What Makes The Monkey Dance. The Life And Music Of Chuck Prophet And Green On Red, Paperback - Stevie Simkin

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 ...

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

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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...

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The authorised biography of Nick Lowe, the 'Jesus of Cool'.

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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...

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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...

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One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a s...

Ever since she was a small child, Helma Swan, the daughter of a Northwest Coast chief, loved and learned the music of her people. As an adult she b...

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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...

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DescriptionThe original edition of The Geometry of Musical Rhythm was the first book to provide a systematic and accessible computational geometric...

In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valery wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge a...

A thought-provoking book about living in harmony from the author of Please Mr Panda and The Queen's Hat.

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Aimed at scholars and students of missiology, this book consider missions through the lens of 'prophetic dialogue'. The authors try to to bring a f...