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Within this book over fifty contemporary reggae artists and producers - ranging from cultural Roots to Dancehall, and including Buju Banton, Shabba Ranks, Tony Rebel, Burning Spear, Bunny Wailer, Judy Mowatt, Oku Onouora, Junior Reid, Ken Boothe, Sister Carol, and Third World - present their views on the state of reggae music today.

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A new Australian music history seeking to understand disruption and continuation of Aboriginal music and dance and its representation in non-Indigenous performances.

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A new Australian music history seeking to understand disruption and continuation of Aboriginal music and dance and its representation in non-Indigenous performances.

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Highly original research into Iran's unofficial rock music scene in an ever-changing and notoriously unstable political climate.

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Highly original research into Iran's unofficial rock music scene in an ever-changing and notoriously unstable political climate.

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"In a companion to his collections Riding on a Blue Note and Faces in the Crowd, Gary Giddins has assembled a mosaic of pieces that provide an essential guide to the jazz world. Moving with ease from s"

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Serving as an A-Z guide to the artists and bands who have shaped jazz, this work tracks the history of jazz and its changing styles.

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"The most imposing figure in jazz writing today" (JazzTimes) on artists from Duke Ellington to Elvis Presley to Irving Berlin--all with that pervasive "blue note" of jazz in common.

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It was eight years in the making and this book tells the story of how it was made and the people who made it, written by the man who as the recording producer was in charge of the whole project.

Conducted by the great Georg Solti, Deccas recording has been voted the best recording ever made.

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Dynamically repackaged in a tempting trade paperback and including new photographs, this is a fitting follow up 2001's most successful hardback - Somebody Someday.

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It provides links among the various areas of rock music scholarship, thus imposing bibliographic control across a wide body of research that treats rock music in a serious manner.

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With a listing of over 3,600 books about individual artists and groups, this is the most accurate and comprehensive bibliography available on Rock/Pop stars. It is the most authoritative source for English-language titles, which are listed in the main directory under an A-Z presentation of artists.

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An alternative history of rock music, from a Latino/Hispanic perspective, which focuses on the story of the rock genre with an emphasis on identity politics. >

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Grammy winner for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from Disney's 1994 blockbuster movie "The Lion King", Elton John is a musician that has transcended generations. This reference dedicated to the singer/songwriter contains hundreds of anecdotes on people, places, and thing related to his career.

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Grammy winner for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from Disney's 1994 blockbuster movie "The Lion King", Elton John is a musician that has transcended generations. This reference dedicated to the singer/songwriter contains hundreds of anecdotes on people, places, and thing related to his career.

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Duxbury attempts to document the connections between the rock and classical music genres by listing recorded examples of rock instrumentals and songs that borrow from the classics, and orchestral versions of songs originally composed and/or recorded by rock musicians.

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A supplement to Janell Duxbury's 1985 discography, this volume brings the earlier work up-to-date with numerous new entries documenting recently released or newly discovered examples of the interconnections between rock music and the classics.

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A very frank and revealing biography of rock's most enduring legend.

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The greatest interviews with the greatest rock stars, movie stars and cultural icons, uncensored and unfiltered

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"From 1975 to 1981 the jazz giant Miles Davis temporarily retired from music. Almost completely reclusive, nobody outside of a very close circle knew what was happening to him. Only one jazz writer was"

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Drawing on examples including rap music, Qwaali and Kirtan, Sacred and Secular Musics offers new empirical material and new insights into conceptualising religion and music, and the ways in which music performs sacredness and secularity in different geographical and historical spaces.

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The first and only collection of its kind, Sacred Symphony contains 100 transcriptions of muscial excerpts from the chanted sermons of contemporary black preachers.