Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal

Dave Holmes has spent his life on the periphery, nose pressed hopefully against the glass, wanting just one thing: to get inside. Growing up, he was the artsy son in the sporty family. At his all-boys high school and Catholic college, he was the closeted gay kid surrounded by crush-worthy straight guys. And in his twenties, in the middle of a disastrous career in advertising, he accidentally became an MTV VJ...

By the age of 13, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift had already inked a development deal with a major record label. This early milestone was an appropriate predictor of what accomplishments were to come. Now a superstar artist with an international fanbase of millions and several critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums, Swift has established herself as one of the most important musicians of the 21st century. This accessible book serves Taylor Swift fans as well as students of contemporary popular music and popular culture, critically examining all of this young artist's work...

In his much-awaited memoir, Not Dead Yet, he tells the story of his epic career, with an auspicious debut at age 11 in a crowd shot from the Beatles' legendary film A Hard Day's Night. A drummer since almost before he could walk, Collins received on the job training in the seedy, thrilling bars and clubs of 1960s swinging London before finally landing the drum seat in Genesis.

Soon, he would step into the spotlight on vocals after the departure of...

In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar were at the forefront of a new direction in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on to produce a series of albums under the name Cornelius which are among the most innovative in Japanese popular music of the past two decades. Oyamada's third album under his Cornelius alter ego, Fantasma (1997) played a key role in putting J-pop on the world map of Western music fans, while Oyamada himself is today one of the most respected figures in the Japanese music industry....

In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar were at the forefront of a new direction in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on to produce a series of albums under the name Cornelius which are among the most innovative in Japanese popular music of the past two decades. Oyamada's third album under his Cornelius alter ego, Fantasma (1997) played a key role in putting J-pop on the world map of Western music fans, while Oyamada himself is today one of the most respected figures in the Japanese music industry....

Profiles and stories of Southern music from the acclaimed author of Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion.

The fabled city of Memphis has been essential to American music--home of the blues, birthplace of rock and roll, and a soul music capital. When Robert Gordon started covering Memphis music, the golden ages of his hometown had passed. But the links were there if you looked for them. Starting as a teenager, Gordon sought out old legends Furry Lewis and Mose Vinson, spent time at Junior Kimbrough's house parties, went into the grooves of records by...