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Foreword by Dave Davies.THTHFifty years after Pete Townshend Roger Daltrey John Entwistle and Keith Moon made their first ruckus together onstage the world is still fascinated with its greatest rock-and-roll band. Whether their music is popping up in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118218082Author Ken CaillatFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm)...

The Suburbs is an incredibly sentimental and nostalgic album, which generally moved critics but was jarring to others. But it also made a heavy impact on fans and - to the surprise of many - won Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards. This immensely...

Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757940309Author Led Led ZeppelinPage Count 96Imprint Warner Bros. Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Warner Bros. Publications Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739094396Author Dan CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred MusicWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 224mm * 5mm

Richard Wagner is remembered as one of the most influential figures in music and theatre, but his place in history has been marked by a considerable amount of controversy. His attitudes towards the Jews and the appropriation of his operas by the Nazis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845830939Author Gordon RoxburghFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 150mm * 210mm * 2mm

America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how...

Now for the first time, country music authority Charles K. Wolfe gathers together his profiles of 50 legends of country music, including Bill Monroe, Lefty Frizzell, and Kitty Wells.About the AuthorCharles K. Wolfe, Professor of English at Middle...

Satie's music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of Light. This book situates Satie's work within the context and sonic environment of contemporary Paris. Erik Satie's (1866-1925) music appeals to wide audiences and has influenced both...

In this revealing and poignant account of the life of her son, reggae icon Bob Marley (1945-1980), Mother Cedella Marley Booker traces the unique history of Bob Marley and his contribution to popular music as only a parent could. Booker recalls her...

Focusing on some of the best-known and most visible stage plays and dance performances of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, Penny Farfan's interdisciplinary study demonstrates that queer performance was integral to and productive of...

For more than fifty years, Rolling Stone magazine has been the defining voice in musical journalism. Alongside its timeless cover images and groundbreaking criticism, the magazine s illustrations have given popular culture a new iconography. Drawing on...

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." Karl Marx might have been thinking of punk rock when he...

Twenty-First Century Musicals stakes a place for the musical in today's cinematic landscape, taking a look at leading contemporary shows from their stage origins to their big-screen adaptations. Each chapter offers a new perspective on a single musical,...

During the eighty years from approx. 1535 many thousands of Italian madrigals were composed. Here are 55 for mixed voices covering the whole range of types, and the whole period. All have been chosen for their musical value - they are small masterpieces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423492689Author Jimi HendrixFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Backbeat BooksPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 2250gDimensions(mm) 312mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767915588Author Greg KotFormat PaperbackImprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam...

for SSA, piano, and optional bass and drumkit ad lib. A highly original and effective concert setting of the Latin Missa brevis in which the various movements embrace a variety of jazz styles. The characterful piano accompaniment can be played as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451647860Author Greg KotFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583677858Author Gerald HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera is a much-needed introduction to one of the most defining areas of Western music history - the birth of opera and its developments during the first century of its existence. From opera's Italian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400052868Author Vivien GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint 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 9780825616938Author Tori AmosFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint AMSCO MusicPublisher AMSCO MusicWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 305mm * 235mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438494357Author Gary CarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 227g

One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this complete life and times...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653381Author Kris NeedsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617755934Author Dennis BurmeisterFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

'A grade, A list oral history' The Sunday Times'Eminently, moreishly readable' The New Statesmen'A rollicking read' Mail on Sunday'Entertaining' Observer The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of...

Music examples and charts illustrate the analyses, and each essay is fully annotated by the editor. In some cases, the results of original research by the editor or by others working in the field are published here for the first time. Much of the...

The Beach Boys: All The Songs is a detailed look at the recorded output of this most unique and influential popular music group. From the 1962 debut Surfin' Safari through to 2012's That's Why God Made the Radio - the first record Brian Wilson and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617755507Author Jason CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll-from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been...

Bizet's Carmen is probably the best known opera of the standard repertoire, yet its very familiarity often prevents us from approaching it with the seriousness it deserves. This handbook explores the opera in a number of contexts, bringing to the surface...

It's hard to think of a solo female recording artist who has been as revered or as reviled over the course of her career as Tori Amos. Amy Gentry argues that these violent aesthetic responses to Amos's performance, both positive and negative, are...

Many of the world's biggest bands have imploded amid bitter and violent grudges over money, publishing, ego-driven power plays, relationships, drugs, and that famous old bromide, "musical differences." Iconic bands like The Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac,...

A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903-58) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s. His success came as he fused traditional rural blues with the...

In 1968, rock promoter Bill Graham launched the Fillmore East in New York City and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, changing music forever. For three years, every major rock band played the Fillmores, performing legendary shows: Jimi Hendrix, the...

In this influential book on the subject of rhythm, the authors develop a theoretical framework based essentially on a Gestalt approach, viewing rhythmic experience in terms of pattern perception or groupings. Musical examples of increasing complexity are...