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Apathy for the Devil
Da Capo Press 2010; US$ 17.95Chronicling Nick Kent?s up-close , personal, often harrowing adventures with the Rolling Stones, Lester Bangs, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, and Chrissie Hynde, among scores of others, Apathy for the Devil is a picaresque memoir that bears witness to the beautiful and the damned of this turbulent decade. As a college dropout barely... more...
The Words and Music of Sting
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 56.00Sting has successfully established himself as one of the most important singer-songwriters in Western popular music over the past twenty years. His affinity for collaborative work and disparate musical styles has pushed his music into an astonishing array of contexts, but no matter what the style or who the collaborator, Sting's voice always remains... more...
The Words and Music of Jimi Hendrix
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 45.00Jimi Hendrix burst onto the American music scene at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, captivating the audience with a performance of "Wild Thing." Both musically and literally incendiary, the song ended with Hendrix pouring lighter fluid over his guitar and setting it on fire. Pyrotechnics aside, why is the guitarist still revered 40 years after... more...
A Very Irregular Head
Da Capo Press 2010; US$ 20.00The first authorized biography of Syd Barrett, the legendary, mysterious founder of Pink Floyd, told with unprecedented access to family and friends and illustrated with 32 pages of photos and illustrations more...
Sign of Life
Da Capo Press 2010; US$ 24.00The inspirational story of musician Hilary Williams?granddaughter of Hank Williams?and her recovery from a near-fatal car accident to rediscover her purpose and reclaim the life she nearly lost. more...
Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge
University Press of Mississippi 2011; US$ 50.00Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, starting in June 1937, until he left in late 1942. He recorded such important musicians as Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Aunt Molly Jackson, and Jelly Roll... more...
Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 68.00This volume offers a new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music. more...
Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 29.00Nicholas Marston traces the fascinating history of Schumann's Fantasie, Op. 17. more...
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 23.00Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to three remarkable works which secured for Mendelssohn no small measure of his fame. more...
The Music of Toru Takemitsu
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 53.00This book is the first complete study of Toru Takemitsu's work to appear in English. more...









