Review imprint: 1779 books
Bossa Nova
The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as The Girl from Ipanema” (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), The Waters of March,” and Desafinado” are known around the world. Bossa Nova-a number-one bestseller when originally published in...
Stomp and Swerve
American Music Gets Hot, 18431924
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn’t until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music-black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude-made it onto records for...
Beethoven for Kids
His Life and Music with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most influential composers of all time, is brought vividly to life and made relevant to today’s young musicians in Beethoven for Kids. Children will learn about Beethoven’s troubled childhood and family life, early gift and passion for music, volatile personality,...
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's
A Secret History of Jewish Punk
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Based in part on the recent interviews with more than 125 people -among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zorn-this book focuses on punk’s beginnings in New York City to show that punk was the most Jewish of rock movements,...
Keith Richards on Keith Richards
Interviews and Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The iconic life and career of the famed guitarist of the Rolling Stones is detailed in this compilation of interviews that spans the last 50 years. Featuring articles from GQ, Melody Maker, and Rolling Stone, as well as interviews that have never previously appeared in print, it charts Keith Richards’s...
Feeding Back
Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Feeding Back: Conversations with Rock’s Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock offers a counter-history of rock music through the lens of interviews with musicians including Richard Thompson, J Mascis, James Williamson, Bob Mould, Tom Verlaine, Lydia Lunch, Lee Ranaldo, Johnny Marr,...
by Stanley Booth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting...
Sitcom
A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
A carefully curated tour through TV comedy series, this mixtape of fondly remembered shows surveys the genealogy of the form, the larger trends in its history, the best of what the genre has accomplished, and the most standard of its works. From I Love Lucy, The Phil Silvers Show, and M*A*S*H to Taxi,...
by Henry Rollins, Henry Rollins
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
For the past 25 years, Henry Rollins has photographed the most desolate and inhospitable corners of the Earth, and his powerful vision has been harnessed in this photographic essay. Though he is known for the raw power of his expression, Rollins has shown that the greatest statements can be made...
Convenient Suspect
A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia...
Michael Bloomfield
The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This is the definitive biography of the legendary guitarist whom Muddy Waters and B. B. King held in high esteem and who created the prototype for Clapton, Hendrix, Page, and those who followed. Bloomfield was a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which inspired a generation of white blues...
Lightnin' Hopkins
His Life and Blues
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Based on scores of interviews with the artist’s relatives, friends, lovers, producers, accompanists, managers, and fans, this brilliant biography reveals a man of many layers and contradictions. Following the journey of a musician who left his family's poor cotton farm at age eight carrying only...
Revolution in the Head
The Beatles' Records and the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
This “Bible of the Beatles” captures the iconic band’s magical and mysterious journey from adorable teenagers to revered cultural emissaries. In this fully updated version, each of their 241 tracks is assessed chronologically from their first amateur recordings in 1957 to their final “reunion”...
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
When he first started working on Pet Sounds, Brian Wilson said that he was going to write "the greatest rock album ever made." That album, released in 1966, fifty years ago, changed the face of popular music.From conception and composition to arrangement and production, Pet Sounds was the...