Music category: 21679 books
Inside Folk Volume 1
Notes from a Scottish musician's year
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Love folk music? Liza Mulholland invites you Inside Folk to share an insight into her experience as a contemporary Scottish musician. Drawing on more than twenty-five years in folk music, she reflects on elements of a typical year - performing, teaching, travelling, launching an album, juggling...
Music Theory - Piano Chords Theory - Circle of 5ths
Learn Piano With Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
The Music Theory - Piano Chords Theory - Circle of 5ths is a fascinating music tool that incorporates many elements of music theory into a visual format. Just as a color wheel shows how colors blend together in harmony, the Circle of 5ths shows how the 12 unique tones work harmoniously in music.
In...
The Art Album: (FREEBIE VERSION)
Exploring the Connection Between Hip-hop Music and Visual Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Check out this FREE one of a kind book and find out what Russell Simmons has to say about each artists, visual and recording! See what visual artist Shepard Fairey has in common with Young Jeezy or Jay Z! See how we compare each album to its contemporaries and place them in their aesthetic order!...
by Robbie Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
**The New York Times Bestseller
On the 40th anniversary of The Band’s legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest...
Outlaw
Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Outlaw by acclaimed author Michael Streissguth follows the stories of three legends as they redefined country music: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
Streissguth delves into the country music scene in the late '60s and early '70s, when these rebels found themselves in...
by Tori Amos, Ann Powers
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
I choose to fight my battles through my music . . . I was born a feminist. And then at age five, when my strict Christian grandmother punished me, I realized, I’m not penetrating here. I’m just pissing people off. So I had to find another way to penetrate. I had to redefine what that word means....
Moving to Higher Ground
How Jazz Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and...
Without Getting Killed or Caught
The Life and Music of Guy Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Winner, 2016 the Belmont Book Award, Sponsored by the International Country Music Conference
For more than forty years, Guy Clark wrote and recorded unforgettable songs. His lyrics and melodies paint indelible portraits of the people, places, and experiences that shaped him. He has served as...
Myself When I Am Real
The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found powerfully coherent expression...
Why Mahler?
How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Although Gustav Mahler was a famous conductor in Vienna and New York, the music that he wrote was condemned during his lifetime and for many years after his death in 1911. “Pages of dreary emptiness,” sniffed a leading American conductor. Yet today, almost one hundred years later, Mahler has displaced...
by Holger Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Talking Music is a collection of nineteen of Holger Petersens in-depth radio interviews with artiststhe pioneering men and women who created the blues and roots sounds that have influenced the course of popular culture and music in North America. Many of his interview subjects are no longer with ustheir...
Swing Along
The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Renowned today as a prominent African-American in Music Theater and the Arts community, composer, conductor, and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s. In this insightful biography, Marva Griffin Carter offers the first definitive...
Hear No Evil
My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
**Every Life Has a Soundtrack. **
If you’ve ever had the opening bars of a song transport you back in time or remind you of a pivotal spiritual moment, Matthew Paul Turner’s honest—and frequently hilarious—musings will strike a chord. Straightforward and amusing, Hear No Evil is Turner’s...
The History of Hip Hop
The History of Hip Hop, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Eric Reese is taking the cultural shock of hip hop to unknown boundaries of music history, so educate yourself in the way of life that is defining young America now!
Hip Hop Truth for the Art and Pulse of America!
This cultural brilliance of sound presented a voice and unique mind through...