Cooper Press imprint: 103 books
Harmonicas, Harps and Heavy Breathers
The Evolution of the People's Instrument
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2000
The harmonica is one of the most important, yet overlooked, instruments in music. This definitive volume celebrates the history of the world's most popular musical device, its impact on various forms of music, folk, country, blues, rock, jazz and classical music. The author traces the development...
Go Where You Wanna Go
The Oral History of The Mamas and The Papas
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
Lavishly illustrated and cinematic in scope, Go Where You Wanna Go is told from the points of view of not only the group members, but also from those of their friends, musical collegues, business associates, critics, and fans.
Living with the Dead
Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
As a manager for the Grateful Dead, Rock Scully was with the band from its early days in San Francisco to the years it spent touring the globe as one of the most enduring legends in music history. In Living with the Dead , Scully gives a complete account of his outrageous experiences with the band,...
Did They Mention the Music?
The Autobiography of Henry Mancini
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Best known for the "dead-ant" theme to the Pink Panther films, Henry Mancini also composed the music to Peter Gunn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, and the Academy Award winning soundtracks to Victor/Victoria and The Days of Wine and Roses. In a career that lasted over thirty...
Oscar Peterson
The Will to Swing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
An engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson. A man Duke Ellington once called the " maharajah of the piano." Gene Lees carefully builds up the portrait of Peterson, his childhood and what it meant to be be black and talented in Montreal in the 1940s, hist three marriages and six...
Brotherhood In Rhythm
The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Tap dancing legends Fayard (b. 1914) and Harold (1918-2000) Nicholas amazed crowds with their performances in musicals and films from the 30s to the 80s. They performed with Gene Kelly in The Pirate, with Cab Calloway in Stormy Weather, with Dorothy Dandridge (Harold's wife) in Sun Valley Serenade,...
Martini Man
The Life of Dean Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2003
Martini Man goes beyond the simple caricature of the boozy lounge singer with a penchant for racy humor to reveal the substantive man behind that mask. Although Martin's movie roles receive in-depth attention in this incisive biography, as does his career-defining partnership with Jerry Lewis, details...
by Robert Payne
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002
This lavishly-illustrated tour through the film career of Greta Garbo (1905-1990) provides a biographical background of the star and an analysis of her very special mystique. Payne describes how Garbo's timeless beauty worked its magic in such films as Flesh and the Devil, Anna Christie, Mata Hari,...
by Federico Fellini, Charolette Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2001
Forged from the many conversations Charlotte Chandler conducted with director Federico Fellini over the course of fourteen years, and featuring a forward by Billy Wilder, I, Fellini is a portrait of one of Italy's greatest filmmakers in his own words. In the book, Fellini recounts the stories behind...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
This compilation from Film Culture magazine—the pioneering periodical in avant-garde film commentary—includes contributors like Charles Boultenhouse, Erich von Stroheim, Michael McClure, Stan Brakhage, Annette Michelson, Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, Andrew Sarris, Rudolph Arnheim, Jonas Mekas,...
Clara Bow
Runnin' Wild
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2000
Hollywood's first sex symbol, the ' It ' girl, Clara Bow was born in the slums of Brooklyn in a family plagued with alcoholism and insanity. She catapulted to fame after winning Motion Picture magazine's 1921 " Fame and Fortune" contest. The greatest box-office draw of her day—she once received...
Edmund Wilson
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully, that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald's. Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and the tragic death of his second...
The Runaway Bride
Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2002
In the 1934 classic It Happened One Night, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark Gable. The new brand of movies following in the wake of Capra's kooky masterpiece-and the women starring...
Che Guevara
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
The controversial life and career of Ernesto Ché Guevara (1928-1967) has earned the revolutionary leader admirers and detractors across the world. In his critical biography, Daniel James penetrates the myths that have grown up around Guevara since his death. The biography carefully analyzes the Cold...