Here are the authentic voices, vivid recollections and songs of 55 blues musicians.
Featuring carefully planned accessible menus to celebrate those special occasions, this aphrodisiac cookbook, which offers 60 recipes, is accompanied by a CD with 60 minutes of soothing romantic music'
The Music of Spain
by Carl Van Vechten, Pedro Garcia Morales, and Paul Padgette
Over 30 hits from the greatest female artists of the 21st Century, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Includes Behind These Hazel Eyes (Kelly Clarkson), Fallin' (Alicia Keys), Hung Up (Madonna), Strict Machine (Goldfrapp), Push The Button (Sugababes), Here With Me (Dido) and No More Drama (Mary J Blige).
The only internationally successful, million-selling group to emerge from the late seventies London punk scene, the Clash set out to change the world with a potent mix of politics, iconic imagery, and blazing rock'n' roll. It was an agenda mirrored in the Clash's music, which swiftly evolved from ferocious punk rock to incorporate reggae, ska, funk, jazz, soul, and hip-hop. Passion Is a Fashion draws on over 70 interviews with the key participants in the story,roadies, producers, friends, and...
Islands of Eight Million Smiles (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by Hiroshi Aoyagi
Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The trajectory of his career-from early performances of rock 'n' roll tunes to later creating a new genre based on traditional Zimbabwean music, including the sacred mbira, and African and Western pop-is a metaphor for Zimbabwe's evol...
This is a unique study of the film musical, a global cinema tradition. The musical is one of cinema's few genuinely international genres but it has never been studied as a global sensation. This book fills this critical gap in film studies as it brings together musicals from 15 nations in order to highlight running themes. Musicals are often studied as part of distinct national traditions that are interpreted as native. However this anthology will dispute previous approaches to reveal the influe...
River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing musica sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil's central-southern region to become national bestsellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A revival of folkloric rural music called musica caipira, heralded as musica sertaneja's ancestor, al...