Music: styles and genres

'The Poetic Genius of my Country.

'One of the very best collections of pop songs written in the style of William Shakespeare that I've read so far this year!

Dive with me into the colorful and diverse world of Japanese pop culture that inspires millions of people around the world.

Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music - traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop - and each type of music tends to come with its own way of thinking.

Patsy Kensit is one of our most-loved actresses, a child star who grew up in the public eye and has remained there ever since.

Queen of the SofaQueen of the JungleQueen of the one-liner The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller 'Scarlett Says is absolutely brilliant and really funny.

'While I don't have any choice in how long I have to live, I do have a choice in how I spend the time I have.

The term 'world music' encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values.

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.

Jon Ronson's Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie is a memoir of funny, sad times and a tribute to outsider artists too wonderfully strange to ever make it in the mainstream.

Four sisters, four very different characters.

During his run into turning FIFTY, CHRIS EVANS is on a MISSION.

'The Poetic Genius of my Country.

This Element explores a detailed consideration of West Side Story''s reception in Spain, including comparison of two Spanish adaptations of book and lyrics.

The first academic introduction to Krautrock, exploring both context and legacy in addition to expert discussions of the major bands.

Britain has attracted many musical visitors to its shores.

This element seeks answers to the question, how Offenbach''s stage works were performed/transformed in interwar and post-World War II Budapest.

Despite the influence of African American music and study as a worldwide phenomenon, no comprehensive and fully annotated reference tool currently exists that covers the wide range of genres.

How do we hold on to what is constant within us when circumstances challenge our sense of who we are?

"La canción popular argentina y latinoamericana marcó una identidad política y cultural bien definida.

Paul Morley, author, journalist and cultural commentator, tells the story in Earthbound of post-punk, music and changing times - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin'The stand-out is Paul Morley's eclectic, headspinning Earthbound .

Tracing the careers of hip-hop's three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons: Diddy, Dr.

Worldwide sensation One Direction is back to share all their secrets, dreams and stories from the past year with the fans they love in the latest instalment of their must-have Annual.

'Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.

'Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.

'I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost.

'I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost.

The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction considers the structure, roots, and day-to-day functioning of the modern philharmonic society.

The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction considers the structure, roots, and day-to-day functioning of the modern philharmonic society.

James Joyce, Roma y otras Historias describir los meses en que el autor irlands James Joyce (Ulises, Finnegans Wake, Retrato del Artista como un Hombre Joven) vivi en Roma, entre 1906 y 1907.

This is a Teach Yourself, as well as a Self-Help book.

Since the thirteenth century, the sitara stringed, plucked instrument of Indiahas transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its country of origin as well as all over the world.

In 1963, author Tommy Janette and his neighborhood buddies in West Haven, Connecticut, were looking for something to do.