“Bang your head! Metal Health’ll drive you mad!”
ー Quiet Riot
Like an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music on steroids, Bang Your Head is an epic history of every band and every performer that has pro……続きを見る
著者:Lester Bangs
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年09月04日
Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning d……続きを見る
Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema is a collection of essays that examine the work of filmmakers whose concern is not just for the eye, but also for the ear. The bulk of the text foc……続きを見る
Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender di……続きを見る
著者:Mikal Gilmore
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2012年06月28日
Night Beat is a look at the disruption of culture as viewed through the history of rock music, its activists, its politics, the lives lived and lives grieved for during an epoch of upheaval. The aut……続きを見る
This is the definitive review of the career and work of Aerosmith a band that can truly say that its seen and done it all. In selling more than 150 million albums worldwide, they became the biggest ……続きを見る
More than just a history of Danko Jones, this book is an exploration of the rigid politics that govern both underground and mainstream music and how a band can succeed without pandering to either. D……続きを見る
著者:Joel Benjamin
出版社: Arjon Publishing
発売日: 2013年06月06日
Each of the 13 songs from A Hard Day’s Night are “profiled” in this volume of Beatle Song Profiles.
Beatle Song Profiles are concise commentaries on every Beatle song. The song profiles des……続きを見る
著者:Nick Talevski
出版社: Omnibus Press
発売日: 2010年04月07日
The fascination with tragedy and the subsequent theatre of voyeurism are part of human nature especially when it involves our icons celebrities and musicians. Knocking On Heavens Door is the definit……続きを見る
"WORST GIG is Music Appreciation 225, taught by that cool professor everyone wanted to have beers with after class. One fun nugget after another. It was harder to close than my Twitter app."ーMatthe……続きを見る
著者:Richard Taruskin
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA
発売日: 2012年09月16日
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Now in hardcover, the set has be……続きを見る
This is a comprehensive in-depth exploration of the career and work of one of the worlds greatest hard rock bands.With the likes of Richie Blackmore, Ian Gillan and David Coverdale passing through t……続きを見る
著者:Scott Heim
出版社: Rosecliff Press
発売日: 2013年01月03日
THE FIRST TIME I HEARD KATE BUSH is Part V in an ongoing series where musicians and writers tell their stories of first hearing the music of an iconic artist or band. In this fifth volume (following……続きを見る
Hugely acclaimed author of THIS IS UNCOOL and FEAR OF MUSIC turns his attention to rock 'n' roll movies.
From BLACKBOARD JUNGLE to QUADROPHENIA, from 8 MILE to ABBA: THE MOVIE, no one has seriously ……続きを見る
著者:John Densmore
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年11月04日
“This book is the real story.”ーRobby Krieger
“[John] Densmore's is the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the ……続きを見る
The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signi……続きを見る
Dictionnaire Beatles
Par leurs propos, par leurs extravagances musicales, ces quatre garçons bravent les codes en vigueur. Les Beatles se font l'écho de la contre-culture de leur temps mais ils en r……続きを見る
Few music groups have been able to sustain a fan base over half a century that is as significant and devoted as those of the Beatles, and this entertaining guide to all things Fab Four rewards those……続きを見る
The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band.
The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mytholo……続きを見る
An engrossing and intimate portrait of the Oklahoma-based psychedelic pop band the Flaming Lips, cult heroes to millions of indie-rock fans.
In July 2002, the Flaming Lips released an ambitious albu……続きを見る
著者:Nick Hasted
出版社: Music Sales Limited
発売日: 2013年09月26日
You Really Got Me is Nick Hasted’s illuminating biography of The Kinks, drawing on years of in-depth interviews with Ray and Dave Davies and shedding new light on a turbulent 30-year career scarred ……続きを見る
著者:Dan Sicko
出版社: Wayne State University Press
発売日: 2010年04月15日
An updated, expanded history of techno music with special attention to its roots in Detroit.
When it was originally published in 1999, Techno Rebels became the definitive text on a hard-to-define bu……続きを見る
著者:John Reed
出版社: Music Sales Limited
発売日: 2009年11月05日
The best-selling biography to the life and mood-swings of the one and only Modfather. Through his work with The Jam, The Style Council and ultimately as a solo artist, Weller has remained one of our……続きを見る
著者:Elijah Wald
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA
発売日: 2012年09月16日
Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popula……続きを見る
著者:Peter Doggett
出版社: Music Sales Limited
発売日: 2012年02月02日
The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Jimi Hendrix, now widely acclaimed as the most gifted instrumentalist in the history of rock.An album by album, track by track, run-down of all mus……続きを見る
著者:Brian Boone
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年08月02日
Music breeds duality. We enjoy the music we love-listening to it, talking about it, reading about it. But it's just as fun to passionately revel in mocking the music we hate. Fortunately, musicians ……続きを見る
著者:Daryl Easlea
出版社: Music Sales Limited
発売日: 2010年04月07日
When LA musicians Russell and Ron Mael moved to Britain in 1973, they hit the pop world as Sparks and looked like oddballs, even in the context of the glam rock movement that made them welcome. Soon……続きを見る
Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader is designed to supplement a textbook for an introductory course in ethnomusicology. It offers a cross section of the best new writing in the field from the las……続きを見る
As the girlfriend of Fleetwood Mac's singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, Carol Ann Harris was the consummate insider. She was there when Rumours, the fastest-selling album in history, hurtled t……続きを見る
著者:Chris Hutchins
出版社: Christopher Hutchins Ltd
発売日: 2012年09月01日
ELVIS and LENNON** By Chris Hutchins and Peter Thompson
HOW the meeting at Elvis’s Bel Air mansion – arranged by their friend, the co-author Chris Hutchins – lit the touch paper for a dangerous feu……続きを見る