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by Chris Hutchins
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This is the inside story of the Beatles by a writer who knew them from the Hamburg days and was with them through the height of Beatlemania. He relates the secrets of their lives on the road and at home, and tells the ful1 story of the night he took them to party with Elvis Presley and its astonishing...
Hurricanes
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
The highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami’s crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame.
Rick Ross is an indomitable presence in the music industry, but few people know his full story. Now, for the...
by Greg Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Everybody has a hungry heart…and a Bruce story. At times comical, informative, and opinionated, author Greg Miller embarks on a casual jaunt through the timeline of Springsteen’s early career. From the diverse perspectives of unusual encounters and interviews, the author observes the emerging...
by Cilla Black
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Cilla Black is without doubt one of Britain's most treasured personalities. Generations have grown up with Cilla's music, TV shows, and performances. But how much do we really know about 'the girl with the bright red hair and the jet black voice'? What's It All About? is Cilla's own story, told for...
They Call Me Supermensch
A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock’n’Roll
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
An eye-popping peek into entertainment industry from the magnetic force who has worked with an impeccable roster of stars throughout his storied career.
In the course of his legendary career as a manager, agent, and producer, Shep Gordon has worked with, and befriended, some of the biggest...
Dirty South
OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Acting as both investigative journalist and irreverent critic, Ben Westhoff journeys across the southern United States in a small Hyundai to document the phenomenon of southern hip-hop. The exclusive interviews with the genre’s prominent players take many forms—watching rappers “make it rain”...
How to Rap 2
Advanced Flow and Delivery Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this sequel to How to Rap, techniques that have not previously been explained—such as triplets, flams, lazy tails, and breaking rhyme patterns—are thoroughly broken down and examined, arming readers with additional tools for their rapping repertoire. Filled with interviews from hip-hop’s...
Kanye West Owes Me $300
And Other True Stories from a White Rapper Who Almost Made It Big
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**“Kanye West Owes Me $300 might be the funniest rap memoir ever.” –LA Weekly
After Vanilla Ice, but before Eminem, there was "Hot Karl," the Jewish kid from the L.A. suburbs who became a rap battling legend—and then almost became a star.**
When 12-year old Jensen Karp...
by Chuck D
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A comprehensive, chronological survey of rap and hip hop from 1973 to the present by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world.
In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and "Rapper's Delight," hip hop and rap have become a billion-dollar worldwide...
by Jordan Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James "J Dilla†? Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as "hip hop music†? is typically...
Other People's Property
A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Over the last quarter-century hip-hop has grown from an esoteric form of African-American expression to become the dominant form of American popular culture. Today, Snoop Dogg shills for Chrysler and white kids wear Fubu, the black-owned label whose name stands for "For Us, By Us." This...
Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love
A Journey to the End of Taste
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's...
The Theater Will Rock
A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
The tumultuous decade of the 1960s in America gave birth to many new ideas and forms of expression, among them the rock musical. An unlikely offspring of the performing arts, the rock musical appeared when two highly distinctive and American art forms joined onstage in New York City. The Theater Will...
by J.D. Wilkes
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Kentuckians have been wearing out shoe leather at informal jamborees since the state was settled over two hundred years ago. Tadpole's Dew Drop Inn played host to some fifteen hundred musical shindigs in its time as a mecca of Marshall County music. A Rosine barn dance gave bluegrass founder Bill Monroe...