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Light My Fire: My Life with the Doors"The best book yet about The Doors." --Booklist The inside story of the Doors, by cofounder and keyboard player Ray Manzarek. Includes 16 pages of photos. "A refreshingly candid read...a Doors bio worth opening." --Entertainment WeeklyNo other band has ever sounded quite like the...
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Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and MourningAs his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn't seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach's...
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Musical Form and Musical PerformanceAuthor: Edward T. ConePublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 06/17/1968Pages: 104Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 7.88h x 5.39w x 0.29dISBN: 9780393097672
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Music and the Mind"Writing with grace and clarity...he touches on everything from the evolution of the Western tonal system, to the Freudian theory of music as infantile escapism, to the differing roles o the right and left brain in perceiving music." WALL STREET JOURNALDrawing on his own...
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Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric ClaptonFrom the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation. For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one...
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It's a Long Story: My LifeWillie Nelson shares his life story in this heartfelt bestselling memoir of true love, wild times, best friends, and barrooms (Washington Post).Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned. . . . So say the publishers about this book I've written. What I say is that...
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David Bowie: Starman"Ziggy Stardust," "Changes," Under Pressure," "Let's Dance," "Fame," "Heroes," and of course, "Starman." These are the classic songs of David Bowie, the artist whose personas are indelibly etched in our pop consciousness alongside his music. He wrote and recorded with everyone from Iggy Pop...
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Bono: A BiographyBono: A Biography takes a broad look at the pop star's life from his birth until the present day while also examining in depth the major events throughout his life. It covers Bono's accomplishments as part of U2 and also provides great detail about...
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Metallica: This Monster Lives: The Inside Story of Some Kind of MonsterMetallica is the most successful hard-rock band of all time, having sold more than one hundred million albums worldwide. Receiving unique, unfettered access, acclaimed filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky followed Metallica over two and a half years as they faced monumental personal and...
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Ramones: An American BandThe authorized story of an American band who shaped the history of music for generations. Today's new music-makers are looking back at the bands that broke the ground, and the Ramones are it: the original high priests of punk, the stars of rock 'n...
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Book of Drugs: A MemoirMike Doughty first came to prominence with his innovative, funky, poetic band Soul Coughing, whose debut Ruby Vroom remains a visceral '90s signifier. By 2000, frustrated with the band and increasingly addicted to hard drugs and alcohol, Doughty disbanded Soul Coughing. This book tells...
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Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of QueenQueen's success in the 1970s was accompanied by a taste for musical and non-musical excess. Is This the Real Life? draws on eyewitness testimonies--former producers and managers, ex-girlfriends and boyfriends--to create a complete picture of one of the world's most ambitiously driven rock bands...
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Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal MasterpiecesDecibel magazine is regarded as the best extreme music magazine around.Precious Metal gathers pieces from Decibel's most popular feature, the monthly "Hall of Fame" which documents the making of landmark metal albums via candid, hilarious, and fascinating interviews with every participating band member.Decibel's editor-in-chief...
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The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music Updated EditionA smart, scathing look at the most hell-bent performers of our time: Here are profiles of everyone you'd expect (and a few you wouldn't)-Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sid Vicious, and Kurt Cobain. "Kent matters because he wrote about rock...
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Texas Tornado: The Times & Music of Doug SahmDoug Sahm was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist of legendary range and reputation. The first American musician to capitalize on the 1960s British invasion, Sahm vaulted to international fame leading a faux-British band called the Sir Douglas Quintet, whose hits included "She's About a...
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Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of ExpectationThe psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. These efforts evolved into a general theory of expectation that will prove informative to readers interested in cognitive science...
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Chinatown Opera Theater in North AmericaAwards: Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and...
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Rave on: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance MusicPeace, Love, Unity, and Respect. Cultural liberation and musical innovation. Pyrotechnics, bottle service, bass drops, and molly. Electronic dance music has been a vital force for more than three decades now, and has undergone transformation upon transformation as it has taken over the world....
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African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."--Andrew Tracey, African Music "John Miller Chernoff, who spent 10 years studying African drumming, has a flair for descriptive writing, and his first-person narratives should be easily understood...
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Mixing and Mastering in the Box: The Guide to Making Great Mixes and Final Masters on Your ComputerMixing and mastering are the final challenges in creating great recordings. Great mixes require both creativity and a practical understanding of process, while final masters require both a clear sense for purpose and specialized ears for achieving artistic goals. Mixing and Mastering in the...
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