Rock category: 3054 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. This third edition includes new readings across the volume, with added material on the early origins of rock 'n' roll as well as...
by Andrew Grant Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
A fascinating account of the music and epic social change of 1973, a defining year for David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Eagles, Elvis Presley, and the former members of The Beatles.
1973 was the year rock hit its peak while splintering—just like...
The Everything Rock & Blues Piano Book
Master Riffs, Licks, and Blues Styles from New Orleans to New York City
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
Written by an experienced musician, recording artist, and music journalist, The Everything Rock & Blues Piano Book with CD offers the basics of rock and blues piano playing in a fun, easy-to-follow manner. This practical guide is packed with advice on playing in this exciting style, including how...
The Devil’s Music
How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
When rock ’n’ roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was “ever working in the world for evil.” Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar...
Behind the Boards
The Making of Rock 'n' Roll's Greatest Records Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The term “soundtrack of our lives” is one commonly tossed around by artists, fans, critics, and historians in discussing rock 'n' roll's timeless hits, spanning every subgenre, from pop to hard rock, heavy metal to new wave. In the pages of Behind the Boards: The Making of Rock 'n' Roll's Greatest...
by Luca Paisiello
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Il rock italiano è morto? E’ la domanda più odiata che si sentono rivolgere i musicisti quando vengono intervistati e che molti appassionati di musica discutono tra loro. Perché viviamo in un momento storico in cui il rock sta soffrendo una certa impopolarità e sembra abbia ormai ben poco da...
Experiencing Alice Cooper
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Experiencing Alice Cooper: A Listener’s Companion takes a long overdue look at the music and stage act of rock music’s self-styled arch-villain. A provocateur from the very start of his career in the mid-1960s, Alice Cooper, aka Vince Furnier, son of a lay preacher in the Church of Jesus Christ,...
Planet rock
L'ultima rivoluzione
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 19, 2017
L’ultima rivoluzione del rock comincia il 24 settembre 1991, quando esce l’album nevermind dei Nirvana, e finisce l’8 aprile 1994, quando viene trovato il cadavere di Kurt Cobain. In quei tre anni nascono nuovi fenomeni musicali, l’underground conquista le classifiche e le cose nella musica...
by Doris Leibetseder
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade,...
Eat Like a Rock Star
More Than 100 Recipes from Rock ‘n' Roll's Greatest
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Who knew that Bill Wyman (The Rolling Stones) makes an amazing Lamb Chops with Endive and Blue Cheese Salad, that Michael McDonald (The Doobie Brothers) loves Pasta with Ham and Parmesan Cheese, or that Boz Scaggs eats Tuscan Grilled Chicken?
With more than a hundred recipes from seven decades...
Women Who Rock
Bessie to Beyonce. Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl.
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A stellar and unprecedented celebration of 104 musical artists, WOMEN WHO ROCK is the most complete, up-to-date history of the evolution, influence, and importance of women in music. A gorgeous gift book, it includes a stunning, specially commissioned, full-color illustrated portrait of every musician...
Opera Rock
La storia del concept album
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Mezzo secolo di narrazione rock. Dischi come ‘romanzi sonori’ nei quali l’ascoltatore si è tuffato, rapito da immagini di mondi paralleli, futuri distopici, viaggi psichedelici, occultismo, fantascienza e letteratura. La maturità del rock è avvenuta con la crescita compositiva dei suoi protagonisti,...
100% American
La classicità del rock americano. Nuova edizione ampliata e aggiornata
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 30, 2017
La musica di cui si occupa questo libro è uno dei generi e stili del rock. È il rock di Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp e Counting Crows. Come il jazz, ha una miriade di interpreti, i frutti del cui lavoro sono sintetizzati e incorporati in quello di pochi artisti....
Hard Rock Emotions
Un viaggio attraverso la musica più elettrica degli ultimi cinquant’anni
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Un viaggio attraverso la musica più elettrica degli ultimi cinquant’anni. L’hard rock non è semplicemente un genere musicale, è un’emozione intensa, avvolgente, che se vi entra in circolo finisce col diventare la colonna sonora delle vostre azioni e dei vostri pensieri, e non potete più...