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John Cale's enigmatic masterpiece, Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever.

'I found it fascinating - it's an integral part of the history of Dublin that has been lost to time for too long' - Rick O'SheaA feminist history of Europe's largest red-light district and an examination of the lives of the women who worked there.

Disco Time!

The Rock 'n' Roll Archives is a series collecting vintage artist interviews and record reviews from the archives of award-winning rock critic and music historian Rev.

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches.

An avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear, 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) marked a pivotal point in David Bowie's career.

An avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear, 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) marked a pivotal point in David Bowie's career.

What role has the guitar played in America's #1 hit songs?

Despite his long and rich career, Peter Hammill is one of the most important "e;best kept secrets"e; of English rock.

Popkultur ist allgegenwärtig – sie prägt unser Denken, Fühlen und Handeln, beeinflusst Mode, Musik, Kunst und selbst unsere Sprache.

Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism offers a clear, hands-on guide for emerging music critics that brings together aesthetics, critical theory, and practical music criticism in an accessible format.

In this critical appraisal of The Clean's landmark release, Boodle Boodle Boodle, Geoff Stahl explores how it impacted the emergence of a new DIY scene alongside a retrospective on the role The Clean played in shaping New Zealand's independent music industry.

This book chronicles the Kyoto/Kansai 1980s hardcore punk scene through the album Don't Be Swindle by S.

Sheds new light on Schubert''s close engagement with the piano in composition and performance, and its role in early nineteenth-century Vienna.

Paint It Black!

Available in this new hardback edition for the first time in decades, Sweet Soul Music was hailed by Newsweek on publication as 'a stunning chronicle.

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches.

The Rock 'n' Roll Archives is a series collecting vintage artist interviews and record reviews from the archives of award-winning rock critic and music historian Rev.

"e;Carnival of Sounds"e; offers a wonderful gauntlet to step through the facetted kaleidoscope of musical Brazil.

This book embraces the multiplicity of forms of writing inspired by rock and roll.

Hailed as a "e;quiet masterpiece"e; upon release, Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out proposed a radical new future for rock music.

Enrico Caruso, ein einfacher Junge aus den belebten Straßen Neapels, sollte die Opernwelt für immer verändern.

The definitive and fascinating biography of the musical trailblazer who was the influence behind countless legendary hits, a rock and roll legend in his own right, and the original rockabilly catCarl Perkins.

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In this critical appraisal of The Clean's landmark release, Boodle Boodle Boodle, Geoff Stahl explores how it impacted the emergence of a new DIY scene alongside a retrospective on the role The Clean played in shaping New Zealand's independent music industry.

From recent decades' digitization have emerged a myriad of techniques for mapping musical life, identifying patterns in sound or musico-cultural practices, and compiling labels, names, tags, and classes on an unprecedented scale.

Wozzeck, by Alban Berg, has several connections to the composer's personal life in both libretto and through musical quotations.