A reissue of Joe Oestreich's legendary memoir, featuring a new introduction by Rob Harvilla (60 Songs that Explain the '90s) and a new afterword by the author.
Echoes of '79: Synths, Circuits, and the New British Sound• Captures a pivotal year in British music with fresh historical insight• Connects punk, disco, reggae, and early electronic music into a single narrative arc• Explores the rise of synthesisers and studio technology shaping the 1980s• Strong appeal to readers of music history, cultural studies, and retro‑era nonfictionBritain, 1979.
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time.
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time.
Max Kalbeck (1850–1921), Musikschriftsteller, Lyriker, Librettist und enger Weggefährte von Johannes Brahms, schuf mit seiner achtbändigen Brahms-Biografie (1903–1914) ein einzigartiges Werk zwischen Kunst, Wissenschaft und Kulturpolitik.
Previously published in hardback as Hey Jo, this is a moving and candid memoir from the woman who married the most controversial member of the Rolling Stones, and had the strength and courage to bounce back from heartbreak.
'Squirm-inducing, excruciatingly honest and painfully funny' Joseph O'ConnorWe all went to school with friends who've turned out more successful than ourselves.
The explosive new book from Britain's leading investigative biographer, Tom BowerAs one of the most famous and influential couples in the world, David and Victoria Beckham have attained iconic status.
1973 was a year that glittered and growled, a year when British music stood at the crossroads of fantasy and fury, glamour and grit, reinvention and collapse.
La década de los noventa abrió un momento de transición en Chile que implicó cambios culturales que influyeron en la música no solo en el mensaje de las bandas y solistas, sino también en el desarrollo de la industria musical chilena.
'A brilliant book by one of the best culture writers in the UK' MIRANDA SAWYER'A thrilling, immersive journey' RECORD COLLECTORSpanning seven decades and with over 150 new interviews, including Richard Hawley, Arctic Monkeys, Self Esteem, ABC, Pulp, Def Leppard, The Human League, Toddla T, Cabaret Voltaire, Warp Records, Clock DVA, Heaven 17 and many moreFrom dazzling electronic futurism to pioneering post-punk, via pop, metal, bassline, bleep techno and generation-defining indie rock, Sheffield has long been a crucible for world-leading music.
New York City in the 1960s was a musical melting pot, in which folk, R&B, rock and roll, blues, girl groups and Brill Building pop produced a wealth of great artists and records.
An electrifying collection of essays from legendary cultural critic and Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Tate Easily one of the greatest wordsmiths [and] the best American writer and thinker of the past forty years Washington PostFrom one of the most original, creative, and provocative writers on American culture comes a now-classic collection of essays, delving far and wide into Black music, into film, into the beats and rhyme of culture (Questlove).
Multiprofessioneller Musikunterricht entsteht, wenn Lehrpersonen und Musikvermittler:innen ihre professionellen Zugänge verschränken, um Kindern musikalisch-ästhetische Erfahrungsräume – insbesondere im Umgang mit Instrumenten – zu eröffnen.
Dass die sogenannte abendländische Musik eine Fülle von musikalischen Kunstwerken hervorgebracht hat, die mit den Adjektiven 'einmalig', 'großartig', 'genial' etc.
Pioneering metal writer Keith Kahn-Harris presents a moving, visionary exploration of Ozzy Osbourne, and of metal music and culture: the potent legacy Ozzy left us.
Blunt, irreverent, and at times delightfully subversive, Opera Wars spotlights operas colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic futurea colorful, witty look behind the velvet curtain (Rene Fleming).
Der Name von Detlev Glanert (*1960) ist in aller Munde: anerkannt als bedeutender Opernkomponist und ebenso bewundert für seine zahlreichen Instrumentalwerke.
