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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...
Liberation, (De)Coloniality, and Liturgical Practices
Av Becca Whitla
Becca Whitla uses liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonial methods to analyze hymns, congregational singing, and song-leading practices. By way of this analysis, Whitla shows how congregational singing can embody liberating liturgy and theology...
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 ...
David Bowie: Icon
Av Iconic Images
David Bowie: Icon gathers the greatest images of one of the greatest stars in history, into a single, luxurious volume. The result is the most important anthology of David Bowie images that has ever been compiled. Featuring work from many of the g...
KISS Partners in Crime - Vol 2
Av Alex Bergdahl
I boken Partners In Crime II sätter Alex Bergdahl och Carl Linnaeus fokus på de mindre välkända händelserna i hårdrocksbandet Kiss historia. De vänder på varenda sten, hänger sig kvar vid bortglömda detaljer och låser upp dörrar som varit igenbomm...
Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs
Av Philippe Margotin
The latest book in the bestselling All the Songs series, this is the most in-depth exploration of Springsteen's songs ever written. Spanning nearly 50 years of albums, EPs, B-sides, and more, read the full story behind every single song that The B...
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...
Rocken anfaller
Av Björn Horgby
Sommaren 1954 slutade Elvis Presley som lastbilschaufför och blev rocksångare på heltid efter att rhythm & blues-låten That s All Right (Mama) blev en lokal hit. Under de följande två åren toppade han försäljningslistorna 55 av 104 veckor med ...
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."
(R)evolution
Av Gary Numan
From humble beginnings in Middlesex, where money was scarce but dreams were encouraged, to the award-winning godfather of electronica, Gary Numan has seen it all. His incredible story can be charted in two distinct parts . . . The first: a stratos...
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 the...
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...
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.
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 ...
Looking To Get Lost
Av Peter Guralnick
In his first collection of essays, Peter Guralnick dives deep into question at the heart of his body of work: What is the source of creativity? Spanning his decades-long career as America's foremost music scholar, this book brings us into the mind...
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...
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...
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. Adam Ant. Spandau Ballet. The Eurythmics. 'Excellent' Guardian 'Hugely enjoyable' Irish Times 'Dazzling' LRB 'Fascinating' New Statesman 'An absolute must-read' GQ One of the most cre...
On Connection
Av Kae Tempest
Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . 'An authentically soothing, powerful, thought-provoker.' MATT HAIG 'On Connection is medicine for these wounded times.' MAX PORTER 'On Connection came to me when I needed it most, and reminded me that...
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
There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal wasn't so mysterious and was actually achievable for anyone who wants to experience more magic and creativity in their life? That's something that an...
Let Love Rule
Av Lenny Kravitz
'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that the magic started to flow.' Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at ...
Queen All the Songs
Av Benoit Clerc
The newest addition to the bestselling All the Songs series, Queen: All the Songs details the unique recording history of the mega-bestselling and hugely influential rock band. Filled with fascinating photographs (some rarely seen), and juicy behi...
Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock
Av Michael Ray Fitzgerald
The enduring achievement and legacy of a rock movementThe Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd helped usher in a new kind of southern music from Jacksonville, Florida. Together, they and fellow bands like Blackfoot, 38 Special, and Molly Hatche...
Kim Gordon
Av Kim Gordon
As cofounder of legendary rock band Sonic Youth, best-selling author, and celebrated artist, Kim Gordon is one of the most singular and influential figures of the modern era. This personally curated scrapbook is an edgy and evocative portrait of G...
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