Music Styles category: 7119 books
by Kris Needs
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The first in-depth biography of one of music's most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters. This book is the most comprehensive history yet of the life, music and cultural significance of the last of the great black music pioneers and the era which spawned him. Clinton stands alongside James...
by Gonzalo Armero, Jorge de Persia
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Manuel de Falla's music perfectly reflected the full-blooded passion and intellectual aspirations of early 20th century Spanish culture. His personal life seemed to echo the spirit of his times and the broad range of his music. From his sensual treatment of Andalusian folk themes to the neoclassical...
I Saw the Light
The Story of Hank Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The book that inspired the major motion picture I Saw the Light. Originally published as Hank William: The Biography.
In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'," and "Jambalaya"...
by Tom Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The Swing Movement -- all jazz hands and high-waisted pants -- advanced and receded in good order. I wrote this book to tell the other side of the story. I want you to know about the oddball collection of iconoclasts who got together and made the Squirrel Nut Zippers what they were: a combustible, improbable...
50 Years of Rolling Stone
The Music, Politics and People that Shaped Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
For the past fifty years, Rolling Stone has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, and—above all—music. This landmark book documents the magazine’s rise to prominence as the voice of rock and roll and a leading showcase for era-defining photography. From the 1960s to the present...
The Bakersfield Sound
How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
In California’s Central Valley, two thousand miles away from country music’s hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music in the latter half of the twentieth century. It turned displaced Oklahomans like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard into household names, and it...
Sounding Like a No-No
Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
Sounding Like a No-No traces a rebellious spirit in post–civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights, black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements,...
The Silent Musician
Why Conducting Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
The conductor—tuxedoed, imposingly poised above an orchestra, baton waving dramatically—is a familiar figure even for those who never set foot in an orchestral hall. As a veritable icon for classical music, the conductor has also been subjected to some ungenerous caricatures, presented variously...
Luck or Something Like It
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A living legend of Country Music and a worldwide music icon, superstar Kenny Rogers has enjoyed a fascinating five decades in show business, and he tells the full story of his remarkable life and career in Luck or Something Like It. From his days with hit group The First Edition to his sterling solo...
Home Before Daylight
My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
The untold story of life on the road with the Grateful Dead, written by an insider who lived it from the early days to today.
Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in...
by Ari L. Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In a cluttered room in an abandoned coat factory in lower Manhattan, a group of musicians comes together each week to make music. Some are old, some are young, all have come late to music or come back to it after a long absence. This is the Late Starters Orchestra--the bona fide amateur string orchestra...
The First Four Notes
Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year
A unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note...
by Ted Gioia
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
An acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a...
Music for Life
100 Works to Carry You Through
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its...