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International Who's Who in Popular Music
ISBN: 9781857433678 / Angielski / Twarda / 684 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "International Whos Who in Popular Music 2006" provides biographical details on some of the most talented and influential artists, as well as up-and-coming individuals from the world of popular music. International in scope, this new edition provides information on artists, varying from Eminem to Wynton Marsalis; Ray Davies to Talvin Singh.
Listed alphabetically by surname, entries provide full biographical profiles, including personal information, principal career details, recordings and compositions, and full contact details, where available. A directory section includes details of... "International Whos Who in Popular Music 2006" provides biographical details on some of the most talented and influential artists, as well as up-and-c...
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1175,45 |
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Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa
ISBN: 9789987449422 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa brings together important essays on songs and politics in the region and beyond. Through an analysis of the voices from the margins, the authors (contributors) enter into the debate on cultural productions and political change. The theme that cuts across the contributions is that songs are, in addition to their aesthetic appeal, vital tools for exploring how political and social events are shaped and understood by citizens. Urbanization, commercialization and globalization contributed to the vibrancy of East African popular music of the 1990s which was...
Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa brings together important essays on songs and politics in the region and beyond. Through an analysis of the voice...
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473,58 |
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Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place
ISBN: 9781859840351 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides coverage of musical styles from around the world, from Havana, Port-au-Prince, Kingston, Budapest, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles to Tokyo. It explores the fusion of immigrant and mainstream cultures displayed in world music, including: rap, jazz, reggae, zouk, bhangra, juju, swamp pop and Puerto Rican Bugalu and Chicano punk.
This volume provides coverage of musical styles from around the world, from Havana, Port-au-Prince, Kingston, Budapest, Paris, London, New York, Los A...
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82,44 |
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International Who's Who in Popular Music 2008
ISBN: 9781857434545 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features over 6,000 biographies charting the careers and achievements of several pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists throughout the world. This title offer biographical information such as: principal career details, recordings and compositions, honours and contact information. It provides details of music festivals and awards.
Features over 6,000 biographies charting the careers and achievements of several pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists throughout th...
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1714,21 |
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JONI MITCHELL ANTHOLOGY PVG
ISBN: 9780769207148 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirty-one songs including Chelsea Morning Both Sides Now Big Yellow Taxi Woodstock Free Man in Paris Raised on Robbery Chinese Cafe and more.
Thirty-one songs including Chelsea Morning Both Sides Now Big Yellow Taxi Woodstock Free Man in Paris Raised on Robbery Chinese Cafe and more.
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105,43 |
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Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9780747559078 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peggy Lee has been entrancing audiences for over half a century, starting with her first big break in Benny Goodman's band in 1941. With hits including Fever, Manana, It's a Good Day and Why Don't You Do Right? her sultry swing-beat style secured her a place Top Ten in the '40s, '50s and '60s. This book reveals her life story.
Peggy Lee has been entrancing audiences for over half a century, starting with her first big break in Benny Goodman's band in 1941. With hits includin...
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66,97 |
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Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes and the Sound of Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780747561804 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No city in the western world exerts such a fascination as the glamorous, debauched Los Angeles, and there is no city with more of a draw to musicians. Defined by the music of Brian Wilson, The Doors, Niggaz With Attitude, jazz, funk, soul, hip hop, and fulled by drugs, alcohol, sun, sex and surf, LA has seen it all. Barney Hoskyns tells the definitive story of L.A.'s post-war music scene and spent nearly a decade researching this account of music which developed into a culture of its own.
No city in the western world exerts such a fascination as the glamorous, debauched Los Angeles, and there is no city with more of a draw to musicians....
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103,11 |
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Abba - Unplugged
ISBN: 9780749950705 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In April 1974, 500 million television viewers across Europe witnessed the bizarrely thrilling sight of four garishly-dressed unknowns from Sweden storm their way to victory in the Eurovision Song Contest. The song was 'Waterloo'. Abba had arrived.Over the next three decades, the band moved on through an almost unbroken succession of hit albums and singles. Abba have sold some 400 million records around the world, and their songs inspired a musical which since opening in October 2001 has been seen by more than 10 million people. In Abba: Unplugged, Karl French, a journalist and author...
In April 1974, 500 million television viewers across Europe witnessed the bizarrely thrilling sight of four garishly-dressed unknowns from Sweden stor...
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133,20 |
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George Gershwin Platinum Collection
ISBN: 9780571526840 / Angielski / Miękka / 999 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is THE definitive Gershwin songbook - a truly magnificant collection containing 50 of George Gershwin's best songs for piano and voice with guitar chords in a large 216 page volume. This is the first in a brand new series entitled 'The Platinum Collection'. All the songs within this book are newly engraved and have been thoroughly researched and edited to provide the best published edition. No other series can claim to be as definitive as Faber Music's new Platinum Collection.
Titles include: A Foggy Day * Bess, You Is My Woman Now * Bidin' My Time * But Not for Me * By Strauss *... This is THE definitive Gershwin songbook - a truly magnificant collection containing 50 of George Gershwin's best songs for piano and voice with guita...
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95,57 |
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Cole Porter Platinum Collection
ISBN: 9780571527991 / Angielski / Miękka / 999 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is The definitive songbook - a truly magnificent collection containing 50 of Cole Porter's best songs for piano and voice with guitar chords. All songs have been newly engraved and thoroughly researched and edited to provide the best edition available No other series can claim to be as definitive as Faber Music's new Platinum Collection. Titles: All Through the Night * Another Op'nin, Another Show * Anything Goes * Be a Clown * Be Like the Blue Bird * Begin the Beguine * Blow, Gabriel, Blow * Brush Up Your Shakespeare * Don't Fence Me In * Easy to Love * Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye *...
This is The definitive songbook - a truly magnificent collection containing 50 of Cole Porter's best songs for piano and voice with guitar chords. All...
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95,57 |
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Expression in Pop-Rock Music: Critical and Analytical Essays
ISBN: 9780415979597 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection presents a wide range of scholarly approaches to understanding artistic expression in rock music and provides insights into the music.
This collection presents a wide range of scholarly approaches to understanding artistic expression in rock music and provides insights into the music....
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230,14 |
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International Who's Who in Classical Music/Popular Music 2007 Set
ISBN: 9781857434415 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1812,16 |
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That Moaning Saxophone: The Six Brown Brothers and the Dawning of a Musical Craze
ISBN: 9780195372182 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The saxophone, today an emblem of "cool" and the instrument most associated with jazz, was largely ignored in the U.S. for well over a half-century after its invention in France in 1838. Bringing this new sound to the American public was the Six Brown Brothers, one of the most famous musical acts on the stage in the early twentieth century. The group's quarter-century of ups and downs mirror the rise and fall of minstrelsy and vaudeville. With treks across the country and Europe, years in Broadway musical and comedy revues, and even time at the circus, the Six Brown Brothers embodied early...
The saxophone, today an emblem of "cool" and the instrument most associated with jazz, was largely ignored in the U.S. for well over a half-century af...
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138,50 |
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Year by Year in the Rock Era
ISBN: 9780275927080 / Angielski / Miękka / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Year by Year in the Rock Era, Herb Hendler chronicles the evolution of rock from its inception in 1954 until its wane in the early 1980s through a year-by-year breakdown of the progression of musical events--the artists, groups, songs, dances, and LPs that rocked the youth generation for nearly three decades. Only a portion of the book relates to rock music itself, while a major part involves indirectly related phenomena such as fashion, alternative lifestyles, film, jargon, and television. Hendler's special focus is on innovation, overall business aspects, sociological factors,... In Year by Year in the Rock Era, Herb Hendler chronicles the evolution of rock from its inception in 1954 until its wane in the early 1980s ... |
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180,44 |
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A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley
ISBN: 9780879309541 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this startling new biography, musician Jeff Buckley's friends, enemies, collaborators, and others all speak of the Jeff they knew--or, in some cases, thought they knew. Even 10 years after his death, Buckley is still influencing modern bands from Radiohead to Coldplay.
In this startling new biography, musician Jeff Buckley's friends, enemies, collaborators, and others all speak of the Jeff they knew--or, in some case...
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145,41 |
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Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries
ISBN: 9780789016966 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive perspective on multiculturalism in libraries Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries delivers a comprehensive look at diversity issues for librarians. It examines partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies and provides effective retention strategies for diverse employees. It also shows how librarians can lobby for domestic partner benefits for university employees who are unmarried same- and opposite-sex couples. Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries provides a unique...
A comprehensive perspective on multiculturalism in libraries Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries delivers...
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440,75 |
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Waiting for the Sun: A Rock & Roll History of Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780879309435 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British rock historian Hoskyns examines the long and twisted rock & roll history of Los Angeles in its glamorous and debauched glory. The Beach Boys, The Doors, the Eagles, Joni Mitchell, and others populate the pages of this comprehensive and extensively illustrated book.
British rock historian Hoskyns examines the long and twisted rock & roll history of Los Angeles in its glamorous and debauched glory. The Beach Boys, ...
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97,06 |
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American Popular Entertainment: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference on the History of American Popular Entertainment
ISBN: 9780313210723 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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283,55 |
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A Resource Guide to Themes in Contemporary American Song Lyrics, 1950-1985
ISBN: 9780313245169 / Angielski / Twarda / 481 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cooper offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary American society as it has been captured and transmitted in the lyrics of more than 3,000 popular recordings.
Cooper offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary American society as it has been captured and transmitted in the lyrics of more than 3,000 popul...
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309,33 |
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Rocket Man: The Encyclopedia of Elton John
ISBN: 9780313297007 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grammy winner for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from Disney's 1994 blockbuster movie "The Lion King," Elton John is a musician that has transcended generations. Since his U.S. debut 25 years ago, E.J. has had a top-40 hit every year. This first reference dedicated to the legendary singer/songwriter, who has been enchanting fans for nearly three decades, contains hundreds of anecdotes on people, places, and things related to his career. It includes a behind-the-scenes look at every album, a comprehensive list of all songs written or recorded (dozens never released), and the most extensive... Grammy winner for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from Disney's 1994 blockbuster movie "The Lion King," Elton John is a musician that has transcend... |
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293,86 |