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Pop music’s a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer?But what’s fascinating about pop is our relationship with it. David Hepworth is interested in the human side of pop. He’s interested in how people make the stuff and, more...
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Transworld Digital
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2018-11-01
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Scholarship on urban culture and the senses has traditionally focused on the study of literature and the visual arts. Recent decades have seen a surge of interest on the effects of sound the urban space and its population. These studies analyse how sound generates...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-31
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Schoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers is the first edition of all known and available letters between Arnold Schoenberg and over seventy American composers written between 1915 and 1951, in English and English translation and with commentary. In six...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-10-25
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Over ten years after WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively researched revision, which provides an unflinching look at life inside one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time, and presents the...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2018-10-18
Collection :
The Legacy Trilogy
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROMTHE QUEEN OF ROCK 'N' ROLL_______________________'Astonishing, soul-baring - the must-read memoir by rock's greatest survivor' DAILY MAIL***The full, dramatic story of one of the most remarkable women in music...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2018-10-18
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This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-15
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When great songs have been written and released, they often take on a life of their own, reshaped and given new life, transcending genres.THE LIFE OF A SONG is a compilation of weekly columns written for FT Weekend, containing the biographies of 50 songs that have been...
Editeur :
Chambers
Parution :
2018-10-04
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John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle - his plain-speaking and impudent rejection of authority catching, and eloquently articulating, the group's...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-10-04
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How are our ability and motivation to be creative shaped by the world around us? Why does creativity seem to flourish in some environments, while others seem to stifle it? Many societies value creativity as an abstract concept and many, perhaps even most, individuals...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-02
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This book provides new practical tools that bridge the gap between familiar, easy-to-use technology and musical practice to enhance musicianship and motivate students. Authors Jennifer Mishra and Barbara Fast provide ideas for use with students of all levels, from...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-01
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Through musical analysis of compositions written between the mid-twelfth to late nineteenth centuries, this volume celebrates the achievements of eight composers, all women: Hildegard of Bingen, Maddalena Casulana, Barbara Strozzi, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-28
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Nathan Carter has become Ireland's biggest country music star. He is heralded by many as reviving the country music genre and bringing it into the mainstream. He has sold out venues across the UK and Ireland, has landed his own primetime show, and is loved and respected...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2018-09-27
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A complete Pro Tools reference - from recording to mixing to mastering Pro Tools has long been the recording industry's leading solution for capturing, mixing, and outputting audio. While it was once a tool known and used exclusively by engineers in pro studios, it is...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2018-09-27
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Anlässlich ihres 25-jährigen Jubiläums widmet die Gesellschaft für Musikgeschichte in Baden-Württemberg (GMG) das aktuelle Jahrbuch 2017/18 dem Thema "Jubiläen". Für den Doppeljahrgang konnten über 40 Autoren gewonnen werden. In 44 Beiträgen würdigen sie Jubilare,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-09-25
Collection :
Musik in Baden-Württemberg. Jahrbuch
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This is your backstage pass to the hidden side of the music industry - the tantrums, the fights, the tensions, the indulgence, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs. The roadies see it all, and now they are sharing their secrets. Roadies are the unsung heroes of the...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2018-09-25
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Playing with Ease is a book about ergonomic technique for the guitar, as well as other instruments. Renowned classical guitarist David Leisner offers an introduction to the basic anatomy of movement, advice on relieving unnecessary tension, pioneering ideas about...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-21
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Eduard Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful (Vom Musikalisch-Schönen, 1854), written and published before the author turned 30, is a watershed document in the history of aesthetics, and of thought about music generally.
The notion of "absolute music," which lies at...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-20
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'A must for fans and rock buffs' The Sun'Fascinating read' PowerplayJudas Priest formed in Birmingham in 1969. With its distinctive twin-guitar sound, studs-and-leather image, and international sales of over 50 million records, Judas Priest became the archetypal heavy...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2018-09-20
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The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "sound" functions in an equally wide array of popular music. Ranging from the twang of country banjoes and the sheen of hip-hop strings to the crunch...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-09-18
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A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera -- and few that are as daunting for newcomers.A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2018-09-18
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