Music Styles category: 7119 books
100 Greatest Songs in Christian Music
The Stories Behind the Music that Changed Our Lives Forever
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2006
100 great songs, 100 great stories.
Listen to the soundtrack of your life. What do you hear?
Which songs and artists have impacted your spirit and inspired your faith? This ultimate guide chronicles such songs?the top 100 songs of contemporary Christian music that have not only achieved...
Kentucky Traveler
My Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
In Kentucky Traveler, Ricky Skaggs, the music legend who revived modern bluegrass music, gives a warm, honest, one-of-a-kind memoir of forty years in music—along with the Ten Commandments of Bluegrass, as handed down by Ricky’s mentor Bill Monroe; the Essential Guide to Bedrock Country Songs,...
by Gerry Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Follow Gerry Wood on his journey with country music's biggest stars, featuring Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Shania Twain and many more familiar names in the industry. Tales from Country Music will take you backstage and behind the scenes with some of your favorite country music singers.
To Be Loved
The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
The story of Motown Records and how it changed the course of American music, as told by its founder—“an African American culture hero of historic stature” (The New York Times).
Berry Gordy Jr., who once considered becoming a boxer, started a record company with a family loan of $800 in...
Sweet Soul Music
Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm...
Sing Me Back Home
Love, Death, and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
The years from about 1950 to 1970 were the golden age of twang. Country music's giants all strode the earth in those years: Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, George Jones and Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. And many of the standards that still define country were recorded then: "Folsom...
by Chris Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Dolly Parton, the undisputed "Queen of Country Music," sold over 100 million records around the world. Dolly is not just singer, songwriter. She's also involved in acting and films. During her diverse career, she eliminated the myth of "dumb blondes," as she is advocating women empowerment and...
by Ean Wood
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
"In the summer of 1937 George Gershwin died suddenly from a brain tumour at the age of 38. His tragically early death stunned the world. A composer of classical and popular music, he had summed up the unique qualities of what is meant by ""American music"". This book sheds...
by Caroline High
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Have you ever wondered…
• How the orchestra got its name?
• Who wrote the longest-ever symphony?
• Just how do we know when to clap – and when not to?
From Bach to Beethoven, Vivaldi to Vaughan Williams, the world of classical music has something to enchant every...
Harrison Birtwistle
Wild Tracks - A Conversation Diary with Fiona Maddocks
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
'Anyone with the smallest interest in composition - not just concertos but novels, buildings, lives, you name it, should read this absorbing, spiky, dazzling book.' Adam Thirwell, TLS Books of the Year Harrison Birtwistle is recognised worldwide as one of the greatest of living composers, behind...
Husker Du
The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Bob Mould, Grant Hart, and Greg Norton formed Hüsker Dü in 1979 as a wildly cathartic outfit fueled by a cocktail of anger, volume, and velocity. Here's the first book to dissect the trio that countless critics and musicians have cited as one of the most influential bands of the 1980s. Author Andrew...
The Opera Singer's Career Guide
Understanding the European Fach System
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Any singer longing to have a career in opera, particularly in Europe, should be familiar with the European system of classifying voices know as Fach. The Opera Singer's Career Guide: Understanding the European Fach System presents valuable information to help readers learn, understand, and use the...
by Michael Talbot
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
The Vivaldi Compendium will serve as the most reliable and up-to-date source of quick reference on the composer Antonio Vivaldi and his music. This takes the form of a dictionary listing persons, places, musical works and many other topics connected with Vivaldi; its alphabetically arranged entries...
Taylor Swift Biography: What Does It Take To Be Like Taylor Swift And Her Stratospheric Rise to Fame
Taylor Swift Biography: What Does It Take To Be Like Taylor Swift And Her Stratospheric Rise to Fame
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Would you like to learn more about Taylor Swift? How she was able to stratospherically rise to fame?Some time ago, unknown and insecure 16-year-old teen released self-titled amateurish debut album and a decade later the same person has reached record-breaking, chart-topping heights. This unknown...