Pop Rock category: 3054 books
La causa nacional
Historias del rock en Colombia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Por primera vez alguien se arriesga a poner sobre el papel las principales historias de 50 años de rock nacional
Hace 60 años se grabó "Very, Very Well", el primer rock and roll hecho en Colombia. Hace 50 años Los Speakers produjeron un disco de otro planeta. Hace 40 años Crash...
Rock and Romanticism
Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present....
by Marcelo Fernandez Bitar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Introducción de Luis Alberto Spinetta. Prólogo de Adrián Dárgelos y fotos de Nora Lezano.
Autor de un libro mítico e inconseguible de 1987, Fernández Bitar agrega información y testimonios recopilados a lo largo de toda su carrera como periodista especializado para ofrecer la enciclopedia...
If you believe
Religion in Rock- und Popmusik
Language: German
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Die Beatles haben 1965 behauptet, sie seien populärer als Jesus - und sie hatten Recht. Auf Facebook haben sie fast zehnmal so viele 'Fans' wie Christus. Trotzdem spielt Spiritualität für sie und andere Rockstars eine große Rolle. Wenn Robbie Williams über "Angels" singt, dann meint er himmlische...
by David Temperley
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form, and emotional expression. The Musical Language of Rock puts forth a new, comprehensive theoretical...
Linkin Park - What they've done
Die inoffizielle Biografie
Language: German
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Von Xero über Hybrid Theory zu Linkin Park - die Band durchlebte in ihrer Karriere bis heute viele Höhen und Tiefen, feierte weltweit Erfolge, war jedoch nicht immer unumstritten. Kaum eine andere Band ist so vielseitig, so wandelbar, so innovativ. Mit ihren Songs heben sie die Grenzen der Genres...
by Philippe Castelneau
Language: French
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: May 29, 2015
L’appel de Londres est à la fois géographique et musical : au prétexte d’une visite de quelques jours, Philippe Castelneau élabore un journal de ses déambulations londoniennes. Mais les villes que l’on arpente sont, comme souvent, nappées de souvenirs, et l’écriture se mélange aux...
by Julien Gautier
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Que signifie encore Bob Dylan à notre époque ? Personnage introverti et impénétrable, la voix abîmée, le chanteur mythique poursuit en 2010 une tournée sans fin et ses prestations scéniques inégales peuvent parfois dérouter les anciens fans. Mais attention à ne pas cataloguer l’icône...
Der Große Schneidewind
Rock- und Popgeschichten
Language: German
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Sein ganzes seit seiner Jugend gesammeltes, gespeichertes und jederzeit abrufbares Wissen über die Geschichte der Pop- und Rockmusik brachte Günter Schneidewind bei seinen Kollegen und bei den Hörern von "SWR 1 in Baden-Württemberg" den bewundernden Spitznamen "Der Große Schneidewind"...
1000 Songs that Rock Your World
From Rock Classics to one-Hit Wonders, the Music That Lights Your Fire
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
1000 Songs That Rock Your World is the ultimate visual guide to the best rock music ever produced. From Abba to ZZ Top, it's not simply the ideal playlist, it's a one-stop catalog of a half-century of Rock 'n' Roll.
Showcasing songs by nearly 500 artists in all rock genres, 1000 Songs That...
Rock Bottom
Dark Moments In Music Babylon
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1996
The dark moments of rock history fascinate and tantalize like the pathos of Greek tragedy. The bottom sinks lower, the air seems colder, the bad endings--when they are bad--seem beyond bad. The unlucky practitioners of our most thriving form of communal experience seem to hit rock bottom in ways only...
Entertain Us
The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties In 1990 alternative music was where it belonged - underground. It left the business of rock stardom to rock stars. But by 1992 alternative rock had spawned a revolution in music and style that transformed youth culture and revived a moribund music...
by Bruce Pollock
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
America’s Songs III: Rock! picks up in 1953 where America’s Songs II left off, describing the artistic and cultural impact of the rock ’n’ roll era on America’s songs and songwriters, recording artists and bands, music publishers and record labels, and the all-important consuming audience....
So You Think You Know Rock and Roll?
An In-Depth Q&A Tour of the Revolutionary Decade 1965–1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Test your knowledge of the most important era of rock music.
Rolling Stone magazine recently released its list of the one hundred greatest albums in rock music history, a period spanning more than fifty years. Nearly sixty percent of those albums were released in the decade from 1965 to 1975—the...