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Musical Gentrification
Av Petter Dyndahl
Musical Gentrification is an exploration of the role of popular music in processes of socio-cultural inclusion and exclusion in a variety of contexts. Twelve chapters by international scholars reveal how cultural objects of relatively lower status...
Nyckelharpan : ett unikt svenskt kulturarv
Av Esbjörn Hogmark
En utförlig beskrivning av nyckelharpan med tips om hur den kan byggas. Historik, tradition, hantverk. Esbjörn Hogmarks bok är en storslagen, heltäckande skildring av det gamla svenska instrumentet. Vi får nyckelharpans historia från medeltid till...
Hjördis Schymberg - sågverksjäntan som blev hovsångerska
Av Jan Hammarlund
Från en materiellt fattig men kulturellt rik barndom i Norrland till 25 år som ledande sopran vid Stockholmsoperan, gästspel på Metropolitan, Covent Garden, i Italien, på alla nordiska operascener, ett drygt 60-tal roller och bejublade konsertfram...
Jenny Lind : historien om den svenska näktergalen
Av Sarah Jenny Dunsmure
Historien om Den svenska näktergalen Jenny Lind Historien om Den svenska näktergalen berättar om hur en mager och alldaglig nioårig flicka, en olycklig askunge från trassliga familjeomständigheter i Stockholm, höjde sig till att bli en världssuper...
Ready Steady Go!
Av Andy Neill
The London-based Ready, Steady, Go! began broadcasting in August of 1963 and, within a matter of weeks, became an essential television ritual for the newly confident British teenager. It set trends and became the barometer for popular culture by a...
Franz Liszt : kontrasternas man
Av Anders Gabriel Sundström
En av 1800-talets stora hjältar som på sin tid väckte beundran, hänförelse och till och med dyrkan - men också kritik, avsky och löje. Han adlades och tilldelades inte mindre än femtio höga utmärkelser och han överöstes med dyrbara gåvor av alleha...
Both from the Ears and Mind
Av Linda Phyllis Austern
Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical per...
In Stravinsky's Orbit
Av Klara Moricz
The Bolsheviks' 1917 political coup caused a seismic disruption in Russian culture. Carried by the first wave of emigrants, Russian culture migrated West, transforming itself as it interacted with the new cultural environment and clashed with expo...
Wagnerism
Av Alex Ross
'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics-an aesthetic war zone where the Western world ...
Monsters of River and Rock
Av Adrian Smith
Come to the riverbank with Adrian Smith and cast a line on the wild side. 'Beautifully written account' Dave Simpson, The Guardian 'Writes beautifully' The Sun Welcome to the world of Adrian Smith, playing his Jackson guitar onstage to millions - ...
Chasing Chopin
Av Annik Lafarge
The Frederic Chopin Annik LaFarge presents here is not the melancholy, sickly, romantic figure so often portrayed. The artist she discovered is, instead, a purely independent spirit: an innovator who created a new musical language, an autodidact w...
Confess
Av Rob Halford
Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his. 'Rob Halford has written one of the most candid and surprising memoirs of the year. . . Confess is a riproaring tale, a funny, often shocking and genuinely emotional story' The Telegraph 'The ...
Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There
Av David Hepworth
'Hepworth's ability to mock subjects he has a clear affection for and cast well-worn anecdotes in a fresh light makes his history of rock'n'roll's special relationship a zippy delight' The Times The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was...
The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Av Mariah Carey
The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller, and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey. It took me a lifetime to have the courage and th...
Side by Side
Av Robert Wyatt
The life's work of two of British music's most unique and timeless artists, with an introduction by Jarvis Cocker. Whenever an aspiring musician asks me about songwriting I point them towards Robert and Alfie. Their work is so unusual, so percepti...
Gift dig aldrig med en spelman : röster om folkmusik i Dalarna, från Isakes Kisti till Päkkos Gustaf
Av Thomas Fahlander
Följ med till Dalarna, en plats befolkad av egensinniga spelmän: Isakes Kisti, Sparf Anders, Knis Karl, Björs Olle, Lapp-Nils, Hans Haglöf, Anders Frisell och Päkkos Gustaf. Alla var inte spelmän, förstås - här finns även Päkkos Svea. Utan henne, ...
Beethoven: Variations on a Life
Av Mark Evan Bonds
Beethoven's music expresses far more than just the iconic scowl we so often imagine when listening to his works. In this fresh perspective, Mark Evan Bonds proposes a new way of hearing Beethoven's music as a series of variations on the composer's...
Straighten Up and Fly Right
Av Will Friedwald
In this complete life and times biography, author Will Friedwald offers a new take on Nat King Cole, framing him first as a bandleader and then as a star.
The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation
Av John J Mortensen
John Mortensen's The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation is a course-tested pedagogical method for learning to improvise, providing intermediate-level pianists with a path to mastery of the improvisational techniques of the 17th and 18th cen...
Charlie Parker, Composer
Av Henry Martin
Charlie Parker, Composer reexamines the renowned jazz improviser as a composer in his own right, assessing 84 of his original works with a focus on their aesthetic qualities and historical context.
Bach
Av David Schulenberg
Updated and refreshed with new biographical information and understanding of Bach's contemporary context, Bach traces the composer's student years, professional career, and family life alongside his most famous compositions.
This Isn't Happening
Av Steven Hyden
In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, a...
Rust in Peace
Av Dave Mustaine
Rust in Peace details the making of Megadeth's iconic record, Rust In Peace, which was released in 1990, at an incredible time of flux and creativity in the rock world. Relayed by the lead vocalist and guitarist songwriter of Megadeth himself, Dav...
150 Glimpses of the Beatles
Av Craig Brown
A distinctive portrait of the Fab Four by one of the sharpest and wittiest writers of our time "If you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time, read this book." -Alan Johnson, The Spectator Th...
Sounding Dissent
Av Stephen R Millar
The signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, marked the beginning of a new era of peace and stability in Northern Ireland. As the public has overwhelmingly rejected a return to the violence of the Troubles (1968-1998), loyalist and ...
Deviant Opera
Av Axel Englund
Imagine Armida, Handel's Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her d...
Beethoven, A Life
Av Jan Caeyers
The authoritative Beethoven biography, endorsed by and produced in close collaboration with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, is timed for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn,...
Renaissance Polyphony
Av Fabrice Fitch
This engaging study introduces Renaissance polyphony to a modern audience. It helps readers of all ages and levels of experience make sense of what they are hearing. How does Renaissance music work? How is a piece typical of its style and type; or...
Sweet Dreams
Av Dylan Jones
David Bowie. Culture Club. Wham!. Soft Cell. Duran Duran. Sade. Spandau Ballet. The Eurythmics... 'Who better to tell the story of the super-stylish New Romantic movement than GQ editor Jones, who lived through it?'i News, 75 Best New Books for Au...
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