Author: Mac Randall
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN: 1435142985
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
In the era of mp3 players, there seems to be more music than ever and all of it is just a click away. But what’s the best way to organize your listening? That’s easy: By creating the great playlists in this book, you’ll make terrific musical discoveries and hear familiar songs with a refreshing new perspective. Compiled by veteran music journalist and aficionado Mac Randall (Exit Music: The Radiohead Story, The Rolling Stone Album guide), each of these playlists contains 10 to 25 tracks, and is divided into three categories: genres, specific individuals and their influence, and concepts. There’s a playlist here for every person, mood, and occasion!
101 Great Playlists
Author: Mac Randall
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN: 1435142985
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
In the era of mp3 players, there seems to be more music than ever and all of it is just a click away. But what’s the best way to organize your listening? That’s easy: By creating the great playlists in this book, you’ll make terrific musical discoveries and hear familiar songs with a refreshing new perspective. Compiled by veteran music journalist and aficionado Mac Randall (Exit Music: The Radiohead Story, The Rolling Stone Album guide), each of these playlists contains 10 to 25 tracks, and is divided into three categories: genres, specific individuals and their influence, and concepts. There’s a playlist here for every person, mood, and occasion!
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN: 1435142985
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
In the era of mp3 players, there seems to be more music than ever and all of it is just a click away. But what’s the best way to organize your listening? That’s easy: By creating the great playlists in this book, you’ll make terrific musical discoveries and hear familiar songs with a refreshing new perspective. Compiled by veteran music journalist and aficionado Mac Randall (Exit Music: The Radiohead Story, The Rolling Stone Album guide), each of these playlists contains 10 to 25 tracks, and is divided into three categories: genres, specific individuals and their influence, and concepts. There’s a playlist here for every person, mood, and occasion!
Exit Music
Author: Mac Randall
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1458471489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Radiohead doesn't play by the rules of rock stardom. When conventional wisdom urges a turn to the right, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, and Phil Selway unfailingly turn left. Despite or perhaps because of this, Radiohead has become one of the world's most famous bands, and more important, unique in its style, themes, and ability to connect to a loyal fan base. But Radiohead's journey to fame over more than a decade has been fraught with tension. As the quintet continues to search for sounds that haven't been heard before, each new album and tour is a potential crisis point, threatening to split the band apart. Through it all, these consummate outsiders have revealed little about themselves. But Exit Music: The Radiohead Story uncovers the details behind the songs. In this new, updated, and revised edition, author Mac Randall follows the band from its beginnings in suburban Oxford, UK, through the success of Creep and OK Computer to the traumatic recording sessions that spawned Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief, on to the award-winning In Rainbows and beyond. This new edition also includes coverage of the band's most current release and eighth studio album, The King of Limbs.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1458471489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Radiohead doesn't play by the rules of rock stardom. When conventional wisdom urges a turn to the right, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, and Phil Selway unfailingly turn left. Despite or perhaps because of this, Radiohead has become one of the world's most famous bands, and more important, unique in its style, themes, and ability to connect to a loyal fan base. But Radiohead's journey to fame over more than a decade has been fraught with tension. As the quintet continues to search for sounds that haven't been heard before, each new album and tour is a potential crisis point, threatening to split the band apart. Through it all, these consummate outsiders have revealed little about themselves. But Exit Music: The Radiohead Story uncovers the details behind the songs. In this new, updated, and revised edition, author Mac Randall follows the band from its beginnings in suburban Oxford, UK, through the success of Creep and OK Computer to the traumatic recording sessions that spawned Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief, on to the award-winning In Rainbows and beyond. This new edition also includes coverage of the band's most current release and eighth studio album, The King of Limbs.
101 Great Songs
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic organ music
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic organ music
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Deep Sleep 101
Author: Blue Marble
Publisher: Blue Marble Music
ISBN: 9780971047907
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher: Blue Marble Music
ISBN: 9780971047907
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
101 Great, Ready-to-Use Book Lists for Teens
Author: Nancy J. Keane
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610691350
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Building on the author's work in The Big Book of Teen Reading Lists, this book provides 101 new and revised reading lists created in consultation with teachers and public librariansan invaluable resource for any educator who plans activities for children that involve using literature. Nancy J. Keane is the author of the award-winning website BooktalksQuick and Simple (nancykeane.com/booktalks), as well as the creator of the open collaboration wiki ATN Book Lists. With her latest book, 101 Great, Ready-to-Use Book Lists for Teens, she provides another indispensable resource for librarians and teachers. The lists in this book are the result of careful consultation with teachers and public librarians, and from discussions on professional email lists. These indispensable lists can be utilized in many waysfor example, as handouts to teachers as suggested reading, to create book displays, or as display posters in the library. This collection will facilitate the creation of valuable reading lists to support the extended reading demands of today's teens.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610691350
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Building on the author's work in The Big Book of Teen Reading Lists, this book provides 101 new and revised reading lists created in consultation with teachers and public librariansan invaluable resource for any educator who plans activities for children that involve using literature. Nancy J. Keane is the author of the award-winning website BooktalksQuick and Simple (nancykeane.com/booktalks), as well as the creator of the open collaboration wiki ATN Book Lists. With her latest book, 101 Great, Ready-to-Use Book Lists for Teens, she provides another indispensable resource for librarians and teachers. The lists in this book are the result of careful consultation with teachers and public librarians, and from discussions on professional email lists. These indispensable lists can be utilized in many waysfor example, as handouts to teachers as suggested reading, to create book displays, or as display posters in the library. This collection will facilitate the creation of valuable reading lists to support the extended reading demands of today's teens.
Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 1
Author: John Shepherd
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 184714473X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 184714473X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.
The Ultimate Digital Music Guide
Author: Michael Miller
Publisher: Que Publishing
ISBN: 0789748444
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
Everything You Need to Know about Digital Music! Your hard-core, up-to-the-minute, how-to guide Download, rip, store, organize, play, stream-anything, anywhere Seriously into digital music? Best-selling how-to author, serious audiophile, and eclectic music-lover Michael Miller will help you get all the digital tunes you want, whenever and wherever you want them! Miller guides you through today's best new options, from iTunes to Spotify...helps you make the most of social music, Internet radio, and cloud music services...even shows how to transform your home into a digital music paradise. This book is packed with practical answers, easy step-by-step instructions, insider tips, great ideas, and new music sources you never knew existed! For everyone who's passionate about music! * Discover brand-new digital music services, sites, and devices that fit your lifestyle * Find great new music on iTunes, Amazon, and sites you've never heard of * Get the truth about piracy, file sharing, and copyright * Find huge amounts of legally free music * Rip, store, and organize: Build your perfect music library * Determine the best audio file format and compression rate for your collection * Create simply amazing playlists * Stream songs anywhere, with Spotify, Pandora, Internet radio, and the cloud * Get great sound from your iPod or iPhone on your home audio system * Build a whole-house digital audio system, the easy way * Choose your best next media player (Apple or otherwise) * Find and share tunes on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and beyond
Publisher: Que Publishing
ISBN: 0789748444
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
Everything You Need to Know about Digital Music! Your hard-core, up-to-the-minute, how-to guide Download, rip, store, organize, play, stream-anything, anywhere Seriously into digital music? Best-selling how-to author, serious audiophile, and eclectic music-lover Michael Miller will help you get all the digital tunes you want, whenever and wherever you want them! Miller guides you through today's best new options, from iTunes to Spotify...helps you make the most of social music, Internet radio, and cloud music services...even shows how to transform your home into a digital music paradise. This book is packed with practical answers, easy step-by-step instructions, insider tips, great ideas, and new music sources you never knew existed! For everyone who's passionate about music! * Discover brand-new digital music services, sites, and devices that fit your lifestyle * Find great new music on iTunes, Amazon, and sites you've never heard of * Get the truth about piracy, file sharing, and copyright * Find huge amounts of legally free music * Rip, store, and organize: Build your perfect music library * Determine the best audio file format and compression rate for your collection * Create simply amazing playlists * Stream songs anywhere, with Spotify, Pandora, Internet radio, and the cloud * Get great sound from your iPod or iPhone on your home audio system * Build a whole-house digital audio system, the easy way * Choose your best next media player (Apple or otherwise) * Find and share tunes on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and beyond
Benjamin Britten
Author: Paul Kildea
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141924306
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer. In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) three hundred years earlier. He broke decisively with the romantic, nationalist school of figures such as Parry, Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh, modern, European form. With Peter Grimes (1945), Billy Budd (1951) and The Turn of the Screw (1954), he arguably composed the last operas - from any composer in any country - which have entered both the popular consciousness and the musical canon. He did all this while carrying two disadvantages to worldly success - his passionately held pacifism, which made him suspect to the authorities during and immediately after the Second World War - and his homosexuality, specifically his forty-year relationship with Peter Pears, for whom many of his greatest operatic roles and vocal works were created. The atmosphere and personalities of Aldeburgh in his native Suffolk also form another wonderful dimension to the book. Kildea shows clearly how Britten made this creative community, notably with the foundation of the Aldeburgh Festival and the building of Snape Maltings, but also how costly the determination that this required was. Above all, this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into his creative process as we are ever likely to go. Kildea reads dozens of Britten's works with enormous intelligence and sensitivity, in a way which those without formal musical training can understand. It is one of the most moving and enjoyable biographies of a creative artist of any kind to have appeared for years. Paul Kildea is a writer and conductor who has performed many of the Britten works he writes about, in opera houses and concert halls from Sydney to Hamburg. His previous books include Selling Britten (2002) and (as editor) Britten on Music (2003). He was Head of Music at the Aldeburgh Festival between 1999 and 2002 and subsequently Artistic Director of the Wigmore Hall in London.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141924306
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer. In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) three hundred years earlier. He broke decisively with the romantic, nationalist school of figures such as Parry, Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh, modern, European form. With Peter Grimes (1945), Billy Budd (1951) and The Turn of the Screw (1954), he arguably composed the last operas - from any composer in any country - which have entered both the popular consciousness and the musical canon. He did all this while carrying two disadvantages to worldly success - his passionately held pacifism, which made him suspect to the authorities during and immediately after the Second World War - and his homosexuality, specifically his forty-year relationship with Peter Pears, for whom many of his greatest operatic roles and vocal works were created. The atmosphere and personalities of Aldeburgh in his native Suffolk also form another wonderful dimension to the book. Kildea shows clearly how Britten made this creative community, notably with the foundation of the Aldeburgh Festival and the building of Snape Maltings, but also how costly the determination that this required was. Above all, this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into his creative process as we are ever likely to go. Kildea reads dozens of Britten's works with enormous intelligence and sensitivity, in a way which those without formal musical training can understand. It is one of the most moving and enjoyable biographies of a creative artist of any kind to have appeared for years. Paul Kildea is a writer and conductor who has performed many of the Britten works he writes about, in opera houses and concert halls from Sydney to Hamburg. His previous books include Selling Britten (2002) and (as editor) Britten on Music (2003). He was Head of Music at the Aldeburgh Festival between 1999 and 2002 and subsequently Artistic Director of the Wigmore Hall in London.
Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings
Author: Steve Sullivan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442254491
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data—recording dates, record numbers, Billboard chart data, and personnel—while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists. Readers who revel in pop cultural history will savor each chapter as it plunges deeply into key events—in music, society, and the world—from each era of the past 125 years. Following in the wake of the first two volumes of his original Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, this follow-up work covers not only more beloved classic performances in pop music history, but many lesser -known but exceptional recordings that—in the modern digital world of “long tail” listening, re-mastered recordings, and “lost but found” possibilities—Sullivan mines from modern recording history. The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 3 and 4 lets the readers discover, and, through their playlist services, from such as iTunes toand Spotify, build a truly deepcomprehensive catalog of classic performances that deserve to be a part of every passionate music lover’s life. Sullivan organizes songs in chronological order, starting in 1890 and continuing all the way throughto the present to include modern gems from June 2016. In each chapter, Sullivanhe immerses readers, era by era, in the popular music recordings of the time, noting key events that occurred at the time to painting a comprehensive picture in music history of each periodfor each song. Moreover, Sullivan includes for context bulleted lists noting key events that occurred during the song’s recording
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442254491
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data—recording dates, record numbers, Billboard chart data, and personnel—while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists. Readers who revel in pop cultural history will savor each chapter as it plunges deeply into key events—in music, society, and the world—from each era of the past 125 years. Following in the wake of the first two volumes of his original Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, this follow-up work covers not only more beloved classic performances in pop music history, but many lesser -known but exceptional recordings that—in the modern digital world of “long tail” listening, re-mastered recordings, and “lost but found” possibilities—Sullivan mines from modern recording history. The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 3 and 4 lets the readers discover, and, through their playlist services, from such as iTunes toand Spotify, build a truly deepcomprehensive catalog of classic performances that deserve to be a part of every passionate music lover’s life. Sullivan organizes songs in chronological order, starting in 1890 and continuing all the way throughto the present to include modern gems from June 2016. In each chapter, Sullivanhe immerses readers, era by era, in the popular music recordings of the time, noting key events that occurred at the time to painting a comprehensive picture in music history of each periodfor each song. Moreover, Sullivan includes for context bulleted lists noting key events that occurred during the song’s recording
Popular Music and the New Auteur
Author: Arved Ashby
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199827354
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Popular Music and the New Auteur looks at seven contemporary directors whose feature films are characterized by music-video aesthetics. Demonstrating a fresh kind of cinematic musicality, these filmmakers write against music rather than against script, and allow pop songs a determining role in narrative and imagery.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199827354
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Popular Music and the New Auteur looks at seven contemporary directors whose feature films are characterized by music-video aesthetics. Demonstrating a fresh kind of cinematic musicality, these filmmakers write against music rather than against script, and allow pop songs a determining role in narrative and imagery.