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It was as if American television audiences discovered the musical in the early 21st century. In 2009 Glee took the Fox Network and American television by storm with the unexpected unification of primetime programming, awkward teens, and powerful voices spontaneously...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-01
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Overturning the inherited belief that popular music is unrefined, Form as Harmony in Rock Music brings the process-based approach of classical theorists to popular music scholarship. Author Drew Nobile offers the first comprehensive theory of form for 1960s, 70s, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-01
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The Pet Shop Boys are one of the most successful and unusual bands of the last five decades. They are the pop duo that proves pop music can be modern, ecstatic and playful as well as serious and intelligent, winning them legions of devoted fans throughout the world.In...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2020-03-19
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No other pop group in recent history has faced fame with such intelligence, humour and shrewdness as the Pet Shop Boys. In 1991, the band toured North America for the first time shadowed by journalist Chris Heath and legendary rock photographer Pennie Smith. They...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2020-03-19
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While she is best remembered today as founder of the Philadelphia Ballet and the director and driving force behind the famous Littlefield School of Ballet, from which Balanchine drew the nucleus for his School of American Ballet, Catherine Littlefield (1905-51) and her...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-03
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With the onset of modernity in twentieth-century India, new social arrangements gave rise to new forms of music-making. The musicians were no longer performing exclusively in the princely courts or in the private homes of the wealthy. Not only did the act of listening...
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OUP India
Parution :
2020-02-14
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With its rich but underappreciated musical heritage, Washington, D.C. is often overlooked as a cradle for punk, the birthplace of go go, and as the urban center for bluegrass in the Untied States. Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. richly...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-11
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Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched onPop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-15
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A Rough Trade Book of the Year 'From lists to experiences and stories, there are no rules.A good song is a good song whoever writes it and however the writing happens.'Tim Burgess is a musical maverick and legend. Over the past three decades, he has cultivated a lyrical...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2019-11-14
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Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people.But whenJimmy arrived in England and became Jimi,...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-11-14
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Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2019-11-05
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The Age of Anxiety is a great rock novel, but that is one of the less important things about it.The narrator is a brilliant creation - cultured, witty and unreliable.The novel captures the craziness of the music business and displays Pete Townshend's sly sense of humour...
Editeur :
Coronet
Parution :
2019-11-05
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OFTHE YEAR PICK INTHE TIMES: 'Captivating'A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OFTHE YEAR: 'In-depth and inspiring''Beautifully compiled ... the perfect festival experience' SUNDAY TIMESGlastonbury 50 is the authorised, behind-the-scenes, inside story of...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-10-31
Collection :
The Legacy Trilogy
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The perfect gift for any music lover . . . 'Hepworth has more insider knowledge and knows more rock anecdotes than any man alive'The Herald'Unmissable for music enthusiasts' Woman & HomeThe Rock and Roll A Level is here to rescue the pop quiz from the grip of bores who...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2019-10-17
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'The book is filled with that most distinctive of all her qualities: her voice' The TimesHome Work, the second instalment of Julie Andrews' internationally bestselling memoirs, begins with her arrival in Hollywood to make her screen debut in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins....
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-10-15
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At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for eleven years, until his prodigious musical talent provides him an unlikely ticket back into the world.The property of a band, playing for...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2019-10-03
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"Looking at Terry's photographs is like gazing through a window at the most extraordinary and exciting moments of my life."ELTON JOHNElton John and iconic photographer Terry O'Neill worked together for many years, taking in excess of 5,000 photographs. From intimate...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2019-10-03
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THE LIFE STORY OFTHE LEGENDARY BRITISH DJ, NORMAN JAY MBE 'Full of the heart and spirit Norman Jay brings to his music, but it also offers a salutary account of growing up as part of the Windrush generation in London's Notting Hill, the violence and racism he faced, and...
Editeur :
Dialogue Books
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2019-09-26
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Brazilian music has been central to Brazil's national brand in the U.S. and U.K. since the early 1960s. From bossa nova in 1960s jazz and film, through the 1970s fusion and funk scenes, the world music boom of the late 1980s and the bossa nova remix revival at the turn...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-02
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The relationship between Christian theology and music has been complex since the early days
of the Church. In the twentieth century the secularization of Western culture has led to further
complexity.The search for the soul, following Nietzsche’s declaration of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-08-30
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