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Walking with Legends
LSU Press 2007; US$ 17.95Drummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, and cigar-chomping raconteur Barry Martyn is a New Orleans original who happens to have been born in England. Implausible though this may seem, it makes perfect sense to members of the New Orleans traditional jazz community, who view themselves as an extended family based on merit as much as nativity.... more...
I Am Ozzy
Grand Central Publishing 2010; US$ 12.99"They've said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: 'He bit the head off a bat.' Yes. 'He bit the head off a dove.' Yes. But then you hear things like, 'Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn't perform until he'd killed fifteen puppies . . .' Now me , kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I've got eighteen of the... more...
Fortissimo
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 13.95H. L. Mencken declared that ?the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.? It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama, fleshly pleasures and raucous song. In Fortissimo , Murray... more...
Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 79.00Foster explores how Wagner's political stance and his theories on Greek poetry and politics were combined to create the Ring. more...
Guitar Gods
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 91.00Meet rock and roll's party crashers. They are the guitar-wielding heroes who came into an established musical framework, rearranged the furniture, tipped over a few chairs, and ditched - leaving the stragglers to pick up the pieces. Guitar Gods showcases the 25 players who made the greatest impact on rock's long and winding history.Meet rock... more...
John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 20.99John Coltrane's unique and powerful saxophone sound is commonly recognized among scholars and fans of Black American music and jazz as having a "spiritual" nature, imbued with the performer's soul, which deeply touches musicians and listeners worldwide. This revered and respected musician created new standards, linked tradition with... more...
Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride
Opera Journeys Publishing 2010; US$ 9.75A comprehensive opera-guide, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis. more...
Puccini's Suor Angelica
Opera Journeys Publishing 2002; US$ 9.75A comprehensive opera-guide, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis. more...
Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
Opera Journeys Publishing 2010; US$ 9.75A comprehensive opera-guide, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis. more...









