Music: styles and genres

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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.

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

Von Bill Graham.

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

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!

The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings provides an in-depth study of the music of two of the biggest fantasy franchises, focussing on music's worldbuilding roles within the film-watching experience and elsewhere in videogames, trailers, plays, theme parks and other attractions, and the world of fandom.

Tom Jones: Close Up surpasses all other attempts to chronicle the life of a unique star who has been notoriously unforthcoming about himself.

Led Zeppelin's records and concerts outsold every other band on the planet.

Bestselling author David Dalton goes in seach of the real Bob Dylan in an electrifying biography that puts all the others in the shade.

Walk the halls of the famous studio that produced hits for Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam and Dave, and Booker T.

Mod may have been born in the ballrooms and nightclubs around London but it soon rampaged throughout the country.

In this concert file, Joe McMichael and 'Irish' Jack Lyons assemble an amazingly thorough chronicle of live performances played by the hardest working rock 'n' roll band of all time.