Composers and songwriters

A celebration of the four longhaired, oddly dressed chaps who took over America—filled with facts, stories, and photos.

Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement.

One of this century's most influential musical intellects takes center stage in Taylor Greer's meticulously wrought study of Charles Seeger (1886-1979).

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum.

One of this century's most influential musical intellects takes center stage in Taylor Greer's meticulously wrought study of Charles Seeger (1886-1979).

This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartok's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music.

While much has been said about the nostalgia and historic references of Daft Punk's final album, Random Access Memories, this book reveals its ambition and future-focus, and claims these aspects do not necessarily contradict.

Gorgias Plato - Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office.

"e;The Gift of Prayer,"e; is a prayer starter for children to learn about this special gift from the Lord.

Explorer, musician, and educator Sam Zebba is a modern-day Renaissance Man.

When I was a teen I had played the Na Na Record on my stereo quite often.

In Music for the Millions, author Van Allen Bradley tells the story of a firm which, at the time of this book's original publication in 1962, had endured for 100 years.

Experience the life and thoughts of a musical prodigy through the captivating memoir, "e;Notes of a Pianist,"e; by Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

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In the last decade of his life, starting when he was a sixty-two-year old curmudgeon in a backwater Slavic country, Czech composer Leo Jancek produced operas and chamber music that would stun the music world, one masterpiece on top of another.

In everything that we went through, all we wanted to do was sing and make it work.

A 1959 New Yorker profile captured the inspired risk-taking and raw creative spark of a Budapest String Quartet rehearsal: "e;Sasha leaped from his chair and with violin held aloft, played the passage with exaggerated schmalz, like a street fiddler in Naples.

Navigating The Lending Maze provides a detailed path to follow in obtaining a loan for your company's growth.

These are personal words from a father to his daughter that I now share with the world.

A concise and beautifully evocative appreciation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's career and genius by the famed writer and poet Sacheverell Sitwell.

This is the colourful account of swing trumpeter Max Kaminsky's life on the road in the formative years of jazz.

This book demonstrates that one is capable of achieving any goals, that one sets for him/herself.

This story is about Marguerite, an accomplished pianist who lost her ability to play the piano after suffering a paralytic stroke that almost took her life.

The Jonas Brothers are the hottest band in the world right now!

'Just be yourself, there is no one better.

Jason Douglas was a mover, a shaker, and a star maker.

Reginald Hach offers the reader the story of his transition from beginning conservatory music student to performer on the worlds stages, who learns to circumvent the debilitating nature of stage fright and go on to a successful career as a composer, performer, and teacher of music.

In this classic work on music biography, Sacheverell Sitwell narrates Franz Liszt's rapid ascent to European fame - and the effect that this incredible early success as a wonderfully gifted pianist had on his later life - with insight, sympathy and humanity, One of the very first studies of Liszt to be published in English, this remarkable biography uses the full force of Sitwell's poetic talent to bring this brilliant and difficult man's world vividly to life, and captures the artistic mood of the era in extraordinary detail.

Sir Elton Hercules John has enjoyed a phenomenal career filled with success, excess and achievement.

August 1961 was a month to remember for Jim Pike.