Music

Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson - aka the boy band sensation One Direction - have just the right combination of raw talent and crush-worthy looks to have won over millions of fans around the world almost overnight. This book helps you discover the boys behind the band.

Explore the themes and questions raised in the major motion picture based on the best-selling bookBlue Like Jazz.Youth workers, parents, and mentorsneed guidance in order to break through to youth during the critical transition to adulthood. Using the topics, themes, and questions addressed in Blue Like ...

In his critically acclaimed book, In the Country of Country, Nicholas Dawidoff travels to the origins of country music and talks to the musicians who created this original American art form.

A consumers' guide to the music of The Clash, this volume is an album by album, track by track, examination of every song released by The Clash, from their first single, White Riot to their final album Combat Rock and beyond.

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Rock 'n' roll's dead icons from Robert Johnson and Leadbelly to Tupac and Cobain.

Written as a literary detective story, 'Dylan's Daemon Lover' is about the ancient folk ballads, strewn with sex, betrayal and death, that Dylan described in 1997 as my lexicon and my prayer-book'. Written by an acclaimed Dylan expert and the author of 'Dylan Behind Closed Doors,' the book involves and ...

A concise chart containing the most commonly used scales. Use for practice, reference, or pedagogy. Contains all major, harmonic minor, melodic minor, chromatic, whole-tone and diminished scales.

A must-have for fans, this visual history of the mega-selling band is supplemented throughout with text, stories and ephemera from the band themselves.

A practical guide to forming a band, from understanding your instruments to recording and playing live. It is a step-by-step course in moving beyond playing alone to working with other musicians. It contains a package of two books, a DVD, and a CD.

This beginning guitar method is unique in that it teaches the basics of playing guitar while focusing on the style of folk guitar. Designed to teach students the fundamentals of playing chords and melody on guitar, First Lesson Folk Guitar also provides lessons on correct posture, caring for the guitar, ...

This book is a collection of riffs that will serve as a great introduction to rock guitar of the 60's and 70's. The cornerstone of many rock tunes, a riff is a short musical phrase that is repeated inside a song. Riffs can be the signature part of a song and what many "play" when they do "air guitar" ...

Author Jeff Kaliss scored the first face-to-face interview with the reclusive superstar in over 20 years, making this book a must-read for any rock'n'roll fan. From the anthemic early hits that powered Woodstock, through the moody meditations of "There's a Riot Going On" and beyond, Sly and the Family ...

Captures the arrival and development of World Music at the WOMAD festivals from 1981 onwards with more than 100 portraits of musicians. This title features an introduction by Peter Gabriel.

Clive Palmer, a beatnik banjo player who began playing skiffle, jazz and folk in 1950s London, honed his skills by busking in Paris before moving to Scotland - influencing the young Billy Connolly, among others - and co-founding the legendary Incredible String Band. Leaving them after their first album ...

Palmer's extraordinary knowledge and boundless love of music were evident in all his writing. He was an authority on rock & roll, blues, jazz, punk, avant-garde, and world music—often discovering new artists and trends years (even decades) before they hit the mainstream. Now, noted music writer Anthony ...

Rhodes grants the truth of appearances to the clichés of the Jazz Age - the lost generation of writers, the era of mass consumption and the silver screen - while revealing their roots in a conservative ideology which sustained Republican rule.

Where so many rock biographies tell the same story, Jack Johnson's is a true exception.