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"An intimate, revealing look at one artist's journey from self-censorship to full expression As one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache-over the challenging and complex relationship with her father, the people-pleasing nature that characterized...
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Nine Disney standards arranged for beginning piano students to enjoy, including: Alice in Wonderland * Best of Friends * Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) * Heigh-Ho * Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) * Little April Shower * Some Day My Prince Will Come * Whistle While You Work * You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!.
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For the first time, the author, a rock music icon, and one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band, tells the full story of his life and career. No subject is taboo, as one of the true giants of rock 'n' roll opens up about his Georgia youth, his long struggle with substance abuse, his string of bad marriages (including his brief union with superstar Cher), the tragic death of brother Duane Allman, and life on the road in one of rock's...
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The first book in the English language on the history of baroque music does not need either apology or justification. Histories of music have been written usually as quick surveys of the entire field and if they specialize at all they concentrate as a rule on a single composer. It is a strange though incontestable fact that by far the great majority of music books deal with composers rather than their music. This attitude is a survival of the hero-worship...
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It was, and it remains, the greatest rock band the world has ever seen, a giant from the moment of its inception until long after its demise. Even today, more than 30 years after its final flight, Led Zeppelin offers the final word in rock innovation - the one band that so many try to emulate and so few come even close to catching. If You Like Led Zeppelin... is the unique story of how Led Zeppelin came together not just as players, but as influences...
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A visual journey though decades of Def Leppard history from one of rock's most legendary photographers-includes commentary from the band.
Def Leppard's unstoppable hard rock anthems have sold tens of millions of albums worldwide and won the band a legion of dedicated fans. This fully authorized visual history follows them from the new wave of British heavy metal to their massive Pyromania and Hysteria albums to the sustained power of their records...
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This winning collection falls easily under the hands, yet preserves the spirit and expressive harmonies of the originals. Includes: Beauty and the Beast * Circle of Life * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * I'm Late * Little April Shower * A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme) * You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! * You'll Be in My Heart.
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Daft Punk's Discovery is a homage to a fascinating, troubled beast of an album that casts a huge shadow over the 21st Century. It's a global view of Discovery as a cultural phenomenon, placing the album at the centre of celebrity culture, fan clubs, video, the music business etc., while also examining its profound musical impact.
You can draw lines from Discovery to Glass Swords, Kanye West, EDM, Autotune, iTunes, Beyoncé, Guilty Pleasures, social...
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Since the dawn of time, humans have had the urge to come together and move to music. It may have started in caves but these days it happens in clubs often found in the shady corners of our towns and cities. Or at least it did until these places began to march to the beat of property developers rather than DJs. In London in the five years to 2016, half of the clubs were lost while a further quarter have been removed in the devastation of Covid. So...
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Coming To Berlin reflects, through the lives and music of migrants, settlers and newcomers, how a constantly in flux city with a tumultuous history has evolved into the de facto cultural capital of Europe. And how at the heart of this, electronic music and club culture play a unique role. A plea for multiculturalism and a love letter to the borderless potential of music, the book breaks the tradition of Berlin's perception as techno ground zero and...
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Since colonial times, generations of families from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England have settled in Knoxville and East Tennessee. Early on, they arrived with ballads, stories, instruments, and folk music from their former homes. "Songcatchers," including Francis James Child, Olive Dame Campbell, Maud Pauline Karpeles, Cecil J. Sharp, William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, Charles Pickard Ware, and George Pullen Jackson, journeyed deep into...
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Colm Tóibín on Joni Mitchell • James Wood on The Who • Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush • Daniel Handler on Eurythmics • Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders • Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other writers on the soundtracks of their lives.
In Heavy Rotation, twenty of our most acclaimed contemporary writers pay homage to the record albums that inspired them. Benjamin Kunkel remembers how the Smiths' Queen Is Dead transformed him into an...
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"Este libro nace de las preguntas que me he hecho a lo largo de varias décadas de actividad profesional como improvisador musical. Nace, pues, de la praxis y de las ideas que genera un contacto diario con esta forma de hacer música. Son estas preguntas las que explican la presencia de todo lo demás ... A menudo, cuando nos interesa algo, lo más difícil no es encontrar respuestas sino aclarar qué es, exactamente, lo que estamos preguntando"....
16) El ritmo perdido
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Así como el rock es producto de otros géneros musicales, pero con un fuerte componente de origen africano, las distintas vertientes de la música española también tienen su origen en los ritmos que llegaron con los esclavos africanos en la Edad Media, los cuales se fueron amalgamando con los primitivos ritmos ibéricos, las sensuales danzas paganas de las puellae gaditanae, los cantos árabes y judíos, y posteriormente con las canciones gitanas....
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Las alianzas musicales entre Chile y México tienen una larga trayectoria. Fue esta valiosa correspondencia la que motivó la creación de Canciones de lejos. Complicidades musicales entre Chile y México. En este libro se describe el intercambio de música tradicional como las cuecas chilenas y las rancheras mexicanas, hasta los géneros contemporáneos interpretados por representantes de estos países del norte y el sur de América. Las historias...
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Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistible music.
Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have-until now. Colorful, intelligent, and in-you-face, Rickey Vincent's Funk celebrates...
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By the early nineties, singer-songwriter and former Blake Babies member Juliana Hatfield's solo career was taking off: She was on the cover of Spin and Sassy. Ben Stiller directed the video for her song "Spin the Bottle" from the Reality Bites film soundtrack. Then, after canceling a European tour to treat severe depression and failing to produce another "hit," she spent a decade releasing well reviewed albums on indie labels and performing in ever-smaller...
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An untold authentic counter-narrative blues history and the first written by an African American blues artist.
All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King present facts to disprove such myths.
This book is the first to argue the blues began as a cosmopolitan art form, not a rural one.
As early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous...
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