Discovering Country Music chronicles the incredible evolution of country music in America - from the fiddle to the pop charts - and provides an insightful account of the reasons and motives that have determined its various transformations and offshoots over the years.
In this masterful compilation, world-recognized discographer Chris Sheridan draws together the most comprehensive reconstruction of Thelonious Monk's performances and recordings.
Jazz Theory Workbook accompanies the second edition of the successful Jazz Theory-From Basic to Advanced Study textbook designed for undergraduate and graduate students studying jazz.
From Charlie Parker to Max Roach to Valaida Snow to Monk to Contemporary MAN and Contemporary WOMAN to Zora Neale Hurston to Langston Hughes, the plays tap into the heart of Laurence Holder and worldview past and present.
New discoveries and a fresh perspective, with unprecedented access to Richey's personal archiveOn 1 February 1995, Richey Edwards, guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers, went missing at the age of 27.
During their golden years of 1977 to 1982, The Jam's frontman Paul Weller was their outspoken leader, but it was drummer Rick Buckler who was the beating heart of the band, and it is his fascinating story that is told in his autobiography, That's Entertainment: My Life In The Jam, replete with insights into his life and music.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERImagine if all the worn-out, untrue, painful chapters of our lives started to quiet, and the beautiful, unique pieces of who we are were to rise.
A firsthand look into Kim Walker-Smith's journey from a place of shame and fear to stages around the world where she boldly proclaims the unconditional love of God.
The real talk you want about pregnancy, birth, body image, and the newborn days from Meghan Trainor, the chart-topping singer-songwriter behind "e;All About That Bass"e; and "e;Dear Future Husband,"e; and, more importantly, Riley's mom.
Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training).
Made in Turkey: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of Turkish popular music.
The instant Sunday Times bestseller'Amazing' - Richard Osman, author of the Thursday Murder Club series From brutal schooldays to 80s anarchy, through The Young Ones, Bottom and beyond, Berserker!
For anyone who feels less-than about your work, your worth, your body, or the life you're building, find here an incredible hope: you don't have to have it all together to "e;qualify"e; for your life's calling.
One fifth of Britains hottest girl group, super-WAG, X Factor judge and all round celebrity, Cheryl Cole has been a runaway success since her first appearance on Popstars: The Rivals.
In this ';darkly humorous' (Harper's Bazaar) memoir-in-essays, actress and singer-songwriter Lola Kirke untangles an extraordinary upbringing in a family of eccentric, messy artists and explains how a big city girl went a little bit country.
New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, ECPA Bestseller'Country music artist Smith debuts with a sensitive and moving recollection of his path through grief.
'This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius' - QUESTLOVEEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century.
This band has no past was the first line of the farcical biography printed on the inner sleeve of Cheap Tricks first album, but the band, of course, did have a pasta past that straddles two very different decades: from the tumult of the sixties to the anticlimax of the seventies, from the British Invasion to the record industry renaissance, with the bands debut album arriving in 1977, the year vinyl sales peaked.
