This is a book both broad and deep, drawing from the diverse worlds of classical, jazz, rock, pop, blues, country, folk, musicals, hip-hop, world, opera, soundtracks, and more. It's arranged alphabetically by artist to create the kind of unexpected juxtapositions that break down genre bias and broaden listeners' horizons - it makes every listener ...
This completely revised edition of the Penguin Guide reviews the major classical recordings issued and reissued over the past five decades, many of which dominate the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of recording dates. More comprehensive than ever before and now updated annually, it indicates key recordings on CD, DVD and ...
This is the ultimate collector's guide to vintage records covering more than 7,500 artists from all music genres, including big band, blues, jazz, country/western and rock, 1900 to 1965. This comprehensive identification and value guide features more than 30,000 record values, including listings for 78s, 45s and LPs. This guide is very easy to use ...
National Public Radio's Ted Libbey takes readers by the hand and leads them through the classical canon, to provide direction on building a classical CD music library. Completely updated, the text sticks to the core 300 works while also featuring many new reviews and recommendations.
The A-Z of composers includes extensive entries on all the familiar names--but the book also bangs the drum on behalf of some unjustly neglected figures, and features in particular women composers. The guide is illustrated throughout with photos, caricatures and CD artwork.
Evenings with Horowitz details a special friendship between two musicians. The book is a vivid account of their mutual passion for music and the piano. It reflects the struggles and triumphs of Vladimir Horowitz, a flaming genius who was also insecure and fearful of old age and the loss of his powers. In his conversations with the author, the ...
Back in a fully revised and updated fourth edition with eighty extra all-new pages, "Billboard's Hottest 100 Hits" is the venerated and reliable source of information on the most popular songs of our times. Immensely entertaining, endlessly informative and filled with fascinating facts and figures on the biggest hits right up to 2007, this is the ...
A resource to approximately 2,000 classic, alternative, and modern rock groups and artists, with complete lists of albums, and suggestions for "What to Buy," "What to Buy Next," and "What to Avoid."
Van Eyck's surviving work comprises a series of painstaking detailed oil-paintings of great verisimilitude. Aiming to recover the neglected human dimension present in these works, this book investigates the personal histories of the worldly participants of some of Van Eyck's masterpieces.
Thousands of vinyl records, along with current values, for some of today's hottest recording artists including Madonna, Prince, U2, REM and Garth Brooks are listed. This is the book that will get young collectors interested in the vinyl of their time. Readers will find 60,000 listings in three grades of condition for LPs, 45s, 12-inch singles and ...
This new edition of the best-selling "Songs & Artists" is the perfect companion for an iPod or other portable MP3 player. It lists over 15,000 significant songs and hits of the past half-century.This is the only guide that gives the biggest hits in all genres all shown in an easy-to-use A-Z artist listing. There's also a convenient A-Z song title ...
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and the most influential pop albums from 1955 through 2003. Carefully selected by a team of international critics, each album is a groundbreaking work seminal to the understanding and appreciation of music from the 1950s to the present. Included ...
Written by Spin writer and professional DJ Sarah Lewitinn (aka Ultragrrl), "The Pocket DJ" provides a comprehensive list of must-have songs and teaches readers how to create playlists for any situation or based on any theme. Playlists include absolute crowd pleasers (no matter what the crowd), songs to make you feel like you're in school (except ...
This is the bible for all popular music fans. With its unique format, featuring complete discographies, biographies and histories - plus catalogue ordering numbers, chart positions and recommended listening ...The Great Rock Discography crams in all the facts and figures you'll need - and gives informative and opinionated pieces on recommended ...
The latest Penguin CD Yearbook is the essential companion volume to The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs. Not only does it review the many hundreds of CDs that have appeared since the publication of the last edition of the main Guide in 2001, but it also takes a close look at some of the more unusual areas of the classical music repertoire, and ...
If there had been a music book of the year award in 2002 Garry Mulholland's This is Uncool: The Greatest 500 Singles Since Punk and Disco would have walked away with it. The next logical step is Fear of Music: the Greatest 261 Albums Since Punk and Disco. In Garry Mulholland's words: 'Entire albums don't slap you in the face when blasted out of a ...
This guide to world music details 1,100 international acts and offers reviews of 300 compilation CDs. Featured artists include Peter Gabriel, Angelique Kidjo, and Ali Khan. World music photographers Jack and Linda Vartoogian supplement the informative text with over 190 photos of famous musicians.
Comparing the development of rock and pop music in America and Britain by looking at the top 20 charts in each country since 1954, this book lists each song with the name and nationality of the group, record label, its position, and number of weeks on the charts. 200 photos.
More than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942 documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. Until now, discographies of pre-World War II country music recordings were only to be found scattered in journals and fanzines, or in books devoted to single artists. With primary research ...
The Rolling Stones formed in 1961 by recording early singles covering rhythm and blues standards. They released their first album, The Rolling Stones in 1964, and have continued to tour and record ever since. This book is the first complete discography in over a decade and details the Stones' 49 albums, 66 chart-ranking singles, early EPs and all ...
This book is a must have for anyone interested in Bob Dylan's music. It covers 43 officially released albums with extensive commentary on each track. Included are details of label, credits, year of release, timings, and collaborative efforts. It is packed with information and details about each song ever recorded and released--including the live ...
Each album is accompanied by jacket art pictures, photographs, and information on the making of that recording. Readers will cherish fresh insights into artists that include Amy Grant, Rich Mullins, dc Talk, and Larry Norman.
Listing more than 500 blues artists alphabetically, each with a brief biographical profile, and reviewing and rating their best recordings--more than 3,000 in all--this comprehensive guide identifies thousands of top-notch CDs, albums, and tapes in all styles of the blues. Fifteen historical essays plus supplemental "music maps" chart the roots ...
"The vast majority of the singles and artists in this book were brave anough to break out of cool's stultifying grip, and reshape style, language and,or performance in their image." In these essays Garry Mulholland challenges the accepted orthodoxies of music journalism with his own list of the 500 greatest singles since The Sex Pistols' seminal ...
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