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Individual composers & Music & Entertainment

Hardcover. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; AVQ; AVRL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 318 x 266 x 49. Weight in Grams: 2618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Edition
Facsimile
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606600597
ISBN
9781606600597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.85
€ 57.32

Paperback. A vibrant biography of one of the greatest rock 'n' rollers, the America that made him, and the America he made. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 35. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
540
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393345841
ISBN
9780393345841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.13

Hardcover. The story of conductor extraordinaire Gustavo Dudamel, and the music education program, El Sistema, that led him to success. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 pages of black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393078961
ISBN
9780393078961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.79

Hardcover. From one of the leading scholars of the composer's works, an exploration of the unswerving artistic vision underlying Beethoven's symphonies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 illustrations; 10 music examples. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393076448
ISBN
9780393076448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.11

Hardcover. This book explores how funk emerged in the mid-1960s at the very apex of the civil rights movement and shows how this music mirrored the broader changes taking place within the African-American community at a crucial political time and continues to underpin remix culture. It traces the extent of the Brown legacy, musically and culturally. Series: Icons of Pop Music. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 black and white photos. BIC Classification: AVGQ; AVH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908049926
ISBN
9781908049926
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.23

Hardcover. This is the first study of Wilson to eschew chronology for a topical organization that allows discussion of lyrical themes and musical motifs outside of any prejudicial presumptions about their place in the trajectory of his career. Series: Icons of Pop Music. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 black and white photos. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781908049919
ISBN
9781908049919
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.40

Hardcover. This volume analyses the work of Nick Cave, a singular, idiosyncratic and brilliant musician, specifically through his engagements with theology and the Bible. Series: Studies in Popular Music. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; HRCG; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908049674
ISBN
9781908049674
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.94

Paperback. Provides an introduction to the music of Bob Dylan including an examination of the impact of his work over time and key critical responses. This book locates Dylan's work within a broader context of the history of the American popular song and its various antecedents, examining how his music draws on a heritage of folk, blues and pop tunes. Series: Icons of Pop Music. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 b&w photos. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904768258
ISBN
9781904768258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.51

Paperback. This book explores how funk emerged in the mid-1960s at the very apex of the civil rights movement and shows how this music mirrored the broader changes taking place within the African-American community at a crucial political time and continues to underpin remix culture. It traces the extent of the Brown legacy, musically and culturally. Series: Icons of Pop Music. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10-12 photos. BIC Classification: AVGQ; AVH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845537432
ISBN
9781845537432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.51

Paperback. This is the first study of Brian Wilson to eschew chronology in favor of a topical organization that allows discussion of lyrical themes and musical motifs outside of any prejudicial presumptions about their place in the trajectory of his career. Series: Icons of Pop Music. Num Pages: 192 pages, 12 black and white photos. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845536633
ISBN
9781845536633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.68

Paperback. Metallica formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, their original line-up consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, and bassist Ron McGovney. They had sold over 100 million records worldwide by the time their album, "Death Magnetic", was released in 2008. Num Pages: 192 pages, 100 colour/bw photographs. BIC Classification: AVGT; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344. The Stories Behind the Biggest Songs. Series: Stories Behind Every Song S. 192 pages, 100 colour/bw photographs. Metallica formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, their original line-up consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, and bassist Ron McGovney. They had sold over 100 million records worldwide by the time their album, "Death Magnetic", was released in 2008. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVGT; AVH. Dimension: 195 x 150 x 14. Weight: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carlton Books
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847323392
ISBN
9781847323392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Hardback. Spawned in the intensely fertile music scene that blossomed in and around Seattle in the late 1980s, Nirvana instantly distinguished itself from the bulk of its peers by virtue of the singular passion that drove its leader, Kurt Cobain. This book deals with its life and work. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 289. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Welbeck Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780977706
ISBN
9781780977706
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.68

Hardcover. Series Editor(s): Smith, John David. Series: Library of African-American Biography. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781566638364
ISBN
9781566638364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.50

Paperback. Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVGU; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Edition
First Paperback Edition
SKU
9780747568766
ISBN
9780747568766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.19

Paperback. Searching for the disappearing subject in Kid A and Amnesiac Series: Profiles in Popular Music. Num Pages: 256 pages, 24 music exx. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222725
ISBN
9780253222725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.72

Multiple-component retail product.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Hal Leonard Corporation
Edition
Pap/Psc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781480354746
ISBN
9781480354746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.05

Hardback. 536 pages, 41, 41 black and white. Makela's study brings together German, Nordic and Anglo-American work on Sibelius, and synthesizes these various strands of Sibelius reception into a single coherent critical narrative. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVGC6; AVH. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 41. Weight: 1344.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843836889
ISBN
9781843836889
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 48.35

Paperback. Explores how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Berliner demonstrates that a lifetime of preparation lies behind the skilled improviser's every note. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 904 pages, 2 halftones, 250 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVGK; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1220. The Infinite Art of Improvisation. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. 904 pages, 2 halftones, 250 music examples. Explores how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Berliner demonstrates that a lifetime of preparation lies behind the skilled improviser's every note. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVGK; AVH. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 48. Weight: 1220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
904
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226043814
ISBN
9780226043814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AVH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Headpress
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909394124
ISBN
9781909394124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.79

Paperback. Surveys the history and scope of concert music by African-American women, including instrumental, choral, and chamber works, as well as symphonies and operas. Num Pages: 428 pages, 25. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 865. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Illinois Pbk
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252074547
ISBN
9780252074547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC3; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 213 x 36. Weight in Grams: 754.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486492230
ISBN
9780486492230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99

Paperback. Canadian progressive rock band Rush was the voice of the suburban middle class. This book assesses the band's impact on popular music and its legacy for legions of fans. It explores the ways in which Rush's critique of suburban life - and its strategies for escape - reflected middle-class aspirations and anxieties. Series: Profiles in Popular Music. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; AVGP; AVH; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253221490
ISBN
9780253221490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.33

Hardcover. Antony Hegarty, lead singer of the critically acclaimed band Antony and the Johnsons, presents his debut book collection of art - a gorgeous combination of visual art, song lyrics and other various mediums (painting, drawing, photography and collage) that inform each other and provide an interesting commentary on Antony's music. Num Pages: 144 pages, 75 full-color illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 274 x 247 x 21. Weight in Grams: 986. Swanlights. 144 pages, 75 full-color illustrations. Antony Hegarty, lead singer of the critically acclaimed band Antony and the Johnsons, presents his debut book collection of art - a gorgeous combination of visual art, song lyrics and other various mediums (painting, drawing, photography and collage) that inform each other and provide an interesting commentary on Antony's music. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH. Dimension: 274 x 247 x 21. Weight: 986.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Abrams Image
Edition
Har/Com
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810996809
ISBN
9780810996809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781517902582
ISBN
9781517902582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 11.64

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