Nordic Music Videos fills a gap in the existing research on music videos by bringing together new perspectives on music videos across the Nordic region, from the academic to the practical, the aesthetic to the industrial, while addressing issues of local, transnational, and global significance.
Offering fans an extensive look at the artist's own words throughout the past four decades, Springsteen on Springsteen brings together Q & A-formatted articles, speeches, and features that incorporate significant interview material.
'Beautifully written, deliciously evocative, funny and touching'STEPHEN FRY 'A thermometer up the Khyber Pass of Comedy, expertly administered'RICHARD E GRANTAged twenty-five, dressed as Che Guevara, Nigel Planer answers an ad for a room and his life changes for ever.
'We are all the better for his way of seeing the world' Dame Judi Dench'He is delight and joy personified' - Marian Keyes 'Set to become BBC's next David Attenborough' - DAILY MAIL'Brings a little bit of joy to us all' - GUARDIANHamza Yassin loves being outdoors in nature.
Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) likely suffered from a manic-depressive disorder but in his time very little was known about mental illness, and suicide was not a topic for general discussion.
When Fun Lovin' Criminals released their debut album Come Find Yourself in 1996, its fusion of hip-hop, funk, blues and rock quickly became one of the most iconic and influential records of the decade.
From the sonically sparse Pure Heroine to the epic pop euphoria of Melodrama, and from the sunny optimism of Solar Power to the raw, primal energy of Virgin, Lorde has been crafting music that defines the moment for over a decade.
Since its release in 1976, ABBA's song "e;Fernando"e; has been loved by fans around the globe both for its sing-along chorus and its revolutionary spirit.
Keine ausfuhrliche Beschreibung fur "e;Caspar David Friedrichs Gemalde Abtei im Eichwald"e; und die fruhe Wirkungsgeschichte der Ruine Eldena bei Greifswald"e; verfugbar.
Historians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist era that produced it.
Carl Dixon's journey through the twists and turns of a music performer's life began in Northern Ontario, where his boyhood dreams, shaped by the 1960s, collided with a new musical culture.
Carl Dixon's journey through the twists and turns of a music performer's life began in Northern Ontario, where his boyhood dreams, shaped by the 1960s, collided with a new musical culture.
During the years before World War II, hundreds of traditional musicians were sought out by commercial record companies, brought to New York or into local-often makeshift-studios, to cut recordings that would be marketed as "e;race"e; and "e;hillbilly"e; music.
Moore, Burridge, and the contributors explore the multifaceted role of improvisation, from rehearsal to performance and teaching to learning within the Southeast Asian performing arts scene.
Kentucky Country is a lively tour of the state's indigenous music, from the days of string bands through hillbilly, western swing, gospel, bluegrass, and honkey-tonk to through the Nashville Sound and beyond.
The South-an inspiration for songwriters, a source of styles, and the birthplace of many of the nation's greatest musicians-plays a defining role in American musical history.
Frank Mathias was a teenager in a small town when the draft swept him into the army and then halfway around the world to the jungles of the South Pacific.
It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would "e;cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song"e;-his Southern highlands folk-song compilations now constitute one of the largest collections of its kind in the Library of Congress-but he did much more than acquire songs.
