Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538756560Author Dylan JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374193393Author Will HermesFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250872463Author Nick CaveFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639365937Author Fiona MaddocksFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 581g

To Jeezy’s legion of fans, his name is synonymous with hustle, grit, and the integrity to go out there and achieve your dreams. In his first book, Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe, Jeezy shares never heard stories of what it took for him to beat the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455625499Author Zeke ScheinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953691163Author Ahmed AbdullahFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Blank Forms EditionsPublisher Blank Forms Editions

From Dolly Parton to Carrie Underwood, Kenny Rogers to Merle Haggard, Country Legends Alphabet is a toe-tappin’, boot scootin’ A to Z of the voices that have shaped country music over the years. Written and illustrated with a good dose of Nashville...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571380916Author Sergei ProkofievFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Faber & FaberPublisher Faber & FaberWeight(grams) 153g

Pee Wee King's birth on February 18, 1914, into a Milwaukee working-class Polish family named Kuczynski was hardly an indicator that he would grow up to become a pioneer and superstar of country and western music. Certainly no one in the Polish-German...

First Published in 1999, Hermine Weigel Williams' study draws on more than thirty years of research to fill this noticeable lacuna , and presents here the first full scale life and works of the composer for over ninety years. Part One of the book surveys...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637740279Author Jimmy SturrFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Benbella BooksPublisher Benbella BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon, the "a cappella" music known as "isicathamiya" has become celebrated as one of South Africa's most vibrant and distinct performance traditions. This text provides an interpretation of isicathamiya...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574671995Author Anthony FeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm)...

'Success is a state of mind... Success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.' - Stylist Magazine, 2011.Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning pop icon Britney Spears is one of the most successful and celebrated entertainers...

This book is an academic biography of Liu Ching-chih, a renowned musicologist and translation scholar, and a prolific music critic in Hong Kong. Three Library Collections named after him are housed in the University of Hong Kong Libraries, the Hong Kong...

Conductor, chorus director, airplane pilot, educator, activist, mentor, and advocate Margaret Hillis blazed a trail upon which many continue to tread. The first woman to regularly conduct a major symphony orchestra, she was the founder of the Chicago...

Informed by theories pertaining to transnational mobility, ethnicity and race, gender, postcolonialism, as well as Japanese studies, Transnational Musicians explores the way Japanese musicians establish their transnational careers in the hierarchically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771012631Author Dave BidiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684428519Author Gregory WilburFormat HardbackImprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415732464Author Jeremy CampFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint UranoPublisher UranoWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306921636Author R J SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco has made concert and recording appearances with nearly every important jazz musician in the world, including such legendary figures as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Tommy Dorsey. His playing career spans over...

Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sources surrounding Kinkel, this book explores the extent to which Kinkel's Lieder reflect and transcend compositional-aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political facets typically associated with the first half of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143458531Author V.J. JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India

Once called the dean of African American composers, William Grant Still created a unique version of musical modernism that influenced commercial music, symphonic music, and opera. The acclaimed and enormously popular Afro-American Symphony, like many of...

We know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental illness in 1856. Drawing on recent pathbreaking...

The first collection ever of essays and reviews by the renowned pedagogue, composer, and conductor, providing fresh perspectives on her musical influence and impact. The impact of Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) on twentieth-century music was vast: as...

Whenever you hear the prevalent wailing blues harmonica in commercials, film soundtracks or at a blues club, you are experiencing the legacy of the master harmonica player, Little Walter. Immensely popular in his lifetime, Little Walter had fourteen Top...

Laila Storch is a world-renowned oboist in her own right, but her book honors Marcel Tabuteau, one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century music. Tabuteau studied the oboe from an early age at the Paris Conservatoire and was brought to the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786891382Author Maureen CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 336g

Since his death in 1847, Felix Mendelssohn's music and personality have been both admired and denigrated to extraordinary degrees. In this valuable book Clive Brown weaves together a rich array of documents-letters, diaries, memoirs, reviews, news...

Soulful jazz singer Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique sound, troubled personal history, and a catalogue that includes such resonant songs as "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless the Child." Holiday and her music were also strongly shaped by...

Pynchon's Sound of Music is dedicated to cataloging, exploring, and interpreting the manifold manifestations of music in Thomas Pynchon's work. An original mix of close and distant readings, this monograph employs a variety of disciplines--from literary...

"I am Felipe Garcia Villamil" begins Drumming for the Gods, the life history of the Afro-Cuban artist whose music has survived both political and personal upheaval. "Balogun for thirty years. Oluana, of Matanzas, Cuba, for about forty years. Omoana for...

Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E. Lampert examines the lives, careers, and fame of overlooked figures from Europe and the United States...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954220423Author Sleiman NejimFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Kingston ImperialPublisher Kingston Imperial

"Few cello players currently before the public have enjoyed the kind of international success in all conceivable musical career roles as Janos Starker. In his lifetime, Starker has gained renown as teacher, soloist and orchestra player." -Chicago...

David Braham (1834-1905) was the musical director for the famous vaudeville team of Harrigan and Hart, writing music for many of their comic songs, including The Mulligan Guards, Paddie Duffy's Cart, and many more. His long career as a theatrical...

Notes of a Pianist chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth-century New Orleans-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869). An important cultural and historical...