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Globe Pequot Press An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music
The Child Ballads are a series of over 300 traditional ballads from England and Scotland that, along with their American variants, were anthologized by folklorist Francis James Child in the nineteenth century. An Evolving Tradition is the story of the Child Ballads—the world’s best-known and most highly regarded repository of traditional English folk songs, and the wellspring for approximately 10,000 recordings over the last century, from obscure musicological archives to classic releases from Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and Led Zeppelin.Drawing on interviews with numerous scholars and musicians, author Dave Thompson explains what a ballad is, outlines their dominant themes, and recounts how these ballads survived to become a mainstay of field recordings made by Cecil Sharp, Alan Lomax, and others as they traveled the English and American countryside in search of old songs. Thompson traverses the entire spectrum of rock, pop, folk, roots, experimental music, industrial, and goth to reveal the remarkable legacy and incalculable influence of the Child Ballads on all manner of modern music.
£31.50
F&W Publications Inc Goldmine Record Album Price Guide
£22.50
Hal Leonard Corporation Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall
ÊThe WallÊ was Roger Waters's first album. So begins Dave Thompson's Thompson's ÊRoger Waters: The Man Behind the WallÊ the first full biography on this notoriously guarded personality that has eluded probing queries and papertrail dissection for the entirety of his career. As he prepares to release his first solo album in twenty-five years buff up on your Waters know-how with the paperback edition of Thompson's incisive profile first published in 2013.ÞBorn in 1943 amidst the bombs and shrapnel of the Second World War Waters abandoned a career in architecture to pursue his myriad demons through song. Over the years imbued with an utter brilliant mind and a general tendency toward belligerence Waters has regularly butted heads with his bandmates fellow musicians fans acquaintances family political figures and entire nations ä but why? Leaning on original research conducted among Waters' inner circle of friends and associates Thompson cautiously dismantles every wall Waters has erected between himself and the public a brick at a time in pursuit of an answer. As the mass of apparent contradictions stack up and the saga of this publicly isolated man unravels Thompson arrives at a portrait of an artist every bit as nuanced and recalcitrant as his work would suggest.
£15.53
Collector's Guide Publishing Eclectic Gypsy: An Unauthorised Biography of Doctor Who
£10.99
Hal Leonard Corporation The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More: All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and CDs to LPs and Tapes
An in-depth and comprehensive guide to ä and history of ä music collecting ÊThe Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and MoreÊ traces the hobby from its beginnings over a century ago. The book features informative and entertaining sections on every significant format in which recorded music has been released ä and some that are now almost completely forgotten.ÞBased on Dave Thompson's original Backbeat classic ÊThe Music Lover's Guide to Record CollectingÊ this revamped colorful expanded edition takes readers from the early days of cylinders 78s and Edison records on through 45s LPs 8-tracks cassettes bootlegs CDs MiniDiscs MP3s LPs and other formats.ÞLandmark labels collectable artists specialist themes and more are explored across a series of essays while dozens of color images bring the most obscure corners of the hobby to life. Unlike other volumes that focus exclusively on vinyl this book caters to the audiophile whose obsession for music welcomes all formats. Through it all the joy and fascination of music collecting in all its guises comes alive.
£22.50
Collector's Guide Publishing Making of U2s the Joshua Tree
£6.99
Limelight Editions The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Music on Film Series
£8.22
Sonicbond Publishing Roxy Music in the 1970s
Between 1972 and their first break-up in 1976 (and then again following their 1979 reunion), Roxy Music were arguably the most exciting, ambitious and vivacious bans in the land - a core four piece of vocalist Bryan Ferry, guitarist Phil Manzanera, horn player Andy Mackay and drummer Phil Thompson (but also featuring, at different times, Brian Eno and Eddie Jobson) who emerged during 1972's long, hot summer of glam rock, but who could never be readily pigeonholed. The greatest records they made became, in turn, some of the greatest records of the age. 'Virginia Plain,' 'Pyjamarama,' 'Street Life,' 'All I Want Is You,' 'Love is the Drug,' 'Trash' and 'Dance Away' were the hits, but even the deepest cuts on the band's first five albums became anthems for a generation. Roxy were no ordinary band in other ways, too, as Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay and Eno all embarked upon solo careers - which, between them, were responsible for a complex catalogue of songs that stretches from the ballads of the 1930s to the electronica of the distant future, from Wagner's Valkyries to David Bowie's Low. This book encompasses all of that, documenting the histories of both band and band members, while analysing and detailing every album and single released by the Roxy family throughout the decade.
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Hal Leonard Corporation Britcoms FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Our Favorite Sophisticated Outrageous British Television Comedies
ÊBritcoms FAQÊ is a sweeping survey of the very best in British television comedy from the early days of 1950s television and the rise of Tony Hancock through the golden age of ÊMonty PythonÊ ÊAre You Being Served?Ê and ÊSteptoe and SonÊ ä featuring the madcap comic geniuses of the 1980s ä to the modern age of ÊAbsolutely FabulousÊ ÊCouplingÊ ÊRed DwarfÊ and more.ÞWritten with both a deep love and cultural understanding of the shows highlighting the finest performances and resurrecting the greatest jokes ÊBritcoms FAQÊ also visits the medium's transition from radio to television its history on vinyl and compact disc and its thematic shift from straight-forward humor to a sometimes biting force for political and social commentary.ÞIncluded are chapters spotlighting the sitcoms' fascination with dysfunctional families their rebellion against conventional society and the changing face of the media itself. The legacy of Monty Python is explored in depth but so are such themes as class warfare censorship and even suicide. Britcoms long ago determined that very little is sacred when there's laughter to be had ä and ÊBritcoms FAQÊ proves it!
£14.99
Hal Leonard Corporation To Hell and Back: My Life in Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers, in the Words of the Last Man Standing
There have been many books written about Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, but only by people who weren’t there. Walter Lure was—from the band's chaotic beginnings on New York's Lower East Side, through a now-legendary UK tour with the Sex Pistols and the Clash, and on to a yearlong stay in London—eyewitness and midwife to the birth of UK punk.Now, he tells his story in To Hell and Back, a thrilling ride through the clubs and dives of two continents, in the company of one of the most notorious junkies in rock 'n' roll history. Drawing from his own contemporary journals, Lure paints a vivid portrait of life in both cities, during perhaps the most crucial musical uprising of the past forty years…the music, the characters, the clothes, the fights, the drugs, the orgies, the lot.Lure lays bare his own battle with drugs, and reflects upon his life after the band's split—rising to become a Wall Street fixture yet still finding time to make music.
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