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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 €

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • 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

    10,48 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

    28,19 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    9,11 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Deacon Blue: To Be Here Someday

    by This Day in Music Books ...
    To Be Here Someday book review by Deacon Blue fan Jim Boyle:If you haven't done so already I would really urge you to treat yourself or a loved one to Paul English's absolutely stunning book this Christmas, charting the 35 year career of Deacon Blue.Whilst I'm maybe a tiny bit biased because some of my scribbles, pics, press cuttings and ticket stubs feature in the final cut it's been the most ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • The History Of The Music Industry: 1950 to 1969

    The History Of The Music Industry, #3

    by Matti Charlton ...
    Series Book 3 - The History Of The Music Industry
    Music has a remarkable power to transport us to different times and evoke a range of emotions. It can take us on a journey through the annals of history, connecting us to the people, places, and events that shaped our world. In this book, we embark on a captivating expedition into the vibrant and transformative era of the music industry from 1950 to 1969.Welcome to a time of cultural revolution, ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars

    by Barry Adamson ...
    In Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars, the enigmatic Barry Adamson shines a probing light into his own heart of darkness. Born in the black and white world of post-industrial Manchester, Adamson saw music as a chance to turn his world technicolour. Propelled into punk via Magazine, he was the founding bass player in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, before stumbling too far down a dark, drug ... Read more

    10,59 €

  • 1,000 UK Number One Hits

    by Jon Kutner, Spencer Leigh ...
    The official UK charts started in November 1952 with Al Martin's Here's In My Heart at the top. Since then, there have been over 50 years of changes and we have now reached the 1,000 number one. ... Read more

    8,47 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Die Auflösung des klassischen Hollywood-Textes

    by Daniel Daimler ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,75, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Filmwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Einleitung 1.1 New Hollywood? Narrative Kohärenz und Kontinuität sind neben moralischer Integrität die wichtigsten Merkmale des klassischen Hollywoodkinos. In den ersten fünfzig Jahren des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts verkaufte sich Hollywood als ein ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Der Richter, sein Urteil und sein Gewissen. Analyse des Grenzbegriffs in den Filmen Kieślowskis

    by Ina Draijer ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Die Handschrift der Filmemacher, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Während seines Filmschaffens hat Kieślowski eine einzigartige Handschrift entwickelt, die neben anderen Merkmalen auch die Thematik der Grenzen beinhaltet. Dabei stehen ... Read more

    29,99 €

  • Einfluss und Strategien deutscher Spielfilmproduzenten der Gegenwart in Hinblick auf den kommerziellen Erfolg ihrer Kinofilme anhand ausgewählter Beispiele

    by Jan Philip Lange ...
    Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" Potsdam-Babelsberg (Studiengang Film- & Fernsehproduktion), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Welche Filme gemacht werden, spiegelt die Mentalität der Produzenten; welche Filme erfolgreich sind, spiegelt den Geschmack des Publikums." Das Zitat von William Goldman, seines Zeichens ... Read more

    36,99 €

  • Zuflucht im Paradies? Deutschsprachige Filmarchitekten in Hollywood

    by Sonja Longolius ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1, Universität Hamburg (Kunstgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Die Künste im Exil 1933-45 - Scheitern und Bestehen in der Fremde, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Beginn des Dritten Reiches und die Machtübernahme Adolf Hitlers 1933 setzten den Anfang für die systematische Vertreibung der kreativsten Köpfe des deutschsprachigen Films. ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Gustav Mahler

    by Simon Vestdijk ...
    Series Book 4 - Verzamelde muziekessays
    Vestdijk schreef dit vierde deel over Gustav Mahler in 1957, met het oog op het Mahler-jaar van 1960. In een tijd waarin Mahlers muziek nog niet algemeen was geaccepteerd en in de artikelen die over hem verschenen alleen de biografische feiten en wat eenvoudige muzikale karakteriseringen werden genoemd, schreef Vestdijk een hartstochtelijk en tegelijk kritisch pleidooi voor Mahler. Op analytische ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • Fabrizio De André

    Il libro del mondo

    by Walter Pistarini ...
    Ma l'assassino ha ucciso il pescatore? Come si chiamava la vera Marinella? Perché Tito è chiamato "il ladrone buono"? Chi ha scritto l'originale Canzone del maggio ? Di chi parla Giugno '73 ? Ma "l'illustre cugino De Andrade" esiste veramente? Su che disco fu incisa Caro amore e perché fu presto eliminata? Di chi sono le voci all'inizio della canzone Sidun ? Cosa dicono? Chi è la Dolcenera dell ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guitar Journals: Mastering the Fingerboard - The Reading Book

    by William Bay ...
    Series series Guitar Journals
    The Guitar Journals series is the ultimate reference guide to studies and solos in several different genres. This volume is dedicated to sight reading and presents studies based on each string, then continues with etudes in each of the 12 major and minor keys, offering studies in four different positions on the fretboard. This is a must-have sourcebook for the student to professional musician's ... Read more

    18,19 €

  • Bassa fedeltà

    Storia distorta dell'audiocassetta

    by Marc Masters ...
    Series Book 502 - Odoya library
    UNA STORIA CHE CELEBRA L'AUDIOCASSETTA COME MEZZO PERICOLOSO, VITALE E RADICALE PER UN'INTERA GENERAZIONECreare i propri nastri! Scambiarli con gli amici! Fare personalissime playlist da ascoltare nel Walkman e da regalare al partner del momento!Economica, portatile e riutilizzabile, la musicassetta è stata rivoluzionaria; un piccolo rettangolo di plastica che ha saputo cambiare la storia della ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Evoluzione +- Involuzione

    Analisi musicale dal 1960 al 2024

    by Alfredo Baroero ...
    "Veniamo definiti individui semplici, facilmente manipolabili e con le battute scritte, come per le risposte, una generazione dei facilmente plagiabili ma stai tranquillo, tutti "tranne te"""L'artista scappa dai contesti poco dinamici, atrofizzanti, divenendo un diverso, un "fuori di testa"""...lo stesso titolo ci riporta a un beneficio, la cura dei mali, un solido pavimento su cui appoggiarsi, ... Read more

    19,90 €