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Did Elvis Presley's brand of rock 'n' roll help revise racial attitudes in postwar America? Michael T. Bertrand delves into this question and many others to investigate popular music's revolutionary influence on black-white relations in the South...

Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta-ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks-this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose...

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are widely acknowledged as the great pop poets of the 1960s, transforming the popular song into a medium for questioning the personal, social and political norms of their times. They emerge at a time when the music industry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604865165Author Ian GlasperFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 537g

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267993Author Colin DriscollFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 828g

"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...

The first Eurovision Song Contest was held in 1956, only seven countries participated. In 2022 forty-one countries took part making it the biggest song competition in the world today. Over 161 million people tuned into watch the 2022 competition. This...

In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, "Do you wanna dance?" became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made it such hot stuff? In her incisive history, Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed...

Is Jazz Dead? examines the state of jazz in America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Musicians themselves are returning to New Orleans, Swing, and Bebop styles, while the work of the '60s avant-garde and even '70s and '80s jazz-rock is roundly...

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...

Bringing together a diverse group of world leading professionals across Post-Production Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music, Art of Sound explores the creative principles that underpin how sonic practitioners act to compose, tell stories, make us feel,...

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

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...

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 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...

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of...

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

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...

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.

From Shake It Off to Lover, Blank Space to I Knew You Were Trouble, Taylor Swift Legends Alphabet is an enchanting journey through the heart and soul of the greatest pop-country singer ever. So grab your acoustic guitar and get ready to fall in love with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310956Author Joseph LanzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full...

'Squirm-inducing, excruciatingly honest and painfully funny' Joseph O'ConnorWe all went to school with friends who've turned out more successful than ourselves. But they don't all phone from improbably glamorous places and drive us mad by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060938376Author Richard ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1230gDimensions(mm)...

London's Burning is the story of punk rock as it happened, stripped of hindsight and future legend, and laid bare. Here are the Damned and the Adverts on tour, the Sex Pistols swearing through their prime-time television debut, the Tom Robinson Band...

Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the Devil, Robert...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953848805Author Gavin BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gavin Browne PublishingPublisher Gavin Browne Publishing

Discover the remarkable stories behind some of the most popular film music of all time; From Jurassic Park to The Lord of the Rings, Vertigo to Titanic, a powerful score can make a movie truly extraordinary. The alchemy between composer and director...

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

"Few books on popular music treat their subject so comprehensively, with thoughtful attention to ideology, history, and verbal and musical rhetoric. Miyakawa's approach is at once comprehensive and streamlined, making for an especially effective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899555073Author Many AmeriFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten VerlagWeight(grams) 2336gDimensions(mm) 284mm * 246mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016419Author Charles L. Ponce de LeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The Sex Pistols exploded onto the music scene in 1976, paving the way for the deluge of punk rock that would change the face of modern rock music forever. Their debut album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, proved one of the most...

Frank Sinatra was only one of a handful of popular entertainers who dominated Western popular culture for six decades. From his early fame as 'the Voice' in the early 1940s, through to the high rolling, fast living 'Rat Pack' era, to the protracted...

First published in 1999, this volume is the first full-length study to deal with the life and music of Orlando Gibbons since E.H. Fellowes's short book, originally published in 1923. John Harley investigates in detail the family and musical background...

The young man from Hibbing released Highway 61 Revisited in 1965, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? From his roots in Hibbing, to his rise as a cultural icon in New York, to his prominence on the worldwide stage, Colleen J. Sheehy and...

This book provides a manuscript-megaphone for a variety of perspectives on popular music education, including those we do not usually hear from, but who are doing far and away the coolest, most relevant and most interesting things. It includes rants,...

A no-holds-barred memoir of legendary Dead Kennedys and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer D.H. Peligro, Dreadnaught chronicles Peligro from his pre-DK years growing up in a deprived St. Louis ghetto to his years in San Francisco with Jello Biafra, East Bay...