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666 and All That: Apocalypse When? by Paul Whiteman
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.23Some years ago, for no obvious reason, Paul Whiteman felt compelled to analyse the mystical number 666, also known as the number of The Beast. His little mathematical revelation was followed almost... -
Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music, 1930-1967 by Don Rayno 9780810882041
Booksplease Price: $154.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Beyond the Bandstand: Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture W. Anthony Sheppard 9780252046100
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $103.87The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whiteman and his band premiered Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue... -
Beyond the Bandstand: Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture W. Anthony Sheppard 9780252088209
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.94The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whiteman and his band premiered Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue... -
Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory Ronald Radano 9781478028918
RRP: $156.09Booksplease Price: $125.41In Alive in the Sound, Ronald Radano proposes a new understanding of US Black music by focusing on the key matter of value, manifested musically in its seemingly embodied qualities - spirit, soul,... -
Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory Ronald Radano 9781478032175
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.30In Alive in the Sound, Ronald Radano proposes a new understanding of US Black music by focusing on the key matter of value, manifested musically in its seemingly embodied qualities - spirit, soul,... -
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna by Noah Isenberg
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $23.16A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into... -
William Grant Still by Catherine Parsons Smith
Booksplease Price: $25.95Once called the dean of African American composers, William Grant Still created a unique version of musical modernism that influenced commercial music, symphonic music, and opera. The acclaimed and... -
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna by Noah Isenberg 9780691241838
Booksplease Price: $22.16A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into... -
Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form by Damon J. Phillips 9780691150888
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $47.25There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs--and not others--get... -
The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany by Jonathan O. Wipplinger
Booksplease Price: $82.39The Jazz Republic examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany's exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz... -
The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany by Jonathan O. Wipplinger 9780472053407
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $31.14The Jazz Republic examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany's exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz... -
How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music by Elijah Wald 9780199756971
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $19.13Overthrowing the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history, Elijah Wald traces the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies--including the role of...