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Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright is famous around the world for his multi-faceted musical style, shown through both his recorded output and his engaging live performances. In this book, Katherine Williams combines aspects of his life story with scholarly readings drawn from several methodologies. Popular...

Britpop: it's the only term that can accurately encompass the bright, bold sound and attitude that burst from the United Kingdom in the '90s. Beginning with the release of Blur's single 'Popscene' in 1992, peaking with Oasis' triumphant outdoor live shows at Knebworth in...

The book contains fascinating facts about memorable hits from key Sixties artists, hard-to-fi nd tracks alongside many hidden gems This is a comprehensive collection that music fans and hardened Sixties collectors will cherish. The book includes features on: Beatles covers / Double A-Sides /...

Becoming Elektra tells the incredible true story of the pioneering Elektra Records label and its far-sighted founder, Jac Holzman, who built a small folk imprint into a home for some of the most groundbreaking, important, and enduring music of the rock era.Placing the Elektra...

Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades. So claims Down with Childhood, as it takes in psychedelia's preoccupation with rebirth...

John Howard was a good Catholic boy brought up in post-war Lancashire, who became more turned on by gilt than by guilt. Sacred Heart statues and a wall-mounted crucifix, along with plans for the priesthood, were replaced by Marc Bolan posters, miming to 'Metal...

Inter-racial. Inter-gender. Into drugs. What is it... this thing called Sly & The Family Stone? It's about time. It's about space. It's about the ups and downs of Funk, Psychedelic Soul and R&B. But more than anything else, it's about music and it's about...

Britpop: it's the only term that can accurately encompass the bright, bold sound and attitude that burst from the United Kingdom in the '90s. Beginning with the release of Blur's single 'Popscene' in 1992, peaking with Oasis' triumphant outdoor live shows at Knebworth in...

The musical achievements of The Beatles are well chronicled but their ability to generate myths and legends is a lesser known area of Beatlemania. By turns the legends and stories told about the Fab Four are bizarre, downright scary, incredible and - occasionally -...

For more than 100 years, the Pacific Northwest has been making music history. In this new retrospective, rare photographs evoke the musical memories of days gone by, from the earliest 19th-century brass bands to Roaring Twenties jazz combos, 1940s hillbilly twangers, 1950s rhythm-and-blues singers,...

The story of a daring music project hatched in Russia after the economic crisis of 1998 with little expectation of success, but which, amazingly, exploded onto the international scene and spawned the most contentious and controversial pop group of the new century, seducing millions...

(Violin Play-Along). The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the online audio to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody...

(Easy Fake Book). Here are 100 top pop/rock songs that are easy to learn and play. All are in large notation and in the key of C, with lyrics and simplified chords that remain true to each tune. Includes: All Right Now * Billie...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). We proudly present this superb collection of the GRAMMY Awards Song of the Year since its inception in 1958. 54 elite songs in all provide a snapshot of the changing times in popular music: All I Wanna Do * Beat It *...

(Easy Guitar). Our matching folio features notes & tab for their ultimate hits plus two new singles "The Saints Are Coming" and "Window in the Skies." Also includes: Beautiful Day * Desire * Elevation * I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For *...

(Autoharp). 20 Beatles favorites especially arranged for 15- and 21-chord autoharps. Includes: Day Tripper * Eight Days a Week * Good Day Sunshine * A Hard Day's Night * Help * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * Let It Be * Revolution...

(Easy Fake Book). A great collection of 100 easy songs perfect for players new to "faking." Even beginners can master these 3-chord hits presented in large notation with lyrics: Ain't No Sunshine * American Woman * Blue Suede Shoes * Elvira * The Gambler...

As fans of entertainers our voice is often overlooked. We are passed of as simple fans who really don't know to much. The media, with all their experts, reports, opinions, and speculations are often times not the truth. For the first time the fans...

MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD: IF YOU LOVE THESE BLUES AN ORAL HISTORYAuthor: Jan Mark WolkinISBN-10: 1480394645ISBN-13: 9781480394643Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2014Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Michael Jackson may be the King of Pop, but his influence extends much further. From his childhood years with the Jackson 5 through his astonishing solo career, he consistently broke sales records, pioneered the modern music video, and infused dance into rock and pop....

STEPHEN KING ON FILM FAQ: ALL THATS LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE KING OF HORROR ON FILMAuthor: Scott Von DoviakISBN-10: 1480355518ISBN-13: 9781480355514Publisher: Applause BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2014Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A concise collection of 30 big hits, including: Call Me Maybe * Girl on Fire * Home * If I Die Young * Just Give Me a Reason * Little Talks * Next to Me * Radioactive * Royals * Some Nights...

(Beginning Piano Solo). Eight Carole King classics arranged for beginners: Home Again * I Feel the Earth Move * It's Too Late * (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman * So Far Away * Up on the Roof * Will You Love...

When I started this project to write an account of Jamaica's Reggae Heritage, I first wrote a preface, I now suggest you once again turn to this preface and read it one more time. A little slower, this time, before you continue to read...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Set in Scotland, this Disney/Pixar blockbuster tells the tale of a Merida, a skilled archer who defies tradition, causing chaos in her kingdom. Patrick Doyle's stellar score brings the music of the Highlands to life, with classic Scottish dance rhythms performed on...

Beginning early in the 1980s, a dance music revolution swept across Europe and Britain, merging rock, new wave, disco and worldbeat sounds. The resulting explosion of high-energy, increasingly electronic dance-pop caused a sensation worldwide. In this book of original interviews, 32 of the era's...

Established in 1971, Nass el-Ghiwane is a legendary musical group that transformed the Moroccan music scene in the last decades of the 20th century. The charismatic founding member Larbi Batma (1948-1997) through his lyrics brought to light Moroccan folklore and obscure poetry. His autobiography...

The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, listeners and critics for centuries. Irony in popular music is especially worthy of study because it is pervasive, even...

The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the 'resurrection' of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012, have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music, fame and death. If the...

When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Second World War era as a consequence of the movement of previously colonized peoples to the countries that colonized them. This development, which...

From pop megahits to unforgettable movie themes, these are the tunes to play in 2018 The 20 chart-topping songs in this collection include hits from Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Camila Cabello, Portugal. The Man, Shawn Mendes, Dua Lipa, Kygo, and many others. This Easy...

These Easy Piano arrangements of chart-topping tunes of the 2000s are sheer fun to play. Fingerings, lyrics, and chord symbols are included. Titles: All About That Bass (Meghan Trainor) * Before He Cheats (Carrie Underwood) * Best Day of My Life (American Authors) *...

1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture. These seismic shifts had a profound impact on the media industry...

From the Tin Pan Alley 32-bar form, through the cyclical forms of modal jazz, to the more recent accumulation of digital layers, beats, and breaks in Electronic Dance Music, repetition as both an aesthetic disposition and a formal property has stimulated a diverse range...

Of the many girl-groups that came out of the 1960s, none is more idiosyncratic and influential than the Shangri-Las. They were together only five years, but within that time they subverted pop standards and foreshadowed a generation of tough women in music. Critically, they...

In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar was at the forefront of a new wave in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on to produce, under the name Cornelius, a series of...

Michael Cain offers an informal social history that describes Americana as both a musical genre and a movement, showing what it is, where it came from and where it is going. Through anecdotes and interviews, Cain provides a firsthand view into the creation of...

In Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the second volume in Bob Leszczak's exciting Who Did It First? series, readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, pop songs and standards. As Leszczak points out,...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). This 17-song folio matches the live album release of Roy Orbison's 1988 Cinemax special, where he was backed by Elvis' TCB Band and joined by all-stars such as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang and...

(Paperback Songs). The most contemporary rhyming dictionary on the market Features more than 30,000 words encompassing standard vocabulary, proper nouns, popular expressions and more, all organized cross-phonetically to maximize word choice. Ideal for singer-songwriters, writers and poets, serious or recreational, pro or amateurAuthor: Hal...

(Mandolin). Strum, sing and pick along with 20 timeless hits, including: Bad Moon Rising * Don't Worry, Be Happy * Every Breath You Take * Happy Together * Mission: Impossible Theme * Song Sung Blue * Tears in Heaven * What a Wonderful World...

(Piano Play-Along). Play 8 of your favorite songs with sound-alike CD tracks. Each volume in this series comes with a CD of orchestrated arrangements. The music in this book matches these recorded orchestrations. There are two tracks for each a full performance for listening,...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Our new folio matches the 30th anniversary reissue of Billy Joel's classic album. Features all nine songs arranged by Billy Joel's keyboardist and Music Director, David Rosenthal. Songs are arranged to combine the piano parts and vocal melodies into playable arrangements...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Our matching folio features all nine songs from the wildly popular, multiplatinum magnum opus from Prince and the Revolution, often acknowledged as one of the best albums of all time. Contains: Baby I'm a Star * The Beautiful Ones * Computer...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 90 fabulous standards made famous during the 1930s and '40s: All of Me * Darn That Dream * In the Mood * Marie * Moonlight in Vermont * Old Devil Moon * Paper Doll * Pennies from Heaven * Stardust * Tuxedo...

Writer Ted Fox and artist James Otis Smith bring to life Harlem's legendary theater in this graphic novel adaptation of Fox's definitive, critically acclaimed history of the Apollo. Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo, and the thousands of entertainers...

In what amounts to a history of the last twenty-five years of popular music, respected music journalist Garry Mulholland has compiled a list of the 500 greatest singles since The Sex Pistols' seminal "Anarchy in the UK". In incisive, outspoken and informative essays, Mulholland...

What really went on behind the doors of the world's top studios while recording the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and R.E.M.? How did producers deal with the legendary egos of Oasis and Paul Simon? Or the haunted perfectionism of Michael Jackson and Phil...

This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizaje--the mixing of race and culture--in...

Texas-Mexican music, or m俍ica tejana, is not one single music but several musical and musico-literary genres, ensembles, and their styles, encompassing the corrido, canci, and what author Manuel Pe calls the canci-corrido. M俍ica tejana also includes two major regional ensembles and their styles-the conjunto...