There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation's impact across a wide range of human activity.
A collection of articles on and interviews with jazz greats Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, and others.
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the remarkable music and influence of Carla Bley, a highly innovative American jazz composer, pianist, organist, band leader, and activist.
In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and a musician.
Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set.
Noel Gallagher is as well-known for his singer-song writing talent as he is for his controversial, outspoken statements and his tempestuous relationships.
The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and features of British musicals, which explore the aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings of a tradition that initially gave rise to the American musical and later challenged its modern pre-eminence.
Through curated essays, readers will experience a deeply personal and engaging survey of key figures in jazz in the book that Publishers Weekly calls "e;a cheerful celebration of an uniquely American musical form.
The Beatles and the Beatlesque address a paradox emanating from The Beatles' music through a cross-disciplinary hybrid of reflections, drawing from both, musical practice itself and academic research.
This incomparable anthology collects articles, interviews, fiction, and poetry from the Original Chicago Blues Annual, one of music history's most significant periodical blues publications.
All Music Guide's Stephen Thomas Erlewine has written, Even when he was out of fashion in the '80s and '90s, it was clear that Bowie was one of the most influential musicians in rock, for better or worse.
Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light 'behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation.
Black Women's Liberation Movement Music argues that the Black Women's Liberation Movement of the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s was a unique combination of Black political feminism, Black literary feminism, and Black musical feminism, among other forms of Black feminism.
Praised as "e;suave, soulful, ebullient"e; (Tom Waits) and "e;a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian"e; (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation.
Praised as "e;suave, soulful, ebullient"e; (Tom Waits) and "e;a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian"e; (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in MemoirOne of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyA deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s, written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend.
Des etudes de comptabilite, une formation de journaliste territorial a l'ESJ de Lille, Pascal Leray a fait sa carriere dans la Fonction publique territoriale.
The Sunday Times Sports Book of the YearA Times Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'The heartwarming story of the collaboration and friendship between English football s oddest couple, Elton John and Graham Taylor' The Times' A wonderful, feel-good account of an ultimately English provincial story' Simon Kuper_____________________ An unforgettable British underdog story from one of our greatest narrative nonfiction writers, John Preston, and the international musical icon and bestselling author, Sir Elton John.
Classic Rock History is a new and exciting book for rock music enthusiasts of all ages that enjoy the many rock subgenres that developed over the past 75 years.
LAS MEMORIAS DE THURSTON MOORE DE SONIC YOUTHMEJOR LIBRO DE MÚSICA DEL AÑO SEGÚN ROUGH TRADE, RESIDENT Y VANITY FAIRThurston Moore se fue a vivir al East Village de Manhattan en 1978 con ansias de imbuirse de música y de discos.
A rich, evolving history of one of the most recognized couples in the worldIn this abundantly illustrated book, award-winning art historian Wanda Corn tracks the fortunes and vicissitudes of Grant Wood's American Gothic, his realist painting of a rural man and woman posed stiffly before a modest white house with a gothic-styled window, made in 1930.
A rich, evolving history of one of the most recognized couples in the worldIn this abundantly illustrated book, award-winning art historian Wanda Corn tracks the fortunes and vicissitudes of Grant Wood's American Gothic, his realist painting of a rural man and woman posed stiffly before a modest white house with a gothic-styled window, made in 1930.
Bringing together leading experts in the field of gender and popular music, this collection emphasizes the ways we can shape our personal understandings of what gender is or could be in the music industry.
Since he exploded onto the music scene in 2009 - aged just 15 - Justin Bieber was catapulted from YouTube cover artist into a best-selling musician, global name and ultimate tween heart-throb.
This account of Melbourne porno-grindcore band Blood Duster's 1993 debut album Fisting the Dead positions the "e;pure evil filth"e; album as a subcultural object at odds with Australia's cosmopolitanism.
