Traditional and folk music Books
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Remembering Mgqumeni
Book SynopsisKathryn Olsen is Associate Researcher at University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
£999.99
Palmetto Publishing Ive Lived Country Music
£999.99
State University of New York Press Anthems
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£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Musical Life of Melanie
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£999.99
Running Press Book Publishers I Heart Shania Twain
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£17.09
Dey Street Books Rememberings
Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, struggles with illness, and of the enduring power of song.Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinéad O’Connor rose to massive fame in the late 1980s and 1990s with a string of gold records. By the time she was twenty, she was world-famous—living a rock-star life out loud. From her trademark shaved head to her 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live when she tore up Pope John Paul II’s photograph, Sinéad has fascinated and outraged millions. In Rememberings, O’Connor recounts her painful tale of growing up in Dublin in a dysfunctional, abusive household. Inspired by a brother’s Bob Dylan records, she escaped into music. She relates her early forays with local Irish bands; we see Sinéad completing her first album whil
£15.29
Holt McDougal Her Country
Book SynopsisIn country music, the men might dominate the radio waves. But it's womenlike Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and Kacey Musgraveswho are making history. This is the full and unbridled story of the past twenty years of country music seen through the lens of these trailblazers' careerstheir paths to stardom and their battles against a deeply embedded boys' club, as well as their efforts to transform the genre into a more inclusive placeas told by award-winning Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss.For the women of country music, 1999 was an entirely different universea brief blip in time, when women like Shania Twain and the Chicks topped every chart and made country music a woman's world. But the industry, which prefers its stars to be neutral, be obedient, and never rock the boat, had other plans. It wanted its women to shut up and singor else. In 2021, women are played on country radio as little as 10 percent of the time, but they're still selling out aren
£17.09
