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  • Paul Weller - The Changing Man

    by Paolo Hewitt ...
    Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his critically acclaimed solo career. Hewitt has even been the inspiration for some of Weller's songs - and he has extraordinary in-depth knowledge of the inspiration behind the rest.Once, when Hewitt interviewed ... Read more

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  • Black in Blues

    How a Color Tells the Story of My People

    by Imani Perry ...
    A “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, “the most important interpreter of Black life in our time” (Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.)Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is ... Read more

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  • Electric Guitar Lessons for Beginners

    Teach Yourself How to Play Guitar (Free Audio Available)

    Series series Progressive
    Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy electric guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band.***"A really awesome book. I bought an Electric Guitar years ago, but even basic things were difficult to master until I used this book. I highly recommend it." - ... Read more

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  • Going Up the Country

    Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s

    Series series American Made Music Series
    At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fieldwork for their studies at UCLA. While there, they made recordings and interviews and took extensive field notes and photographs of blues musicians and their families. Going Up the Country: Adventures ... Read more

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  • Blues: Grove Music Essentials

    by Elijah Wald ...
    An historical survey of Blues music. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com. ... Read more

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  • I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now

    Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta

    Series series American Made Music Series
    In I’m Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta, Stephen A. King reveals the strategies used by blues promoters and organizers in Mississippi, both African American and white, local and state, to attract the attention of tourists. In the process, he reveals how promotional materials portray the Delta’s blues culture and its musicians. Those involved in selling the blues ... Read more

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  • The Poetry of the Blues

    Series series Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs
    "A signal event in the history of the music." — Ted Gioia, author of The Delta BluesMusicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929–2015) considered blues lyrics a profound cultural expression that could connect all people who love poetry. A pioneer in the exploration of world music, Charters conducted research that brought obscure musicians of the American South and Appalachia into the mainstream. ... Read more

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  • Shreveport Sounds in Black and White

    To borrow words from Stan “The Record Man” Lewis, Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of this nation's most important “regional-sound cities.” Its musical distinctiveness has been shaped by individuals and ensembles, record label and radio station owners, announcers and disc jockeys, club owners and sound engineers, music journalists and musicians. The area's output cannot be described by a single genre ... Read more

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  • Ten Excellent Blues Songs to Remember

    by Paul Wolfle ...
    Though Pink Floyd created enormous radio-friendly classics during the 1970s, the legendary group started out as a British blues band. Jimi Hendrix offered up a wildly innovative interpretation of "The Star Spangled Banner," pioneered the use of octaves with an over-amplified Fender Stratocaster® and was a master at taming controlled feedback. Yet, underneath Jimi's psychedelically sonic exterior ... Read more

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  • 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own

    Series series Best Music Books
    Search the Internet for the 100 best songs or best albums. Dozens of lists will appear from aficionados to major music personalities. But what if you not only love listening to the blues or country music or jazz or rock, you love reading about it, too. How do you separate what matters from what doesn’t among the hundreds—sometimes thousands—of books on the music you so love? In the Best Music ... Read more

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  • Sweet Bitter Blues

    Washington, DC's Homemade Blues

    Series series American Made Music Series
    Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC’s Homemade Blues depicts the life and times of harmonica player Phil Wiggins and the unique, vibrant music scene around him, as described by music journalist Frank Matheis. Featuring Wiggins’s story, but including information on many musicians, the volume presents an incomparable documentary of the African American blues scene in Washington, DC, from 1975 to the ... Read more

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  • Piano

    10 Plans Blues Faciles à jouer

    by Kamel Sadi ...
    10 plans blues faciles à jouer dans les tonalités de Mi, Sol, La et Si. Partitions (avec le nom de chaque note) et audio. ... Read more

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  • A Hound Dog Tale

    Big Mama, Elvis, and the Song That Changed Everything

    by Ben Wynne ...
    The release of the song “Hound Dog” in 1953 marked a turning point in American popular culture, and throughout its history, the hit ballad bridged divides of race, gender, and generational conflict. Ben Wynne’s A Hound Dog Tale discusses the stars who made this rock ’n’ roll standard famous, from Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton to Elvis Presley, along with an eclectic cast of characters, including ... Read more

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  • Blood Stains: The Lyrics Of Jaysen True Blood 2000-2011, Book 8

    Bloodstains: 2000-2011

    Series Book 8 - Bloodstains: 2000-2011
    The barrage never stops. From socially conscious pieces to hard blues and metal, Jysen has written it all. Even a concept or two has crept into the mix, giving this set a unique flavor. ... Read more

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  • My Guitar Is a Camera

    Series series John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
    The evening of May 10, 1970, found a young Watt M. Casey Jr. standing awestruck, only a few feet from Jimi Hendrix as the legendary guitarist tore into his unique arrangement of “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the stage of San Antonio’s Hemisphere Arena during the Texas leg of his Cry of Love Tour. Bemoaning the fact that he had no camera to document the amazing experience or the visionary musicians ... Read more

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  • Soul Music

    Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown

    by Joel Rudinow ...
    Series series Tracking Pop
    "Exceptionally illuminating and philosophically sophisticated."---Ted Cohen, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago"In this audacious and long-awaited book, Joel Rudinow takes seriously a range of interrelated issues that most music theorizing is embarrassed to tackle. People often ask me about music and spirituality. With Soul Music, I can finally recommend a book that offers genuine ... Read more

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  • Transatlantic Roots Music

    Folk, Blues, and National Identities

    Edited by Jill Terry, Neil A. Wynn ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    This book presents a collection of essays on the debates about origins, authenticity, and identity in folk and blues music. The essays had their origins in an international conference on the Transatlantic routes of American roots music, out of which emerged common themes and questions of origins and authenticity in folk music, black and white, American and British. The central theme is musical ... Read more

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  • Dick Waterman

    A Life in Blues

    Series series American Made Music Series
    Growing up in an affluent Jewish family in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dick Waterman (b. 1935) was a shy, stuttering boy living a world away from the Mississippi Delta. Though he never heard blues music at home, he became one of the most influential figures in blues of the twentieth century.A close proximity to Greenwich Village in the 1960s fueled Waterman's growing interest in folk music and led to ... Read more

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  • Buried Treasure Volume 2

    Overlooked, Forgetten and Uncrowned Albums

    by Dan Hagerty ...
    Series Book 0 - Buried Treasure
    Buried Treasure is a colorful smorgasboard of music. Revered musicians, actors, and pop culture icons each contribute their favourite albums to create a fantastically eclectic collection. ... Read more

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  • Möglichkeiten

    Die Autobiografie

    Translated by Alan Tepper ...
    Herbie Hancock ist eine Ikone des Jazz. Er wird in einem Atemzug mit Miles Davis, John Coltrane und Charlie Parker genannt. Im Alter von 78 Jahren reizen den Pianisten und begnadeten Komponisten immer noch neue Herausforderungen, ungewöhnliche Kooperationen und unerforschte Terrains. Während viele Jazz-Musiker in der Vergangenheit lediglich etablierte Klangmuster neu ausgestalteten, stellte ... Read more

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  • The Rolling Stones

    Sociological Perspectives

    The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Helmut Staubmann, draws from a broad spectrum of sociological perspectives to contribute both to the understanding of the phenomenon Rolling Stones and to an in-depth analysis of contemporary society and culture that takes The Stones a starting point. Contributors approach The Rolling Stones from a range of social science perspectives ... Read more

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  • Cotta

    by Roleo.F ...
    Cruelmente solo, Markos está sin sombra. Sin tacto, sin amor, en resumen: lo único que le importa es él mismo. Obligado a unirse a su padre para renovar los lazos de sangre, su vida se resume en la implacabilidad contra su padre. La música se ha convertido en su única droga.Eso, hasta que conoce a Sara, la única chica capaz de hechizar su ser. Sin embargo, ésta no se siente halagada por dejarse ... Read more

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  • Creating Jazz Counterpoint

    New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues

    by Vic Hobson ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the "First Man of Jazz." Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz.Johnson made many recordings talking about and playing the music of the ... Read more

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  • Jook Right On

    Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers

    Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers is what author and compiler Barry Lee Pearson calls a “blues quilt.” These blues stories, collected by Pearson for thirty years, are told in the blues musicians’ own words. The author interviewed over one hundred musicians, recording and transcribing their stories. These are stories from well-known musicians such as John Lee Hooker, Koko Taylor, ... Read more

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