Genres & Styles

Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making Beats was the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods, and values of a surprisingly insular community. Focusing on a variety of subjects-from hip-hop artists' pedagogical...

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...

This is the first full-length biography of Keith Relf, frontman for the Yardbirds and one of the great tragic characters in rock history. Keith's moody vocals and harmonica helped to define the Yardbirds' sound on a string of innovative hit records in...

The first major biography of Levon Helm, the legendary drummer and singer of the Band. Through rigorous research and interviews with close friends and fellow musicians, author Sandra B. Tooze (Muddy Waters: The Mojo Man) has written an original,...

For the last 25 years Jonathan Veira has been a star of the world of opera, handling a wide range of character parts as a comic baritone. A virtuoso musician and delightful raconteur, with skills on keyboard and guitar, he also tours with an extremely...

Choral conductors and clinicians often focus on honing the technical and artistic elements of their choir's performance, but what is the true purpose of choral singing? Choral performances sound beautiful, but they also tell stories, "say something" to...

Although he wrote hundreds of songs and was a key figure in the birth of the American stage musical, P. G. Wodehouse's (1881-1975) long and influential career as a lyricist has been almost completely forgotten and unheralded - until now. Highly regarded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111085Author Anthony TommasiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438490861Author Dick WeissmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142003541Author June Skinner SawyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845830656Author Gordon RoxburghFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing Ltd

This book is a study of Mozart's Don Giovanni, his second opera to a libretto by da Ponte. Although it is one of the handful of best-known and most often performed operas of the last two hundred years, Don Giovanni is seldom given in an authentic form...

Bach's 'Well-tempered Clavier' (the 48 Preludes and Fugues) stands at the core of baroque keyboard music and has been a model and inspiration for performers and composers ever since it was written. This invaluable guide to the 96 pieces explains Bach's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495056321Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 88Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141527Author Chuck DFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

We remember the 1980s as the era of Ronald Reagan, a conservative decade populated by preppies and yuppies dancing to a soundtrack of electronic synth pop music (the "MTV generation"). But the decade also produced some of the most creative works of punk...

Metal Music Manual shows you the creative and technical processes involved in producing contemporary heavy music for maximum sonic impact. From pre-production to final mastered product, and fundamental concepts to advanced production techniques, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394568Author Stephen Lee NaishFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540097187Author Frederic ChopinFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint PwmPublisher PwmWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 226mm * 10mm

With ongoing debates on Scottish independence, immigration, Britain's place in the EU, multiculturalism, national identity and the specter of a past Empire complicating ethnically-defined notions of "Britishness," the Kingdom seems far from United. As a...

'The greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world!' This vainglorious introduction given to The Rolling Stones on stage by an excitable roadie was almost immediately accepted as a simple statement of fact. It was already evident that Mick Jagger, Keith...

Greil Marcus weaves individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of Minnesota on election night 2008. In between are moments...

Melodious panpipes and kena flutes. The shimmering strums of a charango. Poncho-clad musicians playing "El Condor Pasa" at subway stops or street corners while selling their recordings. These sounds and images no doubt come to mind for many "world music"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966406559Author Christopher John ConnellyFormat PaperbackImprint Shipwrecked IndustriesPublisher Shipwrecked IndustriesWeight(grams) 508g

It was the season of the blockbuster. Between August 12 and November 26 1991, a whole slew of acts released albums that were supposed to sell millions of copies in the run-up to Christmas. Metallica, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Garth Brooks, MC...

Graham Bonnet was born in Skegness in 1947 and had his first hit single with The Marbles in 1968, "Only One Woman" which reached Number 5 in the UK Singles Chart.....So runs Graham Bonnet's wikipedia entry. Of The Skyliners, The Peter Tomlinson Band, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851626482Author Alexis FfrenchPage Count 48Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

Build a Rocket Boys! is the fifth studio album by multi-award winning band Elbow, and follows the phenomenal success of The Seldom Seen Kid. This official album-matching songbook contains all the songs from the album including singles Lippy Kids and Neat...

Birds of Fire brings overdue critical attention to fusion, a musical idiom that emerged as young musicians blended elements of jazz, rock, and funk in the late 1960s and 1970s. At the time, fusion was disparaged by jazz writers and ignored by rock...

The World According to Questlove Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760235Author Ralph EllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The Definitive Jazz & Blues Encyclopedia, now fully updated from the illustrated edition, is the ultimate guide to two musical styles that have fundamentally influenced popular music. Divided into chapters, each covering a different era, the book traces...

A captivating full account of a vital, exciting, and turbulent cultural moment: the making of ground-breaking classic West Side Story (1961).A major hit on Broadway, on film West Side Story became immortal. Unforgettable songs, an urgent love story,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMartin Kelly is the joint MD of highly acclaimed British independent record label Heavenly Recordings home of the Magic Numbers, Doves and Cherry Ghost. Paul...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480346031Author Joan TowerPage Count 96Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Uncompromising and innovative, hardcore punk in Washington, DC, birthed a new sound and nurtured a vibrant subculture aimed at a specific segment of the city's youth. Shayna L. Maskell explores DC's hardcore scene during its short but storied peak. Led...

HOLD TIGHT is a book about being black, British and born after 1980. It's also about Grime.Celebrating over fifty key songs that make up Grime's DNA, Jeffrey Boakye explores the meaning of the music and why it has such resonance in the UK. Boakye also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556523724Author Irwin ChusidFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 476g

How do you turn songwriting talent into a professional career? This essential guide tackles that question, alongside many others, taking songwriters through all the developmental phases and commercial experiences along the way in order to inspire and...

Aida is, for most of us, the quintessence of Ancient Egypt but it is certainly not just for archaeologists. Michael Rose points out that it is really about patriotism - an issue of burning importance to Verdi and his contemporaries. Music critic William...