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The Wrecking Crew
St. Martin's Press 2012; US$ 15.99Winner of the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction and Los Angeles Times bestseller "It makes good music sound better."?Janet Maslin in The New York Times ?A fascinating look into the West Coast recording studio scene of the ?60s and the inside story of the music you heard on the radio. If you always assumed the musicians you listened... more...
Children's Book of Music
Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2010; Not AvailableGo on a musical journey around the world Help your child discover the power of music and be inspired by cultures all over the world with the Children's Book of Music- now available in ebook format . Discover how instruments are played and get the low-down on the fascinating lives and achievements of great composers, from Mozart to Debussy.... more...
Portishead's Dummy
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 49.95An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. RJ Wheaton offers an impressionistic investigation of Dummy that imitates the cumulative structure of the album itself, piecing together... more...
Sonic Bodies
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 23.95The reggae sound system has exerted a major influence on music and popular culture. Out on the streets of inner city Kingston, Jamaica, every night, sound systems stage dancehall sessions for the crowd to share the immediate, intensive and immersive visceral pleasures of sonic dominance. Sonic Bodies concentrates on the skilled performance of the crewmembers... more...
Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 49.95For two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potential to be historic: five years after ascending to soul royalty and commercial success, Franklin was publicly returning to her religious roots. Her influential... more...
On a Cold Road
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 17.95David Bidini, rhythm guitarist with the Rheostatics, knows all too well what the life of a rock band in Canada involves: storied arenas one tour and bars wallpapered with photos of forgotten bands the next. Zit-speckled fans begging for a guitar pick and angry drunks chucking twenty-sixers and pint glasses. Opulent tour buses riding through apocalyptic... more...
Written By Mrs Bach
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; US$ 21.74It's not often that one of the world's greatest composers is accused of plagiarising his wife's work, but an Australian musical expert has cast doubt on whether Johann Sebastian Bach wrote all his own material. Conductor Martin Jarvis believes Bach's cello suites were composed by the German musician's second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach (1701-60).... more...
Me, the Mob, and the Music
Scribner 2010; Not AvailableEveryone knows the hits: ?Hanky Panky,? ?Mony Mony,? ?I Think We?re Alone Now,? ?Crimson and Clover,? ?Crystal Blue Persuasion.? All of these songs, which epitomize great pop music of the late 1960s, are now widely used in television and film and have been covered by a diverse group of artists from Billy Idol to Tiffany to R.E.M. Just as compelling... more...
Big Star's Radio City
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 44.95Virtually anyone who’s ever picked up a guitar – whether wood or air – has fantasized about playing onstage alongside his musical hero. Bruce Eaton actually did it. Radio City (the book) will be based on the improbable but true story of an ardent fan who gets close enough to Alex Chilton, the prime architect... more...
1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die
Workman Publishing Company 2008; US$ 19.95The musical adventure of a lifetime. The most exciting book on music in years. A book of treasure, a book of discovery, a book to open your ears to new worlds of pleasure. Doing for music what Patricia Schultz?author of the phenomenal 1,000 Places to See Before You Die?does for travel, Tom Moon recommends 1,000 recordings guaranteed to give listeners... more...









