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When Shane, Kian, Mark, Nicky and Bryan celebrated the beginning of 2001 in true Irish style, they had no idea of the adventures that lay ahead. Eddie Rowley, co-author of Ronan Keating's bestselling autobiography Life is A Rollercoaster, followed Westlife on their biggest ever world tour.

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Film musicals: you either love them or they make you want to kill yourself slowly with plastic cutlery. Nothing has the power to lift your heart or turn your stomach like Howard Keel in fake sideburns singing 'Bless Your Beautiful Hide' or Julie Andrews singing... well, just about anything.

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A history of the uneasy relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the music press.

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A history of the uneasy relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the music press.

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This book aims to disclose a deeper understanding of musics importance in childrens lives and their need to know, explore, wonder, and play. Directed toward music teachers, teacher educators, and scholars, this text invites inquiries and provides insights into contemporary challenges to learning and teaching in an era of standardization.

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This book aims to disclose a deeper understanding of musics importance in childrens lives and their need to know, explore, wonder, and play. Directed toward music teachers, teacher educators, and scholars, this text invites inquiries and provides insights into contemporary challenges to learning and teaching in an era of standardization.

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In Who Did It First: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the third volume in Bob Leszczak's exciting Who Did It First series, readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, rock and roll classics. As Leszczak points out, the ...

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As lead singer and extraordinary frontman of SLADE, Noddy Holder was one of the most successful musicians of the '70s and '80s. The epitome of the Glam Rock look and lifestyle, they released anthem after anthem as they mixed pure pop madness with football chant choruses.

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New, expanded and updated edition of the best comprehensive survey of who's who of British jazz musicians. Over 900 biographies detail the work of musicians from every era of British jazz, ranging from those who played professionally before 1920 at the dawn of jazz in Britain, through to today's young stars.

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Presenting an insiders view of the music industry and music making in 13 countries, this work looks at the interactions between transnational communication and national cultures.

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In this, the first academic text devoted to The Smiths, writers from a range of perspectives set out to consider the cultural significance and enduring appeal of one of the most influential and controversial bands of recent decades. -- .

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In this, the first academic text devoted to The Smiths, writers from a range of perspectives set out to consider the cultural significance and enduring appeal of one of the most influential and controversial bands of recent decades. -- .

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"An exploration of birdsong and the ways in which that sound was conveyed, described and responded to through text, prior to the advent of recording and broadcast technologies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries"--

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Presenting the life and professional career of "The Dean of Afro-American Composers", this book deals with the writings by and about William Still, the compositions of manuscript sources, the performances of Still's works and the reviews of those performances.

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This book will be of interest to musicologists, students, and 20th century music buffs alike.

Mathias was a prolific and versatile composer whose works included opera and music for orchestra, chamber groups, solo instruments, organ, brass ensembles, choral, church, and children's groups.

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William Howard Schuman, as a composer and writer of music theory and music education, was a recipient of numerous prestigious awards like the Pultizer Prize. This reference provides a biography and catalogue and guide to William Schuman's writings and compositions.