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Coloured by a phenomenal journey of commercial success and sonic innovation, the Electric Light Orchestra story spans over half a century. Starting from humble beginnings in the early seventies, the band would go on to achieve global stardom by the end...

The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes’s work while revealing how Hughes mined Black oral and literary traditions to create his poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470669379Author Douglas E WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 999Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred Music

'Dividing pop sheep from out-there GOATS with spite and guile, it's part SCUM manifesto, part insane hot or not list.' SUNDAY TIMESThe followers - this book is not for you.The salt of the earth - this book is not for you.The worthy - this book is not for...

Imagine a powerful listening experience that you want to share with others. You could describe it to someone with words, or you may choose a flashier alternative. You could, for example, costume yourself and take to the stage in a famous concert venue,...

Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s offers a new look at the highly popular phenomenon of the televised teen dance program. These teen shows were incubators of new styles of social and popular...

The practice of blurring the line between score and sound design has transformed contemporary film soundscape by challenging not only the long-established hierarchical relationships between dialogue, music, and sound effects, but also the modes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975472962Author Browntrout Publishers IncPage Count 28Imprint Browntrout PublishersPublisher Browntrout PublishersWeight(grams) 270g

The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, founded in Los Angeles in 1952, was widely acclaimed as the first small ensemble in jazz that did not include a chordal instrument such as a piano or guitar. Using original scores and detailed transcriptions of Mulligan's...

Michael Campbell's POPULAR MUSIC IN AMERICA, 5th Edition, follows the evolution of popular music from the mid-19th century to the present with discussions of connections, contrasts, and patterns of influence among artists, styles, and eras. A new,...

Goth is an entertaining and evocative personal history of Goth music and culture, told by a true insider. Lol Tolhurst explores the godfathers of goth who established the genre's roots - THE CURE, which he co-founded with Robert Smith, contemporaries...

During Mexico's silent (1896-1930) and early sound (1931-52) periods, cinema saw the development of five significant genres: the prostitute melodrama (including the cabaretera subgenre), the indigenista film (on indigenous themes or topics), the cine de...

1. Information presented is with contemporary musicians, interviewed in the recent past 2. Focuses on the creative process and the music, in additional to being biographical 3. Draws on cultural issues of the day pertaining to race and diversity 4...

During Mexico's silent (1896-1930) and early sound (1931-52) periods, cinema saw the development of five significant genres: the prostitute melodrama (including the cabaretera subgenre), the indigenista film (on indigenous themes or topics), the cine de...

From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way.White Riot is the definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person...

This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. Born Emmet Ellis, Jr. in Homer, Louisiana, he adopted the stage name Bobby Rush out of respect for his father, a pastor. As a teenager, Rush acquired his first real...

In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history-the Supremes-told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the...

THE "FEARLESS ...VIVID ...FAST-PACED ...AND INSPIRING"* NATIONAL BESTSELLER (*ROLLING STONE) "Heavy metal's leading female rocker (Rolling Stone) bares all, opening up about the Runaways, the glory days of the punk and hard-rock scenes, and the highs...

Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to...

Cole Porter was one of the greatest songwriters of the twentieth century. This book includes twenty of his classic songs in easy-to-play piano arrangements. These are complete with songs with lyrics, chord symbols and suggested piano fingering.Book...

This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsenio Rodriguez, Benny More, and Perez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a...

For the first time, you can read the Ramones' comments about their own history in this intimate series of interviews with the legendary band.The Ramones were arguably the single most influential rock 'n' roll act to emerge from that curious muddle of...

The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the '70s and early '80s were an extraordinarily talented group who dazzled the world with an exciting blend of elegance, soulful passion and gutsy fire. In this book of original interviews, 32 of...

For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's ""These Boots Are Made for Walkin'."" For a ""tunnel rat"" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637610039Author Bruce SpizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Imagine & WonderPublisher Imagine & Wonder

Michael Broyles shows how three key decades-the 1840s, the 1920s and the 1950s-shaped America's musical future. In each, new styles of music combined with emerging technologies, from the locomotive to the transistor radio, to have lasting impact on our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556525094Author Charles L. GranataFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 616g

A history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture.Book InformationISBN...

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Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its leading artists, packed with recommended listening, essential tracks, great remixes, and under-recognized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637610015Author Bruce SpizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Imagine & WonderPublisher Imagine & Wonder

"An occasion to appreciate Dexter's resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social transformation."-Angela Y. Davis, political activist, scholar, author, and speakerSophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606997918Author Ed PiskorFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1546g

Tales of The Smiths is a comic book retelling of the band members' teenage years, before the group was famous, and includes fascinating digressions about their influences (the New York Dolls, Nico, Sex Pistols, NY punk, Patti Smith, etc) and the times in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375750007Author Henry RollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Villard BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

In The Music Goes Round and Around Basil Tschaikov (known to his friends and colleagues as Nick) chronicles from many different perspective how during his lifetime the many technological developments and changes in society have affected the music...

Celebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology, featuring 50 of the most lauded, controversial, and iconic hip-hop albums!From underground roots to mainstream...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714510996Author Samuel B. ChartersFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

TOTAL CHAOS is the first book telling Iggy Pop's story of The Stooges from his own words. Grammy winning editor and avid music historian Jeff Gold spent two days at the rock legend's home sharing pictures and memorabilia from his collection. Featuring a...

Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These...