Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
by Paul Zollo
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The long-awaited sequel to Songwriters on Songwriting, often called "the songwriter's bible," More Songwriters on Songwriting goes to the heart of the creative process with in-depth interviews with many of the world's greatest songwriters. Covering every genre of popular music from folk,...
Billie Holiday
Wishing On The Moon
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. "Now, finally, we have a definitive biography," said Booklist of Donald Clarke's Billie Holiday, "by...
Thriller
The Musical Life of Michael Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Thriller takes us back to a time in 1982 when Michael Jackson was king of the charts, breaking the color barrier on MTV, heralding the age of video, and becoming the ultimate representation of the crossover dreams of Motown's Berry Gordy, who helped launch Jackson's career with the Jackson 5. In this...
When I Left Home
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues.
Guy's epic story stands at...
Johnny Cash
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
To millions, he was the rebellious Man in Black, the unabashed patriot, the redeemed Christian-the king of country music. But Johnny Cash (1932-2003) was also an uncertain country boy whose dreams were born in the cotton fields of Arkansas and who struggled his entire life with a guilt-ridden childhood,...
by Ann Powers, Daphne Carr
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals out there. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more, it is essential reading for anyone...
Seven Deadly Sins
Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor's New York Times bestselling treatise on sin and the nature of it
For the first time, Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor speaks directly to his fans and shares his worldview about life as a sinner. And Taylor knows how to sin. As a small-town...
Crosby, Stills & Nash
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Crosby, Stills & Nash created some of the most indelible songs and beautiful harmonies of the late 1960s and early 1970s: "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," "Woodstock," "Teach Your Children."
This copiously illustrated account of the trio's personal and musical history...
by Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Allen Ginsberg (19261997) was one of twentieth-century literature's most prolific letter-writers. This definitive volume showcases his correspondence with some of the most original and interesting artists of his time, including Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Lionel...
The A List
The National Society Of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays-most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a consensus of the National Society of Film Critics....
American Witness
The Art and Life of Robert Frank
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From the author of the acclaimed James Brown biography The One comes the first in-depth biography of renowned photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, best known for his landmark book The Americans.
As well-known as Robert Frank the photographer is, few can say they really know Robert Frank...
Variety's ""The Movie That Changed My Life""
120 Celebrities Pick the Films that Made a Difference (for Better or Worse)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
In recent years, the editors of Variety have posed the same question to hundreds of famous personalities: What is the movie that changed your life?” Gathered here for the first time are the responses of movie stars and comedians, politicians and war correspondents, athletes and business magnates,...
Rough Magic
A Biography Of Sylvia Path
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Since her suicide at age thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been celebrated for her impeccable and ruthless poetry. Rough Magic probes the events of Plath's life, including her turbulent marriage to the poet Ted Hughes.
Heart of the City
Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
“The couples in this book hail from across America and the world. Most don’t live in New York City. Some never did. What mattered to me was that they met there, in one of its iconic public places. Each of the nine stories begins just before that chance meeting—when they are strangers, oblivious...