Composers & Musicians 10

Are you the world’s biggest Rod Stewart fan? Or do you want to find out everything there is to know about one of the world's best-loved singers?If so, then this is the book for you! Contained within……続きを見る

He was one of the most brilliant men in the world. His music inspired millions of lives and changed culture as we know it. But who was he really? This book, just for kids, will look at his childhood……続きを見る

In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prizeーwinning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life. Writing fro……続きを見る

African superstar composer singer and musician as well as mystic and political activist Nigerian Fela Kuti born in 1938 was controversy personified. He was swept to international celebrity on a wave……続きを見る

John Cage was a man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents: musician, inventor, composer, poet. He became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacl……続きを見る

In Post Everything, Luke Haines demonstrates that the only way to survive the tyrannical scourge of Britpop is to become an Outsider. The 'avant-garde Arthur Scargill' calls upon the nation's pop st……続きを見る

Born Vito Farinola in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1928, Vic worked as an usher at the fabled Paramount Theatre before realizing a dream by shooting to the top of the Billboard Chart in 1947 with his fi……続きを見る

Biography -- Music--> "I messed up," Calvin Newton lamented, after wasting thirty years and doing time in both state and federal prisons for theft, counterfeiting, and drug violations. "These were y……続きを見る

Bob Marley is the unchallenged king of reggae and one of music's great iconic figures. Rita Marley was not just his wife and the mother of four of his children but his backing singer and friend, lif……続きを見る

When Little Richard burst onto the scene in the early 1950s, he sounded like nothing on earth. Drenched in sweat, screaming, hollering and pumping his piano, he made all who followed soud tame. His ……続きを見る

A searing portrait of Bob Marley and the making of Exodus, Time’s best album of the twentieth centuryーand an acutely perceptive appreciation of his musical and spiritual legacy “Finely reported, vi……続きを見る

Selected in 1997 as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World, Jennifer Lopez shows that she’s more than just a pretty face. Her best known trademarks are her curvy figure and her diverse ta……続きを見る

*’Style, for Bowie, is inextricable from art. It is less a flight from reality than an entire way of life.’ A richly-illustrated 160-page chronicle of pop's greatest exponent of style. This visual e……続きを見る

“1977 is the Queen's jubilee year, well let's make it our year as well. Let's get out and do something. Chuck away the f•••••g stupid safety-pins, think about people's ideas instead of their clothes……続きを見る

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS THE GREAT ITALIAN AND FRENCH COMPOSERS. PALESTRINA. PICCINI, PAISIELLO, AND CIMAROSA ROSSINI. VERDI. CHERUBINI AND HIS PREDECESSORS. MÉHUL, ……続きを見る

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems ……続きを見る

The Guardians opens with a story from the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press that begins, "An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night as i……続きを見る

They were the pioneers of American hardcore, forming in California in 1978 and splitting up 8 years later leaving behind them a trail of blood, carnage and brutal, brilliant music. Throughout the ye……続きを見る

In the spirit of Friday Night Lights comes the stirring story of a marching band from small-town middle America. Every fall, marching bands take to the field in a uniquely American ritual. For milli……続きを見る

Elvis Presley was celebrity's perfect storm. His sole but substantial contribution was talent, a fact Charles L. Ponce de Leon is careful to demonstrate throughout his wonderfully contextual Fortuna……続きを見る

Dave Grohl ist für Viele der beste Schlagzeuger, Gitarrist und Sänger auf dem Planeten. Ein musikalisches Schwergewicht, das mit Nirvana Musikgeschichte geschrieben hat und mit seiner aktuellen Band……続きを見る

As perhaps the most influential composer of the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky lived much of his long life on the public stage. But behind that public face was a very private man, at once father……続きを見る

Franz Liszt Superstar Franz Liszt (1811–1886) war eine absolute Ausnahmeerscheinung, ein musikalischer Revolutionär, eine europäische Berühmtheit, ein romantischer Exzentriker, kurzum: ein Superstar……続きを見る

Frank Zappa's reputation as one of rock's maverick geniuses has continued to grow since his death in 1993. This successful biography has now been revised and reprinted and is still the most comprehe……続きを見る

Packed with rich and fascinating detail, the third volume of the magisterial biography of Igor Stravinsky casts a brilliant new light on the greatest composer of the twentieth century. • “Among the ……続きを見る

Not heaving from my ribb'd breast only, Not in sighs at night in rage dissatisfied with myself, Not in those long-drawn, ill-supprest sighs, Not in many an oath and promise broken, Not in my wilful ……続きを見る

Are you the world's biggest Ed Sheeran fan? Or do you want to know everything there is to know about one of the most talented singer-songwriters of a generation?If so, then this is the book for you!……続きを見る

In 1989, The Stone Roses exploded onto the music scene at the forefront of a new wave of music from Manchester. The Roses’ music an exhilarating mixture of sixties’ pop, rock and dance made them the……続きを見る

In a career that begun in the late Sixties Iggy Pop always set out to shock. But his attention-grabbing tactics including self-mutilation always disguised a musician and artist more complex than the……続きを見る

The untold story of life on the road with the Grateful Dead, written by an insider who lived it from the early days to today. Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during ……続きを見る