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Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn
Av Reuel Golden
In November 2020, Depeche Mode were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Dave Gahan, accepting the honour, said: "I'd like to thank Anton Corbijn who thank God came in at the right time and actually made us look cool." Als...
Billie Eilish
Av Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish är popsensationen som under sin raketartade karriär blivit den yngsta personen någonsin att vinna alla fyra huvudkategorier på Grammygalan, fått över 15 miljarder lyssningar, varit med på Times lista över mest inflytelserika personer...
Faur Studies
Av Carlo Caballero
Faur Studies showcases new research from leading scholars in the United States, United Kingdom, and France into this influential French composer of the fin de sicle. This book features interpretations of individual works and musical analyses, as w...
Sonic Overload
Av Peter J Schmelz
Composers Alfred Schnittke and Valentin Silvestrov brought us some of the most memorable music of the late Soviet Union. Sonic Overload traces these composers' attempts to embrace all aspects of the contemporary soundscape, including influences of...
Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World
Av Lisa Nielson
During the early medieval Islamicate period (800-1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as well as literature and poetry. But in spite of att...
Nikolay Myaskovsky
Av Patrick Zuk
Drawing on a wealth of unexplored documentation, this biography reappraises the life and work of Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881-1950) - a central figure in twentieth-century Russian musical culture. The story of Myaskovsky's unlikely rise to prominence ...
The Clarinet: 179
Av Jane Ellsworth
With essays written by leading performer-scholars, The Clarinet offers unique perspectives on the clarinet's historical role in various styles, genres, and ensembles. Beginning with a chapter on clarinet iconography, the book continues with an ove...
Berg
Av Bryan R Simms
Alban Berg (1885-1935), a student of Arnold Schoenberg and one of the most prominent composers of the Second Viennese School, is counted among the pioneers of twelve-tone serialism. This new life-and-works study from authors Bryan R. Simms and Cha...
From Silence
Av
A powerful and thought provoking memoir from one of the world's most successful orchestral conductors, whose life story, talent and dedication to music is an inspiration to read. A tragic car accident when Welser-Moest was a student shaped both hi...
Ett tidsfördriv att dö för : boken om Kent
Av Linus Kuhlin
Den första heltäckande boken om Sveriges största rockband! År 2021 är det fem år sedan Kent Sveriges genom tidernas största rockband släppte sitt sista album och gjorde sin allra sista spelning. Linus Kuhlin, senast aktuell med en uppmärksammad bi...
Last Chance Texaco
Av Rickie Lee Jones
"One of the most intriguing, idiosyncratic vocalists of our time." --USA Today One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight aft...
The Life of Music
Av Nicholas Kenyon
Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical canon at a moment when we can access all music-across time and cultures "At its lively best when Kenyon's own passions are laid bare, . . . his belief, above all, in the power of m...
The World of Bob Dylan
Av Sean Latham
Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has made a global impact. Leading rock and pop critics and music scholars address themes and ...
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison
Av Jim Morrison
The definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks. Created in collaboration with Jim Morrison's estate an...
Industry
Av William Robin
One of the best-known and most celebrated new music ensembles, Bang on a Can has presented sold-out marathon concerts of experimental music and captured a new public for music. And where other institutions faltered amidst the vagaries of late capi...
Why Solange Matters
Av Stephanie Phillips
The dramatic story of Solange: a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more important than her family name. 'Why Solange Matters is a significant and sober treatise on popular music . . . This book is mo...
Listen to This If You Love Great Music
Av Robin Murray
Listen To This If You Love Great Music is a must read for anyone with even a passing interest in music. Featuring 100 of the best albums from the last four decades, clashmusic.com editor Robin Murray shares his passion for exceptional music and of...
Cast a Diva
Av Lyndsy Spence
Maria Callas (1923-77) was the greatest opera diva of all time. Despite a career that remains unmatched by any prima donna, much of her life was overshadowed by her fiery relationship with Aristotle Onassis, who broke her heart when he left her fo...
Resounding the Sublime
Av Miranda Eva Stanyon
What does the sublime sound like? Harmonious, discordant, noisy, rustling, silent? Miranda Eva Stanyon rereads and resounds this crucial aesthetic category in English and German literatures of the long eighteenth century from a musical perspective...
Berkmann's Pop Miscellany
Av Marcus Berkmann
Marcus Berkmann was for many years the pop critic of the Spectator, waiting like most freelances to get fired. He's also the author of the bestselling Berkmann's Cricket Miscellany, concentrating on the ridiculous true stories and the weird charac...
Listening to Charles Ives
Av J Peter Burkholder
Charles Ives is widely regarded as the first, great American composer of classical music. But listening to his music is an adventure-hearing how a piece begins may not prepare you for what comes next, or how it ends. Knowing one Ives piece may not...
You Lose Yourself You Reappear
Av Paul Morley
An insightful biography of one of the world's greatest musicians, Bob Dylan, by bestselling author Paul Morley. As one of the world's greatest musicians, Bob Dylan has enriched the American song tradition for over 50 years. With a talent that has ...
Chairman at the Board
Av Bill Schnee
Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical artists of the twentieth century. Bill Schnee takes the reader inside the studio-behind the curtain...
Billie Eilish
Av Billie Eilish
Legendary recording artist Billie Eilish shares an intimate inside look at her life - both on and off the stage - in this stunning, photo-filled book. Billie Eilish is a phenomenon. With distinctive visual flair and darkly poignant lyrics that are...
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