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  • Life

    The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the Rolling Stones legend

    by Keith Richards ...
    The once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller.'Electrifying'New York Times'A masterpiece'The Word'Funny, poignant, brutally honest'Sunday Telegraph'Densely packed with incident... immensely readable'Sunday Times... ... Read more

    5,49 €

  • The Dirt

    Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

    by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars ...
    NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE STARRING MACHINE GUN KELLY, DANIEL WEBBER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, AND IWAN RHEON, DIRECTED BY JEFF TREMAINE.Celebrate thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors' edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe. Fans have gotten glimpses into the band's crazy world of backstage scandals, celebrity ... Read more

    11,12 €

  • The SuperCollider Book, second edition

    Edited by Scott Wilson, David Cottle, Nick Collins ...
    A comprehensive update of the essential reference to SuperCollider, with new material on machine learning, musical notation and score making, SC Tweets, alternative editors, parasite languages, non-standard synthesis, and the cross-platform GUI library.SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with wide-ranging applications across installations, real ... Read more

    87,44 €

  • Violin Varnish

    by Joseph Michelman ...
    After more than eight years of extensive research on the varnish used by the Italian Violin Makers from 1550 to 1750 A. D., it has not been possible to corroborate the results in the chemical laboratory. This is due entirely to the unavailability of samples of the varnish for confirmatory analysis. Violins made by the Italian masters of this period are so valuable and so scarce that a small sample ... Read more

    9,11 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mustaine: A Life in Metal

    by Dave Mustaine ...
    Former Metallica guitarist and founding member of Megadeth Dave Mustaine talks for the first time about his life in rock ‘n’ roll, finally telling the inside story of two of the most influential heavy metal bands in the world.Here, for the first time ever, Dave Mustaine tells the tale of two of the biggest metal bands in history; a story yet to be told from the inside. A pioneer of the thrash ... Read more

    9,85 €

  • The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference

    Official Canon of Parliament-Funkadelic, 1956-2023

    by Daniel Bedrosian ...
    “Daniel Bedrosian has done a wonderful job of a seemingly impossible task of reconstructing this history-finding everybody who's been a part of, involved with, or in any way left their fingerprint on what has become the P-Funk.”- George ClintonGeorge Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective (P-Funk) stands as one of the most iconic and important groups in popular music history, with an ... Read more

    39,21 €

  • Beauty, Disrupted

    The Carre Otis Story

    by Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer ...
    Throughout her career, supermodel and actress Carré Otis has been celebrated for her striking physical beauty—but in this brazenly honest memoir she revisits the ugliest parts of her past to reveal the events that ultimately brought her to strive for, and champion, the kind of beauty that can only be found within. In Beauty Disrupted Carré details the triumphs and challenges of her career in ... Read more

    9,21 €

  • How Music Works

    by David Byrne ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.“How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual” ... Read more

    9,53 €

  • Heroes of the Metal Underground

    The Definitive Guide to 1980s American Independent Metal Bands

    by Alexandros Anesiadis, Yiannis Scarpelos ...
    The only encyclopedic and definitive book on American indie metal!If all you know about metal music was what was heard on commercial radio, then you don’t know metal at all. Heroes of the Underground profiles 600 American bands from every town and city in the United States who ever released a record.Metal bands exploded during the 1980s. Influenced by the heavy sounds coming out of Britain via ... Read more

    27,66 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gothic Rock (Author's Edition)

    by Mick Mercer ...
    Originally published in 1991, then briefly reprinted by Cleopatra in America, this irreverent tome, my second on Goth, has been out of print for over 25 years, so I am delighted to make it available online, as I own the rights. Please excuse any layout weirdness. Popping in exclusive photos meant the layout moved up and down a bit in strange ways, and I couldn't change it to anything which settled ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • Pepper Adams' Joy Road

    An Annotated Discography

    by Gary Carner ...
    Series series Studies in Jazz
    Pepper Adams' Joy Road is more than a compendium of sessions and gigs done by the greatest baritone saxophone soloist in history. It's a fascinating overview of Adams' life and times, thanks to colorful interview vignettes, drawn from the author's unpublished conversations with Adams and other musicians. These candid observations from jazz greats about Adams and his colleagues reveal previously ... Read more

    48,54 €

  • Heute Nacht in Jungleland

    Bruce Springsteen und sein legendäres Album Born To Run

    by Peter Ames Carlin ...
    Translated by Andreas Schiffmann ...
    50 Jahre Born To Run: Das Album, das Bruce Springsteen zur Legende machte1975 stand Bruce Springsteen am Anfang seiner Karriere. Seine ersten beiden Alben hatten kommerziell noch nicht viel bewegt, aber die Kritiker bereits aufgehorcht: Hier war einer, der große Geschichten erzählen und den Finger auf den Puls Amerikas legen konnte. Mit Born To Run bewies Springsteen, dass das bei weitem nicht ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Syttyi valo

    Laululintu 18

    by Terttu Lajunen ...
    Series Book 18 - Laululintu
    Tuoretta satoa talteen noin vuoden ajalta taaksepäin. Aika on ollut antelias, ja Syttyi valo -kokoelma on mahdollisesti ensimmäinen erä trilogiasta. Niin voi ainakin toivoa. Yhtä pientä astiaa kerrallaan on helpompi käsitellä kuin isoa vadillista - siksi tämä annostelu. Uusia lauluja nuotteineen ja sointumerkkeineen on toistasataa. Sanoitukset - ainakin useimmat - toimivat myös itsenäisinä runoina ... Read more

    7,49 €

  • Gewalt- und Körperdarstellung im Film

    Eine Analyse anhand einiger Filmbeispiele

    by Anne Conrad ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Veranstaltung: Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es gibt sehr unterschiedliche Arten von Filmen: Komödien, Horrorfilme, Dramas. In fast allen Arten von Filmen kommt auch Gewalt vor, sogar in Komödien und teilweise auch in Kinderfilmen. Allerdings ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Bob Dylan - The Day I Was There

    The Day I Was There

    by Neil Cossar ...
    Series series The Day I Was There
    Over 300 fans, friends and colleagues tell their stories of seeing, knowing and working with Bob Dylan from his hometown of Hibbing right through to finding Jesus - with first hand accounts of seeing him live from the smallest of venues to festivals and arenas. From early recording sessions through the 1966 tour; from the rural seclusion of Woodstock to turning gospel this book reveals a ... Read more

    6,49 €

  • Seeing the seen, hearing the heard. Körperlichkeit und Audio-Vision in Kathryn Bigelows "Strange Days"

    by Danny Gronmaier ...
    Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Theaterwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Film Strange Days von Kathryn Bigelow setzt eine der zentralen Aussagen von Vivian Sobchack emblematisch ins eigene Bild: In einer dystopischen Diegese kurz vor der Jahrtausendwende ermöglicht eine Technik namens SQUID, individuelle ... Read more

    Free

  • Zwischen Vernunft und Wahnsinn - Konzeptionen der Großstadt im neueren Hollywood-Blockbuster

    by Andres Hutter ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: keine, Universität Zürich (Seminar für Filmwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In Hollywood-Filmen scheint die Stadt häufig ein Ort voller Probleme zu sein: Chaos, Gewalt, Armut und Vereinsamung sind Motive, die in den städtischen Schauplätzen immer wieder auftauchen. Das widerspricht radikal einer viel früheren ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • Rhythm Exercises in Odd Time

    by Ashley J. Saunders ...
    If you can play confidently with a metronome and are looking for a challenge, then Rhythm Exercises in Odd Time eBook cover four different time signatures.Using a mixture of one, two and four bar phrases, this eBook gets progressively harder. ... Read more

    1,83 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tutto finisce in un libro

    “Avrei tante cose da dirti ma con questi tagli alla cultura sarò sintetico”

    by Antonio Andrisani ...
    "Tutto finisce in un libro" è un raccolta di articoli scritti dall'attore e sceneggiatore di Matera Antonio Andrisani scritti nel corso di un anno per la rivista on-line F052. Con la sua vena caustica ed ironica l'autore descrive il nostro Paese attraverso una continua serie di riferimenti al cinema, alla letteratura e alla musica. Da Kubrick a Pasolini, da Bulgakov a Chiara, Andrisani ci racconta ... Read more

    2,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Is What It Sounds Like

    What the Music You Love Says About You

    by Dr. Susan Rogers, Ogi Ogas ...
    Legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.'Extraordinary insights about music, emotion and the brain...An instant classic' Daniel Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on MusicThis Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music. It's also the story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in L.A. to become ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • The Music Hustle

    How to Book the Gig

    by Andy Penk ...
    Believe in yourself. Believe in your songs. Believe in the music.The Music Hustle: How to Book the Gig is the essential guidebook for budding musicians looking to break into the local music scene; full of valuable anecdotes and savvy advice from several successful gigging musicians, as well as venue owners and record label employees from across the country.This book helps you define yourself as an ... Read more

    4,45 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Magnifica Illusione

    Giorgio Gaber e gli anni '70

    by Nando Mainardi, Paolo Dal Bon ...
    "La magnifica illusione" è la storia di Giorgio Gaber, ovvero di un ragazzo che voleva fare il rock and roll, che ha contribuito "all'invenzione" della canzone d'autore ed è andato ben al di là dell'etichetta di "cantautore", fino a diventare un intellettuale e un divulgatore provocatorio e mai scontato. Difficile, oggi, pensare che un cantante possa aver fatto tutto questo. Difficile pensare che ... Read more

    Was 6,99 € Now 2,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thin Lizzy On Track

    Every Album, Every Song

    by Graeme Stroud ...
    Series series On Track
    Thin Lizzy emerged as a four-piece in Dublin as the 1960s drew to a close, when guitarist Eric Bell and keyboard player Eric Wrixon, both from Belfast, encountered a band named Orphanage, which included Dubliners Brian Downey on drums and charismatic frontman Philip Lynott. The band evolved through a number of incarnations, through psychedelic power trio of the early years via classic four-piece ... Read more

    9,40 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reinhard Mey. 100 Seiten

    by Oliver Kobold ...
    Series series Reclam 100 Seiten
    »Meys Lieder sind Feier des Gelungenen wie Einspruch gegen das Schlechte. Wovon handeln sie? Von der Liebe zwischen Asphalt und Wolken. Von den Widrigkeiten des Alltags. Vom ganzen Leben.«»Ich wollte wie Orpheus singen« – selten hat jemand mit dem ersten Lied seine Karriere und sein öffentliches Bild so genau vorweggenommen. Alles ist schon da: der Bänkelsänger, der sogar die Felsen zum Weinen ... Read more

    6,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus