Pop Vocal

Sixties British rock and pop changed music history. While American popular music dominated the record industry in the late fifties and early sixties, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, and numerous other groups soon invaded the world at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905139019Author Kingsley AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Helter Skelter PublishingPublisher Helter Skelter PublishingWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802135834Author Ben WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989296080Author Juanita RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with...

This book provides the first musicologically-informed account of Icelandic singer-songwriter Bjork's work to date. Bjork is internationally recognised for her unique and innovative musical style, and her collaborative working relationship with artists,...

Sounds French examines the history of popular music in France between the arrival of rock and roll in 1958 and the collapse of the first wave of punk in 1980, and the connections between musical genres and concepts of community in French society. During...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956446022Author Richard BuskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 419Imprint Sample MagicPublisher Sample MagicWeight(grams) 1842g

An oral history of Pink Floyd in the words of over 500 fansBook InformationISBN 9781915858115Author Richard HoughtonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Spenwood BooksPublisher Spenwood BooksWeight(grams) 1000gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm * 45mm

With Genesis having formed over fifty years ago this photographic book celebrates the family of bands from the seventies to the present day. As well as being crammed full of images of Genesis from the days with Peter Gabriel through to the 2007 reunion,...

Bob Sawyer - one time guitarist with both Iron Maiden & Praying Mantis tells his story covering the previously unchartered depths of the early days of both bands with all the gigs recalled from Bob's own archive, including previously unpublished...

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...

'Don't live life worrying about it, just T. Rex the s*** out of it.' - Sylvain Sylvain The New York Dolls were called many things; glam, proto-punk, hard rock, but are probably best understood as a 'dirty rock & roll' band. Combining an aggressively...

The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Certificate of Merit 2003 (UK).Book InformationISBN 9781739966713Author Fred RothwellFormat...

This is the definitive work on the great songwriters who dominated the classical era of American popular music. Uniquely analytical yet engagingly informal, the book draws on over 700 musical examples to demonstrate the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267917Author Royston EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954452834Author John BlaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Paper JukeboxPublisher Paper JukeboxDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 12mm

In nineties small-town Surrey, watching Top of the Pops was Malcolm's only escape from boredom and the bullies at school... until a phone call from a pop star changed his life forever. Before long, he was getting compliments from Beyonce, hanging out at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788889571163Author Maurizio GaliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Edizioni ApplausiPublisher Edizioni ApplausiWeight(grams) 968g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629339139Author Sergio FariasFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Once known for successful pop records and a wardrobe of polyester jump suits, this is a reassessment of a band now cemented in their position as one of the all time great pop acts. ABBA were once reviled by most critics, but now bands like Bjorn Again...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385316835Author Eric WybengaFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

A Field Guide to ... delves into music's most influential genres to uncover the innovators and agitators who changed music history forever. In A Field Guide to Britpop, Steve Wide explores a scene fueled by north-south rivalries, tribal fashion and a...

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 9781739205300Author Simon TrowbridgeFormat PaperbackImprint Englance PressPublisher Englance Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181584Author Greil MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 482gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

Created in the jazz clubs of New York City, and initially treated by most musicians and audiences as radical, chaotic, and bewildering: bebop has become, Thomas Owen writes, `the lingua franca of jazz, serving as the principal musical language of...

How did Korea with a relatively small-scale music industry come to create a vibrant pop culture scene that would enthrall not only young Asian fans but also global audiences from diverse racial and generational backgrounds? From idol training to fan...

Always elusive, constantly moving, incessantly changing, John Coltrane stood astride the jazz world of the late'50s and'60s. He was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. His music influenced both rock stars and classical musicians. There was a...

Scouse Pop is a journey into the personalities and music of the successful pioneering Liverpool pop bands of the late seventies and eighties. It examines their motivations, their uniqueness and the routes to success which made them into enduring musical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901746433Author Neil YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Empire Publications LtdPublisher Empire Publications LtdWeight(grams) 464g

This is an in-depth study of a seminal work, first performed in 1727.Johann Sebastian Bach's the "St. Matthew Passion" stands as a singular expression of religious sensibility. Conceived within the constraints of Bach's role as cantor of the St. Thomas...

ERush FAQE documents the amazing story of the world's greatest Canadian prog rock power trio from its origins in a church basement in Willowdale Ontario to its induction ceremony at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Covering 40 albums 10 DVDs ...

1963 a tail fins were in sock hops were hot and a fairytale white knight was president. That summer sixteen year-old singer Lesley Gore released her debut single It's My Party propelling her to Number One on the charts. For the next several...

Since its release in 1976, ABBA's song "Fernando" has been loved by fans around the globe, both for its sing-along chorus and its revolutionary spirit. In Fernando, Kay Dickinson takes readers from Sweden and Chile to Australia and Poland, tracing the...

"An empowering, unapologetic portrait of creative risk and queer joy." -Kirkus ReviewsExplore the "femininomenon" and cultural impact of the Midwest pop princess, Chappell Roan, in this richly illustrated biography.Chappell Roan is a 2025 Grammy Award...

Winner of The Woody Guthrie First Book Award 2021In 2007, an unlikely troupe of 1500 Filipino prisoners became Internet celebrities after their YouTube video of Michael Jackson's ground-breaking hit 'Thriller' went viral. Taking this spectacular dance as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804903971Author Adam SaundersPage Count 212Imprint Trinity College London PressPublisher Trinity College London PressWeight(grams) 705g

A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music...