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by Yoko Ono
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
John Lennon . . . as much a part of our world today as he ever was
He touched many lives in his brief forty years, and continues to move and inspire millions more to this day. Now, invited by Yoko Ono, friends, family, and fans from all walks of life—including some of the great artists...
Fab
An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Howard Sounes, the bestselling author of Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan and Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, turns his considerable reporting and storytelling skills to one of the most famous, talented-and wealthiest-men alive: Paul McCartney.
Fab is the first...
Raising Kanye
Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
As the mother of hip-hop superstar Kanye West, Donda West has watched her son grow from a brilliant baby boy with all the intimations of fame and fortune to one of the hottest rappers on the music scene. And she has every right to be proud: she raised her son with strong moral values, teaching him...
by Nelson George
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between black youth culture and the mass media.
Def Jam, Inc.
Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World's Most Inf
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
In the early ‘80s, the music industry wrote off hip-hop as a passing fad. Few could or would have predicted that the improvised raps and raw beats busting out of New York City’s urban underclass would one day become a multimillion-dollar business and one of music’s most lucrative genres.
Among...
by Chris Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2012
One Direction is a British/Irish boy band who came together as a band after each appearing as solo artists on the British version of the X Factor. Although good singers they didn’t get through to the finals and someone (read the book to find out who) suggested they get together to form a band. Luck...
by Mark Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Jay-Z: King of America is the first in-depth biography to dissect the life and music of the most successful rapper of all time. From crack dealing on the mean streets of New York to million dollar deals at the highest echelons of music industry, Jay-Z’s story is a whole new kind of American Dream.
Updated...
Dead to the Core
An Almanack of the Grateful Dead
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
The Grateful Dead have left us a musical bounty of thirty years and thousands of shows. Now Dead to the Core: An Almanack of the Grateful Dead takes Deadheads through the seasons and years of the Dead's dazzling array of music, with lavish treatment of those "bumper crop" eras from which...
by Emily Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Bruno Mars conquered the music industry with far-reaching flair, selling over 115 million records worldwide as a singer, producer and as a songwriter. Bruno Mars, the book, documents his childhood in Honolulu and how he found fame from the age of four, before spreading his wings and scaling the seemingly unassailable stronghold of the music industry.
And It Don't Stop
The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
In September 1979, there was a cosmic shift that went unnoticed by the majority of mainstream America. This shift was triggered by the release of the Sugarhill Gang's single, Rapper's Delight. Not only did it usher rap music into the mainstream's consciousness, it brought us the word "hip-hop."...
by R Tutty
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Do you watch television talent shows wishing it was you on the stage?
Do you say to yourself 'I could do better than that'?
Does it annoy you when you know you're better than the majority of X Factor contestants we see on our screens on a Saturday night?
Well my frustrated friends,...
This Business of Urban Music
A Practical Guide to Achieving Success in the Industry, from Gospel to Funk to R &B to Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
The first reference book all about the business side of gospel and urban music. Hip-hop and R&B hold 25 percent of the consumer music market. Another 20 percent is held by religious (gospel and Christian) music, soul, disco, dance, and jazz. Here’s the first reference book to offer sound business...
Enter the Babylon System
Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
A docu-style investigation of our fascination with the gun, from the perspective of the hip-hop generation.
The 2003 shooting death of Toronto community-centre worker Kempton Howard put the spotlight on hip hop’s fixation with guns. Media and police soon blamed rap music and its tales of...
by Chris Hutchins
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
ELVIS and LENNON** By Chris Hutchins and Peter Thompson
HOW the meeting at Elvis’s Bel Air mansion – arranged by their friend, the co-author Chris Hutchins – lit the touch paper for a dangerous feud between John Lennon, the anti-war idealist, and Elvis, the former tank corps sergeant....