Music of Life, Paperback

The long-awaited autobiography of the legendary Nirvana and Foo Fighters rock star, Dave GrohlPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Dave GrohlI...

Inclusive, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic, Kenyon shows that no matter how great the crisis, music has the power to bring us togetherPublisher: Ya...

Reducere. Deforia Lane shares the healing power of music. Once a budding opera singer, Lane has dedicated her talent to treating hospital patients with music...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressIllustration(s): 7 black & white photographs, 1 music exampleNumber of pages: 272Collection: Music in Americ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressIllustration(s): 12 black & white photographs, 25 music examples, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Mu...

In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical ex...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In Black Utopias Jayna Brown looks to utopia as a way of exploring new states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Brown uses the lives...

Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually to...

Reducere. Music remains something of a mystery to many people--ephemeral sounds floating invisibly through the air--here, and then gone. This book begins wit...

Reducere. Joe Perry's New York Times bestselling memoir of life in the rock-and-roll band Aerosmith: "An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through...

Reducere. Gigi Gryce was a saxophonist and composer who worked with some of the best-known names in jazz during the 1950s, including Dizzy Gillespie, Theloni...

Rest in Power, a tribute to Trayvon Martin, is told through the alternating narratives of Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, about the beautiful and ...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of Shout , comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music...

From a stage erected in front of the US Capitol, on April 25, 1993, Michael Callen surveyed the throng: an estimated one million people stretched a...

Reducere. African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controversy pers...

Arthur Barrow shares stories of his life as a performer, composer, studio musician, and producer. He vividly describes his work with a wide range o...

Published to mark the 60th birthday of one of Britain's leading composers, this is a unique insight into Sir James MacMillan's thoughts on music, f...

Bernard Herrmann is a music composer who in over 40 scores enriched the work of directors like Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, a...

Reducere. This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, H...

DescriptionWhat is this fleeting experience that sometimes hits us when we listen to music? Through several short essays adapted from lectures give...

Reducere. Part memoir, part reportage, Louder Than Bombs is a story of music from the front lines. Ed Vulliamy, a decorated war correspondent and journalist,...

Reducere. Just about everyone likes to listen to music to put them in the mood, and these techniques get you out of a mood! The Tao part is about accepting w...

Reducere. Encyclopaedic in its scope, this is the ultimate tribute to the life and music of Taylor Swift. No need for glossy images here, the narrative says ...

Bass founder of the internationally renowned vocal group The King's Singers, member of the backing group for Pink Floyd and the lowest frog on a Pa...

What Makes The Monkey Dance tells the story of one of the most respected musicians of his generation the singular rock n roll artist Chuck Prophet ...

A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important m...

Reducere. Chet Atkins called Lenny Breau (1941-1984) "the greatest guitarist who ever walked the face of the earth." Breau's astonishing virtuosity influence...

Reducere. Winner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009.Selected for "The Best of the Best" from University Presse...

Reducere. Jelly's Blues recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (ca., 18851941). A virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life personality, he compose...

One of the most individual stylists of his time, trumpeter Lee Morgan began his professional career in Philadelphia at age fifteen. At eighteen, af...

Reducere. Bill Medley's indelible baritone adorns some of the biggest hits of the twentieth century and is prominent on the soundtrack of an entire generatio...

Reducere. DescriptionAlcoholic. Epileptic. Technically challenged. Jimmy Reed nevertheless overcame these roadblocks to become perhaps the most successful R&...

Reducere. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardBilly Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, ...

Reducere. Biography of Texas music legend Bobby Fuller, who was found dead, under mysterious circumstances, in 1966.

Reducere. In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in historythe Supremestold ...

Reducere. Dennis Jakob met Jim Morrison in 1964, they becoming fast friends and eventually college room mates. This book details some of the many experiences...

'Fascinating.' Guardian'Superlative.' The Times'Definitive.' ObserverAs an icon of India, Ravi Shankar ranks not far below Gandhi or the Taj Mahal.

The narrative of Tumult The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner is an extended exploration of the magical transformation of shy country girl A...

First time in paperback and e-book The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in--and stretching bey...

Reducere. Description#5 on Billboard Magazine's list of the Top Ten Music Books of 2018New York, NY, January 1, 2019 - Celebrated music producer John Simon h...

Reducere. The perfect gift for music and car lovers, Special Deluxe is Neil Young's New York Times bestselling follow-up to Waging Heavy Peace that "reads li...

Reducere. KING GEORGE The Triumphs and Tragedies In The Life of George Strait THE KING OF COUNTRY MUSIC THE TRAGEDIES ---George's mother left him as a child ...

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen tears the mask from rock's most complex and enigmatic icon in a no-holds-barred biography...

Reducere. It's time to look at Elvis Presley from the inside out. Elvis: Behind The Legend uncovers stunning secrets about The King of Rock and Roll's life, ...

Reducere. DescriptionHe's that regular guy from Astoria, Queens, who left his heart in San Francisco. He's the postwar heartthrob who inspired hundreds of yo...

Reducere. One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Duke Ellington (1899-1974) led a fascinating life. Beyond Category, the first biography to draw ...

DescriptionScreamin' Jay Hawkins released "I Put a Spell On You" in 1956. The song, that never made it to the charts when it was released, would ev...

Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and th...

Reducere. One of the most original, influential, and commercially successful American songwriters, Doc Pomus (1927-1991) was a role model for several generat...

Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to...

Reducere. He lived in the shadow of death, painfully aware of the tuberculosis that would kill him prematurely. But Fr d ric Chopin attained immortality with...

"A remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklin's music and her tumultuous life." --Rolling Stone Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daught...

Reducere. One of the hardest headbangers of heavy metal shares his uplifting and empowering memoir about overcoming addiction and discovering a life of faith...

Reducere. When Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto in 1974, he admitted that he knew only three things about Canada: It had great hockey teams, a lot of ...

Reducere. Winner, Best History, 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research When Mississippi J...

Reducere. Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) has been called the father of the symphony and the string quartet. A friend of Mozart and a teacher of Beethoven, -P...

Reducere. "Seymour's brilliant book is like a great Luther song: elegantly written, effortlessly executed and eloquently delivered." - Michael Eric Dyson "Cr...

DescriptionDuring the twentieth century, the number of Christians in Africa grew from an estimated 4 million to more than 300 million. One of the f...

From genre-defying icon Ben Folds comes a memoir reflecting on art, life and music that is as nuanced, witty and relatable as his cult classic songs.

An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores th...

The hilarious memoir of adored film critic Mark Kermode's riotous attempts to become a popstar - 'Wonderful...terrific...hit me right between the e...

Veteran journalist and critic Chris Morris looks back at his intense half-century-long relationship with the music of Bob Dylan, viewing the role t...

Reducere. In this book, Roberto Poli presents original discoveries that have generated ground breaking insights based on years of research and performance: l...

Reducere. Description"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."--Syd Barrett's ...

Reducere. DescriptionChosen #5 by Billboard Magazine of the Ten Best Music Books of 2018 FOR THE ROCK MUSIC FAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING ...from KIRKUS REVIEWS: "S...

People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate wedd...

Reducere. The ever-controversial Shakur offers a great occasion for a close, passionate reading of rap and ghetto culture. White's understanding of Tupac's a...

Reducere. "The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not ...

Reducere. Here is a hit for any classroom Written for you and your students, this helpful text contains thirty-four real-life scenes for boys, girls and mixe...