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Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
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David Byrne · 352 pages
The Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of Talking Heads presents a celebration of music that offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns of adaptations and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history and culminated in the 20th century's transformative practices.
Bowie
Simon Critchley · 191 pages
Critchley, whose writings on philosophy have garnered widespread praise, melds personal narratives of how Bowie lit up his dull life in southern England’s suburbs with philosophical forays into the way concepts of authenticity and identity are turned inside out in Bowie’s work.
Silence
John Cage · 276 pages
Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called "writing t
Memories of John Lennon
Yoko Ono · 309 pages
John Lennon . . . as much a part of our world today as he ever wasHe touched many lives in his brief forty years, and continues to move and inspire millions more to this day. Now, invited by Yoko Ono, friends, family, and fans from all walks of life -- including some of the great artists of our day -- reminisce about Lennon as a visionary and friend, musician and performer, husband and father, act
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
David Foster Wallace, Mark Costello · 140 pages
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Chuck Klosterman · 277 pages
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music
Ellen Willis · 232 pages
Queering the Popular Pitch
Sheila Whiteley, Jennifer Rycenga · 310 pages
Queering the Popular Pitch is a new collection of 19 essays that situate queering within the discourse of sex and sexuality in relation to popular music. This investigation addresses the changing debates within gay, lesbian and queer discourse in relation to the dissemination of musical texts -performance, cultural production and sexual meaning - situating music within the broader patterns of cult
The Wu-Tang Manual
The RZA, Chris Norris · 243 pages
Uses a manual format which uses a special code to understand RZA hip-hop and philosophy. Also provides information about each member of the group. Demonstrates its history and mythology, and releases the mysteries behind its earliest "dynasty."
A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
Maynard James Keenan, Sarah Jensen · 288 pages
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Lester Bangs · 385 pages
The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music, 1972-1993
Nick Kent · 352 pages
This work by the rock critic Nick Kent, profiles Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sid Vicious, and Kurt Cobain and more.
Listen to This
Alex Ross · 366 pages
Après le succès de The Rest is Noise, le critique américain Alex Ross revient avec Listen to This, un cocktail revigorant d'essais sur la musique pop, rock, jazz et classique.
Rod: The Autobiography
Rod Stewart · 389 pages
A personal portrait by the legendary singer recounts his life on and off the stage, from his humble British roots and his riotous years on tour with The Jeff Beck Group and The Faces to his three marriages and his decades as a solo performer. The long-awaited autobiography of one of rock's true megastars--Rod Stewart.
Beneath the Underdog
Charles Mingus · 334 pages
Introduction by Richard Williams. Mingus by Mingus. From the shabby roadhouses to fabulous estates, from the psychiatric ward of Bellevue to worlds of mysticism and solitude, these are the celebrated, demonic, anguished and, above all, profoundly moving memoirs of the great jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography
Lesley-Ann Jones · 471 pages
"...In this outstanding biography, former rock journalist Lesley-Ann Jones, who toured with Queen, mines mythology, rumour and gossip to reveal a shy and enchanting individual. From Freddie's birth [as Farook Bulsara] on Zanzibar and his school days in India, to his family's escape to London, Queen's phenomenal success and [his] tragic death from AIDS ..."--Jacket.
Set the Boy Free
Johnny Marr · 472 pages
"The memoirs of the legendary guitarist and cofounder of seminal British band The Smiths recalls his childhood in working-class Manchester, his early collaborations with Stephen Morrissey, the ideological differences that triggered his departure and his influential solo career,"--NoveList. Johnny Marr was born in 1960s Manchester to Irish emigrant parents and knew from an early age that he would
Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith
Joe Perry · 416 pages
The lead guitarist of Aerosmith shares behind-the-scenes perspectives into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band, discussing such topics as his teen decision to drop out of school, enduring relationship with Steve Tyler and experiences with fame and recovery.
Piaf
Simone Berteaut · 440 pages
Interesante biografía de la cantante francesa Edith Piaf, narrada desde la perspectiva de su media hermana Simone Berteaut, con quien compartió prácticamente toda su vida, desde los inicios como cantante en las calles de París hasta su prematura muerte. La narración es ágil, sencilla, sin pretensiones académicas y permite una perspectiva muy íntima de la vida de uno de los íconos de la canción fr
The Music Room
Namita Devidayal · 313 pages
Based on the story of a young Hindustani classical musician and singer.
Boys in the Trees
Carly Simon · 384 pages
Carly Simon is a household name. She was the staple of the '70s and '80s Billboard charts and was famously married to James Taylor with whom she has two children. She has had a career that has spanned four decades, resulting in thirteen top 40 hits, including the Number 1 song 'You're So Vain', numerous Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. She was the first artist in history to win