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Ronald D. Lankford has written the definitive history of this iconic and much-loved Christmas character. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was the creation of Robert May, a staff copywriter who wrote the original poem as a Montgomery Ward Christmas giveaway in 1939. More than 2.4 million copies were...

Descubrir las circunstancias que fraguaron la mítica presencia de la inspiradora del popular estribillo cubano: «Ponme la mano aquí, Macorina, pon, pon…» y reflexionar sobre su alcance e impronta sociocultural, son algunas de las bondades que cobija La Macorina, crónica que transgrede las fronteras...

A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the culture that spawned it Disco may be the most universally derided musical form to come about in the past forty years. Yet, like its pop cultural peers punk and hip hop, it was born of a period...

Have you ever wondered what the name of the cantina band in Star Wars was? Or how many fictional singers Elvis played? Or how many fake bands had real Top Ten hits? This hysterical, witty, and irreverent book answers all these questions and more. Based on the popular Web site fakebands.com,...

Piano Playbook: Familiar Favorites features superb new Piano arrangements of 34 popular songs, complete with Vocal line and Guitar chords. Song List: - Against All Odds [Phil Collins] - All Night Long [All Night] [Lionel Richie] - Cocaine [Eric Clapton] - Clocks [Coldplay] - Don't Stop...

Glee Songbook: Season 1, Volume 2 presents 17 further hit songs from the first season of Glee, arranged for Piano, Vocal and Guitar. Re-live all the euphoric moments from the hit show and take yourself from ragtag performer to national competitor. Classics such as Don't Rain On My Parade, made...

Listen to Pop! discusses the evolution of pop music in America from the 1950s to the present, diving into its impact on American culture, particularly through its association with television, and its enduring legacy. • Analyzes a diversity, stylistically and otherwise, of must-hear examples •...

A fascinating look at the history of the Beatles, from their formative years through the present day, as detailed in hundreds of entries chock-full of information never before shared with the public. • Offers unprecedented insights into the Beatles' collective and solo releases, as well as...

Legendary in music and popular culture, the Beatles were one of the most successful bands of all time. The collective achievements of the Fab Four affect a broad demographic that includes today's children, Millennials, Gen Xers, and Baby Boomers. This one-volume condensed paperback edition of The...

Dancehall: It's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community. Electronically influenced, relevant to urban Jamaicans, and highly danceable,...

In this thematically organized biography, cultural historian and prolific biographer Bob Batchelor examines one of the most important yet elusive figures in modern history. Rather than taking an exhaustive and cumbersome chronological approach to Bob Dylan's 50-plus year career, the author focuses...

Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and salient harmonic-progression classes, or harmonic...

Professional Singers Audition Book contains 38 of the most popular audition standards for female singers, specially selected by musical directors and rehearsal pianists from London's West End. Each song is arranged in Piano, Vocal and Guitar arrangements. Songlist: - Adelaide's Lament -...

Really Easy Piano: Chart Hits #5 (Autumn/Winter 2017) contains easy Piano arrangements for 22 recent releases from some of popular music's greatest artists including Bruno Mars, Imagine Dragons, George Ezra and more. Each song features informative background notes alongside handy performance...