Music 8

The term 'Jewish music' has conveyed complex and diverse meanings for people around the world across hundreds of years. This accessible and comprehensive Companion is a key resource for students, sc……続きを見る

‘This is the truth as we know it. I have read so much about what people think they know about Michael, but this is about what really happened.’ Jermaine Jackson You Are Not Alone is an intimate, lov……続きを見る

Four volatile bursts of energy whose incendiary music and intelligent lyrics made them articulate spokesmen for a dissatisfied generation. This is the band in their own words - from their anarchic b……続きを見る

Vladimir Jankélévitch, dont l'oeuvre a toujours mêlé philosophie et musique, perce dans cet ouvrage le mystère de l'instant qui est l'essence de la musique de Debussy. Deux mouvements inverses sembl……続きを見る

100 songs by 100 artists selected by a Korean producer/DJ with a keen knowledge of Japanese music such as Showa-era songs and city pop. シティポップブームの最重要人物であるNightTempoが選ぶ日本の知ら……続きを見る

Classical music was never meant to be an art for snobs! In the 1700s and 1800s, classical music was popular music. People went to concerts with their friends, they brought snacks and drinks, and che……続きを見る

Spirito avventuroso ed irrequieto, il compositore Maderna è stato un artista a tutto tondo, andando sempre alla ricerca di sperimentazione e nuove strade espressive. Non cessò mai di indagare nuove ……続きを見る

The Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year, now in paperback ‘Paul McCartney says this is as close as he will get to an autobiography and no wonder – his life is in every line of t……続きを見る

*** Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3 *** In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howar……続きを見る

How to Make a Noise: Analog Synthesis looks at creating sounds using analog synthesis techniques. Analog synthesis works by taking a sound source and shaping it with a filter. This is a simple but p……続きを見る

It seems excessive…but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world’s greatest and m……続きを見る

On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the loca……続きを見る

Winner of IASPM's 2005 International Book Award Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making Beats was the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods, and values of a ……続きを見る

In a career full of ‘blond ambition’, with controversy never far away, the music of Madonna has often been overshadowed, if not sorely overlooked. Across 14 albums, soundtracks and numerous greatest……続きを見る

Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a prodigy who loathed the word, a brilliant pianist who disliked performing, and a public figure who craved solitude. With his recording of the Goldberg Variations by J.S……続きを見る

Klassik ist altmodisch und langweilig - das sind nur zwei von vielen Vorurteilen über klassische Musik. David Pogue und Scott Speck zeigen Ihnen, dass das ganz und gar nicht der Fall ist. Sie bringe……続きを見る

Le témoignage inédit et intime de Michel Polnareff. Un livre événement. " Être tout le contraire de mon père J'ai toujours été un amoureux de l'amour C'est un métier dangereux pour moi Ma revanche s……続きを見る

La Sonata in Do K. 545 di W. A. Mozart è suddivisa in tre movimenti: Allegro, Andante e Rondò. Osservandola con un occhio esperto si nota subito che Mozart la compose per fini didattici; ci sono inf……続きを見る

‘This band has no past’ was the first line of the farcical biography printed on the inner sleeve of Cheap Trick’s first album, but the band, of course, did have a pastーa past that straddles two ver……続きを見る

"Have a Little Faith is not merely a fan's notes; this is a riveting book that tells the stories of one of our greatest roots musicians and the tenacity that's grown out of his enduring passion for ……続きを見る

'Nobody owes us anything, but the Simple Minds story has been too condensed. After Live Aid and 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' there hasn't been quite the credit for those first few records. I think ……続きを見る

Informed by theories pertaining to transnational mobility, ethnicity and race, gender, postcolonialism, as well as Japanese studies, Transnational Musicians explores the way Japanese musicians estab……続きを見る

The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of Johann Sebastian Bach's life, it is considered by many to be the composer's greate……続きを見る

Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer. Janelle Monáe is all these things and more, making h……続きを見る

No Direction Home took 20 years to complete and has received widespread critical acclaim. Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York; he became Dylan's friend, champion, ……続きを見る

A gravadora Forma lançou discos muito importantes para a música brasileira nos anos 1960 como Os Afro-Sambas, de Baden Powell e Vinicius de Moraes, Coisas, de Moacir Santos, Inútil Paisagem, de Eumi……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait : CARLES li reis, nostre emperere magnes, Set anz tuz pleins ad estet en Espaigne : Tresqu’en la mer cunquist……続きを見る

______________ 'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian 'A marvel……続きを見る

The Beatles' incomparable fashion sense takes center stage in this unique look at how the world's most popular band influenced the fashion of the times. The Beatles knew how much image mattered in t……続きを見る

The research presented in this volume is very recent, and the general approach is that of rethinking popular musicology: its purpose, its aims, and its methods. Contributors to the volume were asked……続きを見る