Music Styles category: 7119 books
It Still Moves
Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
"Where lies the boundary between meaning and sentiment? Between memory and nostalgia? America and Americana? What is and what was? Does it move?"
--Donovon Hohn, A Romance of Rust
Part travelogue, part cultural criticism, part music appreciation, It Still Moves does for today's avant...
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece presents the remarkable story of how The Queen of Soul created what Rolling Stone called “the greatest soul album ever made.”
The album she recorded that earned soul legend Aretha...
by Jason Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
"Last Year's Man" 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...
by Mark Dice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
Famous pop stars and rappers from Jay-Z and Rick Ross to Rihanna and Christina Aguilera are believed by many to be a part of the infamous Illuminati secret society. These stars allegedly use Illuminati and satanic symbolism in their music videos and on their clothes that goes unnoticed by those not...
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
The Untold Story of the Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The untold story of the world's most controversial album---a surreal tale of secret recordings, the Wu-Tang Clan, baffled customs agents, the world's most hallowed art institutions, and a villain of comic book proportions: Martin Shkreli.
In 2007, the innovative young Wu-Tang producer, Cilvaringz,...
Prince
Inside the Music and the Masks
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
With a brand-new introduction and chapter that cover the last five year's of Prince's life and work and his untimely death in April 2016.
In his three decades of recording, Prince had nearly thirty albums hit the Billboard Top 100. He is the only artist since the Beatles to have a number-one...
by Ace Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Just two short years ago, The Dixie Chicks were practically unheard-of outside of Texas, but today, they're the hottest act in country music. The explosive popularity of their album Wide Open Spaces has rocketed the Chicks to the top of the charts, and in the last year alone, they have won three Grammys...
BBC Proms 2017
Festival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. It is one of the strongest brand names in the music world and attracts a glittering array of artists and orchestras from the UK and around the world in over 150 concerts,...
Change of Seasons
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock ‘n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never abandoned...
The Parisian Jazz Chronicles
An Improvisational Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In his Beat-like jaunt through the Parisian and European jazz scene, Mike Zwerin is not unlike Jack Kerouac, Mezz Mezzrow, or Hunter S. Thompson-writers to whom, for different reasons, he owes some allegiance. What makes him special is his devotion to the troubled musicians he idolizes, and a passion...
The New York Times Essential Library: Opera
A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Works and the Best Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
An insightful, provocative selection of the best opera performances, chosen by The New York Times's chief classical music critic in one hundred original essays
Opera intertwines the drama of the theater with the powerful emotionality of music. In this magical and illuminating guide to the best...
by Chester Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
This exclusive folio presents 20 of Ludovico Einaudi’s most popular piano works in special arrangements matched to the grade criteria of the major examination boards. Designed as a progressive course for beginner players, Einaudi’s pieces have been adapted to make them accessible to students,...
by Chester Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
This exclusive folio presents 20 of Ludovico Einaudi’s most popular piano works in special arrangements matched to the grade criteria of the major examination boards. Designed as a progressive course for intermediate players, Einaudi’s pieces have been adapted to make them accessible to students,...
Are We Not New Wave?
Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music.”
—Mark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out Pop
New wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cast in the image of punk rock’s sneering demeanor, yet rendered more accessible and sophisticated....