Composers category: 3267 books

Juan Formell y los Van Van, esa leyenda de la música popular cubana, vibra en éstas páginas. Desde la mirada de un cronista - quien asistió a la primera presentación de la orquesta, y a partir de entonces se convirtió en uno de sus más fieles seguidores - se recorren apuntes recortes de prensa...

Soul Jazz is a history of jazz and its reception in the black community in the period from the end of World War II until the end of the Vietnam War. Previous histories reflect the perspective of an integrated America, yet the United States was a segregated country in 1945. The black audience had a very different take on the music and that is the perception explored in Soul Jazz.

La sous-culture gothique est la plus diversifiée, sinon la plus riche. Et la plus pérenne. Ressuscitée sous sa forme contemporaine peu après la déferlante punk, elle n’a cessé depuis de se développer sans jamais être rattrapée ni « vampirisée » — par les médias de masse. L’art de...

Recognised as one of the first 'bands of the people' Status Quo's ultimate aim has always been to 'send an audience home happy' which they continue to do the world over.Status Quo: Just Doin' It is the authorised book of personal and professional photographs of the band taken between 1966 and 2012,...

She has been named country music's Most Beautiful Women. She is Shania Twain, a great Canadian country pop singer.   This talented musician received 5 Grammy Awards for her contribution in country music. Her third album “Come On Over” is the best-selling album of all time...

Solche Geschichten gibt es sonst nur im Film: Vom 3. Platz beim britischen 'The X-Factor' aus erobern fünf heiße Jungs als eine der erfolgreichsten Boybands der letzten Jahre die Welt. 'Where we are' zeichnet die turbulente Reise von Louis, Liam, Harry, Zayn und Niall nach. Es zeigt die Stationen...

Beyonce Knowles is an American pop singer and actress. She had her first brush with fame thanks to the 90s TV show Star Search as a member in the rapping-and-dancing troupe Girl's Tyme. Girl's Tyme struggled in the late 1990s but was eventually signed by Columbia Records in 1997 under its new name,...

Жизнь Моцарта и её тайны. Эта работа (закончена в 2005 году) получила огромную известность. Её перевели на несколько языков (включая украинский, немецкий и вьетнамский),...

Perché John Lennon e Mark David Chapman si sono incontrati l'otto dicembre 1980 davanti alla Entrance Hall del Dakota Building, come se avessero concordato un appuntamento? Quali emozioni, pensieri, motivazioni li hanno condotti all’epilogo a tutti noto? In questo thriller documentale il campo...

From "Buddy Holly" and "Say It Ain't So" to "Island In the Sun" and "Pork and Bean's," their music has always been groundbreaking. This unofficial band biography takes the covers off the band, the sound, and the records—looking at what inspired the songs...

IS THE 27 CLUB JUST A MYTH? (No). Is it a “curse?” (No). But The 27 Club is not what you think. It’s more than the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and others.Using the teachings of the Moon Cycles and C. G. Jung’s notion of the puer (the...

Für Journalisten ist er ein Star: Alan Rusbridger, seit 20 Jahren Chefredakteur des britischen Guardian, hat seine Zeitung zum führenden kritischen englischsprachigen Blatt gemacht, auf beiden Seiten des Atlantik. Und er hat wie kein zweiter in der Branche die revolutionären Herausforderungen des...

The first joint biography of one of rock n roll's greatest song writing teams, Hitmakers Inc. explores the private lives and public triumphs of lyricist Doc Pomus and composer Mort Shuman. Between 1958 and 1965, usually working out of Manhattan s famous Brill Building, they wrote some 500 teen anthems...