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273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see myself in others." Like Dylan's songs, this book is a work...
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xxiii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Picking up where he left off in "Finishing the Hat", Sondheim richly annotates his lyrics with personal and theatre history, discussions of his collaborations, and exacting, charming dissections of his work -- both the successes and the failures.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
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English
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"As one of the most magnetic icons of modern pop culture, David Bowie seduced generations of fans with his music and counterculture persona. While Bowie's legacy as a musician is remarkable and genre-defying, as a visual performer he obliterate stage theatrics with his psychedelic aesthetics, larger-than-life image, and way of hovering on the border of the surreal. Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams chronicles the rise of David Bowie's career...
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360 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A biography of Mozart-his music, his life, and his legacy-by the poet Patrick Mackie"--
"Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand of his music, and what can it reveal to us about the great composer? Following Mozart from his youth in Salzburg to his early death; from his close and rivalrous relationship with his father to his romantic attachments; from his hugely successful operas...
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358 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Through the years of success in Hollywood composing music for the world's most lauded films, Chris always promised his wife they would return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now, after his wife's death, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he buys Kilnsgate House, an old mansion deep in the country that will allow him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to compose his piano sonata. He then...
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English
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"A powerful, intimate look at the life and music of a beloved folk icon and activist. Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie's first and only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than sixty hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her seventy-seven...
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347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and video pieces. He toured the world with his own ensemble...
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viii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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In this authorized biography, the musician best known as the lead vocalist in the band Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer, as well as a successful vintner, gives insight into his history and career trajectory. The book traces Keenan's journey from his Midwest childhood to his years in the Army to his time in art school, from his stint at a Boston pet shop to his place in the international spotlight and his influence on contemporary music and regional...
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294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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A candid assessment of the iconic musician's personal and professional life by his first wife traces their long-distance courtship, marriage, and creative partnership as well as the challenges that compromised their romance.
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English
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In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history -- almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture,...
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371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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Phil Collins pulls no punches -- about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that has inspired his music. In this memoir, he tells the story of his epic career, with an auspicious debut at age 11 in a crowd shot from the Beatles' legendary film A Hard Day's Night. A drummer since almost before he could walk, Collins received on-the-job training in the seedy, thrilling bars and clubs of 1960s swinging London before finally landing the drum...
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470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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The first book to tell the full story of Brecht and Weill's impulsive, combustible partnership, the compelling psychological drama of one of the most important creative collaborations of the past century. It is also the first book to give full credit where it is richly due to the three women -- [actresses Lotte Lenya and Helene Weigel and writer Elizabeth Hauptmann] -- whose creative gifts contributed enormously to their masterworks. And it tells...
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397 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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"En el medio, cuatrocientas páginas de memorias cuyo etiquetado frontal debiera advertir: altas en emoción, agudísimas en cultura pop, refinadas, bestiales, amorosas, explícitas. Fito Páez pasó el encierro pandémico recordando y escribiendo, repasando y puliendo episodios, ajustando cuentas y desarreglando todo lo demás, en un ejercicio de introspección al que la palabra "prodigioso" le queda pintada. De la infancia rosarina narrada en travelling...
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431 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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In his memoir, Bach recounts lurid tales of excess and debauchery as he toured the world with Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Soundgarden, Pantera, Nine Inch Nails and Guns N' Roses. Filled with backstage photos from his own personal collection, 18 And Life on Skid Row is the story of hitting it big at a young age, and of a band that broke up in its prime. It is the story of a man who achieved his wildest dreams, only to lose his family, and then...
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xii, 206 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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English
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The little-known story of Leonard Cohen's concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs. In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen -- thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end -- traveled from his home on the Greek island of Hydra to the chaos and bloodshed of the Sinai desert when Egypt attacked Israel on the...
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