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Turn It Up!: My Time Making Hit Records in the Glory Days of Rock Music (Featuring Mötley Crüe, Poison, Twisted Sister, Jeff Beck,Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Tom Werman was deeply affected by pop music from a young age. He long dreamed of a career in music--first as Elvis, then as the next George Harrison--but it almost didn't turn out that way. Dutifully following the...
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The Queen's SongbookQueen Liliuokalani left two major legacies. The first, her lands, have benefited the Hawaiian people through the Liliuokalani Trust and Queen Liliuokalani Children's Center. The second, her music, has brought pleasure to many people of many cultures, and Hui Hanai hopes the publication of...
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The Power of Kiowa SongMany Kiowas believe that song is a gift from God. Its power, argues Luke E. Lassiter, rests in the many ways that community members hear, understand, and feel it: "Song has power. As I begin to understand what this means for my mentors, I...
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The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for Enlightened ListeningDo you enjoy classical music but wish you knew more about it? Do you buy CDs, tune in to radio programs, go to concerts, and sometimes wonder just what, precisely, all those Italian musical terms mean? In this wonderfully engaging guide, Miles Hoffman demystifies...
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The Music Lesson Lib/E: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through MusicAuthor: Victor L. WootenPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 06/07/2010Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200105304About the AuthorWooten, Victor L.: - Victor L. Wooten has won five Grammy Awards and two Nashville Music Awards for Bassist of the Year, is the only three-time winner of Bass Player magazine's Bass Player...
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Themes for Great Cities: A New History of Simple Minds'Nobody owes us anything, but the Simple Minds story has been too condensed. After Live Aid and 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' there hasn't been quite the credit for those first few records. I think they contain some really special music. I can hear...
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The Little Mermaid - Music from the 2023 Motion Picture Soundtrack Piano/Vocal/Guitar Souvenir Songbook(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This souvenir songbook features eight beloved songs from the 2023 film arranged for piano, voice, and guitar with the melody in the piano and chord symbols, guitar chord frames, and full lyrics. The book also includes seven pages of full-color scenes from...
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The Enjoyment of MusicFor nearly 70 years, The Enjoyment of Music has led the way in preparing students for a lifetime of listening to great music and understanding its cultural and historical context. The Fourteenth Edition expands on this foundation with new chapters and features that add...
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The Dead C's Clyma Est MortThe Dead C's Clyma est mort (1993) is the record of a live gig for one person. Tom Lax was running the Siltbreeze label in Philadelphia and had come to New Zealand to meet the artists he was releasing. He heard The Dead C...
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The Cramps: A Short History of Rock 'n' Roll PsychosisAuthor: Dick PorterPublisher: Plexus PublishingPublished: 01/24/2007Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.70w x 0.43dISBN: 9780859653985
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The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New MusicBálint András Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that...
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The Coltrane Church: Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social JusticeThe John Coltrane Church began in 1965, when Franzo and Marina King attended a performance of the John Coltrane Quartet at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop and saw a vision of the Holy Ghost as Coltrane took the bandstand. Celebrating the spirituality of the late...
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The Byrds: Every Album, Every SongAuthor: Andy McArthurPublisher: Sonicbond PublishingPublished: 09/29/2023Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.31h x 5.99w x 0.30dISBN: 9781789522808
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The Best Hardcore Band in PaThe Best Hardcore Band in PA is the coming of age story of Cyrus, Jeff, and Mindy as misfit teens in a place where they'll never be considered "normal"--Cyrus for being gay and losing his mother at age twelve; Jeff for playing hardcore music...
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Rockin' in the Ivory Tower: Rock Music on Campus in the SixtiesHistories of American rock music and the 1960s counterculture typically focus on the same few places: Woodstock, Monterey, Altamont. Yet there was also a very active college circuit that brought edgy acts like the Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground to different metropolitan regions...
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Requiem: Complete Vocal Score(BH Large Choral). (2004, 55 minutes) Karl Jenkins' Requiem sets the traditional Latin text of the Requiem mass, including the extra movements included by Faure and Durufle Pie Jesu and In paradisum . These are interspersed with haiku "death" poems (sung in Japanese) whose...
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Punk Rock Los AngelesPUNKROCK LOSANGELESMore than 80 photographs from the Seminal Age of Punk Rock Music in Los Angeles. Featuring The Bags, Nervous Gender, The Screamers, The Know, The Go-Gos, The Alleycats, X and more!"There are some truly wonderful shots in here. Everything from live performance shots...
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On Divas: Persona, Pleasure, PowerA critic's notebook on sparkle and spectacle. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive. A collection of essays on musicians, celebrities, and aesthetic movements and moments that, taken together, characterize...
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Old Town RoadIn Old Town Road, Chris Molanphy considers Lil Nas X's debut single as pop artifact, chart phenomenon, and cultural watershed. "Old Town Road" was more than a massive hit, with the most weeks at No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 history. It is also...
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Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John LennonBy all appearances, John Lennon was working on a tell-all memoir in the final years of his life. Every day he poured into diaries his raw thoughts and feelings-about his jealous rivalry with Paul McCartney; his tumultuous marriage to Yoko Ono; his love for...
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