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For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. No Simple Highway is the first book to ask the simple question of why - and attempt to answer it. Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives, author Peter Richardson vividly recounts the Dead's colorful history, adding new insight into everything from the Acid Tests to the band's formation of their own record label to their massive late career success, while probing the riddle of the Dead's vast and durable appeal.

In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes listeners into the heart of 10 great works of classical music - works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. These masters - Mozart and Beethoven; Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Verdi, and Brahms; Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky - communicated their life experiences through music, and through music they universalized the intimate.  

Varför hade Timbuktu noll kronor på sitt konto när det borde ha varit minst fem miljoner, och vart tog "The Cardigans" förmögenhet egentligen vägen? Flera band visade sig snart vara inblandade i det som kom att kallas Tambourinehärvan: "The Ark", "Weeping Willows", "Europe" och framför allt - "The Hives".

Music plays such an important part in everyone’s life, but how much do we know about the history of music? How did music shape our civilization, and how was music itself shaped by the Catholic Church? Susan Treacy, an experienced professor of music, is an excellent guide to the history of music. Every Catholic should own at least one book on music.

From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series The Get Down, this passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of Black music in the last 50 years, and in doing so, outlines the perilous position of Black culture within white American society. In a fast-paced narrative, Nelson George’s book chronicles the rise and fall of “race music” and its transformation into the R&B that eventually dominated the airwaves, only to find itself diluted and submerged as crossover music.

Nelson George's chronicle of Motown Records' rise and fall remains a classic account of an essential American music company and its dynamic founder, Berry Gordy Jr. Gordy's uncanny instinct for finding extraordinary talent - from performers and musicians to songwriters and producers - packed the label's roster with a who's who of historic artists and hitmakers.

Das Hörbuch zur Geschichte der Donots. April 1994: Fünf Schulfreunde spielen mit ihrer Band namens Donots in einem Ibbenbürener Jugendzentrum namens Scheune ihr erstes Konzert. Aus Langeweile, weil einem in der westfälischen Provinz kaum etwas anderes übrig bleibt, als eine Band zu gründen. Aus Leidenschaft für die Musik, weil Bad Religion, Nirvana oder The Clash ihnen vorgemacht haben, wie weit man es mit dreieinhalb Akkorden bringen kann. Und weil die Punkrock-Ideale, der politische und ethische Überbau sowie das Do-it-yourself-Credo in den Teenagern etwas entzünden, das nicht so leicht zu löschen ist.

It was a magical time enhanced by radio as well as the great live performances. Radio and music of the Big Band Era were made for each other, and the so-called Swing Years were a golden age of rhythm. It was not just music that made you want to dance. It was music that made you glow, music that made you want to sing, music that made you come alive, music for falling in love. And, despite the passage of time, it still is.

Im Januar 2020 las Thees Uhlmann aus seinem Buch Die Toten Hosen im ausverkauften Düsseldorfer Savoy-Theater. Neben der gelesenen Liebeserklärung spielte Thees auch - quasi nebenbei - vier Songs der Hosen auf der Akustikgitarre. Dieser tolle Live-Mitschnitt der Lesung lässt einen mittendrin statt nur dabei sein.

As a pioneering rock journalist for Hit Parader, Vogue, Saturday Review, and other publications, Ellen Sander had a backstage pass to the hottest music scenes of the 1960s. In this feast of juicy anecdotes and keen social commentary, she draws upon her professional and personal experiences to chronicle pop culture's highs and lows during the turbulent decade. Join her for weird and wild road trips with companions ranging from Yippies to the members of Led Zeppelin.

There have been few times in modern music history that an instant shift in how we listen to - and view - music has occurred. However, the launch of MTV on August 1, 1981, was certainly one such occurrence. Instantly, music fans were now “listening with their eyes” rather than relying solely on their ears.

The saga of the legendary Los Angeles band Little Feat is one of rock 'n' roll's great stories. Formed in 1969 by ex-members of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, Little Feat created groove-heavy music that was an irresistible mix of rock, blues, R&B, country, jazz, soul, and funk. Fronted by the charismatic but doomed vocalist and brilliant slide guitarist Lowell George, the band recorded such classic studio albums as Sailin' Shoes and Dixie Chicken, as well as Waiting for Columbus, which many consider to be one of the best live albums of all time.

Place any musical style in front of Faith No More, and seemingly, a timeless song of their own would soon be created. Between 1985-1997, Faith No More issued six full-length recordings (including such classic titles as "The Real Thing" and "Angel Dust") and in the process, influenced countless musicians throughout the world.

A real-life Horatio Alger adventure storied with bootleggers, gangsters, artists, hipsters, set in a revolutionary time in music history that changed popular culture around the world, The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma is also a deeply personal account of how music saved one man's life, and how he went on to affect the lives of millions of others.  

It is widely believed that Jimi Hendrix was one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time...and quite possibly, the greatest. All you have to do is compare what rock guitar sounded like before Jimi burst on the scene in the late ‘60s and what it sounded like after. And in addition to trailblazing new sounds and approaches, his influence reached beyond just the guitar community.

Are We All Right? details a number of things that are wrong in our society in America and how we need to make changes to fix the problems. The lyrics point up problems with crime, junkies, gangs, homelessness, bank fraud, insurance rates, oil spills, forest destruction, and global warming that have been getting worse over the last few decades.

La música es una manifestación artística presente en la totalidad de la historia, desde el nacimiento de las primeras sociedades tribales hasta la actualidad, y ha acompañado al hombre no sólo en los acontecimientos históricos más relevantes, sino en la vida cotidiana de los seres humanos. Breve historia de la música supone un acercamiento completo al desarrollo de los procesos históricos más importantes, y además aclara los conceptos más difíciles y los presenta de un modo accesible para cualquier oyente.

In The Emancipation of Slaves Through Music, music mogul Dr. Mathew Knowles presents a keen examination of the liberating effects of music on an oppressed people. By taking listeners on the journey of its secret use during slavery up through its eventual commercialization in the industry, he exposes the art form's true power. Between its informative sections, the audiobook explores the uprooting of Africans via the transatlantic slave trade and the evolving effect on the people and their music.

Radio doesn't play a lot of those oldies anymore, even though you would enjoy hearing them again. This audiobook offers you access to tales of more than 150 lost or forgotten oldies as well as history about the artists and their songs.

Rossini era capaz de leer una partitura de derecha a izquierda y de abajo a arriba; Wagner embaucó a Luis II para que le construyera un teatro en Bayreuth, donde debía llegar desde Inglaterra un inmenso dragón de cartón-piedra para el estreno de Sigfrido... Pero arribó ¡en Beirut!... Hay anécdotas como estas por decenas, pero ninguna pasa de eso, del puro cotilleo. Este audiolibro aspira a dar otro tipo de respuestas a los claroscuros de algunos grandes compositores, y a hacer comprensibles muchas de las cuestiones que rodean a la música llamada clásica.