Chicago Review Press: 838 books
by Roger Zelazny, Joe Haldeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In a world half of light, half of darkness, where science and magic strive for dominance, there dwells a magical being who is friendly with neither side. Jack, of the realm of shadows, is a thief who is unjustly punished. So he embarks on a vendetta. He wanders through strange realms, encountering...
Bowie on Bowie
Interviews and Encounters with David Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Bowie on Bowie presents some of the best interviews David Bowie has granted in his near five-decade career. Each featured interview traces a new step in his unique journey, successively freezing him in time in all of his various incarnations, from a young novelty hit-maker and Ziggy Stardust to plastic...
Revolution in the Air
The Songs of Bob Dylan, 19571973
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
By far the most comprehensive book on Dylan’s words ever written, including a number of songs that no one has ever heard, this first volume will fundamentally change how these lyrics are interpreted and understood. Arranged in a surprising chronology of when they were actually written rather than...
Lick Me
How I Became Cherry Vanilla
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In this sexually open and disarming account of her life and the era, Cherry Vanilla tells all about her personal successes and failures and in the process explores every aspect of the music industry during its most electrifying era—complete with detours through the sexual revolution, the women’s...
Dolly on Dolly
Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
"Nobody knows Dolly like Dolly," declares Dolly Parton. Dolly's is a rags-to-riches tale like no other. A dirt-poor Smoky Mountain childhood paved the way for the buxom blonde butterfly's metamorphosis from singer-songwriter to international music superstar. The undisputed "Queen of...
Judy and I
My Life with Judy Garland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic, Oscar-nominated vehicle A Star Is Born and expertly...
James Dean: The Mutant King
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
This is the book that restarted the James Dean cult by celebrating him as the cool, defiant visionary of pop culture who made adolescence seem heroic instead of awkward and who defined the style of rock ’n’ roll’s politics of delinquency. The only book to fully show how deliberately and carefully...
Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes
In Search of Blind Willie McTell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Evoking the turbulent past of the subject’s time and place, this odyssey to rural Georgia peels back the many layers of Blind Willie McTell’s compelling, occasionally shocking, but ultimately uplifting story. Portraying him as one of the most gifted artists of his generation, this account uncovers...
Party Music
The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Examining the culture and politics of the Black Power era of the late 1960s, this book explores the relationship of soul music to the Black Power movement from the vantage point of the musicians and black revolutionaries themselves. The 1960s were a turbulent time for race relations in the United...
The World Don't Owe Me Nothing
The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy’s stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs...
Keep On Pushing
Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Author Denise Sullivan explores the bond between music and social change and traces the evolution of protest music over the past five decades. The marriage of music and social change didn't originate with the civil rights and black power movements of the 1950s and 1960s, but never before had the relationship...
Bossa Nova
The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as The Girl from Ipanema” (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), The Waters of March,” and Desafinado” are known around the world. Bossa Nova-a number-one bestseller when originally published in...
Stomp and Swerve
American Music Gets Hot, 18431924
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn’t until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music-black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude-made it onto records for...
Beethoven for Kids
His Life and Music with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most influential composers of all time, is brought vividly to life and made relevant to today’s young musicians in Beethoven for Kids. Children will learn about Beethoven’s troubled childhood and family life, early gift and passion for music, volatile personality,...