gilstrap, Pop Matters;""Townes remains endlessly fascinating as we trace his fatalistic plunge into self-destruction, as he all the while leaves great songs in his wake.""- CMT.com;""Brian T. Atkinson...spent nine years coaxing music veterans to explain why Van Zandt remains revered as one of the best songwriters in country-music history.""- Chuck Yarborough, Cleveland.com;""...Austin journalist Brian T. Atkinson has compiled an oral history of Van Zandt's life, work and ongoing influence by talking to peers who knew him intimately...""- John T. Davis, Austin 360;""In the book's pages, Van Zandt emerges as a man of limitless talent and innate curiosity, a man of great kindness, intellect and gentility but also of unfathomable excesses. Those who knew him the best and loved him the most weight in with clear-eyed honesty.""- Peter Cooper, The Tennesean;""...sharp and interesting profiles of all the musicians interviewed...the result is candid and insightful...""- Martin Chilton, Telegraph.co.uk;""...fascinating anecdotes and testimonials from 40 individuals, material that attests to Van Zandt's widespread influence and popularity...""- R.D. Cohen, emeritus of Indiana University Northwest, CHOICE;“Townes Van Zandt got about as deep as you can get. He was an amazing songwriter, so sharp and sophisticated. He could say really hard things in a very simple way that makes you feel connected to him. That’s why there are a lot of comparisons to my grandfather.”- Hank Williams III;""It does...shed additional light on one of Texas' most baffling but gifted musicians...an interesting work with its own...impact.""- L. Patrick Hughes, East Texas Historical Journal;""By interviewing such a wide range of singers and songwriters, Atkinson sought to put Van Zandt into context of the evoloving left wing of country music. Atkinson shows how Van Zandt's comtemporaries saw him and felt his influence, as well as the way his unusually literate lyrics influenced new genrations of musicians.""- Chuck Vollan, Department of History and Political Science, South Dakota State University
£999.99
University Press of Mississippi The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Book SynopsisThe Beat! was the first book to explore the musical, social, and cultural phenomenon of go-go music. In this new edition, updated by a substantial chapter on the current scene, authors Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr., place go-go within black popular music made since the middle 1970s--a period during which hip-hop has predominated. This styling reflects the District's African American heritage. Its super-charged drumming and vocal combinations of hip-hop, funk, and soul evolved and still thrive on the streets of Washington, D.C., and in neighboring Prince George's County, making it the most geographically compact form of popular music. Go-go--the only musical form indigenous to Washington, D.C.--features a highly syncopated, nonstop beat and vocals that are spoken as well as sung. The book chronicles its development and ongoing popularity, focusing on many of its key figures and institutions, including established acts such as Chuck Brown (the Godfather of Go-Go), Experience Unlimited, Rare Essence, and Trouble Funk; well-known DJs, managers, and promoters; and filmmakers who have incorporated it into their work. Now updated and back in print, The Beat! provides longtime fans and those who study American musical forms a definitive look at the music and its makers.
£999.99
University Press of Mississippi Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social
Book SynopsisWho changed Bob Marley's famous peace-and-love anthem into ""Come to Jamaica and feel all right""? When did the Rastafarian fighting white colonial power become the smiling Rastaman spreading beach towels for American tourists? Drawing on research in social movement theory and protest music, Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control traces the history and rise of reggae and the story of how an island nation commandeered the music to fashion an image and entice tourists. Visitors to Jamaica are often unaware that reggae was a revolutionary music rooted in the suffering of Jamaica's poor. Rastafarians were once a target of police harassment and public condemnation. Now the music is a marketing tool, and the Rastafarians are no longer a ""violent counterculture"" but an important symbol of Jamaica's new cultural heritage. This book attempts to explain how the Jamaican establishment's strategies of social control influenced the evolutionary direction of both the music and the Rastafarian movement. From 1959 to 1971, Jamaica's popular music became identified with the Rastafarians, a social movement that gave voice to the country's poor black communities. In response to this challenge, the Jamaican government banned politically controversial reggae songs from the airwaves and jailed or deported Rastafarian leaders. Yet when reggae became internationally popular in the 1970s, divisions among Rastafarians grew wider, spawning a number of pseudo-Rastafarians who embraced only the external symbolism of this worldwide religion. Exploiting this opportunity, Jamaica's new Prime Minister, Michael Manley, brought Rastafarian political imagery and themes into the mainstream. Eventually, reggae and Rastafari evolved into Jamaica's chief cultural commodities and tourist attractions. Stephen A. King is associate professor of speech communication at Delta State University. His work has been published in the Howard Journal of Communications, Popular Music and Society, and The Journal of Popular Culture.
£23.70
Kent State University Press 1950s Radio in Color: The Lost Photographs of
Book SynopsisA remarkable collection of photographs by one of rock's early championsBetween 1955 and 1960, popular Cleveland deejay Tommy Edwards photographed the parade of performers who passed through the WERE-AM radio studio for on-air interviews, shooting more than 1,700 Ektachrome slides. Following his death in 1981, most of the collection vanished and was presumed lost. The few images that remained were often reprinted and rarely credited to Edwards, labeled "photographer unknown." Until now.Discovered by musician Chris Kennedy in 2006, Tommy Edwards's candid photographs capture the birth of rock 'n' roll at its flashpoint: Elvis Presley while he was still dangerous; a raw and incomplete Chuck Berry before his star ascended; and some beady-eyed, high-voiced kid named Roy Orbison. It wasn't just the architects of rock music whom Edwards had in his viewfinder. There were also pop and country music's biggest stars, mysterious, unknown hopefuls, and vulnerable, deglamourized Hollywood celebrities. Edwards's passion for photography immortalized hundreds of pioneers of rock 'n' roll and pop culture in the radio studio, a setting that was often unseen. His photos offer a rare look behind a closed door.In 2009, Kennedy located the only surviving copy of the "T.E. Newsletter" collection, Tommy Edwards's self-published weekly two-page recap of Cleveland radio and record news for music business insiders, spanning from 1953 through 1960. The wealth of information and dates contained in the newsletters are the photo collection's indispensable companion piece, and Edwards's anecdotal quips are interspersed throughout the text of the book.1950s Radio in Color gives Tommy Edwards his due recognition as the deejay responsible for perhaps the most important photographic and written documentation of twentieth-century music ever produced. Featuring over 200 color photographs, this book will transport readers back in time, allowing them to step into Edwards's shoes for a moment and to feel the wonder and excitement he must have felt every day while witnessing a cultural revolution.
£39.75
University of Tennessee Press King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of
Book SynopsisBorn 130 years ago in the heart of Mississippi, Charlie Patton (c. 1891–1934) is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues. With his bullish baritone voice and his fluid slide guitar touch, Patton established songs like “Pony Blues,” “A Spoonful Blues,” and “High Water Everywhere” in the blues lexicon and, through his imitators, in American music. But over the decades, his contributions to blues music have been overshadowed in popularity by those of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and other mid-century bluesmen and women who’ve experienced a resurgence in their music. King of the Delta Blues Singers, originally published in 1988, began a small renaissance in Patton and blues research. And now, with the wide availability of Patton’s complete discography on CD and as digital downloads, this completely revised second edition continues the story of Charlie Patton’s legacy.Gayle Dean Wardlow and the late Stephen Calt (1946–2010) originally probed Patton’s career in the Mississippi Delta, his early performances and recordings, and his musical legacy that continues to influence today’s guitarists and performers, including such musicians as Jack White and Larkin Poe. For this second edition, Wardlow and Edward Komara refined the text and rewrote major sections, updating them with new scholarship on Patton and Delta blues. And finally, Komara has added a new afterword bringing Patton into the contemporary blues conversation and introducing numerous musical examples for the modern researcher and musician.The second edition of King of the Delta Blues Singers will further cement Patton’s legacy among important blues musicians, and it will be of interest to anyone absorbed in the beginnings of the Delta blues and music biographies.
£28.46
Texas A & M University Press Live Forever: The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe
Book SynopsisBilly Joe Shaver wrote ten of the eleven songs included on Waylon Jennings's landmark album Honky Tonk Heroes and played a dominant role in the origins and development of the Outlaw Country movement of the 1970s. He has been named by Ray Wylie Hubbard, alongside Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, as a member of the 'holy trinity' of Texas songwriters. He has exerted a Texas-sized influence on Texas music and especially Texas singer-songwriters, and is cited as a chief inspiration by at least two generations of artists. But although his influence has been profound, Shaver has the dubious honor of becoming, according to author Courtney S. Lennon, 'country music's unsung hero.'In Live Forever: The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver, Lennon seeks to give Shaver the recognition his prolific output deserves. She unfolds for readers the complexity and the simplicity of the artist who wrote the songs that Brian T. Atkinson, in his foreword, calls 'peaceful and pure, complex and convoluted, mad and merciful' - the musician who wrote 'You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ' and 'That's What She Said Last Night,' 'Honky Tonk Heroes,' and 'Get Thee Behind Me Satan.' Based on in-depth interviews with Shaver and a host of notable singer-songwriters, this book reveals and celebrates the saint and the sinner, the earthy intellectual and the hard-drinking commoner, the poet and the cowboy.
£22.36
