Jazz category: 919 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music is the first comprehensive reference to cover this important American musical form. Coverage includes all aspects of both African-American and white gospel from history and performers to recording techniques and styles as well as the influence of gospel on different musical genres and cultural trends.
Singing in My Soul
Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers--particularly Sister Rosetta Tharpe--and demonstrating...
Led Zeppelin
All the Albums, All the Songs, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
**Just in time for their 50th anniversary, Led Zeppelin breaks down one of the world’s most prolific bands—track by track, album by album—in this expanded edition, revised to include rarities, outtakes, and B-sides from their storied catalog†‹.
Formed by the unlikely alliance of...
Besessen - Das turbulente Leben von Prince
Aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage
Language: German
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Abschied im Purple Rain
Am 21. April 2016 wurde Prince leblos in seinem Haus in Minnesota gefunden - er wurde 57 Jahre alt. Die Zahl der Nachrufe und trauernden Statusmeldungen in den sozialen Netzwerken zeigte: Prince Rogers Nelson hat mit seinen Songs, seiner Attitüde, seiner sexuell aufgeladenen...
Got to Be Something Here
The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Beginning in the year of Prince’s birth, 1958, with the recording of Minnesota’s first R&B record by a North Minneapolis band called the Big Ms, Got to Be Something Here traces the rise of that distinctive sound through two generations of political upheaval, rebellion, and artistic passion.
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Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
Von den Eurythmics bis SuperHeavy (Die Autobiografie)
Language: German
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Dave Stewarts Leben war ein wilder Ritt - voller Musik und ausschweifender Partys, durchzogen von einem Strom neuer Ideen und geprägt von unendlichem Schaffensdrang. Schon früh war der gebürtige Nordengländer nach London gegangen, und schon als Teenager stand er bei Elton Johns Label Rocket unter...
Sam Smith
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Sam Smith's debut album, In the Lonely Hour, sold four million copies and won four 2015 Grammy awards. In 2016, he won an Oscar for Best Original Song. The young, soulful singer has massive crossover appeal, with his touching honesty about loneliness, love, and his own sexuality coming through in...
Go-Go Live
The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Go-go is the conga drum–inflected black popular music that emerged in Washington, D.C., during the 1970s. The guitarist Chuck Brown, the "Godfather of Go-Go," created the music by mixing sounds borrowed from church and the blues with the funk and flavor that he picked up playing for a local Latino...
by Paul Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
How well do you know your Motown Music? This Quiz book will test even the most avid fan, with questions that span Motown's bands and songs! Test yourself and your friends with this Motown Music Quiz Book.
I've Been Out There
On the Road with Legends of Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
In the 1950s, as the leader of the Upsetters, the original backing band for rock pioneer Little Richard, Grady Gaines first exposed the music world to his unique brand of “honkin’,” bombastic, attitude-drenched saxophone playing.
In the years that followed, the Upsetters became the backing...
by Eric S. LeBlanc, Bob L. Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A melding of many types of music such as ragtime, spiritual, jug band, and other influences came together in what we now call the blues. Blues: A Regional Experience is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference book of blues performers yet published, correcting many errors in the existing literature.
Arranged...
Keep A Knockin'
The Story of a Legendary Drummer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
This book is loaded with untold stories about drummer Charles Connor and his road into Rock 'n' Roll history. Playing with legends like Roy “Professor Longhair” Byrd, Smiley Lewis, Guitar Slim, Jack Dupree then Shirley and Lee was just his launch pad before touring everywhere with Little Richard...
The Bbsat's Level Ii : Baby Boomers Soul Aptitude Test
Baby Boomers Soul Aptitude Test
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
OK, break out your microphones (or hair brushes) and start singing to these test and quizzes. For this second level of the test we have included 100 main questions, over twenty smaller quizzes, that are broken into categories like ; songs about time, songs with the word funk in the title, songs about...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
You've seen the movie, now get the rest of the story.This book is about the music.James Brown has had more of an influence on the music we listen to today than almost anyone else. He grew up in abject poverty, a black man in the post-depression south. His chances of making it in...