Genres & Styles

In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices-inventive cover...

No one composer is at the centre of this fascinating story, but a larger picture emerges of a shift in musical scenery, from the world of the innocent Romanticism of Berlioz and Schumann to the more potent musical politics of Wagner, and of his antidote...

Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening to Bach explores musical style as it was understood in the early eighteenth century. It encourages ways of...

In December 8, 1980, twenty-something rock journalist Laurie Kaye entered the legendary Dakota apartments on Manhattan's Upper West Side to co-conduct an interview with her longtime idol, John Lennon. It was the last interview Lennon would ever give -...

From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470289068Author Don FelderFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 636gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451414069Author Chris PerezFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CelebraPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 138mm * 17mm

Ewan MacColl is widely recognized as a key figure in the English folk revival, who tried to convey traditional music to a mass audience. Dominant in the movement during the 1950s and much of the 1960s, his position has come under attack in more recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571571680Author Simon DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 8Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music Ltd

There are many biographies and histories of early country music and its creators, but surprisingly little attention has been given to the actual songs at the heart of these narratives. In this groundbreaking book, music historian Tony Russell turns the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770410596Author Neil PeartFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 885g

Rust in Peace details the making of Megadeth's iconic record, Rust In Peace, which was released in 1990, at an incredible time of flux and creativity in the rock world. Relayed by the lead vocalist and guitarist songwriter of Megadeth himself, Dave...

Throughout the 1970s, Emerson Lake & Palmer were phenomenally prolific. Not only that, but each of their albums brought something new and innovative to the minds of their many fans. From the early days of the band and their iconic performance at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101903292Author Mark LewisohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 944Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767901567Author Laurence BergreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879894Author Ruvan WijesooriyaFormat HardbackPage Count 323Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny's old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. and music offered her a window to a world where others felt the way she did. Songs became lifelines to her,...

In John Mellencamp: American Paintings and Assemblages, a survey of the artist s large-scale oil portraits and mixed-media pieces documents America s heart and soul, revealing unsettling but beautiful truths with a kind of anti-establishment frown and a...

'The game changing guitar legend gets the biography he deserves ... Diligently researched, perceptive and well-written.' 8/10, Classic Rock'An affectionate and unflinching portrait of metal guitar's Mount Everest.' MojoArriving in California as a young...

It may have taken them a few years to achieve a stable line-up, but Faith No More did just that with the arrival of enigmatic frontman, Mike Patton in 1988. By 1990, the San Francisco quintet were flying high on the back of their third album, The Real...

If ever there were Satanic Majesties of rock their name was Led Zeppelin. The band that out-sold the Rolling Stones and made Robert Johnson's deals with the devil look like a playground game of conkers were as high, inflated and glorified as their...

Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His close musical associations included such towering figures as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Woody Guthrie, Pete...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912213870Author Mark Llewelyn EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385334297Author Nick ToschesFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

By 1978, the landscape of pop music had changed considerably since Jethro Tull's earlier hit albums Aqualung (1971) and Thick As A Brick (1972). Punk, disco and new wave were in and progressive rock's heyday was over. Despite all of this, during the year...

'Because a life lived in fear is equal to no life at all'This is the uncompromising vision of Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile. Fearless and highly erotic, these stories delight in ideas of sexual transgression and liberation, offering a window onto a...

Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan-two sons of Texas whose pyrotechnic guitar work introduced an entire generation to the blues-are given full biographical treatment by a writer who tracked their careers for five years, until Stevie Ray's sudden death in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495077722Author Bela BartokPage Count 88Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423445333Author Himie VoxmanPage Count 72Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911374008Author Mark ElliottFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Flood Gallery PublishingPublisher Flood Gallery Publishing

Have you ever had a classical tune buzzing round your head and not been able to identify it? In The Directory of Classical Themes, with no greater musical knowledge than the ability to hum the tune, you will be able to find it. Denys Parsons discovered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735169576Author Jeremy SiskindFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Jeremy SiskindPublisher Jeremy SiskindWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Bono is one of the most influential musicians at work today. Over the past twenty-five years his band, U2, have sold a staggering 130 million albums and collected 14 Grammys. Their success has made Bono one of the most recognisable faces in the world...

Music fans tend to divide into two camps at the mention of Fleetwood Mac. There are those who think of the multi-million-selling five-piece that formed in the mid-1970s and released Rumours, the biggest selling album of all time. But there are those who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571503698Author Peter SculthorpePage Count 12Imprint Faber Music LtdPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 70g

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If any band deserves to have homage paid to them with a lavish, limited edition photographic book, look no further than Emerson Lake and Palmer. With their origins going back to the late sixties, these three highly talented individuals portrayed the...

More String Time Joggers is a welcome addition to the ensemble repertoire for beginner strings from the authors of the award-winning Fiddle Time series. This exciting collection provides inventive and enjoyable ensemble material for all string groups,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944082987Author Heidi CudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Over the Edge BooksPublisher Over the Edge BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In This Means War: The Sunset Years of the NWOBHM, Martin Popoff and dozens of his UK rock buddies document the frenzied fruition years of the movement, namely 1981 and 1982, and then the many facets that caused the genre to implode by the end of 1984,...