Author: Nelson, Alton Le Roy Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book tells about Alton being born and growing up in the South to a family of eight in a two-bedroom house. It also tells of how his family & he survived as sharecroppers; eating & living off what ...
Author: Takemitsu, Asaka Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) was the first Japanese composer to receive international recognition in the field of classical music, and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the late...
Author: Kenyatta, Kelly Publisher: Amber Communications Group, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This exciting biography is in memory of one of the most loved recording artists of the 21st century who won the 2002 American Music Award for Best Artist & Best Song and the 2002 NAACP Image Award for...
Author: Tobler, John Publisher: Archive Media Publishing Ltd Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: ABBA's was an extraordinary journey through the pages of rock history - it took them from throwaway Eurovision turn to highly respected pop icons. Their story has everything; beautiful girls with incr...
Description: Adele Laurie Blue Adkins is at the top of her game in both the US and the UK, breaking records for sales and number one status on all the major charts. Her performances are refreshingly authentic and ...
Description: This is the definitive review of the career and work of Aerosmith - a band that can truly say that it's seen and done it all.ÂÂ In selling more than 150 million albums worldwide, they became the big...
Description: The full, tragic story of Puccini's great rival, now available in English for the first time. Born in Lucca four years before Puccini, Alfredo Catalani (1854-93) was the main hope of Italian opera in...
Author: Olaniyan, Tejumola Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A bold, energetic, and lively musical biography on one of Africa's most popular and controversial stars, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti--the flamboyant originator of the "Afrobeat" sound and self-proclaimed voic...
Author: Bordowitz, Hank Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rightly called the saddest story in rock 'n' roll history, this Creedence biography-newly updated with stories from band members, producers, business associates, close friends, and families-recounts t...
Author: Rio, Diamond Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Can a band comprised of six very talented but very different musicians make a difference with their music? What made it possible for Diamond Rio to weather the storms inherent in the fickle world of ...
Author: Rose, Tony Publisher: Amber Communications Group, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Tracing the roots of the world's biggest-grossing boy band and their zealous record producer Maurice Starr, this New Kids on the Block biography is the true behind-the-scenes story of the teenage boys...
Author: Le Guin, Elisabeth Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this elegant study of the works of the undeservedly neglected composer Luigi Boccherini, Elisabeth Le Guin uses knowledge gleaned from her own playing of the cello as the keystone of her original a...
Author: Rybka, F. James Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bohemian composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) was exceptionally prolific, composing over 400 imaginative, well-crafted, and diverse pieces, including symphonies, operas, ballet scores, and other orch...
Author: Sisk, Eileen Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Retracing the life of Buck Owens-from his poverty-stricken youth as the son of a sharecropper to one of the nation's best-loved and wealthiest entertainers-this biography pays tribute to the man and h...
Author: Hadden, J., Cuthbert Publisher: Brown Walker Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: First appearing in 1903, this is perhaps the first truly well-balanced account of Chopin as a man and Chopin as a composer, in English. The author describes Chopin's life and activities from his early...
Author: HUNEKER, JAMES Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: James Huneker's biographical classic reflects his extensive research on the life and works of Chopin (while studying to be a concert pianist). Huneker's acute perception of the composer's life provide...
Author: Franklin, Kirk Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Church Boy intimately chronicles the life of gospel music sensation Kirk Franklin: his tough childhood, his amazing conversion, and his meteoric rise to gospel music stardom. This national best-seller...
Author: Terry, Clark Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, ta...
Author: Gavin, James Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From his emergence in the 1950s as an uncannily beautiful young Oklahoman who became the prince of "cool" jazz seemingly overnight to his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker l...
Author: Dietz, William C. Publisher: EReads.com Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was one of jazz's greatest innovators. Join Bill Gutman as he explores the fascinating life of this legend from his birth at the turn of the century to his death at the...
Author: N/A Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960) was one of the most highly respected musicians of his time. He was a virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor who brought international prominence to Hungarian music. F...
Author: Ohl, Vicki Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first biography of a composer who broke the gender barrier on Broadway. Kay Swift (1897-1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Best...
Author: Porter, Darwin / Prince, Danforth Publisher: Blood Moon Productions Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Every time I sing a song, I'm actually making love on stage. Call me 'The Boudoir Singer,' or so claimed Frank Sinatra. The crooner's career spanned more than half a century, earning him millions of f...
Author: Riley, Joe Alfred Publisher: TIC Manila Inc Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ireland Co Clare I wrote this book Ghosts of Kilrush to tell the story of a young boy who to all sense and purposes was abandoned by his father, left in Kilrush on the West Coast of Ireland with total...
Author: Konieczny, Vladimir Publisher: Dundurn Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Gould (1932-1982), a brilliant pianist who disliked performing and craved solitude, quit the concert stage at age 31 and immersed himself in his true love: the recording studio.
Author: Panozzo, Chuck Publisher: Amacom Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Chuck's personal website receives thousands of hits and he receives tremendous fan support from around-the-world. Though books and movies on rock groups abound, there are not yet any published books o...
Author: Buchanan, Mike Publisher: LPs publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: BACK COVER TEXT: 'Why would anyone want to live anywhere but Bedford? It's a great place to live!' (Thunderin' Paul Carrington) To live in the throbbing metropolis of Bedford, or even elsewhere in t...
Author: Barrow, John, Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Tenor sax man John Barrow has played and recorded with world name artists. This is the tale of his stroll through the labyrinth of dreams that is the pop industry.
Author: Youens, Susan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Viennese composer Hugo Wolf produced one of the most important song collections of the nineteenth century when he set to music fifty-three poems by the great German poet Eduard M
Author: Calt, Stephen Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Providing a clear look into the life of one of the greatest Mississippi bluesmen, this is the first biography of the late Skip James, perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians...
Author: Chronopoulos, Gene Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It All Started with Billie Holiday chronicles the discovery of jazz by a young Greek boy through his adult years. This is his personal odyssey revealing rewarding relationships with noteworthy jazz mu...
Author: Schabas, Ezra Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jan Rubes, a leading performer and director, emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1949 and became an important part of the history of the performing arts in Canada.
Author: Moricz, Klara Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jewish Identities mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about "Jewish music," which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence tha...
Author: Fox, Charles Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Charles Fox has composed more than 100 motion picture and television scores, among them the themes of many iconic series, including Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Love, American Style, and Love Boat. ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Continuum Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When they were creating and releasing their most influential albums in the mid to late 1970s, Kraftwerk were far from the musical mainstream – and yet it is impossible now to imagine the history...
Author: Liszt, Franz Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: To a people, always prompt in its recognition of genius, and ready to sympathize in the joys and woes of a truly great artist, this work will be one of exceeding interest. It is a short, glowing, and ...
Author: Govenar, Alan Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based on scores of interviews with the artist's relatives, friends, lovers, producers, accompanists, managers, and fans, this brilliant biography reveals a man of many layers and contradictions. Follo...
Author: Hodges, Sheila Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Three of the greatest operas ever written---Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte---were the joint creations of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. Everyone knows about M...
Author: Berrett, Joshua Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In "Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman "the" "jazz scholar Joshua Berrett offers a provocative revision of the history of early jazz by focusing on two of its most notable practitioners-- Whiteman, leg...
Author: Coner, Scott Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During a time when toughskin blue jeans, button-down shirts, and flat-top haircuts were all the rage, Gene Odom and Ronnie Van Zant became best friends. Growing up on the same block, Ronnie and Gene f...
