Music

A pathbreaking, new intellectual biography of the composer and conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler. Wilhelm Furtwangler (1886-1954) has entered the historical memory as a renowned interpreter of the canon of Austro-German musical masterworks. His extensive...

According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062117786Author Boy GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51 with a reflection on what his itinerant youth and frequent worldwide travels with his multiplatinum bands Slipknot and Stone Sour have taught him about what it means to be an American...

In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947521964Author Jim DawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Genius Book CompanyPublisher Genius Book Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037736Author Peter GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 147g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859652223Author Stephen DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his own love affair with the record. He digs deep into the...

A new book.Book InformationISBN 9780063093539Author Lou ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724767Author Vernon HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in...

Other people locked themselves away and hid from their demons. Townes flung open his door and said, 'Come on in. So writes Harold Eggers, Townes Van Zandt's longtime road manager and producer, in My Years with Townes Van Zandt: Music, Genius, and Rage a...

From pop stardom through the depths of addiction to her punk-rock comeback, Marianne Faithfull's life captures rock 'n' roll at its most decadent and its most destructive. Faithfull's first hit, 1964's "As Tears Go By," opened doors to the hippest...

Kinky Friedman has always maintained his Kinkster persona and hidden Richard Friedman from the public eye. Using one-liners humor and occasional rudeness he follows the advice of his friend Bob Dylan to keep an aura of mystery. Author Mary Lou...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569800447Author Don TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 385g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743491488Author Sheila WellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.Publisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and record-session...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111085Author Anthony TommasiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Although La Monte Young is one of the most important composers of the late twentieth century, he is also one of the most elusive. Generally recognized as the patriarch of the minimalist movement--Brian Eno once called him "the daddy of us all"--he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478596Author Daniel LanoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series: a fast-moving, musically astute portrait of Irving Berlin, arguably the greatest composer of American popular music"An extensively researched, entertaining, and nuanced account that contextualizes Berlin's story...

Half a century after three teenage brothers decided to give a career in music a go, the Bee Gees are among the most successful and enduring names in popular music history.Trailblazing their way across pop music since the 1960s, Barry, Robin, and Maurice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060883447Author Author Maynard SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 708g

Why does Bruce Springsteen mean so much to so many people? Apart from Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, no contemporary popular musician has had the cultural impact that Bruce Springsteen has on America. Since he was appointed in the late 1970s as "the...

By age 16 Pat Martino was already working as a member of R&B star Lloyd Price's touring musical revue. By age 18 Martino moved to Harlem where he quickly earned a reputation as a hard-bopping six-stringer with formidable chops through a series of...

For those who love or have collected early Bob Dylan bootleg albums, an archive of never before published photographs of the young Dylan, when he first moved to New York City in the early 1960s. It was in late 1961, photographer Ted Russell recalls,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Will Eisner Comic Industry Award (Reality-Based) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781606997567Author Ed PiskorFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306922954Author Anthony BozzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556525421Author Clinton HeylinFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 757gDimensions(mm)...

A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903-58) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s. His success came as he fused traditional rural blues with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990610694Author Mark WatsonFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint MindStir MediaPublisher MindStir MediaWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of the keenest minds writing on music in the world today. Dahlhaus organizes his book around...

Now in paperback a revised and expanded with a new afterword by the author a this is the definitive biography of Duane Allman one of the most revered guitarists of his generation. ESkydogE reveals the complete story of the legendary guitarist: his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550229455Author Jake BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 347g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681123110Author Emmanuel MarieFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

The first volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern...

In the early 1960s a handful of brash British kids needed a new sound for a new kind of music. They marched into a music store in their blue-collar town and asked the gentleman behind the desk to build them an amplifier with leg-shaking power and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543959390Author David GunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyWeight(grams) 276gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 9mm * 139mm