2020 Weekly Monthly Planner (Daily Weekly Monthly Planners, #12)
by Marie L Prather
The Rough Guide to Opera is a unique handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four hundred years of music drama. The title features lively biographical sketches of some 150 composers from Claudio Monteverdi to Poul Ruders, animating the main events of their careers and revealing their social and musical context. Entertaining accounts of hundreds of operas both famous and neglected and comprehensive reviews of over a thousand CD's from recent digital releases to the best historical r...
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song “Roadrunner” captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the radio on. Although the song circles Boston's beltway, its significance reaches far beyond Richman's deceptively simple declarations of love for modern moonlight, the made world, and rock & roll. In Roadrunner, cultural theorist and poet Joshua Clover charts both the song's emotional power and its elaborate history, tracing its place in popular music f...
Containing detailed reviews of 100 recordings, from Elvis to Spiritualized, this guide covers the acknowledged classics and plenty of others that deserve to be.
Since She Bop was first published in 1995, digital downloading has transformed the music landscape. But has issue of gender inequality changed too? For She Bop, Lucy O Brien conducted over 250 interviews with female artists and women working behind the scenes in A and R, marketing, music publishing, and production to write a groundbreaking exploration of sexism in the music industry. Fusing many untold stories, O Brien presents a feminist history of women in popular music, from 1920s blues to t...
It's impossible to think of the heritage of music and dance in the United States without the invaluable contributions of African Americans. Those art forms have been touched by the genius of African American culture and have helped this nation take its important and unique place in the pantheon of world art. Steppin' on the Blues explores not only the meaning of dance in African American life but also the ways in which music, song, and dance are interrelated in African American culture. Dance...
Chosen by children, for children, this album features a diverse offering of powerful music from across the Spanish-speaking world. World Music Network, with the help of the charity Music For Change, spoke to more than a thousand children, who selected their favourite songs from across the continent. This album is packed with the sweetest Latin rhythms including salsa, tango, merengue and samba-reggae, and presents a snapshot of the most captivating and infectious sounds from Latin America.
2020-2024 5 Year Planner (Daily Weekly Monthly Planners with Holidays, #6)
by Corrine S Barker
'Andrew tells us things about the songs that we might not know and things about the songs that no one should ever know. He does it with intelligence and humour, not to mention an acid wit.' - Jimmy Barnes Which band is Australia's premier act for drunk men to hug to? Which dance floor smash owes its existence to an elderly Canadian stand-up team? How does housing affordability threaten Australian rock? Which surprising artist is technically Australia's arguably-more-successful Beatles? Which of...
The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part Two: The Albums
by Bruce Spizer
What does jazz "mean" 20 years into the 21st century? Has streaming culture rendered music literally meaningless, thanks to the removal of all context beyond the playlist? Are there any traditions left to explore? Has the destruction of the apprenticeship model (young musicians learning from their elders) changed the music irrevocably? Are any sounds off limits? How far out can you go and still call it "jazz"? Or should the term be retired? These questions, and many more, are answered in Ugly Be...
A Guide to Essential Popular Music-Volume Two
by MR Brian Cameron Westland
Starry Eyed and Laughing (Essential Discographies, #45)
by AP Sparke
Concise Guide to Jazz & Demo Compact Disc & Jazz Classics Sony CD Pkg.
by Mark C Gridley
Steve Hackett (Essential Discographies, #68)
by Ralph Yarwood-Smith
