Ziemlich beste Freunde:Die Autobiografie der Simple Minds»Wenn ich an Charlie denke«, sagt Simple-Minds-Sänger Jim Kerr, »dann denke ich nicht daran, wie wir bei Live Aid oder beim Nelson Mandela Tribute Concert zusammen auf der Bühne standen, sondern daran, wie ich ihn als Achtjährigen im Sandkasten spielen sah, als wir uns das erste Mal begegneten.
LA GUÍA DE LOS FESTIVALES MUSICALES DE ESPAÑA QUE ESTABAS ESPERANDOEspaña es uno de los países con más cantidad y variedad de festivales musicales del mundo, desde los más renombrados internacionalmente hasta los más especializados e insospechados.
Este libro explica la trayectoria de Serrat no solo a través de sus canciones y su música sino también a través de los momentos trascendentes de una vida íntimamente ligada con la historia reciente de nuestro país: la dura posguerra en Barcelona, su juventud activista en la España franquista, el escándalo de Eurovisión, la "Nova Cançó" catalana, el exilio por motivos políticos, el reconocimiento en la España de la transición, el éxito internacional.
'A true original, a genuine maverick' ROBERT SMITH (The Cure)'An ode to creativity and thinking outside the box, as well as to rock and roll in its purest form: messy, unpredictable and wholly irresistible'TELEGRAPH'An intriguing insight into an industry during a time of big ideas and even bigger budgets, perfectly capturing the riotous energy of a uniquely creative moment in music history'ROLLING STONE'A dirty little page-turner from England's greatest music video director' MATT JOHNSON (The The)'Tim is a strange person'IGGY POP'The absolute dog's bollocks in the world of pop video.
Glasgow-born Alex Harvey's career began in the 1950s when he won a competition to become Scotland's answer to Tommy Steele (he dubbed himself 'Last of the Teenage Idols').
Although opera figured importantly in the French quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns and in the English discussions of heroic tragedy, it was in Germany that its role in the development of criticism and aesthetics was most pronounced.
The name John Lennon immediately conjures up thoughts and images of the iconic sixties band 'The Beatles', the 'Let It Be' roof top concert, a pedestrian crossing at Abbey Road Studios, a white room, the song 'Imagine' and Yoko Ono.
Well-known for leading audiences to a new appreciation of Verdi as a subtle and elaborate musical thinker, Pierluigi Petrobelli here turns his attention to the intriguing question of how musical theater works.
Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained the texts and variants of 305 extant themes written down between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This generously illustrated book records the story of Russia's bells--the thousands of awe inspiring instruments that gave voice to the visual splendors of Russian Orthodoxy and to the political aspirations of the tsars.
A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year, this is an electrifying, superb (The Atlantic), and entirely fresh (Rolling Stone) journey through the history of rock and roll, told through the lives of fifteen iconic drummers and their percussion rivalsfrom John Bonham and Charlie Watts to Ringo Starr and Questlove.
Juan Pablo Ordúñez, más conocido como El Pirata, trata de poner sobre la mesa a través de estas páginas historias, leyendas, informes reales, testimonios directos y también misterios sin resolver.
The Courage To Love: From Abuse to Happiness, a Healing Memoir From a childhood marked by abuse and silence, Guy Giard's extraordinary journey spans four continents in search of healing, joy, and true purpose.
In this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years.
"e;Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera,"e; writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre.
Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention.
In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends.
This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture.
Alex Ross's sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution.
A reissue of Joe Oestreich's legendary memoir, featuring a new introduction by Rob Harvilla (60 Songs that Explain the '90s) and a new afterword by the author.
Echoes of '79: Synths, Circuits, and the New British Sound• Captures a pivotal year in British music with fresh historical insight• Connects punk, disco, reggae, and early electronic music into a single narrative arc• Explores the rise of synthesisers and studio technology shaping the 1980s• Strong appeal to readers of music history, cultural studies, and retro‑era nonfictionBritain, 1979.
Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935.
Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935.
