Criticism category: 58377 books
Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music-...
Draw a Straight Line and Follow It
The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Recognized as the patriarch of the minimalist movement-Brian Eno once called him "the daddy of us all"--La Monte Young remains an enigma within the music world, one of the most important and yet most elusive composers of the late twentieth century. Early in his career Young almost completely...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner...
Swing Along
The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Renowned today as a prominent African-American in Music Theater and the Arts community, composer, conductor, and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s. In this insightful biography, Marva Griffin Carter offers the first definitive...
by Darran Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero....
Detroit Rock City
The Uncensored History of Rock 'n' Roll in America's Loudest City
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Detroit Rock City is an oral history of Detroit and its music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the practice rooms, studios, and in the audience, blasting the music out and soaking it up, in every scene from 1967 to today.
From fabled axe men like Ted Nugent, Dick Wagner,...
Gimme Something Better
The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
An oral history of the modern punk-revival?s West Coast Birthplace
Outside of New York and London, California?s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance...
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
My Life, My Beats
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
A no-holds-barred memoir from the primary architect of hip hop and one of the culture's most revered music icons—both the tale of his life and legacy and a testament to dogged determination.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fomented the musical revolution known as hip hop. Theirs was...
Elvis In Texas
The Undiscovered King 1954-1958
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2001
Elvis Presley and his two faithful sidekicks tore up Texas highways, crisscrossing the state, always late for their next high school hop, car dealership opening, or Lion's Club fund raiser.
Aaliyah
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
She was a dancer, a model, an actress, and, of course a singer--she did everything. In her short life, she sold millions of records and inspired thousands of lives.
This book looks at the short life of Aaliyah--from her early childhood and her rise to stardom on the television show Star Search to her movie appearances and final album.
The History of Hip Hop
The History of Hip Hop, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Eric Reese is taking the cultural shock of hip hop to unknown boundaries of music history, so educate yourself in the way of life that is defining young America now!
Hip Hop Truth for the Art and Pulse of America!
This cultural brilliance of sound presented a voice and unique mind through...
Deadheads
Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends & Followers of the Grateful Dead
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
“One of the best books on the Grateful Dead” (Rolling Stone).
Just what was it about the Grateful Dead that inspired such devotion? In Deadheads, those who were there, and are still listening to the music, explain it all.
Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow talks about his lifelong...
by Camille Saint-Saens
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
A fascinating look at the world of music from French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist Camille Saint-Saëns, most famous for his Carnival of the Animals and Danse Macabre.
Duett zu dritt
Komponisten im Beziehungsdreieck
Language: German
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Nichts ist schöner, als wenn zwei Stimmen verschmelzen. Im gelebten Leben sieht der Stimmensatz allerdings oft anders aus. „Duett zu dritt" erzählt davon und zeigt Komponisten im Beziehungsdreieck. - Ludwig van Beethovens „Brief an die unsterbliche Geliebte", neu gelesen und interpretiert,...