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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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Music as Medicine

    How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power

    by Daniel Levitin ...
    **The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerA Financial Times, Telegraph and Waterstones Book of the YearShortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book PrizeWhat if music holds the key to healing our minds and bodies? Music as Medicine is the revelatory new book from the million-copy bestselling author of The Organized Mind.**'Fascinating' OBSERVER'Essential' WALL STREET JOURNAL‘Intr... ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • 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

    9,53 €

  • "Caravaggio" von Derek Jarman. Der Künstler im Tableau vivant

    by Veronika Mayer ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (Institut für Kunstwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Seminar Biopics, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Derek Jarman lieferte mit seiner Biographie über den italienischen Maler Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio 1986 einen Spielfilm, der heute einerseits als Klassiker über Homosexualität ... Read more

    Free

  • Kinderlieder

    100 Liedertexte der schönsten Kinderlieder

    by Frank Weber ...
    Man sagt, Kinder lieben die Musik und das Singen bereite ihnen Vergnügen. Das Musikinstrument zum Singen, die eigene Stimme hat das Kind, wie übrigens jeder Mensch, immer dabei und wird, wenn auch vielleicht am Anfang noch etwas zögerlich, so doch später sicher umso mehr davon mit Begeisterung Gebrauch machen. Die Melodien der altbekannten Lieder mögen Eltern und Großeltern beisteuern. Die Texte ... Read more

    Was 4,99 € Now 2,99 €

  • 14 Tage Lebenslänglich - Drehbuchanalyse

    by Michael Rösel ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1999 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,7, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg (Abteilung Drehbuch - Kurs I), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nach einer ausführlichen Inhaltsangabe zur Rekapitulation konzentriert sich diese Drehbuchanalyse auf Charakteristiken der einzelnen handelnden Figuren und seziert das Drehbuch hinsichtlich der Gesichtspunkte Dialog, ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

    A Research and Information Guide

    by John Michael Cooper, Angela R. Mace ...
    Series series Routledge Music Bibliographies
    Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide is a valuable tool for any scholar, performer, or music student interested in accessing the most pertinent resources on the life, works, and cultural context of the composer. It is an updated, annotated bibliography of resources on the biographical, musical, and religious aspects of Mendelssohn's life. ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • Dokumentarfilm als Medienkombination - "Nuit et Brouillard" (1955) von Resnais

    by Thomas Ochs ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1, Universität Wien (Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Intermedialität, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Grundsätzlich ist das Verständnis den Film als ein eigenständiges Einzelmedium zu begreifen heute so weit vorgeschritten, dass es schwer fällt einen bestimmten Film unter dem intermedialen Gesichtspunkt der ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Masse, Ornament, Kriegsrevue - Propaganda im Nationalsozialismus unter dem Aspekt von Massen-Repräsentationen am Beispiel des NS-Spielfilms WUNSCHKONZERT (1940).

    by Tillmann Allmer ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1999 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Publizistik), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Modelle des Zeitalters: Audiovisionen der `Masse´, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Der Krieg", schreibt Erich Ludendorff, Erster Generalquartiermeister bei der Obersten Heeresleitung, am 4. Juli 1917 in einem Brief an das Kaiserliche ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • Insight

    Martin Gore & Depeche Mode - Ein Porträt

    by André Boße, Dennis Plauk ...
    Überraschende InnenansichtenMehr als 100 Millionen verkaufte Tonträger belegen die atemberaubende Weltkarriere von Depeche Mode und ihrem Songwriter Martin Gore. Nach einer solchen sah es zunächst jedoch gar nicht aus: Gore arbeitete nach dem Schulbesuch ab 1977 bei einer Bank. Die Dinge änderten sich, als er erst Andrew Fletcher und Vince Clarke, schließlich den Sänger Dave Gahan traf. Die ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Schnitt und Montage im Musikvideo

    Theoretischer und praktischer Vergleich zweier Realisationen

    by Michael Rösel ...
    Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 1998 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,5, Universität Hildesheim (Stiftung) (Kulturwissenschaften & Ästhetische Kommunikation), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gibt es eine musikalische Montage im Musikvideo und wodurch unterscheidet sie sich von Montage im Kurzfilm? Der erste Teil der Arbeit untersucht diese Fragestellung unter verschiedenen theoretischen Aspekten: ... Read more

    36,99 €

  • The Lyrics of Syd Barrett

    by Syd Barrett, Rob Chapman ...
    Despite just a three-year tenure with the band, co-founder Syd Barrett’s influence on Pink Floyd was profound and long-lasting. If his guitar gave the early Pink Floyd a distinctive hallucinatory sound, his often obscure and surreal lyrics were perhaps even more intoxicating. The complete lyrics of Syd Barrett – 52 songs written for Pink Floyd and during his subsequent solo career – are presented ... Read more

    8,26 €

  • DADGAD Encyclopedia

    by Jim Goodin ...
    Whether guitarists are new to open-tunings or already working with them, fingerstyle specialist Jim Goodin offers a progressive look at the popular D-based harp-like tuning. Classical, Celtic, blues, folk, gospel and several original compositions are represented in the 15 notation/tablature arrangements each arranged proportionately to offer beginning, intermediate and advanced fingerstyle players ... Read more

    18,61 €

  • «Andriej Rublow» jako struktura otwarta

    by Lukas Zünd ...
    Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2010 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1, The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School (Wydział Reżyserii Filmowej i Telewizyjnej), language: Polish, abstract: Kiedy scenarzysta Denijal Hasanović na zajęciach z nami omówił różnicę między klasyczną dramaturgią a strukturą otwartą, poczułem, że moje próby twórcze zmierzają w stronę tej drugiej. Żeby rozwinąć ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • Die exotische Insel im Film als Kulisse für Grenzerfahrungen und Persönlichkeitsveränderungen

    by Sabine Heil ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In meiner Seminararbeit möchte ich anhand filmischer Beispiele herausarbeiten, inwieweit sich Charakter und Sozialverhalten eines Menschen verändern können, wenn er vor exotischer Kulisse ungewohnte Herausforderungen meistern muss und dadurch an seine ... Read more

    Free

  • Guitar Journals: Fingerstyle

    by Lee "Drew" Andrews ...
    Series series Guitar Journals
    Mel Bay's series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate reference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. Included in this wonderful fingerstyle journal are a myriad of tunes in many styles: Easy, Blues, Gospel, Classic, Fiddle Tunes, Thumbpicking, Patriotic, Ballads, Early Jazz, Latin, Celtic, DADGAD, Ragtime and Contemporary. Perfect for the student to professional musician, this ... Read more

    17,83 €