Popular music

The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era.

A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan.

Punk Now!

The rock icon and co-founder of KISS recounts his turbulent life behind the face paint in this New York Times bestselling memoir.

The only way to appreciate the legendary musician Mark E.

Unlike most books on rock music, Music of Yes does not focus on personalities, but instead on musical structures, lyrical vision, and cultural and historical context.

In Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work.

Follow the author as he goes on a harrowing journey from the US Olympic Training Center to homeless shelters to shooting heroin on the job to being declared dead.

Are you a romantic optimist with a cheery disposition?

A longstanding, successful and frequently controversial career spanning more than four decades establishes David Bowie as charged with contemporary cultural relevance.

Paralyzed from the neck down, Gordon Zahler rose from his deathbed to a fast-talking, Hollywood entrepreneur/idea man who traveled the world, lived hard, married, fantasized about water-skiing and chased his dreams to create one of the largest independent postproduction shops in Hollywood.

This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles techniques for all musician players of modern jazz.

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation.

Using research, analysis and a range of historical sources, Paul Weller and Popular Music immerses the reader in the excitement of Paul Weller's unique creative journey, covering topics such as the artist's position within his field; his creative processes; the contexts in which the music was made; the artist as collaborator; signifiers that mark the trajectory of the music; and formative influences.

Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Leo Ferre are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with each other by the public and the media.

From the creators of The Sex Pistols Graphic Novel, Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic Novel and Eminem: In My Skin comes an explosive new graphic novel about the King of Pop.

A revelatory, redemptive, and wild.

I was the Fool-king of Soho and the number-one slag in the Groucho Club, the second drunkest member of the world's drunkest band.

In 1949, immigrant recording engineer Moses Asch embarked on a lifelong project: documenting the world of sound produced by mankind, via a small record label called Folkways Records.

The candid, unvarnished, "e;ridiculously entertaining"e; memoir by the legendary Sex Pistols frontman (The Telegraph).

In The New Guitarscape, Kevin Dawe argues for a re-assessment of guitar studies in the light of more recent musical, social, cultural and technological developments that have taken place around the instrument.

Tika the Iggy is the fashion model of the 21st century with millions of fans on social media.

The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008.

The first book of its kind in English, Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punk explores the texts and contexts of German punk cultures.

Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!

Charles Mingus is one of the most importantand most mythologizedcomposers and performers in jazz history.

She received two Emmy Awards as the irrepressible Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moor Show.

Made in Spain: Studies in Popular Music will serve as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of 20th century Spanish popular music.

 This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously as a concept album and a visual album or "e;emotion picture"e; in spring 2018.

New York Times-Bestseller: A "e;sharp, funny, jaw-dropping"e; portrait of Warren Zevon told by friends, family, fellow musicians, and his own diaries (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

From Ahmir "e;Questlove"e; Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of television's Soul Train.

The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making.

The DJ stands at a juncture of technology, performance and culture in the increasingly uncertain climate of the popular music industry, functioning both as pioneer of musical taste and gatekeeper of the music industry.

In seinem neuesten Buch entlarvt Marcus drei »gewöhnliche« amerikanische Songs als grundlegende Dokumente amerikanischer Identität: Bascom Lamar Lunsfords »I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground« (1928), Geeshie Wileys »Last Kind Words Blues« (1930) und Bob Dylans »Ballad of Hollis Brown« (1964).

In 2006, the Stones are in the middle of their latest world tour, and reach the UK in the summer with sell-out shows at giant arenas like Wembley Stadium.

The intense and continuing popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and depth of the academic critical response.

'Growing up in Queens, I didn't know being named Shenequa was considered "e;ghetto"e; or uncouth.

From Tyler Henry, clairvoyant and star of E!

Charles Mingus is among jazz's greatest composers and perhaps its most talented bass player.

Why is music so important to most of us?

In The Country Music Reader Travis D.

Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture.

This definitive biography of John Mellencamp is ';a true coming-of-age story' (John Sykes, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation) of an iconic American rock and roll original, featuring exclusive in-depth interviews and never-before-told details.

Toward a Chican@ Hip Hop Anti-Colonialism makes visible the anti-colonial, alterNative politics in hip hop texts created by Chican@s and Xican@s (indigenous-identified people of Mexican descent in the United States).

Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins weaves together subversive pedagogy and theories of resistance with community music education and choral music, inspiring professionals to revisit and reconsider their pedagogical practices and approaches.

Finding the Beat explores humankind's ability, propensity, and enjoyment in finding the beat in live and recorded experiences of music-making through the lens of entrainment, the human capacity to perceive a beat and to synchronize to it.

This biography shatters myths with a controversial closeup of Bogart at the debut of his career, pre-Casablanca, pre-Bacall, and pre-African Queen, revealing for the first time what was under the trench coat of history's most famous male movie star.

'Every Sound There Is': Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll assesses and celebrates the Beatles' accomplishment in their 1966 masterpiece.