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Author: James Huneker
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13:
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Author: Joseph Vogel
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-08-27
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 0525566589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor half a century, Michael Jackson’s music has been an indelible part of our cultural consciousness. Landmark albums such as Off the Wall and Thriller shattered records, broke racial barriers, amassed awards, and set a new standard for popular music. While his songs continue to be played in nearly every corner of the world, however, they have rarely been given serious critical attention. The first book dedicated solely to exploring his creative work, Man in the Music guides us through an unparalleled analysis of Jackson’s recordings, album by album, from his trailblazing work with Quincy Jones to his later collaborations with Teddy Riley, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, and Rodney Jerkins. Drawing on rare archival material and on dozens of original interviews with the collaborators, engineers, producers, and songwriters who helped bring the artist’s music into the world, Jackson expert and acclaimed cultural critic Joseph Vogel reveals the inspirations, demos, studio sessions, technological advances, setbacks and breakthroughs, failures and triumphs, that gave rise to an immortal body of work.
Author: John Lincoln Stewart
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780520070141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiografie van de Amerikaanse componist van Oostenrijkse afkomst (geb. 1900)
Author: Tommy Mottola
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-09
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781611131345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most powerful, famous executives in the history of the music industry, Tommy Mottola was there from Elvis to the iPod. He participated in the explosion of popular music when it had a personal, individual impact and a global, cultural influence on everything from fashion and advertising to politics and race.
Author: Tim Riley
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2011-09-20
Total Pages: 809
ISBN-13: 1401303935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame. Riley portrays Lennon's rise from Hamburg's red light district to Britain's Royal Variety Show; from the charmed naivetéf "Love Me Do" to the soaring ambivalence of "Don't Let Me Down"; from his shotgun marriage to Cynthia Powell in 1962 to his epic media romance with Yoko Ono. Written with the critical insight and stylistic mastery readers have come to expect from Riley, this richly textured narrative draws on numerous new and exclusive interviews with Lennon's friends, enemies, confidantes, and associates; lost memoirs written by relatives and friends; as well as previously undiscovered City of Liverpool records. Riley explores Lennon in all of his contradictions: the British art student who universalized an American style, the anarchic rock 'n' roller with the moral spine, the anti-jazz snob who posed naked with his avant-garde lover, and the misogynist who became a househusband. What emerges is the enormous, seductive, and confounding personality that made Lennon a cultural touchstone. In Lennon, Riley casts Lennon as a modernist hero in a sweeping epic, dramatizing rock history anew as Lennon himself might have experienced it.
Author: Ann Labounsky
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781574670547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"All these aspects of his life and art, including the rigorous training and arduous practice that transformed a blind peasant boy into a superb musician, his lifelong friendship with Olivier Messiaen, his sometimes turbulent family life, and the body of works he left - only J. S. Bach wrote more compositions for the organ - are narrated and analyzed by Ann Labounsky, who is uniquely qualified to write this definitive biography. A favorite Langlais pupil, she was asked by Langlais himself to write it and had his full cooperation for numerous long interviews over many years."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Jonathan Keates
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-07-28
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 1407020838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London where he made his permanent home. For over two decades Handel was absorbed in London's heady but precarious operatic world. But even his phenomenal energy and determination could not overcome the public's growing indifference to Italian opera in the 1730s, and he turned finally to oratorio, a genre which he made peculiarly his own and in which he created some of his finest works, such as Saul, Messiah, Belshazzar and Jephtha. Over the last two decades a complete revolution in Handel's status has taken place. He is now seen both as a titanic figure in music, whose compositions have found a permanent place in the international repertoire, and as one of the world's favourite composers, with snatches of his work accompanying weddings, funerals and television commercials the world over. Skillfully interwoven with the account of Handel's life are commentaries on all his major works, as well as many less familiar pieces by this most inventive, expressive and captivating of composers. Handel was an extraordinary genius whose career abounded in reversals that would have crushed anyone with less resilience and will power, and Jonathan Keates writes about his life and work with sympathy and scrutiny.
Author: Harry Shapiro
Publisher: Helter Skelter Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781900924580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaimed, definitive account of the inextricably linked histories of drugs and popular music.
Author: Eric Braun
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1512434566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles the life and career of the multitalented musician and songwriter, discussing his childhood, rise to fame, and contractual dispute with his record label.
Author: Robyn Flans
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781705112298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiscellaneous Percussion Music - Mixed Levels