Phänomen Mozart

Reinhard Amon

Dieses Buch zum Phänomen Mozart zeigt und erschließt den genialen Komponisten von vielen Seiten. Es ist eine fakten- und analysebasierte Synthese, in der sowohl Mozarts Werk als auch sein bewegtes Leben in ihrer Gesamt- und Verbundenheit betrachtet werden. In den 31...

Desolation

Mark Morton , Ben Opipari

A gritty, revealing heavy metal memoir by Lamb of God’s guitarist and lyricist, Mark Morton, which explores both his life in music and his tumultuous path through addiction and into recovery For a band as extreme as Lamb of God, mainstream success and touring the...

You Don't Need a Dick to DJ

Smokin Jo

Moving Mountains: The Little Guide to Pink

Orange Hippo!

"I'm proof that things absolutely can happen." - PinkDubbed the next "Queen of Pop" for her distinctive voice and live acrobatic stage performances, Pink unapologetically smashed her way through the music industry at the mere age of 14. The incredible success of her...

My Family and Other Rock Stars

Tiffany Murray

Into the Taylor-Verse

Satu Hämeenaho-Fox

Fearlessly jump and fall into the world of Taylor Swift with this illustrated appreciation of her music by Swiftian Theory co-founder Satu Hämeenaho-Fox.This is the book for all Swifties of every era, and the perfect gift for the Taylor Swift fan in your life.Get ready...

Highway to Hell

Orange Hippo!

Giving Satan Tinnitus Since 1973. Jacked up to the max with plenty of juice left to squeeze, AC/DC can still ignite their excitable audiences with their supercharged, power-cord hungry rock, even in 2023. This Little Guide to AC/DC is the ultimate,...

My Mama, Cass

Owen Elliot-Kugell

"The author's love for her mother burns beneath every sentence, illuminating the story from within. An overdue tribute to an underappreciated icon."--Oprah Daily  A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary...

The Cantigas de Santa Maria

Henry T. Drummond

Alfonso X (1221-84) ruled over the Crown of Castile from 1252 until his death. Known as "the Wise," he oversaw the production of a wealth of literature in his scriptorium. One of the most impressive of these literary outputs is the collection of songs known as the...

The Classroom Guide to Jazz Improvisation

John Mcneil , Ryan Nielsen

You don't have to be a jazz expert to give your students a great introduction to improvisation. The Classroom Guide to Jazz Improvisation provides what music educators have sought for decades: an easy, step-by-step guide to teaching jazz improvisation in the music...

Cuban Fusion

Eva Silot Bravo

Surveying the impact of Cuba's economic crisis after the demise of the eastern socialist block, this book documents a relatively unexplored transnational network of collaborations among Cuban musicians that migrated to many different countries from the 1990s forward....

The Cambridge Companion to Tango

Kacey Link , Kristin Wendland

Tango music rapidly became a global phenomenon as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, with about 30% of gramophone records made between 1903 and 1910 devoted to it. Its popularity declined between the 1950s and the 1980s but has since risen to new heights....

Strange Things Are Happening

Richard Norris

Embodied Expression in Popular Music

Timothy Koozin

Theory in popular music has historically tended to approach musical processes of rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, and form as abstractions, without very directly engaging the intimate connection between the performer and instrument in popular music performance. Embodied...

Wagner in Context

David Trippett

Few composers embodied wider cultural interests than Wagner or had greater cultural consequences. This is the first collection to examine directly the rich array of intellectual, social and cultural contexts within which Wagner worked. Alongside fresh accounts of...

The Little Guide to Harry Styles

Orange Hippo!

The world's biggest star squeezed down to a miniature pocket-size.Harry Styles is the hero we all deserve right now. And judging by the deafening noise he received on his sell-out world tour to support his acclaimed record, Harry's House, he is the defining icon of our...

The Rejects

Jamie Collinson

'Very readable . . . the history of the late 20th century empire music business' Bret Easton EllisImagine you've made it. You and your friends have hit the big time in music and you're going to be a star. But then, quite suddenly, it's over. Your best friends don't want...

Das Populäre als Kunst?

Thomas Hecken

Populären Werken wird seit Jahrhunderten der Status des Kunstwerks aberkannt, unter Verweis auf deren vermeintliche Oberflächlichkeit, Eindimensionalität, Effekthascherei und Standardisierung werden sie streng von ‚echter‘ Kunst geschieden. Schiller, Nietzsche, Adorno,...

Alte Musik heute

Richard Lorber

Das Handbuch zeichnet die Tendenzen des Umgangs mit „Alter Musik“ heute und in der Vergangenheit nach und informiert konkret und detailreich über die verschiedenen Richtungen der Historischen Aufführungspraxis. Es betrachtet typische Erscheinungsformen der Szene,...

The Doors Unhinged

John Densmore

In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the 'greed gene' - that part of the human psyche that propels us toward the accumulation of more and more wealth, even at the expense of...