A half-century after their first single release, ';Surfin' ' the Beach Boys continue to define California popular culture and the sunshine-infused sound that will forever be its living soundtrack.
In 1958, long before he created and hosted Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, the most dynamic rock-and-roll series in television history, before he developed the Monkees and created the Archies, Don Kirshner was a 23-year-old kid with just a dream in his pocket.
In this collection of academic essays, award-winning pianist and music professor Yaokun Yang shares her carefully compiled analyses of classical music and aesthetics during several different periods, focusing particularly on the aspect of piano performance practice.
Imagine having the most wonderful mother, the most caring father, a perfect house and a best friend who is always there for you and never lets you down.
Doing what comes naturally, a young woman from an average background gains access to the upper strata of society, where she lives the exciting life of a mistress.
This book presents a series of mini biographies of famous achievers who contributed uniquely and per-suasively to American culture in films, politics, news broadcasting, sports, entertainment, law enforcement and education.
Olivia begins her life facing the challenge of a physical disability, and at age 12, finds her life dramatically changed after the death of her mother in the late 1950s.
Rugby with the stunning Fiji team not only gave me the opportunity to experience diversity in the highest form but inspired me to share my experiences living in Fiji a paradise and well known tourist destination once known as the way the world should be also sharing my experiences living in the USA the most prosperous powerful nation on Earth, while having a blast in one of the most vibrant cities of the world, Las Vegas.
In 1978, when music found its way into Russ DiBella's life largely by way of external circumstances, a natural progression of sorts began to unfold which would eventually marry his affection for words with a nascent interest in drumming and lyric writing.
Post-Bop is a modern jazz style that continues the distinguishing characteristics that separate jazz from the world of pop and rock; swing rhythm and extended harmonies (9th chords 11ths, altered chords, etc).
First Love defines a time in western Christianity when the hippie culture birthed one of the greatest moves of Gods love America has seen since the Great Awakening.
