Come My Fanatics

Dan Franklin

In 1993, in the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England, the heaviest band in the world was born: Electric Wizard. Led by guitarist and singer Jus Oborn, the band inhaled the iniquity of their lives and vomited it out in colossal waves of doom metal,...

Eagles - Dark Desert Highway

Mick Wall

'This could be heaven or this could be hell...'So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition. The band that embodied the...

On African Music

Kofi Agawu

Written by one of the best-known academic writers on African music, On African Music is a collection of seven essays addressing various techniques, influences, and scholarly approaches to African music. After a concise introduction spelling out the rationale for the...

Positionen.Entwicklungen.Erfahrungen – 10 Jahre Junge Opern Rhein-Ruhr

Merle Fahrholz , Christiane Plank-Baldauf

Hören, Sehen, Staunen – in den deutschsprachigen Opernhäusern kann junges Publikum seit über zehn Jahren viel entdecken! Die vorliegende Dokumentation fasst die Ergebnisse der Konferenz „Auf die Ohren, fertig los!“ der Jungen Opern Rhein-Ruhr zusammen und gibt Einblicke...

Happy Trails

Mick Houghton , Andrew Lauder

Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people will probably know his name. He's always retained a fan's perspective which, combined with an exceptional knowledge of music,...

Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances

Eddie Piller

The Little Guide to Britney Spears

Orange Hippo!

'Success is a state of mind... Success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.' - Stylist Magazine, 2011.Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning pop icon Britney Spears is one of the most successful and celebrated entertainers in pop history...

Leon Russell

Bill Janovitz

The definitive New York Times bestselling biography of legendary musician, composer, and performer Leon Russell, who profoudly influenced George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, and the world of music as a...

Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai

Arthur Groos

Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of 'temporary marriage' between Western men and Japanese women in nineteenth-century treaty ports. Groos' book identifies the plot's origin in an eye-witness account and traces its transmission via...

Stayin' Alive: The Little Guide to The Bee Gees

Orange Hippo!

Half a century after three teenage brothers decided to give a career in music a go, the Bee Gees are among the most successful and enduring names in popular music history.Trailblazing their way across pop music since the 1960s, Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb have made...

Digitalization of the Industry in a Brand New Normal

Hasan Kemal Süher , Tuna Tetik , Ömer Vatanartiran

approaches “the brand new normal” as the digitalization itself. The collection of research and studies explores and questions contemporary novelties in media and art related to the transformative effects of the digitalization. Featuring a broad range of topics, covering...

The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera

Jacqueline Waeber

The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera is a much-needed introduction to one of the most defining areas of Western music history - the birth of opera and its developments during the first century of its existence. From opera's Italian foundations to its...

Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi

Ken Lipenga Jr.

Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi is one of the first book-length studies of Malawian hip hop. It studies the language and content of contemporary Malawian hip hop as a window onto the country's youth culture as Malawian young people negotiate what scholar Alcinda...

Punk Paradox

Greg Graffin

From the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion comes a historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution. Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as “America's most significant punk...

Chuck Berry

Rj Smith

The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll Best known as the groundbreaking artist behind classics like “Johnny B. Goode,” “Maybellene,” “You Never Can Tell” and “Roll Over...

Beyoncé

Tshepo Mokoena

Beyoncé is not simply a pop sensation. She is a cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and dispossessed, challenging white privilege and misogyny and exploding gender politics. But who isBeyoncé Knowles-Carter? And how did a small girl from Houston become the...

Amy Winehouse

Kate Solomon

In her intense, brief life, Amy Winehouse's music spoke directly to millions. And since her death, her fans have only increased.Amy Winehouse is one of those pop stars that comes along so rarely we're not sure we knew what we had when we had her. Her story speaks to us...

Prince

Jason Draper

His name was Prince, and he was funky. He was also inspiring, infuriating, visionary and otherworldly. Channelling contradictions in search of his own unique truth, he eventually changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph that merged the male and female symbols in an...

David Bowie

Robert Dimery

A relentless innovator, scoring chart hits while simultaneously incorporating radical and ground-breaking elements into his work.As with all great pop stars, Bowie's image changed with almost every new album release. This appetite for reinvention, both musically and...

Insulting Music

Lily E. Hirsch

Insulting Music explores insult in and around music and demonstrates that insult is a key dimension of Western musical experience and practice. There is insult in the music we hear, how we express our musical preferences, as well as our reactions to settings and...