Music Styles category: 7119 books
The Ma'luf in Contemporary Libya
An Arab Andalusian Musical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The musical tradition of Ma'luf is believed to have come to North Africa with Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping the Christian reconquista of Spain between the tenth and seventeenth centuries. Although this Arab Andalusian music tradition has been studied in other parts of the region, until now,...
Ballet Music For Exercises 2
Original Scores to the Soundtrack Sheet Music for Your Ipad or Kindle
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Original Musicscores to the Soundtrack of "Ballet Music For Exercises 2", Pianomusic by Klaus Bruengel. The label "Scores &Parts" produces eBooks containing musical scores and parts. The eBooks can be effectively used on stage, with an iPad or Kindle, to read music whilst playing...
Reckless Daughter
A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
"She was like a storm." —Leonard Cohen
Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar...
by Loretta Lynn
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Loretta Lynn’s classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the top of the music industry.
Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and a grandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become...
The Wrecking Crew
The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Winner of the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction and Los Angeles Times bestseller
"It makes good music sound better."-Janet Maslin in The New York Times
"A fascinating look into the West Coast recording studio scene of the '60s and the inside story of the music you...
Petty
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The New York Times Bestseller
*One of Rolling Stone's 10 Best Music Books of 2015*
An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, by an accomplished writer and musician who toured with Petty
No one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend,...
See a Little Light
The Trail of Rage and Melody
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The long-awaited, full-force autobiography of American punk music hero, Bob Mould
Bob Mould stormed into America's punk rock scene in 1979, when clubs across the country were filling with kids dressed in black leather and torn denim, packing in to see bands like the Ramones, Black Flag, and...
by Neil Peart
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
Neil Peart decided to drive his BMW Z-8 automobile from L.A. to Big Bend National Park, in Southwest Texas. As he sped along “between the gas-gulping SUVs and asthmatic Japanese compacts clumping in the left lane, and the roaring, straining semis in the right,” he acted as his own DJ, lining up...
by Bill Kreutzmann, Benjy Eisen
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound systems...
Jimi Hendrix
A Brother's Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
More than forty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix-recently named the greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine-continues to inspire fans of rock music. Many have written about Hendrix's life and music, but Jimi Hendrix: A Brother's Story provides a revealing and unprecedented look...
by Timothy White
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Bob Marley was the undisputed sovereign of reggae music and a revolutionary soul-prophet whose music continues to have a major impact on people of throughout the world.
Catch A Fire chronicles Bob Marley's life and career, as well as the zeitgeist that shaped his spiritual and political beliefs....
An Outlaw and a Lady
A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought Me Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Renowned songwriter, singer, and wife of Waylon Jennings writes an intimate, enormously entertaining memoir of American music, of life with Waylon and the Outlaws, and of faith lost and found.
The daughter of a Pentecostal evangelist and a race-car driver, Jessi Colter played piano and sang...
by Marc Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
A vibrant biography of one of the greatest rock 'n' rollers, the America that made him, and the America he made.
Smart and incisive, this unique book takes us through Bruce Springsteen’s life by tracing the cultural, political, and personal forces that shaped his music. Beyond his constant...
Society's Child
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of fifteen, when her soul-wrenching song ?Society?s Child? became a hit. An intimate portrait of an interracial relationship, ?Society?s Child? climbed the charts despite the fact that many radio stations across the country refused to...