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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorTell ME Why: A Beatles Commentary (Vintage Books)
Tim Riley · 423 pages
Perhaps the first serious analysis of the Beatles' work and its impact on popular music, Tell Me Why is meticulous in its purpose and long overdue....Of the hundreds of books written about [the Beatles] none bring the musical knowledge and the familiarity with the period that Riley offers here." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer Album by album, song by song, Tim Riley gives us a new, deeper understa
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Angela Y. Davis · 427 pages
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articul
Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic
Jim Derogatis · 341 pages
"Let It Blurt is the biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82) - the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electri
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music
Ellen Willis · 232 pages
Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music
Stephen Fry, Tim Lihoreau · 318 pages
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2: 1981-1983
Ed Piskor · 112 pages
"Book 2 covers the early years of 1981-1983, when Hip Hop has made a big transition from the parks and rec rooms to downtown clubs and vinyl records. The performers make moves to separate themselves from the paying customers by dressing more and more flamboyantly until a young group called RUN-DMC comes on the scene to take things back to the streets. This volume covers hits like Afrika Bambaataa'
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Paul Brannigan · 400 pages
The epic story of a singular career that includes Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, and Them Crooked Vultures. Based on ten years of original, exclusive interviews with the man himself and conversations with a legion of musical associates like Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, DC punk legend Ian MacKaye, and Nevermind producer Butch Vig, this is Grohl₂s story. He speaks ca
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
Joe Boyd · 282 pages
White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s is the memoir of music producer Joe Boyd. More than any previous sixties music autobiography, Boyd's offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. As well as the sixties heavy-hitters, this book also offers vivid portraits of a host of other 1960s musicians.--From publisher description.
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.
Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture
Simon Reynolds · 454 pages
Generation Ecstasy is the story of rave culture and techno music. Challenging traditional ideas about music and spawning a global network of underground scenes based on the frenzied euphoria of the all-night dance party, rave is the most innovative, influential, and controversial pop phenomenon since punk rock. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat and the ultimate rush, Generation Ec
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
Greg Milner · 440 pages
In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician. Today, the equation is reversed. Whereas Edison proposed that a real performance could be rebuilt with absolute perfection, Pro Tools and digital samplers
The Clash: Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon
The Clash, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon · 384 pages
Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story
David Buckley · 688 pages
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
Tricia Rose · 237 pages
Discusses the elements of rap music, including its lyrics, music, culture, and style, and looks at the impact of rap music.
Kansas City Lightning
Stanley Crouch · 382 pages
The first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century. Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at 34. With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cult
Bowie In Berlin: A New Career In A New Town
Thomas Jerome Seabrook · 272 pages
By 1975 rock icon David Bowie was in crisis. Lost in Los Angeles, he was ravaged by cocaine abuse, overwork, and an obsession with the occult, while his marriage lay in tatters. Desperate to reignite his creative spark, Bowie relocated in mid-1976 to Berlin, accompanied by an equally troubled Iggy Pop, former Stooges front man. The move to Berlin proved fortuitous both personally and professionall
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy
Harry Shapiro, Caesar Glebbeek · 723 pages
Biography of the rock musician's life from his boyhood to his tragic death.
Clapton: The Autobiography
Eric Clapton · 352 pages
The legendary guitarist recounts the story of his life and his career, recalling his work with the Yardbirds, Cream, and as a solo artist; years of drug and alcohol abuse; failed marriage to Patti Boyd; and the accidental death of his young son.