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This eclectic encyclopaedia chronicles the careers of over 110 musical artists from all over the world. Author Stan Jeffries chronicles the careers of the leading bands and solo acts from 37 different nations. Entries include biographical information and trace the entrants' musical development.

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"Eric Clapton's position as the world's greatest rock guitarist is unlikely to change in our lifetime. His career over the past four decades has been closely followed by millions of fans, as a member o"

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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

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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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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.

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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.

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Experiencing Jazz demonstrates how the act of listening to jazz takes place on a deeply personal level and takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the genre, instrument by instrumentoffering not only brief portraits of key musicians like Joe Lovano and John Scofield, but also their own commentaries on how best to experience their music

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Experiencing the Rolling Stones draws together a broad swath of postwar history as it covers the bands origins in Swinging London through to their recording sessions outside of England. Malvinni takes an especially close look at Keith Richards guitar work and its effect on the bands music, as well as the multiple changes in the bands members.

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Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll features new writing in the growing field of U2 studies. In keeping with U2's own efforts to remove barriers that have long prevented dialogue for understanding and improving the human experience, this collection of essays covers such disciplines as literature, music, philosophy, and theology.

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Extreme metal - one step beyond heavy metal - can appear bizarre or terrifying to the uninitiated. Extreme metal musicians have developed an often impenetrable sound that teeters on the edge of screaming, incomprehensible noise. This book explores the global extreme metal scene.

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Extreme metal - one step beyond heavy metal - can appear bizarre or terrifying to the uninitiated. Extreme metal musicians have developed an often impenetrable sound that teeters on the edge of screaming, incomprehensible noise. This book explores the global extreme metal scene.

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Talking Heads have achieved the status of rock legends. With hits including "Take Me to the River", and "Psycho Killer", and a Hollywood film of their live performances, the band, formed in New York, 1970, have always been musical pioneers. This work charts their early years, the worldwide success and eventual acrimonious break-up of the band.

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An exploration of the role of Lebanese singer Fairouz in shaping Arab diasporic experience amidst a dynamic backdrop of revolutions, forced migrations and changing political landscapes

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The luminous biography of the jazz singer Jimmy Scott-"a moving, startling tale."Kirkus Reviews (starred)

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"W. C. Handy's blues--"Memphis Blues," "Beale Street Blues," "St. Louis Blues"--changed America's music forever. In Father of the Blues, Handy presents his own story: a vivid picture of American life now"

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In Feedback: The Who and Their Generation, historian Casey Harison offers a cultural and social history of one of the most successful bands of the 1960s British Invasion.

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"Reappraises the life, musical dynamics, and philosophy of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and positions his music within the context of Africa's search for freedom"--

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