Music Styles 88

With a foreword by MARK KNOPFLER 'An uplifting journey through the sheer hard work, pitfalls and thrills of navigating a great rock band to the pinnacle of success. I so enjoyed the ride!' ROGER TAY……続きを見る

Artistic Dynamos: An Ethnography on Music in Central African Kingdoms uses stories and research from Ngiembɔɔn communities of Central and West Cameroon as touchstones for proposing new approaches to……続きを見る

It may have all started with Syd Barrett, but the persistence and creativity of Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Nick Mason and David Gilmour meant that Pink Floyd went from one of England’s top undergrou……続きを見る

During the last thirty years Eastern Europe has been a place of radical political, economic, and social transformation, and these changes have affected the cultural industries of its countries. This……続きを見る

The 4 Seasons with lead singer Frankie Valli rank among the top American vocal acts of all time. Collectively, Valli and the group amassed seven number one hits, 18 Top Tens and placed an incredible……続きを見る

«Nick Hornby ha scritto un libro d'amore. Sì, amore per la musica pop... Un amore importante, linfa vitale per la sua arte e la sua vita» La Repubblica «Nessuno è brillante e coinvolgente come Nick ……続きを見る

“We have performed side-by-side on the global stage through half a century…. In Lightning Striking, Lenny Kaye hasilluminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal an……続きを見る

Kid Centrifuge is a rock band with dreams no bigger than other rock bands: ho-hum, tour and get signed and be famous and change the universe. Alas, unlike their rock-music forebears, our heroes live……続きを見る

In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," opens up about his band's meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the m……続きを見る

Sophie Ellis-Bextor shares her experiences, insights and reflections on men, music and motherhood. Sophie Ellis-Bextor's kitchen discos became a source of much needed escapism, catharsis and sequine……続きを見る

Bobby Vee got his "lucky break" after the infamous crash of the plane Buddy Holly was riding went down in an Iowa cornfield, killing all aboard. Auditions were quickly held to find temporary replace……続きを見る

"A MÃE DE TODO O METAL" (LOS ANGELES TIMES) REVELA TUDO Empunhando sua famosa guitarra preta, Lita Ford destruiu os estereótipos de mulheres na música ao longo dos anos 1970 e 1980. Começou na prime……続きを見る

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music - traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop - and each type of music tends to come with its ow……続きを見る

Nuevas historias apasionantes sobre el mundo del rock y sus protagonistas Leyendas, conspiraciones y falsos mitos La historia del rock nos ha regalado momentos prodigiosos, canciones inolvidables y ……続きを見る

No band in recent history has divided listeners' opinions as much as Radiohead. Are they the Beatles of the twenty-first century, or is their music just pretentious, overly melancholic, and sometime……続きを見る

Ivy Benson was born to be a musician. A good pianist by the age of ten, she was influenced by the music of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and other jazz legends to become a professional instrumentalist……続きを見る

More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base from the 1960s. Why have those first-generation fa……続きを見る

Se você já é expert com as cordas ou está se aventurando agora no mundo da música, prepare-se para tocar os maiores sucessos sertanejos e pop rock, com dicas e truques que vão aperfeiçoar sua técnic……続きを見る

You've heard Alex Van Halen's side of the story--now read Eddie Van Halen's own words in this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews with Eddie himself as well ……続きを見る

Aprenda a tocar os maiores sucessos sertanejos: Bruninho & Davi, Bruno & Marrone, Eduardo Costa, Fernando & Sorocaba, Gusttavo Lima, Henrique & Diego, Henrique & Juliano, Israel Novaes, João Bosco &……続きを見る

Popular music in the twenty-first century is increasingly divided into niche markets. How do fans, musicians, and music industry executives define their markets’ boundaries? What happens when musici……続きを見る

Sound for Moving Pictures presents a new and original sound design theory called the Four Sound Areas framework, offering a conceptual template for constructing, deconstructing and communicating all……続きを見る

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post Notable Book Excerpted in The New Yorker A work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life and the musical ……続きを見る

Ésta es una biografía palpitante como pocas. El lector sentirá que está presenciando en vivo la trayectoria de esta súper banda. Todo empezó en 1970, cuando el guitarrista Brian May y el baterista R……続きを見る

This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms. The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction ……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of Asian Music: Cultural Intersections introduces Asian music as a way to ask questions about what happens when cultures converge and how readers may evaluate cultural junctur……続きを見る

Día a día crecen los fans de la cantante de blues-rock Janis Joplin, conocida también como "La Perla" o "La Bruja Cósmica", y por ello tanto sus discos como los libros y películas acerca de ella tie……続きを見る

By the early 1970s, practically everyone under a certain age liked rock music, but not everyone liked it for the same reasons. We typically associate the sounds of classic rock 'n' roll with youthfu……続きを見る

Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture takes an interdisciplinary approach by utilizing several aspects of Brazilian music, race, and food as a window to understanding Brazilian culture, wit……続きを見る

Jonathan Taplin’s extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century: he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band in the 60s, producer of major f……続きを見る