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"Sue Kwon's undeniable hip-hop resume should be bowed down to! Sue is definitely one of the greats in visually capturing a culture." -Posdnuos of De La Soul A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick The last decade of the 20th century into...

Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson. In this first ever...

On the back of his published diary Brian Eno describes himself variously as: a mammal, a father, an artist, a celebrity, a pragmatist, a computer-user, an interviewee, and a 'drifting clarifier'. To this list we might add rock star (on the first two Roxy...

I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story is an unforgettable, bittersweet, and deeply personal biography of the talented songwriter that captures the rise of the burgeoning counterculture of the'60s and early'70s.Written in the honest, clear voice of Jim...

In Waiting For The Man, Jeremy Reed focuses on Lou Reed as rock's principal literary avatar, paying special attention to his controversial lyrics and prototypical garage sound. Lou Reed influenced generations of copyists that took note of his outlaw...

*** By the Sunday Times bestselling author of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY ***'A fascinating insight into one of the greatest artists of our lifetime.' Evening Standard'This is a personal friendship in writing... an endearing and powerful tale of a man who...

Denim and Leather is 260 pages of biker metal hail after hail, with two four-page photo sections, loads of fresh interview content, all the facts and dates and even some of the hot disputes. As the back cover crows... Stand Up and Be Counted! Now that...

In September 2005, Alex Kapranos began writing about what he ate while touring the world with the rock band Franz Ferdinand. The writing is as much about where he eats and the people he eats with as the unusual flavours he tastes on the road. Whether...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538127179Author Stephen TowFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901447729Author Ian GlasperFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Cherry Red BooksPublisher Cherry Red BooksWeight(grams) 915g

The first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey. When it comes to Mariah Carey, star power is never in doubt. She has sold hundreds of millions of albums and cut more chart-topping hits than any other solo artist-ever. And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061555800Author Brian WelchFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Following Roy Newsome's highly acclaimed study Brass Roots: One Hundred Years of Brass Bands and their Music, this book takes up the story of bands and their development from the 1930s to the start of the new millennium. Brass band contests continued to...

In The Shadow Of The Wizard is a full colour, hardback, large format coffee table style book that comprehensively documents Rainbow's formative period. The recording of the first album, whilst Blackmore was still a member of Deep Purple; the first North...

South Korea has transformed from a country devastated by war in the late 1950s to a leading cultural powerhouse of the 21st century. Through the voices of fans, journalists, practitioners, novelists and academics, Hallyu! explores the makings of the...

Lexicon of the Mouth surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. Questions of embodiment and agency, attachment and loss, incorporation and hunger, locution and the non-sensical are critically...

This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in Leeds - developed from the work of interdisciplinary scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition “Sounds of Our City” and built upon contemporary research. Leeds has rich...

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...

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...

Released in October 1997, the "Flaming Lips' Zaireeka" was met with some critical praise and more general puzzlement. The album comes as four separate CDs intended for playback at the same time. Which means, of course, that four CD players are required...

When the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825, it was the first steam-powered railway to carry passengers. Since then there has been no shortage of music connected with trains and railways: orchestral pieces and popular songs describing railway...

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 -...

33 Revolutions Per Minute tracks the turbulent relationship between popular music and politics, through 33 pivotal songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit' to Green Day raging against the Iraq war...

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes,...

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...

For more than half a century, Kenny Rogers has been recording some of the most revered and beloved music in America and around the world. In that time, he has become a living legend by combining everything from R and B to country and gospel to folk in...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951988862Author Ian WallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 678g

A comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. Florence is justly celebrated as one of the world's most important cities. It enjoys mythic status and occupies an...

'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...

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...

On the occasion of Blondie's fortieth anniversary, Chris Stein shares his iconic and mostly unpublished photographs of Debbie Harry and the cool creatures of the '70s and '80s New York rock scene. While a student at the School of Visual Arts, Chris Stein...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540070005Author Hal Leonard Corp.Page Count 72Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Created in the late 1960s, fashionable in the early 1970s and hated in the 1980s, Progressive Rock has a colourful and eventful story. Many of the genre's main protagonists, including Genesis, Yes, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, remain as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688184742Author LeRoi JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883217037Author Chuck SherPage Count 440Imprint Sher Music Co ,U.S.Publisher Sher Music Co ,U.S.Weight(grams) 1259g

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

Tonight at Noon is a story of love between American opposites: she, a product of privilege, a Smith College graduate who worked as a journalist in Europe and in New York he, an authentic jazz master, a brilliant, eccentric, difficult artist, a scion of...

The Beatles Are Coming! covers the Beatles first visit to the United States and the events leading up to the group's arrival on February 7, 1964. It is the most thorough and accurate book ever published on how Beatlemania evolved in America. The book...

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...