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  • Various Artists' Djs Do Guetto by Elliott, Richard
    Richard Elliott

    Various Artists' Djs Do Guetto

    Call it batida, kuduro, Afro house, Lisbon bass: anyone with a keen ear for contemporary developments in global electronic dance music can't fail to have noticed the rise in popularity and influence of Lisbon-based DJs such as DJ Marfox, DJ Nervoso and N?ia. These...
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  • Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life by Alleyne, Mike
    Mike Alleyne

    Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life

    Prince's position in popular culture has undergone only limited academic scrutiny. This book provides an academic examination of Prince, encompassing the many layers of his cultural and creative impact. It assesses Prince's life and legacy holistically, exploring his multiple identities and the ways in...
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  • Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath by Marstal, Henrik
    Henrik Marstal

    Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath

    Upon its release, Don't Break the Oath charted fifth on the official British heavy metal album list and was supported by a two month long sold-out American tour in early 1985. The band's controversial stage appearance with burning crosses, a microphone stand formed as...
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  • Crossover Stardom: Popular Male Music Stars in American Cinema by Lobalzo Wright, Julie
    Julie Lobalzo Wright

    Crossover Stardom: Popular Male Music Stars in American Cinema

    Crossover Stardom: Popular Male Stars in American Cinema focuses on male music stars who have attempted to achieve film stardom. Crossover stardom can describe stars who cross from one medium to another. Although 'crossover' has become a popular term to describe many modern stars...
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  • Reckless - A Casual Guide To The Music Of Bryan Adams by Daniels, Neil
    Neil Daniels

    Reckless - A Casual Guide To The Music Of Bryan Adams

    Bryan Adams is one of the most successful Canadian singer-songwriters of all time. He rose to fame with his third album, 1983's Cuts Like A Knife, before the release of his global breakthrough opus Reckless, which Adams celebrated in 2014 with the sold out...
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  • Jazz Calendar: Colourful piano music for all times of the year! by Milnes, Heather
    Heather Milnes

    Jazz Calendar: Colourful piano music for all times of the year!

    EASY PIANO JAZZ ..... relaxing piano music which is a smooth and relaxing!If you want to play a bit of jazz piano but are not sure how to get started then this could be your way in. These easy jazzy miniatures are a great...
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  • Letters of Composers: An Anthology by Norman, Gertrude
    Gertrude Norman

    Letters of Composers: An Anthology

    This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.Author: Gertrude Norman, Miriam Lubell ShrifteISBN-10: 1494111403ISBN-13: 9781494111403Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.94d
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  • Guitar Gods: Roots of Reggae by Messier, Robert
    Robert Messier

    Guitar Gods: Roots of Reggae

    The GUITAR GODS series are the perfect books for music lovers and guitar afficianados. Nine books promote and cover over 200 of the best musicians of the genres with pictures of each guitarist, a short bio, a list of top videos with live performances...
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  • The Beatles for Ukulele by Beatles, The
    The Beatles

    The Beatles for Ukulele

    (Ukulele). Ukulele players can strum, sing and pick along with 20 Beatles classics Includes: All You Need Is Love * Eight Days a Week * Good Day Sunshine * Here, There and Everywhere * Let It Be * Love Me Do * Penny Lane...
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  • Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250-1750) by Fontijn, Claire
    Claire Fontijn

    Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250-1750)

    Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250 - 1750) brings together nine chapters that investigate aspects of female music-making and musical experience in the medieval and early modern periods. Part I, "Notes from the Underground," treats the spirituality of women in solitude and in...
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  • Understanding Gary Numan: The Machine Quartet (1978-1981) by Sutton, Paul
    Paul Sutton

    Understanding Gary Numan: The Machine Quartet (1978-1981)

    The first analytical study of the pioneering English musician. The historian, Paul Sutton begins by taking the reader through a vastly entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to "a delta of Mississippi mud from where howled the first harmonica,...
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  • Pebbles: Memories of a Small-Town Kansas Boy by White, Gary
    Gary White

    Pebbles: Memories of a Small-Town Kansas Boy

    The stories we tell about our lives define how others see us and how we see ourselves. Gary White (b. 1937), an award-winning composer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus from Iowa State University, and music-textbook author, has gathered up some of the stories of his life...
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  • The Changing Image of Beethoven by Comini, Alessandra
    Alessandra Comini

    The Changing Image of Beethoven

    No composer in the history of music has undergone so many makeovers in the portrayal of his facial features or the interpretation of his cultural legacy as Ludwig van Beethoven. The myth began during his lifetime when few verbal or visual portrayals of the...
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  • Making Light: Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism by Knapp, Raymond
    Raymond Knapp

    Making Light: Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism

    In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early popular...
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  • Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan's Minnesota by Thompson, Toby
    Toby Thompson

    Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan's Minnesota

    "That boy . . . this fellow, Toby . . . has got some lessons to learn." --Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone, November 29, 1969 "Toby Thompson was there first." --Greil Marcus "A first-rate novelistic account of Thompson's own psyche as he uncovers the Dylan...
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  • Patti Smith: America's Punk Rock Rhapsodist by Wendell, Eric
    Eric Wendell

    Patti Smith: America's Punk Rock Rhapsodist

    Nicknamed the "Godmother of Punk," Patti Smith rose to fame during the 1970s New York counterculture movement where she welcomed a new breed of rock and roll. Smith sanctioned the presence of a strong-willed woman in the mainstream rock community by breaking not only...
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  • Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide by Bushard, Anthony
    Anthony Bushard

    Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide

    Released in 1954, On the Waterfront is considered one of the greatest films of all time, winning eight Academy Awards--including Best Picture--and placing in the top 20 on the American Film Institute's 100 Films survey. The film's Oscar-nominated score represented a rare venture into...
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  • Franco Alfano: Transcending Turandot by Dryden, Konrad
    Konrad Dryden

    Franco Alfano: Transcending Turandot

    Franco Alfano: Transcending Turandot is the first fully documented biography in any language of Italy's last verismo composer, Franco Alfano (1875-1954), the composer chosen to complete Giacomo Puccini's swansong, Turandot, in 1924. Alfano remains one of the most undervalued composers, despite arguably representing the...
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  • Messiah: The Gospel According to Handel's Oratorio by Bullard, Roger a.
    Roger a. Bullard

    Messiah: The Gospel According to Handel's Oratorio

    Bullard provides an informed, readable commentary specifically on the libretto, or text, of Handel's Messiah, explaining each part in terms of: how the language differs from the King James Version of the Bible; what the passage of Scripture meant in its original context; and...
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  • Quintet: Five Journeys Toward Musical Fulfillment by Blum, David
    David Blum

    Quintet: Five Journeys Toward Musical Fulfillment

    Quintet presents compelling portraits of five artists known and loved by aficionados of classical music: the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the conductor Jeffrey Tate, the violinist Josef Gingold, the pianist Richard Goode, and the opera singer Birgit Nilsson. This gracefully written book offers a deeply...
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  • Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock by Rawle, Steven
    Steven Rawle

    Partners in Suspense: Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock

    This volume of new, spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, featuring new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring essays by leading scholars of Hitchcock's work, including Richard Allen, Charles Barr, Murray Pomerance, Sidney Gottlieb and Jack Sullivan, the collection...
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  • Journeyman: An Autobiography by MacColl, Ewan
    Ewan MacColl

    Journeyman: An Autobiography

    This new edition of 'Journeyman', Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for whom he wrote the unforgettable 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. MacColl, a singer, songwriter,...
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  • Sound Origins: Developing Your Musical Identity by Robitaille, Jim
    Jim Robitaille

    Sound Origins: Developing Your Musical Identity

    Sound Origins is a comprehensive guide for cultivating a personal sound and style in music. Includes original music scores, examples, exercises, improvisation concepts, and other recommended areas of study. For jazz guitarists, musicians, composers, and teachers interested in further developing their musical identity and...
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  • Different Drummer: One Man's Music and its Impact on ADD, Anxiety and Autism by Strong, Jeff
    Jeff Strong

    Different Drummer: One Man's Music and its Impact on ADD, Anxiety and Autism

    Percussionist and researcher Jeff Strong embarks on a three-decade journey into the power of musical rhythm. Different Drummer chronicles his path as he navigates ancient drumming practices, conducts clinical research, and develops the music that establishes him as a pioneer in the world of...
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  • Tough Blows: A Lifelong Journey of Defying the Odds by Magee, Wayne D.
    Wayne D. Magee

    Tough Blows: A Lifelong Journey of Defying the Odds

    For every tough blow, shift your focus and Get T.O.U.G.H Be Tenacious; Seek Opportunities; Embrace Unity; Engage Groups; and Ask for Help. Wayne Magee is on a mission to empower those who have been repeatedly told, "You can't " He has spent his life...
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  • Jean Sibelius and His World by Grimley, Daniel M.
    Daniel M. Grimley

    Jean Sibelius and His World

    New perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all time Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely...
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  • Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue by Taruskin, Richard
    Richard Taruskin

    Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue

    "It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer. . . . [Taruskin's] tour de force comes with a frontal attack on all the Soviet-bred truisms that for a century...
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  • The Social and Religious Designs of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos by Marissen, Michael
    Michael Marissen

    The Social and Religious Designs of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

    This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies. By reference to contemporary music theory, to alternate notions of the meaning of "concerto," and to various eighteenth-century conventions of form and instrumentation, the...
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  • Franz Schubert: A Biography by Frost, Henry
    Henry Frost

    Franz Schubert: A Biography

    Clarity of outline, conciseness, and formal beauty are excellent things in musical works, but an exquisite fancy, a noble imagination, and a lofty poetic spirit are of infinitely greater account; and no one ever possessed these inestimable gifts in greater measure than Franz Schubert.This...
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  • You're the Voice: Maria Callas [With CD (Audio)] by Callas, Maria
    Maria Callas

    You're the Voice: Maria Callas [With CD (Audio)]

    The You're the Voice series is a wonderful collection of books containing stylistic songs arranged for voice, piano, and guitar as performed and recorded by such legendary entertainers as Carole King, Maria Callas, Tom Jones, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, George Michael, and Nina Simon....
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  • The Church's Starfish by Gibson, Chris
    Chris Gibson

    The Church's Starfish

    After a string of commercial disappointments, in 1986 Australian rock band The Church were simultaneously dropped by Warner Brothers in the US and EMI in Australasia. The future looked bleak. Seemingly from nowhere, their next record, Starfish, became an unlikely global hit. Its alluring...
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  • The Annotated Ring Cycle: Siegfried by Walter, Frederick Paul
    Frederick Paul Walter

    The Annotated Ring Cycle: Siegfried

    Richard Wagner's magnum opus meets the celebrated translator of Jules Verne novels in this colorful and original work.Frederick Paul Walter makes Siegfried accessible not only to scholars and opera buffs but also to fans of Tolkien, Star Wars, and Hogwarts through a dazzling new...
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  • The Annotated Ring Cycle: Twilight for the Gods (Götterdämmerung) by Walter, Frederick Paul
    Frederick Paul Walter

    The Annotated Ring Cycle: Twilight for the Gods (Gterd舂merung)

    Richard Wagner's magnum opus meets the celebrated translator of Jules Verne novels in this colorful and original work.Frederick Paul Walter makes Twilight for the Gods accessible not only to scholars and opera buffs but also to fans of Tolkien, Star Wars, and Hogwarts through...
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  • Harmonica for Beginners: A Beginners Guide To Playing The Harmonica, Reading Music, Scales, And Playing Various Chords Like A Pro by Wheeler, Tom
    Tom Wheeler

    Harmonica for Beginners: A Beginners Guide To Playing The Harmonica, Reading Music, Scales, And Playing Various Chords Like A Pro

    Play The Harmonica Like A Pro Are you new to the harmonica? Or Would you like to learn how to play the harmonica like a pro? Learning how to play the harmonica is much easier than you could imagine. This book "Harmonica For Beginners"...
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  • The Music of James Tenney: Volume 1: Contexts and Paradigms Volume 1 by Wannamaker, Robert
    Robert Wannamaker

    The Music of James Tenney: Volume 1: Contexts and Paradigms Volume 1

    Parsing the works of the experimental music pioneer Robert Wannamaker's monumental two-volume study explores the influential music and ideas of American composer, theorist, writer, performer, and educator James Tenney. Delving into the whole of Tenney's far-ranging oeuvre, Wannamaker provides in-depth, aurally grounded analyses of...
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  • Steinberger: A Story of Creativity and Design by Reilly, Jim
    Jim Reilly

    Steinberger: A Story of Creativity and Design

    Steinberger: A Story of Creativity and Design tells the story of musical instrument designer Ned Steinberger. Ned's instruments have been pushing the boundaries both sonically and aesthetically for over 40 years and been played by the very best of the best musicians around the...
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  • Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock by Jarnow, Jesse
    Jesse Jarnow

    Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock

    The first biography of Yo La Tengo, the massively influential band who all but defined indie music. Yo La Tengo has lit up the indie scene for three decades, part of an underground revolution that defied corporate music conglomerates, eschewed pop radio, and found...
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  • Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation by Vazsonyi, Nicholas
    Nicholas Vazsonyi

    Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation

    A volume of collected essays which engage Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg from the perspective of both active performers and academics in a wide range of disciplines. Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg has been one of the most performed operas ever since its...
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  • Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis by Yardumian, Aram
    Aram Yardumian

    Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis

    Iannis Xenakis' Persepolis stood as witness to one of the most important events in modern human history, the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Its existence is owed to an invitation to participate in the 1971 Shiraz Arts Festival, which was overseen by Empress Farah Pahlavi....
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  • Music for the Soul: Experiencing Classical Music through Informed Listening by Kneier, Lorraine
    Lorraine Kneier

    Music for the Soul: Experiencing Classical Music through Informed Listening

    "Informed listening demands knowledge, context, and meditative practice. Even in ideal circumstances, imparting the musical knowledge required for engaged listening is a challenge not easily met. It is refreshing to encounter a well-reasoned and clearly written guide for all those who seek to experience,...
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  • King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King by de Vise, Daniel
    Daniel de Vise

    King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King

    The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a world-wide--musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues."--President Barack Obama "He is without a doubt...
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  • Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy by Afolayan, Adeshina
    Adeshina Afolayan

    Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy

    Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not...
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  • Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde by Dohoney, Ryan
    Ryan Dohoney

    Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde

    Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde documents the collaborations and conflicts essential to the history of the post-war avant-garde. It offers a study of composer Morton Feldman's associations and friendships with artists like John Cage, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Frank...
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  • Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach by Peters, Mark A.
    Mark A. Peters

    Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach

    Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach's vocal compositions--including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas--with particular attention...
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  • Piano Extravaganza, Solo Book 1: 8 Early Intermediate Pieces in a Variety of Styles by Vandall, Robert D.
    Robert D. Vandall

    Piano Extravaganza, Solo Book 1: 8 Early Intermediate Pieces in a Variety of Styles

    Each solo in this book features pianistic freedom within the style and form of the piece. Even when the hands move freely around the keyboard, the goal was to keep the technique required to play each piece within limited boundaries to ensure student success....
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  • Ballade by Claude Debussy for Solo Piano (1890) Cd78/L.70 by Debussy, Claude
    Claude Debussy

    Ballade by Claude Debussy for Solo Piano (1890) Cd78/L.70

    Claude-Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918) was a seminal French composer. He is considered to be one of the most important pioneers of Impressionist music and was among the most popular composers during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Debussy's work is famous for its...
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  • The Little Guide to Elton John by Hippo! Orange
    Hippo! Orange

    The Little Guide to Elton John: Wit, Wisdom and Wise Words from the Rocket Man

    Sir Elton Hercules John has enjoyed a phenomenal career filled with success, excess and achievement. His farewell tour was announced as more than 300 dates across all corners of the glode for years. Illness, Covid-19 and other extenuating circumstances conspired to prolong it, but...
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  • Beethoven - Biographies and Appreciations by Various
    Various

    Beethoven - Biographies and Appreciations

    This volume contains a collection of biographical sketches of Beethoven written by various authors. Contents include: "Beethoven, by Maurice Baring", "Ludwig Van Beethoven, by Elbert Hubbard", "Ludwig Van Beethoven, by Harriette Brower", "Beethoven, by George T. Ferris", "On Hearing A Symphony Of Beethoven, by...
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  • Pavane pour une Infante défunte, M.20: Study score by Ravel, Maurice
    Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une Infante d馭unte: Study score

    Ravel composed the original piano version of this piece in 1899 after resuming his studies at the Paris Conservatory. It was published the next year and became an overnight success. Despite some self-criticism of his youthful work for being "poor in form", Ravel thought...
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  • Pharrell Williams: Blurring the Lines by Roberts, Chris
    Chris Roberts

    Pharrell Williams: Blurring the Lines

    Pharrell Williams tells the story of the global megastar, including details of his prolific and varied collaborations with the best-known musicians of the 21st century. It charts his extraordinary life, from his pre-fame days to becoming pop's most sought-after and inventive pioneer, In 2003,...
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