Nick: 3195 books

In the late 1960s, a new movement emerged championing historically informed 'authentic' approaches to performance. Heard today in concert halls across the world and in a library's worth of recordings, it has completely transformed the way in which we listen to 'old' music, while revolutionizing the...

(Bass). As the legendary bassist for the famous Stax-Volt studios in Memphis, and as one of the most influential bass players in the history of American music, Donald "Duck" Dunn (1941-2012) laid down the booty-shaking foundations to countless soul, R&B, blues, and rock recordings throughout...

 The landowners in this book have improved their land and done so by being profitable, generous to their human community, committed to family, and desirous of leaving land better than when it came into their stewardship.—from the introduction by Brent Haglund ** ** In 2008, the Sand...

Nick Strimple's all-encompassing survey ranges from 19th-century masters, such as Elgar, to contemporary composers, such as Tan Dun and Paul McCartney. Repertory of every style and level of complexity is critically surveyed and described. This book is an essential resource for choral conductors and a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers.

In this important book Nick Crossley examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Dominant explanations of these developments have tended to focus upon strains and frustrations, both social and aesthetic, which are said to have provoked...

Übersetzung des Originals von Omnibus Press You Really Got Me von Nick Hasted. Die Kinks sind aus der Popgeschichte nicht wegzudenken. Zusammen mit den Beatles, den Rolling Stones und The Who gehören sie zu den wesentlichen Protagonisten der 'British Invasion', die die europäische Popmusik...

For thirty years Nick Coleman immersed himself in music, from rock’n’roll to “pro rock,” jazz to classical, until one morning as he sat up in bed, his right ear went stone deaf. His left ear-as though to compensate-started to make horrific noises “…like the inside of an old fridge hooked...

We Sing A New Language is the first definitive account of Thurston Moore's work across many hundreds of collaborations, solo recordings and guest appearances. While his long tenure in Sonic Youth speaks for itself, his friends and colleagues reveal his other achievements, collecting a wide variety...

Bill Cosby once remarked that kids say the darndest things. He never met Mona Ragone. Age 5 going on 16, Mona's wacky observations and absurdist humor would make David Letterman guffaw. You're guaranteed to chuckle, belly laugh and smile your way through this collection of Mona's zaniest observations.

Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979–93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length scholarly study of Knots Landing, Nick Salvato situates...

  California Author Nick G. Taminich Has Over 45 Years of Collected Bits And Pieces For Books. Those Scraps Of Paper From Stored Boxes Are Now Put Together. From His Small Quiet Ranch In Huasna Valley South And East Of San Luis Obispo California He Has Made Sense Of Lost Thoughts. Now Past...

How to be a Porno Producer is the perfect book for any person with creative talent who would like to explore the possibiliity of getting into the very profitable business of producing Porno films. Some of the sections of this book thoroughly cover the important categories of:CastingFinding...

The Men in Black were elevated to superstar status in 1997 in the hit movie of the same name. Although the Hollywood blockbuster was fiction, the real Men in Black have consistently attempted to silence the witnesses of UFO and paranormal phenomena since the 1950s. In The Real Men in Black,...

For decades, stories of alien abductions, UFO encounters, flying saucer sightings, and Area 51 have led millions of people to believe that extraterrestrials are secretly among us. But what if those millions of people are all wrong? What if the UFO phenomenon has much darker and far more ominous origins? ...