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Tribute - Freddie Mercury (Hardcover): Manuel Diaz Tribute - Freddie Mercury (Hardcover)
Manuel Diaz; Mike Lynch; Edited by Darren G Davis
R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Words and Music of Taylor Swift (Hardcover): James E. Perone The Words and Music of Taylor Swift (Hardcover)
James E. Perone
R1,928 Discovery Miles 19 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This scholarly analysis of the music of Taylor Swift identifies how and why she is one of the early 21st century's most recognizable and most popular stars. 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 to date. The book's organization is primarily chronological, covering Taylor Swift's album and single releases in order of release date while also documenting the elements of her music and personality that have made her popular with fans of country music and pop music across a surprisingly diverse age range of listeners. The chapters address how Swift's songs have been viewed by some fans as anthems of empowerment or messages of encouragement, particularly by members of the LGBTQ community, those who have been bullied or been seen as outsiders, and emerging artists. The final chapter places Swift's work and her public persona in the context of her times with respect to her use of and relationship with technology-for example, her use of social media and songwriting technology-and her expressions of a new type of feminism that is unlike the feminism of the 1970s. Provides the only scholarly critical analysis of the songs and recordings of megastar Taylor Swift Places Swift, her work, and her public stances in the context of her generation and its definition of "empowerment" and "feminism" Explores Swift's work as an extension of the early 1970s' confessional singer-songwriter movement

Perfume's GAME (Hardcover, HPOD): Patrick St. Michel Perfume's GAME (Hardcover, HPOD)
Patrick St. Michel
R2,329 Discovery Miles 23 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Released in 2008, J-pop trio Perfume's GAME shot to the top of Japanese music charts and turned the Hiroshima trio into a household name across the country. It was also a high point for techno-pop, the genre's biggest album since the heyday of Yellow Magic Orchestra. This collection of maximalist but emotional electronic pop stands as one of the style's finest moments, with its influence still echoing from artists both in Japan and from beyond. This book examines Perfume's underdog story as a group long struggling for success, the making of GAME, and the history of techno-pop that shaped it. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-basedbooks and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.

Swimming with the Blowfish - Hootie, Healing, and One Hell of a Ride (Hardcover): Jim Soni Sonefeld Swimming with the Blowfish - Hootie, Healing, and One Hell of a Ride (Hardcover)
Jim Soni Sonefeld
R628 R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Swimming with the Blowfish is the definitive account of the rise, fall and rebirth of the band that offered an irresistible alternative to the grunge music of the early '90s. Hootie & the Blowfish were formed in 1989 at the University of South Carolina. The quartet was distinguished by the soulful voice of Darius Rucker and powered by the author of this evocative autobiography, drummer and leading songwriter Jim 'Soni' Sonefeld. Their debut album, Cracked Rear View, became one of the best-selling in the history of rock music and the band went on to win two Grammy Awards, whilst playing some of the biggest venues in the world. Success saw them traveling the globe, but it came at a price. Swimming with the Blowfish, although primarily 'Soni' Sonefeld's personal story of despair and redemption, also shines a revealing light on this much-loved band's incredible tale.

Life in E Flat - The Autobiography of Phil Woods (Hardcover): Phil Woods Life in E Flat - The Autobiography of Phil Woods (Hardcover)
Phil Woods; As told to Ted Panken; Foreword by Bill Charlap
R1,087 Discovery Miles 10 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Stress Test (Hardback) (Hardcover): Brian Gari A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Stress Test (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Brian Gari
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Jesus and Mary Chain (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Andrew Catlin The Jesus and Mary Chain (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Andrew Catlin; Jim Reid, Julie Reid
R1,082 Discovery Miles 10 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Fame - Bon Jovi (Hardcover): Jayfri Hashim Fame - Bon Jovi (Hardcover)
Jayfri Hashim; Contributions by Jayfri Hashim; Edited by Darren G Davis
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Akron Sound - The Heyday of the Midwest's Punk Capital (Paperback): Calvin C Rydbom The Akron Sound - The Heyday of the Midwest's Punk Capital (Paperback)
Calvin C Rydbom
R548 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Music made in Akron symbolized an attitude more so than a singular sound. Crafted by kids hell-bent on not following their parents into the rubber plants, the music was an intentional antithesis of Top 40 radio. Call it punk or call it new wave, but in a short few years, major labels signed Chrissie Hynde, Devo, the Waitresses, Tin Huey, the Bizarros, the Rubber City Rebels and Rachel Sweet. They had their own bars, the Crypt and the Bank. They had their own label, Clone Records. They even had their own recording space, Bushflow Studios. London's Stiff Records released an Akron compilation album, and suddenly there were "Akron Nights" in London clubs and CBGB was waiving covers for people with Akron IDs. Author Calvin Rydbom of the "Akron Sound" Museum remembers that short time when the Rubber City was the place.

Sinead O'Connor 48 (Hardcover): Andrew Catlin Sinead O'Connor 48 (Hardcover)
Andrew Catlin
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Morton Feldman - Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde (Hardcover): Ryan Dohoney Morton Feldman - Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde (Hardcover)
Ryan Dohoney
R3,026 Discovery Miles 30 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde documents the collaborations and conflicts essential to the history of the post-war avant-garde. It offers a study of composer Morton Feldman's associations and friendships with artists like John Cage, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Frank O'Hara, Charlotte Moorman, and others. Arguing that friendship and mourning sustained the collective aesthetics of the New York School, Dohoney has written an emotional and intimate revision of New York modernism from the point of view of Feldman's agonistic community.

Happy Daze with Tommy and the Rivieras - 1960s Rock and Roll (Hardcover): Tommy Janette Happy Daze with Tommy and the Rivieras - 1960s Rock and Roll (Hardcover)
Tommy Janette
R656 R589 Discovery Miles 5 890 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The The making of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells - The true story of making the classic 1973 album, as told on the 20th... The The making of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells - The true story of making the classic 1973 album, as told on the 20th anniversary of its original release (Paperback)
Richard Newman
R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Gaithers and Southern Gospel - Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover): Ryan P. Harper The Gaithers and Southern Gospel - Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
Ryan P. Harper
R3,218 Discovery Miles 32 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In The Gaithers and Southern Gospel, Ryan P. Harper examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither's Homecoming video and concert series-a gospel music franchise that, since its beginning in 1991, has outperformed all Christian and much secular popular music on the American music market. The Homecomings represent "southern gospel." Typically that means a musical style popular among white evangelical Christians in the American South and Midwest, and it sometimes overlaps in style, theme, and audience with country music. The Homecomings' nostalgic orientation-their celebration of "traditional" kinds of American Christian life-harmonize well with southern gospel music, past and present. But amidst the backward gazes, the Homecomings also portend and manifest change. The Gaithers' deliberate racial integration of their stages, their careful articulation of a relatively inclusive evangelical theology, and their experiments with an array of musical forms demonstrate that the Homecoming is neither simplistically nostalgic, nor solely "southern." Harper reveals how the Gaithers negotiate a tension between traditional and changing community norms as they seek simultaneously to maintain and expand their audience as well as to initiate and respond to shifts within their fan base. Pulling from hisfield work at Homecoming concerts, behind the scenes with the Gaithers, and with numerous Homecoming fans, Harper reveals the Homecoming world to be a dynamic, complicated constellation in the formation of American religious identity.

Rock and Roll Comics - Elvis Presley Experience: Special Hard Cover Edition (Hardcover): Aaron Sowd Rock and Roll Comics - Elvis Presley Experience: Special Hard Cover Edition (Hardcover)
Aaron Sowd; Patrick McCray; Edited by Darren G Davis
R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Buddy Baker - Big Band Arranger, Disney Legend & Musical Genius (Hardback) (Hardcover): Ben Ohmart Buddy Baker - Big Band Arranger, Disney Legend & Musical Genius (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Ben Ohmart; Foreword by Lou Bellson
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I (Hardcover): Richard H. Bell Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I (Hardcover)
Richard H. Bell
R1,624 R1,338 Discovery Miles 13 380 Save R286 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beethoven and the Voice of God (Hardcover): Wilfrid Mellers Beethoven and the Voice of God (Hardcover)
Wilfrid Mellers
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Wilfrid Mellers is a composer, musician and author. Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. This is his classic book on Beethoven.

Chuck Berry - An American Life (Hardcover): R.J. Smith Chuck Berry - An American Life (Hardcover)
R.J. Smith
R642 R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll.

Best known as the groundbreaking artist behind classics like "Johnny B. Goode," "Maybellene," "You Never Can Tell" and "Roll Over Beethoven," Chuck Berry was a man of wild contradictions, whose motives and motivations were often shrouded in mystery. After all, how did a teenage delinquent come to write so many songs that transformed American culture? And, once he achieved fame and recognition, why did he put his career in danger with a lifetime's worth of reckless personal behaviour? Throughout his life, Berry refused to shed light on either the mastery or the missteps, leaving the complexity that encapsulated his life and underscored his music largely unexplored--until now.

In Chuck Berry, biographer RJ Smith crafts a comprehensive portrait of one of the great American entertainers, guitarists, and lyricists of the 20th century, bringing Chuck Berry to life in vivid detail. Based on interviews, archival research, legal documents, and a deep understanding of Berry's St. Louis (his birthplace, and the place where he died in March 2017), Smith sheds new light on a man few have ever really understood. By placing his life within the context of the American culture he made and eventually withdrew from, we understand how Berry became such a groundbreaking figure in music, erasing racial boundaries, crafting subtle political commentary, and paying a great price for his success. While celebrating his accomplishments, the book also does not shy away from troubling aspects of his public and private life, asking profound questions about how and why we separate the art from the artist.

Berry declined to call himself an artist, shrugging that he was good at what he did. But the man's achievement was the rarest kind, the kind that had social and political resonance, the kind that made America want to get up and dance. At long last, Chuck Berry brings the man and the music together.

Ohms (Hardcover): Michael Scholfield Ohms (Hardcover)
Michael Scholfield
R1,197 Discovery Miles 11 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bach and the Dance of God (Hardcover): Wilfrid Mellers Bach and the Dance of God (Hardcover)
Wilfrid Mellers
R1,156 Discovery Miles 11 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Wilfrid Mellers is a composer, musician and author. Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. This is his classic book on Bach.

Rock and Roll Comics - The Pink Floyd Experience (Hardcover): Spike Steffenhagen Rock and Roll Comics - The Pink Floyd Experience (Hardcover)
Spike Steffenhagen; Illustrated by Ken Landgraf
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Official Iron Maiden Colouring Book (Paperback): Rock N' Roll Colouring The Official Iron Maiden Colouring Book (Paperback)
Rock N' Roll Colouring
R394 R358 Discovery Miles 3 580 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Slanted and Disenchanted - A Total Rock Nerd Adventure (Hardcover): Lisa Czarina Michaud Slanted and Disenchanted - A Total Rock Nerd Adventure (Hardcover)
Lisa Czarina Michaud
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Future Nostalgia - Performing David Bowie (Hardcover): Shelton Waldrep Future Nostalgia - Performing David Bowie (Hardcover)
Shelton Waldrep
R3,892 Discovery Miles 38 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a "leper messiah," a more appropriate moniker might be "rock god" someone whose influence has crossed numerous sub-genres of popular and classical music and can at times seem ubiquitous. By looking at key moments in his career (1972, 1977-79, 1980-83, and 1995-97) through several lenses--theories of sub-culture, gender/sexuality studies, theories of sound, post-colonial theory, and performance studies Waldrep will examine Bowie's work in terms not only of his auditory output but his many reinterpretations of it via music videos, concert tours, television appearances, and occasional movie roles. Future Nostalgia will look at all aspects of Bowie's career--musical recordings, live concerts, music videos, film performances, and television appearance--in an attempt to trace Bowie's contribution to the performative paradigms that constitute contemporary rock music.

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