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Spela för livet - Peps Persson en skånsk speleman
Av Göran Holmquist
Peps. Den som inte känner till honom har i alla fall hört hans musik, tidlöst förankrad mitt i samhället. Livsbejakande "Oh boy!" är populär på skolavslutningarna. "Falsk matematik" spelas när orättvisor kommer på tal. "Hö...
Du går alltid ensam : texter 1985-2020
Av Staffan Hellstrand
För första gången samlas Staffan Hellstrands texter i en volym som speglar hans karriär från postpunkgruppen SH! på 80-talet till hans egna långa och mångfacetterade solokarriär. I boken "Du går alltid ensam" finns stora hits som "L...
Mitt liv som scengångare
Av Björn Skifs
Björn Skifs är en av Sveriges absolut största underhållare. Han har gjort en fantastisk karriär i och utanför Sverige som sångare och blivit folkkär här hemma som programledare, skådespelare och showartist. Han har en av vårt lands mest beundrade ...
Children's Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation
Av Guro Gravem Johansen
Improbasen is a Norwegian private learning centre that offers beginner's instrumental tuition within jazz improvisation for children between the ages of 7 and 15. This book springs out of a two-year ethnographic study of the teaching and learning ...
Mats Rådberg - Countrykungen
Av Peter Russberg
Countrykungen är ett vackert tidsdokument över Mats Rådbergs liv i rampljuset. Med sitt band Rankarna blev han en pionjär och fanbäraren som gick längst fram, och tog countrymusiken till Sverige. Under 70- och 80-talet avlöste den ena framgången e...
250 : Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien 1771-2021
Av Pia Bygdéus
När Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien bildades 1771 hade den ingen motsvarighet norr om Alperna. I denna vackra och rikt illustrerade bok berättas dess 250-åriga historia. Nya frågor ställs till en gammal institution. Vad är dess syfte? Vilka var de st...
Heart Full of Rhythm
Av Ricky Riccardi
Featuring never-before-published photographs and brand new stories culled from Armstrong's personal archives, Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong tells the story of how the man called "Pops" became the first "King of Pop."
Boken om OKEJ : 90-talets enda riktiga poptidning
Av Anders Tengner
NÄR DET SLOG GNISTOR OMPOP-MUSIKEN DAGS ATT ÄLSKA nittiotalet det sista årtiondet då ungdomar hade popidoler och tapetserade väggarna med posters! En oskuldsfull tid som inte riktigt hade tagit klivit in i det nya årtusendet, men gärna ville. Mobi...
Believe in Magic
Av Robin Turner
'Heavenly is more than a record label, it's the absolute nectar of all that's brilliant in the culture of these island. I love the shit out of them and everything they stand for.' Irvine Welsh BELIEVE IN MAGIC tells the story of Heavenly Recording...
När åker vi? : ögonblick av Jörgen Johansson
Av Anders Mårtensson
Jörgen Johansson, Finja Town. Fotograf och musiker. Drömmare och entreprenör. Fyra gånger nominerad till Årets Bild, två gånger vinnare av första pris. Låtskrivare och frontman i Loserville och The Dimestore Junkies, ¿banden som fick leva rock&quo...
Fasching
Av Göran Jonsson
Jazzklubb Fasching i Stockholm är unik, den ägs av jazzmusikerna själva och dess publik. I den lokal på Kungsgatan där Fasching ligger har det spelats jazz ända sedan 1930-talet, först för en dansande och därefter för en lyssnande publik sedan För...
Mozart
Av Jan Swafford
From composer and author Jan Swafford comes the definitive and exhaustive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses of the classical era and all time: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Sittin' In
Av Jeff Gold
A rare collection of more than 200 full-color and black-and-white souvenir photographs and memorabilia that bring to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, compiled by Grammy Award-winning record executive and music historian Je...
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.
Mapping Medieval Identities in Occitanian Crusade Song
Av Rachel May Golden
Mapping Medieval Identities in Occitanian Crusade Song focuses on two twelfth-century musical-poetic practices of southern France - the sacred Aquitanian versus and the vernacular troubadour lyric - and newly interprets them within their shared co...
Do What You Want
Av Bad Religion
Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion reveals the ups and downs of the band's forty-year career. From their beginnings as teenagers jamming in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell Hole" to headlining major music festivals ...
Musical Sense-Making
Av Mark Reybrouck
Musical Sense-Making: Enaction, Experience, and Computation broadens the scope of musical sense-making from a disembodied cognitivist approach to an experiential approach. Revolving around the definition of music as a temporal and sounding art, it...
Ubiquitous Music Ecologies
Av Victor Lazzarini
Ubiquitous music is an interdisciplinary area of research that lies at the intersection of music and computer science. Initially evolving from the related concept of ubiquitous computing, today ubiquitous music offers a paradigm for understanding ...
Another Song for Europe
Av Ivan Raykoff
The Eurovision Song Contest is famous for its camp spectacles and political intrigues, but what about its actual music? With more than 1,500 songs in over 50 languages and a wide range of musical styles since it began in 1956, Eurovision features ...
Mozart
Av Jan Swafford
From acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From his earliest years it was apparent that the singular imagination of Wolfgang Mo...
A Year with Swollen Appendices
Av Brian Eno
The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition. "As singular and as entertaining as anything the pop polymath has produced." Observer, The 50 Great...
How to Write One Song
Av Jeff Tweedy
A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR One of the century's most feted singer-songwriters, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, digs deep into his own creative process to share his unique perspective about song-writing and offers a warm, accessible guide to writing your ...
Punk, Post Punk, New Wave
Av Michael Grecco
Iconic and never-before-seen images of punk and post-punk's quintessential bands Photographer and filmmaker Michael Grecco was in the thick of things, documenting the club scene in places like Boston and New York as punk rock morphed into the post...
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...
Fast Forward
Av Stephen Morris
Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . . Poised on the brink of success, the dizzying heights of the unknown lying ahead, Ian Curtis had taken his own life. Grieving yet de...
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound
Av Professor Holger Schulze
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound presents the key subjects and approaches of anthropological research into sound cultures. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in ev...
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