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In celebration of the 40th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, Bill Kopp celebrates the ingenuity with which Pink Floyd rebranded themselves following the 1968 departure of Syd Barrett. Not only did the band survive Barretts departure, but it went on to release landmark albums that continue to influence generations of musicians and fans.

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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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Between 1945 and 1965 rhythm and blues artists made dozens of recordings incorporating West Indian calypso. This book draws musical and cultural connections that make the case for recognizing the significance of West Indian calypso in the history of African American popular music.

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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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A collection of classic writings on the Man in Black, Johnny Cash, by a stellar list of music writers, including Ralph Gleason, Robert Johnson, Nick Tosches, Alanna Nash, Jon Pareles, and Ben Ratliff

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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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This book presents an analysis of 100 rock concert performances and answers the question "What makes a truly great rock performance" Peter Smith delves into his own recollections of experiencing rock performances and covers themes of icons, persona, energy, fandom, venues, communities, politics, art-rock, authenticity and maturity.

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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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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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In Rockin' the Free World, international relations expert Sean Kay takes readers inside Bob Dylans America and shows how this vision linked the rock and roll revolution to American values of freedom, equality, human rights, and peace while tracing how those values have spread globally.

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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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"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd s

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A valuable, jubilant look at a great man and artist.-New York Times Book Review

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One of the United States' musical greats, the influence of trumpeter Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong extended well beyond the world of jazz. This encyclopedia presents alphabetic short entries discussing such topics as musical styles, friends and colleagues, family, tours, writings, recordings, record com