The legendary band leader and jazz trumpeter, broadcaster and humorist looks back at his extraordinarily rich and varied life and the many colourful characters he has known and played with - from Duke Ellington to Louis Armstrong.
A stunning collection of over 200 essential and influential album covers of the decadeA visual reflection of psychedelia-influenced artwork to Punk anti- design - from Pink Floyd to the Sex PistolsIndispensable purchase for the dedicated follower of music and artThe seventies are often regarded as a mean, dark and turbulent decade, full of discontent and pessimism.
Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is a whimsical and fantastical journey through a world of nonsensical creatures and perplexing riddles.
Voces negras es un viaje sonoro por la compleja historia de África, una salvaje sinfonía de su profundidad musical, de la explotación y del expolio cultural sufrido durante siglos.
Die Anthologie 'Die Zauberflöte' präsentiert eine faszinierende Verbindung von literarischer und musikalischer Kunst, entstanden aus der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und Emanuel Schikaneder.
Zur ReiheFür die Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften, für die Rechtswissenschaften und die Theologie sind Fragen nach dem Zusammenhang von Text und Normativität gleichermaßen zentral.
El presente libro es el resultado de una investigación histórica musical, motivada por la ausencia de material académico respecto a una variante del género tropical desarrollada específicamente en Chile: La Cumbia Porteña.
Der berühmteste Zebrastreifen der Welt… führt zu den Abbey Road StudiosDas ikonenhafte Covermotiv der Beatles vom Abbey Road-Album löste einen unvergleichlichen Hype aus.
An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf, from a brilliant new voice in narrative non-fiction**LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE****A 2026 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALIST** 'An eye-opening tour de force' ALEX ESPINOZA'Exhilarating' SUSAN ORLEAN'Tender and insightful' MOHAMED TONSYUpon moving to the Gulf States where penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture and death Gaar Adams wants to understand why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live amid such peril.
In 'Der neue Ahasver' von Fritz Mauthner wird die Geschichte eines Mannes erzählt, der dazu verdammt ist, durch die Welt zu wandern und niemals Ruhe zu finden.
George Frideric Handel, born in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, ranks among the most important composers of the Baroque era, alongside Bach and Scarlatti, Dieterich Buxtehude and Georg Philipp Telemann.
FOREWORD BY RADIOHEAD'S ED O'BRIENExplore the story of Radiohead - perhaps the finest band of a generation - through the lens of legendary Melody Maker chief photographer Tom Sheehan.
In March 1947 Lord Louis Mountbatten became the last Viceroy of India, with themandate to hand over 'the jewel in the crown' of the British Empire within oneyear.
Il volume raccoglie le relazioni tenute a Napoli nel 2021 in occasione di un convegno su Caruso e il suo t empo ed altri contributi che si concentrano su numerosi nuovi aspetti della sua vita e della sua carriera – e del mondo operistico tra la fine del XIX secolo e i primi del Novecento.
Jazz übte eine eminente kulturelle Wirkung auf zahlreiche Sphären der neuen Öffentlichkeit Deutschlands nach der Befreiung 1945 aus und wurde zum Ausdruck eines komplexen Zeit- und Lebensgefühls, das weit über Liebhaberkreise hinaus Einfluss auch auf Literatur und Film, Debatten und Diskurse genommen hat.
Die "Zauberflöte" war vom Textdichter Schikaneder als Volksstück für ein paar dutzend Abende in einem Wiener Vorstadttheater gedacht, als er Mozart um die Kompostion bat.
'Every current and aspiring leader needs to read this book' - Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, Sunday Times bestselling authors of The Squiggly Career and You Coach You'Clever, brilliantly researched and vitally important' - Dawn O'Porter, bestselling author of The Cows and Cat LadyThe Glass Cliff is an urgent conversation about what really happens when women break the rules, and break through The Glass Ceiling.
