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"Critically examines the Hunters and Collectors album Human Frailty, setting it in its cultural and historical context"--

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Investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison. This book looks at Morrison as a writer, specifically as an Irish writer who has recorded musical settings of Yeats poems, and collaborated with Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan and Gerald Dawe.

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Presents the tale of an artist who made it from the suburbs to the top of the pop music charts, graced the cover of every music magazine and lived the rock 'n' roll dream. Freud did the whole sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll thing, and is proof that there is life after rock.

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The first biography of singer-songwriter Jim Croce (#1 hits "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle") by his widow, Ingrid Croce.

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I Know This Much by Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballets prime mover is simply the freshest, most exciting and best-written memoir to arrive for years.

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From the mid-1940s until his death in 1979, Charles Mingus created an unparalleled body of recorded work. This work deals with the matter of his music. It is useful for jazz fans, musicians and music students. It aims to clear away old misconceptions about certain of Mingus' records, providing an overview of Mingus's work.

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A smart, witty, voraciously opinionated guide to rock 'n' roll.

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Highlights the diversity of the audience that is touched by and attracted to music that embraces and acknowledges death, at the same time subverting the cliches. This book explores how popular music deals with death, and how it documents the changing reality of what death means as one grows older.

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"Tells the story of an album of European electronic tape music that emerged from the sounds of the Greek anti-Fascist resistance, bore witness to the Iranian Revolution, and served as a precursor the Industrial and noise scenes"--

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"Tells the story of an album of European electronic tape music that emerged from the sounds of the Greek anti-Fascist resistance, bore witness to the Iranian Revolution, and served as a precursor the Industrial and noise scenes"--

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A discography of the works and recordings of Igor Stravinsky to date and a chronicle of the composer's recording career. Following an introduction tracing his recording history, it lists 191 studio performances, recorded issues and unpublished recordings.

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This volume is designed as an introduction to the science of music for advanced students of music and psychology, music teachers, professional musicians, and general readers interested in the scientific approach to the understanding and appreciation of beauty in music.

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Considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. This book argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. It explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance.

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Everyone knows the story of the Delta blues, with its fierce, raw voices and tormented drifters and deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. This book rewrites that story.

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The interviews included in this fascinating collection of discussions with popular songwriters focus on the craft itselfand as such, they are of interest to both music fans and to budding songwriters.

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"Inner Adult" is an album of new songs by Terre Roche. It's also a book with lyrics framed in Terre's drawings. It was recorded at Coral Star Studio, on the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands during hurricane season, September 2023. All songs are first takes. You can stream the audio of the songs using QR codes in the book

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"Inner Adult" is an album of new songs by Terre Roche. It's also a book with lyrics framed in Terre's drawings. It was recorded at Coral Star Studio, on the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands during hurricane season, September 2023. All songs are first takes. You can stream the audio of the songs using QR codes in the book

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Tracing a line from Brian Wilson's very first musical loves (George Gershwin and the Four Freshmen) through to the Smile and Pet Sounds tours, this book details over 50 years in the musical life of one of America's foremost pop composers. It looks at the birth and evolution of his musical ideas, also discussing a number of songs.