Music Styles 35

More than fifteen years since the death of lead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead stand as a symbol of the unresolved cultural clashes of the 1960s. The band’s thirty-year odyssey……続きを見る

Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll? features new writing in the growing field of U2 studies. Edited by Scott Calhoun, with a foreword by Anthony DeCurtis, Exploring U2 contains selections from the ……続きを見る

J.J. Johnson, known as the spiritual father of modern trombone, has been a notable figure in the history of jazz. His career has embodied virtually every innovation and development in jazz over the ……続きを見る

No art can survive without an understanding of, and dedication to, the values envisioned by its creators. No culture over time has existed without a belief system to sustain its survival. Black musi……続きを見る

In 1942, drummer Viola Smith sent shock waves through the jazz world by claiming in Down Beat magazine that “hep girls” could sit in on any jam session and hold their own. In Women Drummers: A Histo……続きを見る

“Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide their time in the minor leagues wishing for an oppor……続きを見る

Elvis Presley’s stature as the “King of Rock and Roll” will never be challenged. Between his first RCA hit single in 1956ーthe number-one smash “Heartbreak Hotel”ーand his death in 1977, Elvis amass……続きを見る

In Psychedelia and Other Colours, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting with light……続きを見る

“Are We Not New Wave? is destined to become the definitive study of new wave music.” ーMark Spicer, coeditor of Sounding Out Pop New wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cas……続きを見る

". . . a great blow-by-blow account of an exciting and still-legendary scene." ---Marshall Crenshaw From the early days of John Lee Hooker to the heyday of Motown and beyond, Detroit has enjoyed a l……続きを見る

Authorship Roles in Popular Music applies the critical concept of auteur theory to popular music via different aspects of production and creativity. Through critical analysis of the music itself, th……続きを見る

Nachdem Axel Klingenberg Mitte der 80er Jahre in der Film-AG des Herzog Ernst-Gymnasiums in Uelzen "The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle" gesehen hat, kaufte er sich eine Lederjacke und einen Haufen Sex Pi……続きを見る

This is an essential text on an important area of the music curriculum consistently judged weak or inadequate by school inspectors in Britain. It covers social, physiological, musical, and pedagogic……続きを見る

When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention. Riding on a string of hits like "I'm 18" and "School's Out," they became America's hi……続きを見る

Rebels With A Cause is an in-depth account of Green Day's 20-year journey from their scrappy high school band days to international stardom. It's a punk-roots journey told through incisive interview……続きを見る

The tiny Sun studio at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee may not have looked like much from the outside, but inside musical miracles were being performed daily by its enigmatic owner, Sam Phill……続きを見る

The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, these minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set……続きを見る

From the writer of Gabba Gabba Hey! The Graphic Story of The Ramones and Metallica: Nothing Else Matters comes an explosive new graphic novel about The Most Dangerous Band in the World: Guns N' Rose……続きを見る

This unique, best-selling series features quotes gathered over the years from family, friends, and the artists themselves giving the reader a personal insight into their music and world. Fully illus……続きを見る

Elvis Presley was unique. "I don't sound like nobody," he said before he was anybody, and John Lennon, whose Beatles would later create their own mania in the world, would offer the tribute: "Before……続きを見る

"It's All About the Music!" Welcome to another in the Legends of Rock & Roll series. This is, like the others, a mini-biography of one the greatest of American performers and bands, Bruce Springstee……続きを見る

In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work ……続きを見る

A Transnational History of Punk Communities in Poland is a multi-regional study of the history and contemporary condition of two Polish punk communities: the one in Warsaw and surrounding areas, and……続きを見る

The Coolest Music Book Ever Made aka MC 500 is a two volume set containing write-ups for 500 songs spanning over 40 years. More than 250 artists are represented from the genres of Funk, R&B, Hard Ro……続きを見る

Goodnight and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain is a social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our gr……続きを見る

In Rhythm Is My Beat: Jazz Guitar Great Freddie Green and the Count Basie Sound, Alfred Green tells the story of his father, rhythm guitarist Freddie Green, whose guitar work served as the pulse of ……続きを見る

This is the inside story of the Beatles by a writer who knew them from the Hamburg days and was with them through the height of Beatlemania. He relates the secrets of their lives on the road and at ……続きを見る

Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan explores a diversity of musics performed in Japan today, ranging from folk song to classical music, the songs of geisha to the screaming of underground rock, with ……続きを見る

"At the end of the day, it was and still is about the music." - Don Henley Welcome to another in the Legends of Rock & Roll series. The Legends of Rock & Roll series is about the music we have liste……続きを見る

“Music That Matters: Classic Rock” (Includes 11 Video Notebooks at the End of the Manuscript) Whether or not you are a fan of Classic Rock, it certainly is an important part of the history of Pop an……続きを見る