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Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)

Product Information The definitive documentary on music legend Harry Nilsson. The Beatles said that Harry Nilsson was their favorite American musician. Nilsson won two Grammysr and was the recipient o…

Eliot Wilder

DJ Shadow's Endtroducing

What resonated about Endtroducing when it was released in 1996, and what makes it still resonate today, is the way in which it loosens itself from the mooring of the known and sails off into an uncharted …

Joachim Kaiser

Kaisers Klassik

Der bekannte Musikkritiker Joachim Kaiser lädt ein zu einem Streifzug durch die Musikgeschichte. 100 Meisterwerke der Musik unter anderem von Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner und Mahler werden rezipiert.…

Tony Russell

Country Music Originals

The history of early country music, in vivid portraits and an unfolding narrative. Recording pioneers like Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family are studied alongside lesser-known but fascinating artists a…

Dave Dalton Thomas

Picnic

In 1973, a forty-year-old country musician named Willie Nelson, inspired by a failed music festival the year before, decided he was going to hold his own party. He would stage it in the same remote and ro…

John Higgs

The Klf

In the early '90s, the KLF was the biggest-selling singles band in the world--until they destroyed their records, erased themselves from music history, and literally set fire to one million pounds. In thi…

Steve Turner

Beatles '66

A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever change music and popular culture. They started off as hysteria-inducing…

Rethinking Elvis

In Rethinking Elvis, popular music scholars and historians look beyond Elvis' iconography to shine a light on the branding, historical and geographic reception, heritage, and fan phenomenon that sustain h…

John Preston

Watford Forever

Nothing has brought English soccer more immediately into the American mainstream than Ted Lasso, which captivated the nation in thirty-four episodes over three seasons. But before there was Jason Sudeikis…

Ars Gregoriana 17 - Historia

Schola Gregoriana

Rakae Rehman Jamil

Coke Studio (Season 14)

This book reviews the 13 songs of Coke Studio's 14th season and highlights how those innovations resulted in a successful reboot of the show. In a country fraught with political instability and violence,…

Acoustics of Empire

How have sound and empire shaped one another historically? Acoustics of Empire recovers a sonic history that is bound up with imperial power and colonial rule. Bringing together contributions from histori…

Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020

The history of Vincenzo Bellini's operas on stage, on screen, and in sound and video art is presented in nine case studies in Bellini on Stage and Screen. The composer's oeuvre and its staging is evaluate…

David N. Meyer

The Bee Gees: The Biography

The long overdue biography of the Bee Gees, by an acclaimed author.

Fats Domino

The Big Beat: Fats Domino And The Birth Of Rock'n'Roll

Nolan Gasser

Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of why we respond to music the way we do. Everyone loves music. But what is it that …

Greil Marcus

Like a Rolling Stone

Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique…

Gillies

Bartok

The only single-volume biography of B�la Bart�k available in English, this fascinating book offers a fresh perspective on one of the most loved and frequently performed composers of the twentieth century,…

Musiktheorie und Zukunft

Musiktheorie bietet ein großes Potenzial für die zukünftige Entwicklung von Musik. In ihrer kreativen intellektuellen Auseinandersetzung mit musikalischen Strukturen als kulturell determinierte Gefüge hat…