Pop Vocal

The Stooges have come to be considered one of the most important rock bands, especially in regard to the formation of punk. By emphasizing their influence on later developments, however, critics tend to overlook the significance of the band in their own...

Jon Lord will forever be immortalised as a musical pioneer. His attitude towards his art form - "It's all music" ensured that he embraced his joint passions for rock 'n' roll and orchestral music, along with other genres, throughout his career...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941028285Author Gary ZenkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint White Lightning PublishingPublisher White Lightning PublishingWeight(grams)...

Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan. For all four, collage was an important creative catalyst,...

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...

The DJ stands at a juncture of technology, performance and culture in the increasingly uncertain climate of the popular music industry, functioning both as pioneer of musical taste and gatekeeper of the music industry. Together with promoters, producers,...

On a day like this, I remember - I'm the President, but he's The Boss. President Obama, commenting on Bruce Springsteen, Kennedy Center awards ceremony, 2009. Before Bruce Springsteen became The Boss, he was just a kid musician from New Jersey, playing...

Although musical tributes play a significant role within contemporary culture and despite their relative longevity as a form of entertainment, little serious research has been published on the subject. This book makes an important contribution to the...

How the British rock band Radiohead subverts the idea of the concept album in order to articulate themes of alienation and anti-capitalism is the focus of Marianne Tatom Letts's analysis of Kid A and Amnesiac. These experimental albums marked a departure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909360259Author Gareth AshtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Empire Publications LtdPublisher Empire Publications LtdWeight(grams) 130g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784564308Author Adam BroadwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint FastPrint PublishingPublisher Upfront PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495062759Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationFormat PaperbackPage Count 347Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922649102Author Aventuras de ViajeFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint SF Nonfiction BooksPublisher SF Nonfiction BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385680387Author Alan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Doubleday CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 474g

Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to the policies that have shaped artistic life. Robin D. Moore gives readers a chronological overview of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739094235Author Alfred MusicFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Alfred MusicPublisher Alfred MusicWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 226mm * 20mm

Acting the Song offers a contemporary, integrated approach to singing in musicals that results in better-trained, smarter performers everyone wants to work with. In this new, thoroughly updated edition of the paperback, directors and teachers of musical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951874018Author Ginny Z. BersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Aunt Lute BooksPublisher Aunt Lute Books

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...

With a string of number-one hits showcasing Karen Carpenter's warm and distinctive vocals and Richard Carpenter's sophisticated compositions and arrangements, the Carpenters were responsible for some of the most popular music of the 1970s, and this...

Can classical music change lives? In Soul Music, novelist Candace Allen embarks on a personal journey that takes her from the streets of London and Scotland to Venezuela, where the Sistema scheme has offered thousands of young people a route out of the...

ENirvana FAQE traces the band from its genesis to its end. Founded by friends Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic Nirvana had a rocky start and a succession of drummers but by the end of 1990 its debut album EBleachE had garnered international attention...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316332736Author Peter GuralnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & Company

The concept album is one of popular music's most celebrated-and misunderstood-achievements. This book examines the untold history of the rock concept album, from The Beatles to Beyonce. The roots of the concept album are nearly as old as the...

700 great music locations and the fascinating stories behind them.Book InformationISBN 9781905959587Author David RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint Ovolo BooksPublisher Red Planet Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1766gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 194mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241192Author Jon LangfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture PublicationsWeight(grams) 769g

Already one of the biggest pop stars in the world at 25 years old, Ariana Grande is simply unstoppable. From her early career on Broadway, to her star turns on Nickelodeon, to three Billboard #1 albums including 2018's Sweetener, Grande is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986500999Author Rachael GilliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Now known internationally through the recordings of King Sunny Ade and others, juju music originated more than fifty years ago among the Yoruba of Nigeria. This history and ethnography of juju is the first detailed account of the evolution and social...

The North of England is regarded as a region economically and culturally lagging behind the South of England. However, this situation does not refer to popular music in which the North has had an influence which is comparable to that of London. Many...

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.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Biography) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781550227321Author Clay EalsFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint ECW...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787390690Author Chris WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Welbeck Publishing GroupPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

Here, for the first time, is a book which analyses popular music from a musical, as opposed to a sociological, biographical, or political point of view. Peter van der Merwe has made an extensive survey of Western popular music in all its forms - blues,...

The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "sound" functions in an equally wide array of popular music. Ranging from the twang of country banjoes and the sheen of hip-hop strings...

Sonic Multiplicities is a fascinating book, with essays rich in empirical detail and - captivatingly combining the personal and the theoretical - evocative of the complexities of experience, desire and politics in our perplexingly mobile and entangled...

Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected...

These behind-the-scenes, intimate, and unguarded shots, have been unearthed after spending 45 years in a duffel bag of The Rolling Stones' former tour manager, Bob Bonis. Bonis was the US tour manager for The Stones on their first US tour from 1964-1966...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062279804Author Simon ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 839g