American Recordings, Paperback

When Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin's record label in 1993, he was already in the wax museum of memory, a fondly regarded but totally marginalize...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Wojciech Usarzewicz"Calm Forest" is a songbook for beginners and intermediate players who wish to learn how to play Native ...

In 2015 University Press of Mississippi published Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s by Harry Bolick and Stephen Austin to acclaim a...

Reducere. From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American cult...

Reducere. A militantly anti-war memoir of one young man's resistance to the Vietnam War from within the active-duty ranks of the US Army. The story is narrat...

Reducere. The go-to guide for learning and reinforcing American English vocabulary for beginning ESL learners--now enhanced with audio recordings through the...

The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Despite their very different backgro...

Reducere. Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His clo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kyra D. Gaunt2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finali...

The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. A collection of short stories themed...

Reducere. Memphis Boys chronicles the story of the rhythm section at Chips Moman's American Studios from 1964, when the group began working together, until 1...

Reducere. Easily identify bird species west of the Great Plains with this comprehensive photographic guide.A book for avid bird watchers young and old! These...

Reducere. Easily identify bird species west of the Great Plains with this comprehensive photographic guide.A book for avid bird watchers young and old! These...

DescriptionAward-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefull...

Reducere. PHOTO-ILLUSTRATED REVISED EDITIONAlternate Channels is an up-close, behind-the-scenes history of gay and lesbian images on 20th-century American te...

Reducere. DescriptionLife working along the banks of the Erie Canal is preserved in the songs of America's rich musical history. Thomas Allen's "Low Bridge, ...

Reducere. The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 have earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Flight 93...

Reducere. Chips Moman's genius began in the studio, where he instituted technical innovations that forever changed the recording industry, but it expanded fr...

Reducere. "Chasing the Rising Sun" is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as...

Creative Harmony is an advanced theory textbook by the famous American composer George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) whose music has been presented b...

Contributor(s): Author: Lytle ShawNarrowcast explores how mid-century American poets associated with the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new...

A self-described "song-hunter, " the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930's and '40s, armed with primitive recording eq...

The power and influence of Grace increases with each passing year. Here, Daphne Brooks traces Jeff Buckley's fascinating musical development throug...

The bestselling Easy Reader series, with its distinctive three-part structure that leads beginners to intermediate-level comprehension, now offers ...

Reducere. DescriptionNobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's life in music is revisted by his foremost interpreter--weaving individual moods and moments into a brilli...

Reducere. Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit is the first publication of Tlingit oratory recorded in performance. It features Tlingit texts with facin...

Reducere. "If you like tap dancing and tap dancers--this is your book."--Gene Kelly From the vaudeville era, through the Astaire-Rogers movies, to the intric...

Reducere. A rollicking look at 1971, rock's golden year, the year that saw the release of the indelible recordings of Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Who, Rod...

Reducere. Chants of a Lifetime offers an intimate collection of stories, teachings, and insights from Krishna Das, who has been called "the chant master of A...

Reducere. DescriptionEdward "Kid" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells...

Reducere. DescriptionRobert Dean Lurie's biography is the first completely researched and written since R.E.M. disbanded in 2011. It offers by far the most d...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). If you're about to be stranded on a desert island and you can only take your guitar and one songbook with you, make sur...

Reducere. DescriptionControversial, a global icon, a diva among divas---Barbra Streisand, the last genuinely unique show business personality of the twentiet...

Reducere. Blues Hall of Fame Inductee--Named a "Classic of Blues Literature" by the Blues Foundation, 2019 This remarkable book recovers three invaluable per...

An Exclusive Collection of President-Elect Donald Trump's Most Outrageous Tweets If you have been paying attention to politics in the past year, yo...

Reducere. In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for socia...

William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twent...

Reducere. Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultur...