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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'Funny, poignant, brutally honest' Sunday Telegraph'Immensely readable' Sunday Times'Once you begin this, wild, wild horses couldn't drag you away' IndependentAs a member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards cr... ... Read more

    5,49 €

  • 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

    9,32 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

    11,33 €

  • 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 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

    89,14 €

  • 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

    9,11 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

    7,52 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Narrative Constructions in Tom Tykwer's Run, Lola, Run

    by Simone Donecker ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Film Science, grade: A*, Indiana University (Communication and Culture), language: English, abstract: Run, Lola, Run by Tom Tykwer (1998) is a cinematically innovative film that departs in many ways from usual standards of narrative construction by using a wide range of filmmaking techniques. Although its unique graphic and audio representation as ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • A Bibliography of Electronic Music

    by Lowell Cross ...
    Series series Heritage
    This exhaustive bibliography, reflecting current interest in electronic music, includes all available citations of books, articles, and monographs pertaining to "musique concrète," "Elektronische Musik," "tape music," and "computer music" from publications in fourteen languages. Organized alphabetically by author, or, in the case of unsigned works, by title, and including a classified subject ... Read more

    20,34 €

  • Encyclopedia of Pop Music Aliases, 1950-2000

    by Bob Leszczak ...
    Recording Artists don't always enjoy success with their first release. A hit record relies on any number of factors: the right song, a memorable performance, a healthy promotional budget, great management, a spot of luck, and even some intangibles. Take choice of a name. For a single artist, duo, vocal group or band, the name can carry a lot of weight. Some recording artists changed their name to ... Read more

    93,91 €

  • Theater in der Filmrolle. Theatralität im Film "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"

    by GRIN Verlag ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität zu Köln (Institut für Medienkultur und Theater), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit wird die Fragestellung behandeln, inwiefern und mit welchen Mitteln sich der Film "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" theatraler Elemente bedient. Hierfür werden zunächst diverse Theorien vorgestellt, ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Korn on track

    by Matt Karpe ...
    Series series On Track
    Rising to prominence in 1994 on the back of their eponymous debut album, Korn ushered in a new sound within heavy metal which many would try and imitate in the years that followed. Earning themselves the title of ‘The Godfathers of Nu Metal’, the Bakersfield quintet has sold well over 40 million records, they have topped charts all around the world, and they have also won multiple awards which ... Read more

    9,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • REO Speedwagon

    Every Album, Every Song

    by James Romag ...
    Series series On Track
    Once, there were four university students who started a rock band named after a firetruck. Five and a half decades later, REO Speedwagon are still going strong, still drawing massive crowds, and, thankfully, have no plans to stop. With classic albums like the multi-platinum You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can’t Tuna Fish and the ten million-selling Hi Infidelity, REO conquered America’s heartland, ... Read more

    4,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Der Einfluss von Wsewolod I. Pudowkins 'Über die Filmtechnik' auf Stanley Kubricks '2001 - A Space Odyssey'

    by Karsten Barthold ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 2+, Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (Fachrichtung Dramaturgie), Veranstaltung: Filmtheorie und -geschichte 1: Überblick, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Publikation ist es, einen Einfluss des russischen Filmemachers Wsewolod I. Pudowkin auf Stanley Kubricks filmisches Schaffen ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Leonard Cohen

    Every Album, Every Song

    by Opher Goodwin ...
    Series series On Track
    An enigma, Leonard Norman Cohen was possibly the most improbable bohemian intellectual singer/songwriter in music history. He was the working-class hero, the people’s poet, the suicidal lamenter of doom and a purveyor of popular songs. But the truth is even more complex. Throughout his life, there were juxtapositions of the most unlikely life choices and influences. To have fashioned a mishmash of ... Read more

    4,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living in Oblivion: Film als Ansammlung von Kompromissen und Enttäuschungen oder Der Kreislauf der Krise

    by Benjamin Dostal ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1-2, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Neuere deutsche Literatur und Medien), Veranstaltung: Film im Film - Selbstreflexives Kino, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Kritiker sind wie Soldaten, die in ihre eigenen Reihen schießen.“ Auf dieses Zitat von Jean- Luc Godard verweist Regisseur Tom DiCillo, als er versucht, sein Unbehagen ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • Die Semiotik des digitalen Kinos . Die Ästhetik des Dokumentarfilms im Spielfilm

    by Florian Norbert Bischoff ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Theaterwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Überwachung im Kino, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Film Frost/Nixon (R: Ron Howard, USA 2008) verarbeitet einen der bekanntesten Momente der Fernsehgeschichte: Die Serie von Interviews, die der englische Talkshow-Host David Frost mit dem ehemaligen ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Citizens of Hope and Glory: A Story of Progressive Rock

    The Story of Progressive Rock

    by Stephen Lambe ...
    Created in the late 1960s, fashionable in the early 1970s and hated in the 1980s Progressive Rock has a colourful and eventful story. Many of the genres main protagonists, including Genesis, Yes, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, remain as popular as ever, while lesser-known names like Camel, Caravan, Renaissance, Van der Graaf Generator and Gentle Giant retain cult status.Prog expert ... Read more

    14,09 €

  • Perspektive Deutsches Kino - Auswirkung der Berlinale Reihe auf die Auswertung der gezeigten Filme

    by Linda Kornemann ...
    Vordiplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,7, Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" Potsdam-Babelsberg (-), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Are film festivals, of which there are now several hundred all over the world, (...) of much real use? That is the question even Cannes will have to answer one day.“1 Unter diesen mehreren hundert Film-Festivals gibt es ... Read more

    18,99 €

  • Die Behandlung und Darstellung des Holocaust in "Jakob der Lügner" und "Jakob the Liar"

    Eine vergleichende Analyse von Frank Beyers DEFA-Verfilmung und Peter Kassovitz’ Hollywood-Remake

    by Evi Goldbrunner ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" Potsdam-Babelsberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ausgehend von den unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen, die dem Holocaust in der filmischen Aufarbeitung der DEFA-Tradition und des Hollywood-Kinos zukommen, wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit zunächst das jeweilige Verhältnis der beiden ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • "Look, Look!" - Koppelungen des Blickes in Alfred Hitchcocks "Rear Window"

    by Martin Lengdobler ...
    Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität Regensburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der voyeuristische Blick ist in Alfred Hitchcocks „Rear Window“ von 1954 ein bis ins Detail ausgearbeitetes Thema. Es handelt sich um einen beobachtenden Blick, wobei der Beobachtende selbst ungesehen bleibt. Er sieht genau hin, denn das Beobachten bringt dem Voyeur um ... Read more

    15,99 €