Genres & Styles

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250051349Author Mick WallFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Jazz and its colorful, expansive history resonate in this unique collection of 60 essays specially-commissioned from today's top jazz performers, writers, and scholars. Contributors include such jazz insiders as Bill Crow, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Ted Gioia,...

Positive Vibrations tells of how reggae was shaped by, and in turn helped to shape, the politics of Jamaica and beyond, from the rudies of Kingston to the sexual politics and narcotic allegiances of the dancehall. Insightful and full of incident, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467129084Author Michelle BaheFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingDimensions(mm) 235mm * 166mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913172305Author Tony FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Omnibus PressPublisher Omnibus PressWeight(grams) 210g

Since the establishment of film music studies, there has been a steady growth of serious analytical work on the film music repertoire. Film Music Analysis: Studying the Score offers the first collection of essays dedicated to the close investigation of...

As is the case with so many musicians, the life of Warren Zevon was blessed with talent and opportunity yet also beset by tragedy and setbacks. Raised mostly by his mother with an occasional cameo from his gangster father, Warren had an affinity and...

In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark...

Bruce Springsteen called him 'one of the great, great American songwriters', Jackson Browne hailed him as 'the first and foremost proponent of song noir', and Stephen King once said that if he could write like him, he 'would be a happy guy'. The list of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922915705Author Don BollesFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 492g

Gene Clark soared to fame as a founding member and frontman of The Byrds one of the most important and influential groups of the '60s. His songwriting with The Byrds and subsequent work as a solo artist and with Dillard & Clark mark him as one of rock's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636140360Author Glen E FriedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909454309Author Attila The StockbrokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Cherry Red RecordsPublisher Cherry Red RecordsWeight(grams) 614g

for SATB and organ or small orchestra Christmas Lullaby was commissioned in 1989 by the Bach Choir in celebration of the seventieth birthday of its conductor, Sir David Willcocks. The haunting melody of the verses and the reflective refrain of 'Ave...

Of all the British bands that blasted to fame in rock's golden age, Nektar remain the most mysterious and least documented. Because they chose to base themselves in West Germany, until now commentators in their native land have tended to overlook them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526747Author Gered MankowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540026743Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 37Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Hello, I'm Stephen Fry. Now time for the first outing of a brand, spanking new feature here on The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music... putting some unsuspecting figure in music under the spotlight.' In his Incomplete & Utter History of...

An illustrated highlight reel of more than 100 women in rap who have helped shape the genre and eschewed gender norms in the process The Motherlode highlights more than 100 women who have shaped the power, scope, and reach of rap music, including...

This indispensable manual for present-day players of the one-keyed flute is the first complete method written in modern times. Janice Dockendorff Boland has compiled a manual that can serve as a self-guiding tutor or as a text for a student working with...

Featuring blues artists of every era, from pioneers like Ma Rainey, through legends such as Muddy Waters and B. B. King, to new stars like Keb' Mo' and Shemekia Copeland. Charting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American...

An indispensable key to Adorno's influential oeuvre-now in paperbackIn 1949, Theodor W. Adorno's Philosophy of New Music was published, coinciding with the prominent philosopher's return to a devastated Europe after his exile in the United States...

Seven men. Seven years. 31 million Twitter followers. 11 billion YouTube views. 13 billion Spotify streams. Sold out world tours. BTS are a global phenomenon - this is their story. This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling biography...

This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373657Author Gerald DaweFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

The long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music. From Booker T. Jones's earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063251281Author Chris PayneFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784541552Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 54Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

Frank Bello, bassist with the legendary New York thrash metal band Anthrax since 1984, has sold over ten million albums, travelled the globe more times than he cares to count, and enthralled audiences from the world's biggest stages. His long-awaited...

In his page-turning and inspiring first book, legendary songwriter and recording artist Jason Derulo shares his 15 rules for finding success in any pursuit, and invites everyone-especially artists and creators-to start on their path to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560253532Author Don AsherFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth PressWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Here is the story of how the Sex Pistols shocked and shamed EMI - the UK's most revered and profitable record company - and ended up GBP40,000 the richer thanks to manager Malcolm McLaren's cunning business strategy.About the AuthorBrian Southall is the...

In 1973, the Allman Brothers Band were one of the most popular in America: they headlined the Watkins Glen Summer Jam, attended by an estimated 600,000 people and their album Brothers and Sisters was a number one for five weeks on the Billboard listings...

Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and 'hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250127549Author Ronin RoFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 408g

Wilcopedia is a comprehensive guide to the music of the preeminent American rock band of the twenty-first century. It offers a thorough appraisal of the entire Wilco canon, with detailed insights into every album and song the band have released, as well...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788863887037Author Mauro Di DomenicoPage Count 40Imprint Volonte & Co.Publisher Volonte & Co.Weight(grams) 184g

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...

With over 2,600 entries, the second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Dance is a unique single volume reference on all aspects of dance performance written by two leading dance writers, Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell. The work covers all aspects of...