Music

Bestselling music historian Elijah Wald follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazzIn Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970180Author Wilfrid SheedFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782811893Author Ginger BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint G2 Entertainment LtdPublisher G2 Entertainment Ltd

A tribute to the life and work of one of the great musical icons of the twentieth century, reflected through the lenses of the world's greatest photographers. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the release in 1964 of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802142535Author Blair TindallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657023150Author David FaimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 384g

"Saint Billie".About the AuthorJeremy Reed was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, and read for his PhD at the University of Essex. He is widely acknowledged as the most imaginatively gifted British poet of his generation, praised by Seamus Heaney for his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995515420Author John BlaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Paper JukeboxPublisher Paper JukeboxWeight(grams) 798g

Neil Young, who removed his music from Spotify to protest COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, previously took on the music industry so that fans could hear his music-all music-the way it was meant to be heard.Today, most of the music we hear is com-pressed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933578005Author David A ShiangFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Open Sesame ProductionsPublisher Open Sesame ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Prince Rogers Nelson released his first album in 1978. In the almost 40 years that followed he became a superstar, a recluse, an inspiration, an enigma, a slave and a symbol. He was a master of reinvention, but the one constant in his astonishing career...

Bill Haley a the man who brought rock 'n' roll into the mainstream. His song Crazy Man Crazy was the first rock 'n' roll song to break the EBillboardE Top 20 in 1953 and was followed by his evergreen We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock the first song...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574243222Author Lin FlanaganPage Count 256Imprint Centerstream PublishingPublisher Centerstream Publishing

You won't see no sad and teary eyes when I get my wings, and it's my time to fly Just call my friends and tell them there's a party, come on by So just roll me up and smoke me when I die In Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about...

This biography, the most in-depth look at Kanye's life and career to date, lifts the mask to expose the man behind the endless myths. Featuring quotes from all of the major players in Kanye's life, Kanye West: God And Monster traces his life from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737450016Author Mark O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Mark O'Connor Musik InternationalPublisher Mark O'Connor Musik...

Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus. . . . No one alive knows the music that...

Updated paperback version features a new chapter of never seen photos plus a new interview with Henry Rollins. TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop is the first time the story of this seminal band has been told entirely in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501173196Author Editor and Contributor Jonathan CottFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Now in paperback ÊJimmy Page: Magus Musician ManÊ is the first-ever biography of Led Zeppelin's legendary guitarist and producer. Never before has the story been told in such sharp detail leaving no stone unturned from the heady days of swinging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610060127Author Opal WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Zeezok PublishingPublisher Zeezok PublishingWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979 it became an international bestseller. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new foreword...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641602266Author Kenneth WomackFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910841587Author Short MichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Circaidy Gregory PressPublisher Earlyworks PressWeight(grams) 800gDimensions(mm) 246mm...

One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932-82) slouched at the piano from a sawed-down wooden stool, interpreting Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart at hastened tempos with pristine clarity. A...

An in-depth study of the life of Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941), pianist, composer and conductor of the Halle Orchestra, who arguably made Manchester the most important focus for music in Britain in his day. Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) is best...

In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures. Hinton shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genres...

Written in taut, mesmerizing, often hilarious scenes, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals from the aughts, Jessica Hopper chronicles her time as a DJ, living in decrepit punk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Performing Arts) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781601090058Author Ravi ShankarFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Mandala...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982168735Author RaekwonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 139mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954220027Author Shawn SetaroFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Kingston ImperialPublisher Kingston Imperial

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954095823Author Mark BegoFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Yorkshire PublishingPublisher Yorkshire PublishingWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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To tell the story of Morris Day is to tell the story of Prince. Not because they were inseparable or because their paths never diverged, but because, even when their paths did diverge, they always intersected again. Each artist lifted the other up,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970047080Author David CalcanoFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Fantoons LLCPublisher Fantoons LLC

FRANK SINATRA: AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE is a compelling biography of Frank Sinatra's life and career - warts and all, spanning the years from 1915 to Sinatra's death in 1998. This fast-paced comprehensive chronicle details the superstar's music, films,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385548656Author Thurston MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 777gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553572384Author Reba McEntireFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553572384Author Reba McEntireFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

The definitive biography of Bessie Smith, the great singer known as the "Empress of the Blues" Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time, Bessie Smith was also a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid...