Music: styles and genres

This anthology examines the life and selected works of North Carolinas most distinguished playwright of the 20thcentury, Paul Green (1894-1981).

Die deutsche Ausgabe zu Mac Randalls Exit Music - The Radiohead Story.

Das unverzichtbare Soft-zuruck Verbraucher Leitfaden fur die Musik von Led Zeppelin.

The Emerald Guide to Ann Oakley offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Oakley's sociological ideas, placing them in the context of her life and her ground-breaking research into domestic and gender sociology.

Offering new insight into Lennon and Ono as individuals, artists and lovers, Days That I'll Remember is a gifted music journalist's memoir of a seismic time in music, politics and culture and one of the most incisive and affectionate portraits ever written about this world-altering couple.

"e;In early '79 I was already engaged in what eventually turned out to be a lengthy photographic study of the New Romantics (though back then they were not known as such).

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Public Enemy are an American hip hop group, formed in New York in 1982, known for their politically charged lyrics and criticism of the American media.

'That night, I'd survived my life flashing before me, with my dignity intact.

The enchanting true story of Stephenie Meyer, the Queen of Twilight.

The Stranglers have outlasted and outsold virtually every other band of their era, recording ten hit albums and releasing 21 Top 40 singles.

The Radio Phonics Laboratory delves into the intersection of technology and creativity that shaped the sonic landscape of the 20th century.

Manic Street Preachers have established themselves as one the UK's most enduring, intelligent and credible rocks groups, but that quest for greatness has been a difficult, sometimes torturous path; a path which one of their number - the gifted and troubled Richley Edwards - abandoned for destinations still unknown.

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC.

Music of Initiative: Julian Joseph on Jazz is for any musician interested in jazz, no matter what your instrument or level of experience.

The rise and rise of the 'manufactured' pop group has been a reliable and consistent trend over the last 50 years of the pop music charts, and this entertaining account by Nick Brownlee features them all!

Ubersetzung des Originals von Omnibus Press You Really Got Me von Nick Hasted.

Philip Glass has had a unique impact on traditional popular culture over the past 40 years.

Bruno Mars conquered the music industry with far-reaching flair, selling over 115 million records worldwide as a singer, producer and as a songwriter.

Although Vince Guaraldi's playful jazz piano themes for the early Peanuts animated television specials are well known, the composer himself remains largely unheralded.

Peter Freestone war viele Jahre lang Freddie Mercurys personlicher Assistent, lebte mit dem Sanger in London, Munchen und New York und blieb bis zuletzt an seiner Seite.

Back in print due to popular demand; the David Bowie Black Book remains one of the most elegant books about the iconic superstar ever to have been published.

From humble beginnings in murky, Liverpool clubs in the early sixties, four songwriters emerged who would change the course of popular music forever: The Beatles.

Since her win at the Brit Awards in 2012 for Our Version of Events, Emeli Sande has gone from strength to strength.

Von Bill Graham.

Based upon work and materials compiled for the acclaimed and now much sought after 2007 Cramps biography A Short History of Rock'n'Roll Psychosis, Journey To The Centre Of The Cramps goes far beyond being a revised and updated edition: Completely overhauled, rewritten and vastly expanded, it now represents the definitive work on the group.

Das unentbehrliche Handbuch, vollgepackt mit Informationen zur Musik von Eric Clapton.

Citizen Wynn recounts the cautionary saga of uber-wealthy casino king Steve Wynn, who built a global gambling empire on fantasy, grift, and misogyny before hubris and #MeToo brought him down.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Three men's lives, told through the story of one song.

Director David Lynch is best known for films that channel the uncanny and the weird into a distinct "e;Lynchian"e; aesthetic, in which sound and music play a key role: Lynch not only writes his intended sounds into the script but also often takes on the role of creating the sounds himself.

'This time they'd ****ed with the wrong person.

In early 1955, Colonel Tom Parker (the manager of the number-one country music star of the day) heard that an unknown teenager from Memphis had just drawn a crowd of more than 800 people to a Texas schoolhouse and headed south to investigate.

Eine Gesamtdarstellung der vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Kunst und Religion vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 18.

Eine Gesamtdarstellung der vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Kunst und Religion vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 18.

When Elbow won the Mercury Prize in 2008 for their fourth studio album - The Seldom Seen Kid - the accolade followed an organic 17 year long career marked by four classic albums and a cult following that cast them in the role of Manchester's best kept music secret.

This full length biography is the first comprehensive account of a truly legendary artist.

It's an of-told story: a young Tom Petty lucks his way onto the movie set for Elvis's Follow That Dream.

When Pete Doherty was imprisoned for burgling his best friend and bandmate Carl Barat in August 2003 it seemed the light had gone out on Britain's most exciting new band.

With greatly expanded text, this is the most revealing and frank personal 30-year chronicle of the group ever written.

Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades.

Over the years, The Fall have given me more pleasure than any other band and, when people ask me why I always say, 'they are always different, they are always the same' John Peel.

In 1989, The Stone Roses exploded onto the music scene at the forefront of a new wave of music from Manchester.

Michael Bradley joined his school friend's group in Derry, Northern Ireland in the summer of 1974.

When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention.

Fearlessly jump and fall into the world of Taylor Swift with this illustrated appreciation of her music by Swiftian Theory co-founder Satu H meenaho-Fox.

Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller shaped the rock and roll era - this is their story in their own words.

Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!