Music

As a child, Matt Hay didn't know his hearing wasn't the way everyone else processed sound - and like a lot of kids who do workarounds to fit in, even the school nurse didn't catch his condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767910279Author Gene OdomFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

For years, Todd Snider has been one of the most beloved country-folk singers in the United States, compared to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, John Prine, and dozens of others. He's become not only a new-century Dylan but a modern-day Will Rogers, an everyman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931340680Author Ann McCutchanFormat HardbackPage Count 342Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 730gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574670226Author Andrew FarkasFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 219mm *...

TOTAL CHAOS is the first book telling Iggy Pop's story of The Stooges from his own words. Grammy winning editor and avid music historian Jeff Gold spent two days at the rock legend's home sharing pictures and memorabilia from his collection. Featuring a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993356681Author Chris HutchinsFormat HardbackPage Count 295Imprint Neville Ness House LtdPublisher Neville Ness House Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743483445Author Tommy LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *...

Tales of The Smiths is a comic book retelling of the band members' teenage years, before the group was famous, and includes fascinating digressions about their influences (the New York Dolls, Nico, Sex Pistols, NY punk, Patti Smith, etc) and the times in...

Revered and massively influential the Smiths have been called the most important band of the fertile U.K. 1980s music scene. While the group was only active for five years (1982 to 1987) the cult of the Manchester-reared foursome has ballooned in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956841176Author Adam RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy's stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert...

Gathering the 30 most vital Miles Davis interviews-on his music, his life, and his philosophy-this collection reveals the jazz icon as a complex and contradictory man, secretive at times but extraordinarily revealing at others. Miles was not only a...

Sixteen Tons is the story of Country Music Hall of Fame member Merle Travis, a brilliant, multi-talented, and deeply troubled artist who is widely considered a genius. A world-class guitarist who dazzled audiences with his Kentucky thumb-picking style,...

Lenny Kravitz has been at the top of the music world for over 30 years, showing no signs of slowing down. A multi instrumentalist, songwriter, actor, and record producer his signature retro sound has incorporated all of the unique style's of the very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631320668Author Elayne JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Advanced Publishing LLCPublisher Advanced Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Pauline Garcia Viardot, the daughter of the famous singer and composer Manuel Garcia and younger sister of the celebrated Malibran, was a singer of genius and a woman of outstanding intellect. The first biography of Viardot not only recreates the drama...

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...

Who speaks in Leonard Cohen's oeuvre? By identifying the many guises in which Cohen presents himself to his audience, Francis Mus seeks to formulate an answer to this question. The countless roles assumed by Cohen's persona are not some innocent games,...

"An occasion to appreciate Dexter's resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social transformation."-Angela Y. Davis, political activist, scholar, author, and speakerSophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist...

Bill Anderson is one of the most successful songwriters, performers, and personalities in country music history. Known as "Whisperin' Bill" to generations of fans, Anderson's soft vocalisations and spoken lyrics are the hallmarks of his style...

At the present time Vivaldi's music is enjoying a renewed life. His music is played in the concert halls and on the radio, and has been extensively recorded. Public interest in the composer is tremendous; yet until recently there has not been any book in...

Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano. Gunther Schuller called Tatum's playing "a marvel of perfection...His deep-in-the-keys full piano sonority, the tone and touch control in pyrotechnical passages...are miracles of...

If the Beatles wrote the soundtrack of the swinging '60s then the Eagles did the same for the cynical '70s. The story of the Eagles is also the story of most artists of their time a the drugs the music the excesses and the piles of cash. But the...

Born in Salzburg in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most prolific musicians that ever lived. Here, the author Judith Grohmann takes us behind the curtain of the career to reveal the real personality of the composer, whose influence on the...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990311188Author Don CusicFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Brackish PublishingPublisher Brackish PublishingWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991872916Author Jim ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Two Handed PressPublisher Two Handed PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

New, expanded and updated edition of the best comprehensive survey of who's who of British jazz musicians. Over 900 biographies detail the work of musicians from every era of British jazz, ranging from those who played professionally before 1920 at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743244589Author Bob DylanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060563011Author Sharon LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486292328Author Anton SchindlerPage Count 547Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

The first full account of legendary music producer Neil Bogart's life and meteoric career Neil Bogart was the founder of Casablanca Records and made the top acts of all 70's music's defining genres: stadium rock with KISS, disco with Donna Summer &...

By 1983, many of Scotland's post-punk bands had broken up or moved south to chase the major labels in London. That vacuum was filled by an influx of young musicians who were determined to remake the scene in their own image. In this compelling and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993177071Author Paul SuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Buffalo BooksPublisher Buffalo BooksWeight(grams) 1320g

Birth School Metallica Death is the definitive story of the most significant rock band since Led Zeppelin, covering the band's formation up to their breakthrough eponymous fifth album, aka "The Black Album." The intense and sometimes fraught relationship...

The Eagles have enjoyed colossal success spanning three decades. They are a remarkable mesh of lyrical and musical talent, twinned with an explosive blend of personalities. They are a group of individually diverse and vivid characters - something which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306903175Author Steve JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Da Capo PressPublisher Da Capo PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 160mm * 28mm

Scholars, critics, and performers alike have long been fascinated by the distinctive blend of music and text in the German Lied. Covering works by Fanny Hensel, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf, Songs in Motion synthesizes...

Bob Dylan is the prince of self-reinvention and deflection. Whether it's the folkies of Greenwich Village, the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Born Again Christians, the Chabad Lubavitch community, or English Department postmodernists, specific...