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(Hardback)

By: David Willson

ISBN: 9798350933659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)

By: Hank Bordowitz

ISBN: 9780306813405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Hachette Books
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A gathering of stellar writings on the life, legend, music, and meaning of Bob Marley, international voice of dissent and freedom


(Paperback)

By: Jane Lapotaire

ISBN: 9781844084166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A vivid and moving memoir about childhood and the confusions of growing up illegitimate in Fifties England


(Paperback)

By: Cliff Goodwin

ISBN: 9780753505199
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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In May 1999, after a 40-year career including 100 films, Oliver Reed died, as he had invariably lived, drinking with friends while making a film - his well-reviewed performance in the blockbuster Gladiator.


(Hardback)

By: Michael Wright

ISBN: 9798350958874
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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"Excellence" is a story about the quality of the music played in the "Live Music Capital of the World," Austin, Texas. From venue to venue, Michael Wright has seen and photographed live performances from musicians who passionately give their time and effort with one goal in mind: your happiness.


(Paperback)

By: Nick Asbury

ISBN: 9781840028928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is a terric true story of actors at work and Shakespeare in performance.


(Hardback)

By: Geoffrey Block

ISBN: 9781442245457
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Designed for those unversed in composition or music theory, this book places Beethovens compositions within the context of his personal and professional life and social and cultural milieu. This volume offers readers an enhanced experience of key works by exploring Beethoven's lyricism, heroic style, and unwaveringly idealistic musical vision.


(Hardback)

By: Melinda P. O'Neal

ISBN: 9780810886063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Experiencing Berlioz offers an accessible pathway into the underlying allure of Berlioz's music. His views on rehearsing and conducting, bumpy career ride and failures, the journey of a work through revisions and editions, and historical performance practices provide a backdrop to discussions of his most significant works.


(Hardback)

By: John Clark

ISBN: 9781442243408
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An icon of musical talent and independence, Bessie Smiths contributions to the blues and the music industry earned her the title of Empress of the Blues.Learning how to listen to Smith's work in turn develops a greater understanding of how her successors extended and reinterpreted her music to honor her enduring legacy.


(Hardback)

By: Jeff Sultanof

ISBN: 9781442242425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Jeff Sultanof takes a fresh look at big band jazz, examining why the big band era started when it did, how pop music and big bands evolved in response to one another, and the key roles played by well-known band leaders and the bands they led.


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By: Thomas MacFarlane

ISBN: 9781442257689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This work analyzes each of Joels albums, laying out their appeal to musicians and non-musicians alike while exploring the production styles that have characterized Joels development in the recording studio. MacFarlane outlines how Billy Joels recorded works as a whole serve as the foundation for a complex and enduring musical legacy.


(Hardback)

By: Nolan Stolz

ISBN: 9781442256910
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Stolz explores Black Sabbaths nineteen studio albums, several live albums, and additional studio tracks, urging readers to reassess the work of this seminal act in American rock music history. The book uncovers how Black Sabbaths song catalog explored and defined the musical genre they founded, mastered, and disseminated.


(Hardback)

By: Kat Sherrell

ISBN: 9780810889002
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Sherrell explores American musical theater, beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European-influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works and thus provides listeners with the tools and background necessary to gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of Broadway music.


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By: Joseph E. Morgan

ISBN: 9781442255562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Carl Maria von Weber is recognized as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music. Morgan walks readers through Webers masterpieces, providing key insights by integrating critical points in the composer's life and the burgeoning Romantic and Nationalist movements in Germany that Weber's music came to champion.


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By: Christine Lee Gengaro

ISBN: 9781442260863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Gengaro surveys Chopin's position as a composer of Romantic piano music at a time when the piano stood at the center of musical and social life. It sheds a spotlight on Chopin and his music that illuminates the Romantic period in which he lived, the social and artistic climate, and the importance of this most individual artist.


(Hardback)

By: Ian Chapman

ISBN: 9781442237513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music.


(Hardback)

By: Kenneth LaFave

ISBN: 9781442258419
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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LaFave opens the ears of film-goers to the nuance behind movie music, laying out in layman's language how composers map what we hear to what we see. As part of the Listener's Companion series, this volume provides an enhanced experience of music by exploring how the works were written and first performed as well as how they are enjoyed today.


(Hardback)

By: Eric Wendell

ISBN: 9781442258372
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 10th August 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Eric Wendell looks beyond the successes and failures of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock to explore his musical design within the jazz community and mainstream pop culture. Wendell explores how Hancocks efforts have established new jazz standards while fostering a cross-genre continuity among modern jazz practitioners.


(Hardback)

By: Tina Frhauf

ISBN: 9781442258396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Experiencing Jewish Music in America offers an accessible exploration of the remarkably diverse landscape that comprises Jewish music in the U.S. This survey on the art of listening to this dynamic and diverse musical culture invites listeners from all walks of life to enjoy the many types of Jewish music available in their communities.


(Hardback)

By: Gregg Akkerman

ISBN: 9780810889156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In Experiencing Led Zeppelin: A Listeners Companion, musician and writer Gregg Akkerman looks behind the curtain of rock gods sensationalism at this performing acts musical legacy. Putting readers right where the band was performing its iconic numbers, Akkerman is the guide for anyone intent on understanding how Led Zeppelin's music works.


(Hardback)

By: Kenneth LaFave

ISBN: 9781442235434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this book, Kenneth LaFave guides readers past Bernsteins famously tortured personal problems and into the clarity and balance of his Serenade after Platos Symposium for Violin and Orchestra, the intense drama of his music for On the Waterfront, the existential cosmography of his three symphonies, and his vibrant works for the musical stage.


(Hardback)

By: Durrell Bowman

ISBN: 9781442251991
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Bowman discusses the sounds and stories of the versatile English singer-songwriter and musician Peter Gabriels songs. From his albums as a solo artist with the band Genesis to his film and media scores and movie songs, Gabriels music ranges from mainstream celebrations of pop styles to experimental arrangements filled with personal emotions.


(Hardback)

By: Durrell Bowman

ISBN: 9781442231306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In Experiencing Rush: A Listeners Companion, music scholar Durrell Bowman guides readers through Rushs long career, explaining through the artful combination of biography, history, and musical exegesis how to listen to this unique act.


(Hardback)

By: Donald Sanders

ISBN: 9781442240032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Sanders chronicles Schumann's life and work, analyzing the most significant and widely performed compositions from each of the genres in which Schumann composed. This volume gives readers an enhanced experience of key works by exploring the environments in which they were writ...

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