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Underground Rap as Religion - A Theopoetic Examination of a Process Aesthetic Religion (Paperback): Jon Ivan Gill Underground Rap as Religion - A Theopoetic Examination of a Process Aesthetic Religion (Paperback)
Jon Ivan Gill
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Underground rap is largely a subversive, grassroots, and revolutionary movement in underground hip-hop, tending to privilege creative freedom as well as progressive and liberating thoughts and actions. This book contends that many practitioners of underground rap have absorbed religious traditions and ideas, and implement, critique, or abandon them in their writings. This in turn creates processural mutations of God that coincide with and speak to the particular context from which they originate. Utilising the work of scholars like Monica Miller and Alfred North Whitehead, Gill uses a secular religious methodology to put forward an aesthetic philosophy of religion for the rap portion of underground hip-hop. Drawing from Whiteheadian process thought, a theopoetic argument is made. Namely, that it is not simply the case that is God the "poet of the world", but rather rap can, in fact, be the poet (creator) of its own form of quasi-religion. This is a unique look at the religious workings and implications of underground rap and hip hop. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Hip-Hop Studies and Process Philosophy and Theology.

Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre - Analysing Stylistic Debates and Transgressions (Paperback): Julia Ehmann Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre - Analysing Stylistic Debates and Transgressions (Paperback)
Julia Ehmann
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre traces the uses and transgressions of genre in the music of Radiohead and studies the band's varied reception in online and offline media. Radiohead's work combines traditional rock sounds with a unique and experimental approach towards genre that sets the band apart from the contemporary mainstream. A play with diverse styles and audience expectations has shaped Radiohead's musical output and opened up debates about genre amongst critics, fans, and academics alike. Interpretations speak of a music that is referential of the past but also alludes to the future. Applying both music- and discourse-analytical methods, the book discusses how genre manifests in Radiohead's work and how it is interpreted amongst different audience groups. It explores how genre and generic flexibility affect the listeners' search for musical meaning and ways of discussion. This results in the development of a theoretical framework for the study of genre in individual popular music oeuvres that explores the equal validity of widely differing forms of reception as a multidimensional network of meaning. While Radiohead's music is the product of an eclectic mixture of musical influences and styles, the book also shows how the band's experimental stance has increasingly fostered debates about Radiohead's generic novelty and independence. It asks what remains of genre in light of its past or imminent transgression. Offering new perspectives on popular music genre, transgression, and the music and reception of Radiohead, the book will appeal to academics, students, and those interested in Radiohead and matters of genre. It contributes to scholarship in musicology, popular music, media, and cultural studies.

Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians (Paperback): Abigail Gardner Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians (Paperback)
Abigail Gardner
R1,226 Discovery Miles 12 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians focuses on ageing within contemporary popular music. It argues that context, genres, memoirs, racial politics and place all contribute to how women are 'aged' in popular music. Framing contemporary female musicians as canonical grandmothers, Rude Girls, neo-Afrofuturist and memoirists settling accounts, the book gives us some respite from a decline or denial narrative and introduces a dynamism into ageing. Female rock memoirs are age-appropriate survival stories that reframe the histories of punk and independent rock music. Old age has a functional and canonical 'place' in the work of Shirley Collins and Calypso Rose. Janelle Monae, Christine and the Queens and Anohni perform 'queer' age, specifically a kind of 'going beyond' both corporeal and temporal borders. Genres age, and the book introduces the idea of the time-crunch; an encounter between an embodied, represented age and a genre-age, which is, itself, produced through historicity and aesthetics. Lastly the book goes behind the scenes to draw on interviews and questionnaires with 19 women involved in the contemporary British and American popular music industry; DIY and ex-musicians, producers, music publishers, music journalists and audio engineers. Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians is a vital intergenerational feminist viewpoint for researchers and students in gender studies, popular music, popular culture, media studies, cultural studies and ageing studies.

Sing for Your Life - A Story of Race, Music, and Family (Paperback): Daniel Bergner Sing for Your Life - A Story of Race, Music, and Family (Paperback)
Daniel Bergner
R471 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Brazilian Popular Music - Caetano Veloso and the Regeneration of Tradition (Paperback): Lorraine Leu Brazilian Popular Music - Caetano Veloso and the Regeneration of Tradition (Paperback)
Lorraine Leu
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Brazilian Popular Music, or MAsica Popular Brasileira (MPB), developed in the mid 1960s as a response to the re-thinking of Brazilian national identity following the establishment of the post-1964 military regime. A leading figure in MPB at this time was Caetano Veloso, and it is his music and its reception that form the focus of this book. A leader of the Tropicalist movement, Veloso sought to initiate a critical debate on Brazilian Popular Music and the political and ideological foundations which underpinned its aesthetic. Lorraine Leu examines Veloso's musical and vocal styles, revealing the ways in which they play with traditional expectations between the performer and listener, and argues that they represent an important response to the severe censorship and repression of the military regime.

Acid for the Children - A Memoir (Hardcover): Flea Acid for the Children - A Memoir (Hardcover)
Flea; Foreword by Patti Smith
R824 R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Save R185 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Burning Desire - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Through the Lens of Ed Caraeff (Hardcover): Ed Caraeff Burning Desire - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Through the Lens of Ed Caraeff (Hardcover)
Ed Caraeff
R986 R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Save R204 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1967, a 17-year-old aspiring photographer named Ed Caraeff found himself front row at the Monterey Pop Festival, California. Caraeff had never seen Hendrix before, nor was he familiar with his music. But Caraeff had his ever-present camera and as Hendrix lit his guitar, he snapped a photo. That picture - Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey - has become one of the most iconic images of rock and roll. A photo that defined Hendrix as an artist, appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine not once, but twice, and launched Caraeff's photographic career. Timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival, Burning Desire reveals never-before published images from the magnificent, Hendrix-dedicated archive that Caraeff has compiled. From onstage to backstage, Jimi Hendrix was as electric in front of the camera as he was when he strummed his guitar. In Burning Desire, Caraeff showcases more than 100 images, including rare shots and contract sheets, and discusses his experiences with this incredible musician.

Jazz and Psychotherapy - Perspectives on the Complexity of Improvisation (Paperback): Simeon Alev Jazz and Psychotherapy - Perspectives on the Complexity of Improvisation (Paperback)
Simeon Alev
R1,235 Discovery Miles 12 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Blending the insights of musicians and psychologists from D.W. Winnicott to Gregory Bateson to Ornette Coleman, Jazz and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking exploration of improvisation that reveals its potential to transform our experience of ourselves and the challenges we face as a species. What we all share with the professional improvisers known as "psychotherapists" and "jazz musicians" is the reality of not knowing what those around us-or even we ourselves-are going to do next. Rather than avoiding it, however, these practitioners have learned to revere our inherent unpredictability as precisely the feature of human living that makes transformative change possible, fully incorporating it into the theories and practices that constitute their disciplines. Jazz and Psychotherapy provides a sophisticated but accessible overview of the revolutionary approaches to human development and creative expression embodied in these two seemingly disparate twentieth-century cultural traditions. Readers interested in music, psychotherapy, social psychology and contemporary theories of complexity will find Jazz and Psychotherapy engaging and useful. Its colorful synthesis of perspectives and multidimensional scope make it an essential contribution to our understanding of improvisation in music and in life.

Music in Twin Peaks - Listen to the Sounds (Paperback): Reba Wissner, Katherine Reed Music in Twin Peaks - Listen to the Sounds (Paperback)
Reba Wissner, Katherine Reed
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. From its debut in 1990 to its return to television in 2017, Twin Peaks has amassed a cult following, and inspired myriad scholarly studies. This collection considers how the music and sound design not only create the ambience of this ground-breaking series, but function in the narrative, encouraging multiple interpretations. With chapters that consider how music shapes the relationship of audiences and fans to the story, the importance of sound design, and the symbolism embedded in the score, this book provides a range of perspectives for scholars of music and film studies, while giving fans new insight into an iconic television show.

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation - A Cognitive Approach (Paperback): Graham Welch, Adam Ockelford, Ian Cross Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation - A Cognitive Approach (Paperback)
Graham Welch, Adam Ockelford, Ian Cross; Stein Solstad
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation is an examination of musical interplay and the ways implicit (sub-conscious) and explicit (conscious) knowledge appear during improvisation. The practice-based research inquiry includes: interviews and interplay with five world-class jazz guitarists, Lage Lund, Jack Wilkins, Ben Monder, Rez Abbasi and Adam Rogers; a modal matrix for analyzing structure, time and form in jazz guitar improvisation, and musical analysis based on cognitive theories. By explaining the cognitive and musical foundations for expertise in jazz guitar improvisation, this book illuminates how jazz guitarists' strategies are crucially dependent on context, style and type of interplay. With accompanying video provided as an e-resource, this material will be of interest to anyone fascinated by Jazz and Psychology of Music.

Music in Twin Peaks - Listen to the Sounds (Hardcover): Reba Wissner, Katherine Reed Music in Twin Peaks - Listen to the Sounds (Hardcover)
Reba Wissner, Katherine Reed
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. From its debut in 1990 to its return to television in 2017, Twin Peaks has amassed a cult following, and inspired myriad scholarly studies. This collection considers how the music and sound design not only create the ambience of this ground-breaking series, but function in the narrative, encouraging multiple interpretations. With chapters that consider how music shapes the relationship of audiences and fans to the story, the importance of sound design, and the symbolism embedded in the score, this book provides a range of perspectives for scholars of music and film studies, while giving fans new insight into an iconic television show.

The Chitlin' Circuit - And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll (Paperback): Preston Lauterbach The Chitlin' Circuit - And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll (Paperback)
Preston Lauterbach
R482 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For generations, "chitlin' circuit" has meant second tier brash performers in raucous nightspots far from the big-city limelight. Now, music journalist Preston Lauterbach combines terrific firsthand reportage with deep historical research to offer a groundbreaking account of the birth of rock 'n' roll in black America."

A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s (Paperback): Jonny Trunk A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s (Paperback)
Jonny Trunk; Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell; Foreword by Jon Savage; Fuel
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Chosen as one of the Best Architecture and Design books Summer 2022 by the Financial Times. Why British record store carrier bags are graphic design icons: While they've never carried the kudos of sleeve designs and music posters, record shop bags offer a fascinating insight into 20th century British music culture, high-streets and more. - Creative Review Jonny Trunk's extensive collection of record shop bags weaves together a less conventional history of British music, celebrating the shops where musicians and fans bought and sold their first LPs. This book is a love letter to these forgotten spaces, accompanied by a juicy selection of anecdotes and little known facts about the record shops and their bags. Readers, gear up for a "brilliant ride down the old British high streets and low streets too." - It's Nice That Jonny Trunk and FUEL present A-Z of Record Shop Bags - a publication celebrating the humble record store bag. This exhaustive collection of the record shop bag provides a unique perspective of record shopping in the UK over the last century, bringing together over 500 incredible bags (some possibly the only surviving examples) to document the fascinating story of British high street record shopping. Bags from famous chains such as NEMS, Our Price and Virgin (the amazingly rare Roger Dean bags), sit alongside designs from local shops run by eccentric enthusiasts. Packed with stories such as the first Jewish ska retailer, the record sellers who started the premier league, famous staff (David Bowie, Dusty Springfield, Morrissey, etc.) and equally infamous owners, these anecdotes of mythical vinyl entrepreneurs will entertain and delight. With vinyl record sales at their highest ever for decades (outselling CDs in the US), this publication acts as an amazing insight into the history, culture and visual language of record collecting. Following Own Label, Wrappers Delight and Auto Erotica - A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s is the next book in the series by Jonny Trunk and FUEL, examining overlooked aspects of our collective past.

Bristol Boys Make More Noise - The Bristol Music Scene 1974-1981 (Paperback): Gill Loats Bristol Boys Make More Noise - The Bristol Music Scene 1974-1981 (Paperback)
Gill Loats; Illustrated by John Spink
R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

John Spink provides the photographic evidence of a time that made an enormous impact on all our lives, despite the fact that many parts were very short lived, as they are in every subsequent youth culture. These images take us through the period from dippy hippy drug-induced enlightenment to loads-of-money entitlement, via the punk revolution and new wave and all the other seminal moments the TV documentaries would like to tag us with. Those of you who have picked up this book as a 'historical reference tome' will know that very few night-out photos of this time exist. John Spink had the sense to take his camera with him when he went out. So many of us could have done that but couldn't be arsed. I wasn't a handbag sort of girl so I had to travel light, fags, money, key, oh the heady days before a mobile. Nowhere to put a Kodak instamatic 33 in 1974 and my first SLR Practika in 1979 weighed a ton. John however knew he was experiencing something unique and he set about cataloguing our formative years.

Lipstick and Leather - On the Road with the World's Most Notorious Rock Stars (Hardcover): Kim Hawes Lipstick and Leather - On the Road with the World's Most Notorious Rock Stars (Hardcover)
Kim Hawes
R615 R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What do Motoerhead, Black Sabbath, Elvis Costello, Rush and Chumbawumba have in common? Kim Hawes, pioneering female tour manager. Through hard work, hard partying and hard times, Kim hurled a TV through the glass ceiling of the male-dominated music industry. Sleeping on tour buses, kicking superstars offstage and pranking members of the world's biggest rock bands, Kim has done it all. Lipstick and Leather is no ordinary tale of life on the road.

Song Stars - The Ladies Who Sang With the Bands & Beyond (Paperback): Richard Grudens Song Stars - The Ladies Who Sang With the Bands & Beyond (Paperback)
Richard Grudens
R548 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R164 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This wonderful book pays tribute to the lives of early song innovators Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday, Mildred Bailey, Ethel Waters, and the first lady of song Ella Fitzgerald. It also tells a different story about special song star Josephine Baker. Special chapters include legendary Frankie Laine's personal tribute to many big band singers he has known; band leader Warren Covington's historical account of the pied pipers singing group who once backed Frank Sinatra and Connie Haines; and world-famous disc jockey Al 'Jazzbeaux' Collins recollection of his legendary fables of the purple grotto. There are special segments honoring all of the known big band song stars, and even a list of those not so well-known. Richard Grudens provides a special insight into the lives of the song stars and provides over 60 exceptional photos to enrich your reading pleasure.

Black by Design - A 2-Tone Memoir (Paperback, Main): Pauline Black Black by Design - A 2-Tone Memoir (Paperback, Main)
Pauline Black 1
R314 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R59 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Born in 1953 to Anglo-Jewish/Nigerian parents, Pauline Black was subsequently adopted by a white, working class family in Romford. Never quite at home there, she escaped her small town background and discovered a different way of life - making music. Lead singer for platinum-selling band The Selecter, Pauline Black was the Queen of British Ska. The only woman in a movement dominated by men, she toured with The Specials, Madness, Dexy's Midnight Runners when they were at the top of the charts - and, sometimes, on their worst behaviour. From childhood to fame, from singing to acting and broadcasting, from adoption to her recent search for her birth parents, Black By Design is a funny and enlightening story of music, race, family and roots.

Me and a Guy Named Elvis - My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley (Paperback): Jerry Schilling Me and a Guy Named Elvis - My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley (Paperback)
Jerry Schilling 2
R286 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R50 (17%) In Stock

On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the local teenager whose first record, "That's All Right," had just debuted on Memphis radio. The two became fast friends, even as Elvis turned into the world's biggest star. In 1964, Elvis invited Jerry to work for him as part of his "Memphis Mafia," and Jerry soon found himself living with Elvis full-time in a Bel Air mansion and, later, in his own room at Graceland. Over the next thirteen years Jerry would work for Elvis in various capacities - from bodyguard to photo double to co-executive producer on a karate film. But more than anything else he was Elvis's close friend and confidant: Elvis trusted Jerry with protecting his life when he received death threats, he asked Jerry to drive him and Priscilla to the hospital the day Lisa Marie was born and to accompany him during the famous "lost weekend" when he traveled to meet President Nixon at the White House. Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friend's perspective, offering readers the man rather than the icon - including insights into the creative frustrations that lead to Elvis's abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death. Jerry offers never-before-told stories about life inside Elvis's inner circle and an emotional recounting of the great times, hard times, and unique times he and Elvis shared. These vivid memories will be priceless to Elvis's millions of fans, and the compelling story will fascinate an even wider audience.

Queerness in Pop Music - Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality (Hardcover): Stan Hawkins Queerness in Pop Music - Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality (Hardcover)
Stan Hawkins
R4,122 Discovery Miles 41 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms. The focus falls on artists, such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Boy George, Diana Ross, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Azealia Banks, Zebra Katz, Freddie Mercury, the Pet Shop Boys, George Michael, and many others. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality, which involves a creative interdisciplinary approach to musical interpretation. He advocates a model of analysis that involves both temporal-specific listening and biographic-oriented viewing. Music analysis is woven into this, illuminating aspects of parody, nostalgia, camp, naivety, masquerade, irony, and mimesis in pop music. One of the principal aims is to uncover the subversive strategies of pop artists through a wide range of audiovisual texts that situate the debates on gender and sexuality within an aesthetic context that is highly stylized and ritualized. Queerness in Pop Music also addresses the playfulness of much pop music, offering insights into how discourses of resistance are mediated through pleasure. Given that pop artists, songwriters, producers, directors, choreographers, and engineers all contribute to the final composite of the pop recording, it is argued that the staging of any pop act is a collective project. The implications of this are addressed through structures of gender, ethnicity, nationality, class, and sexuality. Ultimately, Hawkins contends that queerness is a performative force that connotes futurity and utopian promise.

Reading Smile - History, Myth and American Identity in Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks' Long-Lost Album (Hardcover): Dale... Reading Smile - History, Myth and American Identity in Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks' Long-Lost Album (Hardcover)
Dale Carter
R4,056 Discovery Miles 40 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First conceived in 1966 but only completed in 2004, Brian Wilson Presents Smile has been called "the best-known unreleased album in pop music history" and "an American Sergeant Pepper." Reading Smile offers a close analysis of the recording in its social, cultural and historical contexts. It focuses in particular on the finished work's subject matter as embodied in Van Dyke Parks' contentious yet little understood lyrics, with their low-resolution, highly allusive portrayals of western expansion's archetypes, from Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts to Diamond Head, Hawaii. Documenting their multiple references and connotations, it argues that their invocations of national self-definition are part of a carefully crafted vision of American identity, society and culture both in tune and at odds with the times. Critical of the republic's past practices but convinced that its ideals, values and myths still provided resources to redeem it, the recording is interpreted as a creative musical milestone, an enduring product of its volatile, radical, countercultural times, and an American pop art classic. Of particular relevance to American Studies and popular culture scholars, Reading Smile will also appeal to those interested in 1960s popular music, not least to fans of Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks and the Beach Boys.

Changes - An Oral History of Tupac Shakur (Hardcover): Sheldon Pearce Changes - An Oral History of Tupac Shakur (Hardcover)
Sheldon Pearce
R723 R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Save R119 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A New Yorker writer's intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur's life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. In the summer of 2020, Tupac Shakur's single "Changes" became an anthem for the worldwide protests against the murder of George Floyd. The song became so popular, in fact, it was vaulted back onto the iTunes charts more than twenty years after its release-making it clear that Tupac's music and the way it addresses systemic racism, police brutality, mass incarceration, income inequality, and a failing education system is just as important now as it was back then. In Changes, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Tupac's birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, Sheldon Pearce offers one of the most thoughtful and comprehensive accounts yet of the artist's life and legacy. Pearce, an editor and writer at The New Yorker, interviews dozens who knew Tupac throughout various phases of his life. While there are plenty of bold-faced names, the book focuses on the individuals who are lesser known and offer fresh stories and rare insight. Among these are the actor who costarred with him in a Harlem production of A Raisin in the Sun when he was twelve years old, the high school drama teacher who recognized and nurtured his talent, the music industry veteran who helped him develop a nonprofit devoted to helping young artists, the Death Row Records executive who has never before spoken on the record, and dozens of others. Meticulously woven together by Pearce, their voices combine to portray Tupac in all his complexity and contradiction. This remarkable book illustrates not only how he changed during his brief twenty-five years on this planet, but how he forever changed the world.

Philosophy of Improvisation - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Susanne Ravn, Simon Hoffding,... Philosophy of Improvisation - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Susanne Ravn, Simon Hoffding, James McGuirk
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its practice in the arts and the classroom. The chapters address the phenomenon of improvisation in two related ways. On the one hand, they attend to the lived practices of improvisation both within and without the arts in order to explain the phenomenon. They also extend the scope of improvisational practices to include the role of improvisation in habit and in planned action, at both individual and collective levels. Drawing on recent work done in the philosophy of mind, they address questions such as whether improvisation is a single unified phenomenon or whether it entails different senses that can be discerned theoretically and practically. Finally, they ask after the special kind of improvisational expertise which characterizes musicians, dancers, and other practitioners, an expertise marked by the artist's ability to participate competently in complex situations while deliberately relinquishing control. Philosophy of Improvisation will appeal to anyone with a strong interest in improvisation, to researchers working in philosophy, aesthetics, and pedagogy as well as practitioners involved in different kinds of music, dance, and theater performances.

All My Yesterdays (Paperback): Steve Howe All My Yesterdays (Paperback)
Steve Howe 1
R534 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R95 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Whether in Yes, Asia, GTR, ABWH, Tomorrow or the Steve Howe Trio and - there's more - Steve Howe has continually proved himself to be one of the world's greatest guitarists. Here, for the first time, he looks back on his five-decade long career. From jamming onstage with Jimi Hendrix to sharing Abbey Road studios with The Beatles, Steve's stories are steeped in rock 'n' roll history. Including a number of unseen photographs and a full discography, All My Yesterdays is a must-read for fans of Yes, one of prog rock's most legendary bands.

Tina Turner: My Love Story (Paperback): Tina Turner Tina Turner: My Love Story (Paperback)
Tina Turner 2
R337 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R63 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

‘Astonishing, soul-baring – the must-read memoir by rock’s greatest survivor’ DAILY MAIL

***The full, dramatic story of one of the most remarkable women in music history, celebrating Tina Turner’s 60th year in the industry***

'Unbearably poignant' THE TIMES, Book of the Week

Love’s got everything to do with it.

Tina Turner is the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, a musical icon celebrating her 60th year in the industry. In this dramatic autobiography, she tells the story of a truly remarkable life in the spotlight.

From her early years picking cotton in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner, and finally to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, Tina candidly examines her personal history, from her darkest hours to her happiest moments and everything in between.

In her honest and heart-felt voice, Tina reveals:

· How (love) and a kidney transplant saved her life – and how her new husband made an incredible personal sacrifice
· How she has coped with the tragic suicide of her son
· How ex-husband Ike Turner forced her to go to a brothel on their wedding night… and why she tried to kill herself because of Ike’s mistresses
· The Cinderella moment when David Bowie made Tina a star …
· …and the day Mick Jagger ripped her skirt off!
AND MUCH MORE

Brimming with her trademark blend of strength, energy, heart and soul, My Love Story is a gripping, surprising memoir, as memorable and entertaining as any of her greatest hits.
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Aging and Popular Music in Europe (Paperback): Abigail Gardner, Ros Jennings Aging and Popular Music in Europe (Paperback)
Abigail Gardner, Ros Jennings
R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Opening up the dialogue between popular music studies and aging studies, this book offers a major exploration of age and popular music across Europe. Using a variety of methods to illustrate how age within popular music is contingent and compelling, the volume explores how it provokes curation and devotion across a variety of sites and artists who record in several European languages, and genres including waltz music, electronica, pop, folk, rap, and the French 'chanson.' Visiting the many ways in which age is problematized, revered, and performed within Europe in relation to popular music, case studies analyze: French touring shows of popular music stars from the 1960s; Andre Rieu's annual Vrijthof concerts in the Netherlands; Kraftwerk and Bjoerk's appearances at renowned art museums as curated objects; queer approaches to popular music space and time; British folk music inheritances; pan-European strategies of stardom and career longevity; and inheritance and post-colonial hauntings of race and identity. The book works with the notion of travelling, across borders, genres, sexualities, and media, highlighting the visibility of the aging body across a variety of European sites in order to establish popular music through the lens of age as a positive methodology with which to approach popular music cultures, and to offer a counter-narrative to age as decline. This book will appeal to scholars of popular music, popular culture, media studies, cultural studies, aging studies, and cultural gerontology.

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