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In the weeks leading up to The White Stripes' tenth-anniversary show, the band embarked on an adventurous and unprecedented tour that took them to every province and territory in Canada - from ocean to permafrost-playing unusual venues to crowds of all sizes, and culminating with the anniversary show. Photographer Autumn de Wilde traveled with the band into town and over tundra, capturing the beauty of the landscape, the exhilarating power of the live shows, the band's intense connection with th...

Forty years of rock 'n' roll and rebellion, it's all here: the music the mud and the memories. "Join Together! Forty Years of the Rock Festival" takes us behind the scenes of the major rock festivals such as Monterey Pop, Woodstock, Isle of Wight, Live Aid, Lollapalooza, Ozzfest, Live 8, the US Festivals, Vans Warped Tour, SARSstock, Woodstock '99, Coachella Bonnaroo, and dozens of other international events. Over 90 artists contribute their unique memories and perspectives on the music festival...

Brian May and his father Harold started to hand-build an electric guitar in 1963. Brian dreamed of a guitar that would outperform any of the existing commercially-made electric guitars; his father had the technical knowledge and skills to help make the dream come true. Brian has played his guitar on every Queen album and in Queen's live shows around the world, from the roof of Buckingham Palace to the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. "My dad and I decided to make an electric g...

In this persuasive study, Tracy McMullen draws on philosophy, psychology, musicology, performance studies, and popular music studies in order to analyze the rise of obsessively precise live musical reenactments in the United States at the turn of the millennium. She investigates this practice, what she terms, Replay, in popular music, jazz, and performance art arguing that it is a symptom of deep-seated fears of the fleeting nature of identity. Musical Replay claims a type of authenticity that i...

Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, the Grateful Dead provides a unique lens through which we can better understand the meaning and creation of the counterculture community. Marshaling the critical and aesthetic theories of Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault and others, Ulf Olsson places the music group with...

Celine Dion is the most successful female singer in the world. In just two years, she sold more than 50 million albums. And then along came TITANIC and her themesong, 'My Heart Will Go On', which has received more radio play than any other piece of music in history. Celine's income for 1997 has been estimated at $55 million. But it hasn't always been like this. Now, for the first time, you can read the story of Celine's rise and rise. Drawing on 15 years of research material as well as first-h...

"The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses."-RimbaudIn 1968 Jim Morrison, founder and lead singer of the rock band the Doors, wrote to Wallace Fowlie, a scholar of French literature and a professor at Duke University. Morrison thanked Fowlie for producing an English translation of the complete poems of Rimbaud. He needed the translation, he said, because, "I don't read French that easily. . . . I am a rock singer and your book travels around with me." Fourte...