Black Sabbath: the unauthorized biography
Black Sabbath: the unauthorized biography

Author: Universo dos Livros

Publisher: Universo dos Livros Editora

Published:

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 8579308062

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With over forty years of history, Black Sabbath revolutionized the history of rock giving the initial impetus for creation and propagation of heavy metal. In four decades of success, the band led by Tony Iommi has its recognition with classics in the world of metal, such as “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath “and” Paranoid “. The Sabbath had several members, but it was in the voice and figure of the eccentric Ozzy Osbourne that the group gained weight in music scene. In this unauthorized biography, the reader will know the whole history of the band that colored rock with more obscure shades and lyrics that speak without fear of the world’s darkness. Also brings the complete discography, trivia and amazing pictures.

Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne

Author: Sue Crawford

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1782432027

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This book explores the real woman behind the relentless media circus, tracing Sharon's life from her rebellious adolescence to the drink-and-drug-fuelled years on the road with Ozzy, right through to her current incarnation as an X Factor judge and popular TV star.

The American Dream
The American Dream

Author: Harmon Leon

Publisher: Bold Type Books

Published: 2008-09-23

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1568583524

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Leon draws upon his experiences of adopting personas and disguises to infiltrate the various institutions of everyday life, which he chronicles in this work that is a funny, satirical, and ultimately poignant take on what it means to be an American today.

Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality
Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality

Author: Florian Heesch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-07

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1317122984

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Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality brings together a collection of original, interdisciplinary, critical essays exploring the negotiated place of gender and sexuality in heavy metal music and its culture. Scholars debate the current state of play concerning masculinities, femininities, queerness, identity aesthetics and monstrosities in an area of music that is sometimes mistakenly treated as exclusively sustaining a masculinist hegemony. The book combines a broad variety of perspectives on the main topic, regarding gender in connection to: the history of the genre; the range of metal subgenres; heavy metal's multidimensional scope (music, lyrics, performance, style, illustrations); men and women; sexualities and various local and global perspectives. Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality is a text that opens up the world of heavy metal to reveal that it is a very diverse and ground-breaking stage where gender play is at the centre of its theatricality and sustains its mass appeal.

Metaldata
Metaldata

Author: Sonia Archer-Capuzzo

Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.

Published: 2021-06-25

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0895798921

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Metaldata: A Bibliography of Heavy Metal Resources is the first book-length bibliography of resources about heavy metal. From its beginnings in the late 1960s and early 1970s, heavy metal has emerged as one of the most consistently popular and commercially successful music styles. Over the decades the style has changed and diversified, drawing attention from fans, critics, and scholars alike. Scholars, journalists, and musicians have generated a body of writing, films, and instructional materials that is substantial in quantity, diverse in approach, and intended for many types of audiences, resulting in a wealth of information about heavy metal. Metaldata provides a current and comprehensive bibliographic resource for researchers and fans of metal. This book also serves as a guide for librarians in their collection development decisions. Chapters focus on performers, musical instruction, discographies, metal subgenres, metal in specific places, and research relating metal to the humanities and sciences, and encompass archives, books, articles, videos, websites, and other resources by scholars, journalists, musicians, and fans of this vibrant musical style.

Rock Brands
Rock Brands

Author: Elizabeth Barfoot Christian

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2010-12-22

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 073914636X

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Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, edited by Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, is an edited collection that explores how different genres of popular music are branded and marketed today. The book's core objectives are addressed over three sections. In the first part of Rock Brands, the authors examine how established mainstream artists/bands are continuing to market themselves in an ever-changing technological world, and how bands can use integrated marketing communication to effectively 'brand' themselves. This branding is intended as a protection so that technology and delivery changes don't stifle the bands' success. KISS, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Phish, and Miley Cyrus are all popular musical influences considered in this part of the analysis. In the second section, the authors explore how some musicians effectively use attention-grabbing issues such as politics (for example, Kanye West and countless country musicians) and religion (such as with Christian heavy metal bands and Bon Jovi) in their lyrics, and also how imagery is utilized by artists such as Marilyn Manson to gain a fan base. Finally, the book will explore specific changes in the media available to market music today (see M.I.A. and her use of new media) and, similarly, how these resources can benefit music icons even after they are long gone, as with Elvis and Michael Jackson. Rock Brands further examines gaming, reality television, and social networking sites as new outlets for marketing and otherwise experiencing popular music. What makes some bands stand out and succeed when so many fail? How does one find a niche that isn't just kitsch and can stand the test of time, allowing the musician to grow as an artist as well as grow a substantial fan base? Elizabeth Barfoot Christian and the book's contributors expertly navigate these questions and more in Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture.

Ozzy Knows Best
Ozzy Knows Best

Author: Chris Nickson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-08-03

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0312311419

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Always outrageous but equally compelling, its THE book to have on Ozzy, MTV's The Osbournes, and everything in between. Meet the Osbournes: children Kelly and Jack, mother Sharon, and the father, none other than Godfather of Metal Ozzy Osbourne. Starring in MTV's most popular show ever, the Osbournes have proven that the family of a heavy metal superstar can teach America what parenting is all about with their new twist on family values. So what's made Ozzy into such a great father? Experience. You name it, he's done it. He's bitten the heads off doves and bats, urinated on the Alamo (while wearing a woman's dress!), and been addicted to drink and drugs. With his first band, Black Sabbath, he practically invented heavy metal. As a solo performer, he's sold millions of albums, and helped turn the annual Ozzfest tour into one of the biggest events in music. Learn how Ozzy went from being banned at the Alamo to a guest at the White House, from bats to Beverly Hills. It's all in here, with plenty of trivia-like why oldest daughter, Aimee, didn't want to be a part of series- and all the parenting tips any father needs to be as good a dad as Ozzy.

Ozzy Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne

Author: Linda Saucerman

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2004-12-15

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781404202627

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Features the lives and careers of heavy metal artist Ozzy Osbourne and his daughter, Kelly, a musician experiencing some of the same substance abuse problems.

Ozzy
Ozzy

Author: Sue Crawford

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781843170167

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John Michael Ozzy Osbourne has been very popular with the American public as the star of The Osbournes, a fly-on-the-wall-docu-soap. This biography is a comprehensive study of his past, and with its specially commissioned astrological chart, the future of this survivor and star.