Music Styles category: 7119 books
Music Men: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The heartbreakers, lovemakers and dreamers always at the top of the music charts are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the forefathers of modern music Frank Sinatra, the Beatles and Bob Dylan to larger-than-life rock gods Elton...
How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005
The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
One of the most tangible aftershocks of Punk was its urgency to prompt individuals into action. Document your reality: do it yourself. From this, a generation of young men were inspired and, with often zero financial planning or business sense, in a bedroom, garage or shed, labels such as Factory,...
80s Chart-Toppers
Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The '80s were a decade of musical change. As the '70s disco stranglehold was broken, rock, gay, dance and pop music competed with funk and soul, romantic ballads and political protest, computerised music and controversy.
The glamour of costume, greasepaint and cross-dressing was put to good...
by Brinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Regardless of your specialty in the music industry, this book is an indispensable resource. Readers new to the business of Christian hip hop and seasoned ministry professionals alike will find Brinson’s handbook to be a practical guide for navigating the complex world of music and ministry. This...
by Eric Frederick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Robert Schumann is one of the most intriguing-and enigmatic-composers of the nineteenth century. Extraordinarily gifted in both music and literature, many of his compositions were inspired by poetry and novels. For much of his life he was better known as a music critic than as a composer. But whether...
by R. Larry Todd
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
When R. Larry Todd’s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn’s life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about the composer and his music, his family...
Music in 1853
The Biography of a Year
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Why 1853? For many leading composers this year brought far-reaching changes to their lives: Brahms emerged from obscurity to celebrity, Schumann ceased to be an active composer, and both Berlioz and Wagner became active again after long silences. By limiting the perspective to a single year yet extending...
by Jason Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
"Urge for Going" is excerpted from Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... From Hank Snow to The Band, available as a print or ebook. Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously...
America's Songs II
Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
America’s Songs II: Songs from the 1890's to the Post-War Years continues to tell the stories behind popular songs in our country’s history, serving as a sequel to the bestselling America’s Songs: Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley. Beginning in 1890 and ending...
by Julian Haylock
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Puccini is one of the most beloved of all opera composers La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot play to packed opera houses the world over. In his lifetime he achieved an international celebrity accorded to only a few, yet the critics were rarely impressed. He was nevertheless a creative...
Woman Walk the Line
How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it's...
Beatles '66
The Revolutionary Year
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever change music and popular culture.
They started off as hysteria-inducing pop stars playing to audiences of screaming teenage fans and ended up as musical sages...
by Ted Gioia
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
“The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply...
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
When George Jones recorded "He Stopped Loving Her Today" more than thirty years ago, he was a walking disaster. Twin addictions to drugs and alcohol had him drinking Jim Beam by the case and snorting cocaine as long as he was awake. Before it was over, Jones would be bankrupt, homeless,...