Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
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Category: Performing Arts
A rigorous and celebratory journey through the history of pop music, from the former New York Times music critic. From his own adolescence, when his allegiance was to punk rock, to his work as one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture at the New York Times and the New Yorker, Kelefa S ...Show more
Bowie's Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life by John O'Connell
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Category: Performing Arts
'What is your idea of perfect happiness?' 'Reading. ''What is the quality you most like in a man?'' The ability to return books.' Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Mada ...Show more
Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones
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Category: Performing Arts
'Excellent' - Guardian 'Hugely enjoyable' - Irish Times 'Dazzling' - LRB 'Fascinating' - New Statesman'An absolute must-read'- GQ For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this. From the testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones' masterful history of the Blitz kids, synth-pop and the styl ...Show more
Bob Dylan: Outlaw Blues by SPENCER LEIGH
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Bob Dylan: Outlaw Blues by Spencer Leigh is a fresh take on this famous yet elusive personality, a one-man hall of mirrors who continues to intrigue his followers worldwide. It is an in-depth account with new information and fascinating opinions, both from the author and his interviewees. Whether you ar ...Show more
British Pop Invasion - How British Music Conquered The 1960s by Alan J. Whiticker
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Category: Performing Arts
1964 was the start of the British 'pop' invasion of the United States and the world was never the same. The Beatles paved the way for countless British bands and performers to find international success during the 1960s, taking the US and other international charts by storm. British Pop Invasion is a p ...Show more
My Life with Earth, Wind and Fire by Maurice White; Herb Powell
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Category: Performing Arts
Foreword by Steve Harvey and afterword by David Foster The Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincere memoir that captures the heart and soul of an artist whose groundbreaking sound continues to inf ...Show more
How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly
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Category: Performing Arts
Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon directness about everything from love and land rights to cricket and cooking. 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bounds', 'Don't Start Me Talking', 'Dumb Things', 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' ...Show more
Show Your Work ! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: Austin Kleon Ser.
In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by "stealing" from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey--ge ...Show more
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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Category: Performing Arts
Comedians Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld never thought anyone would watch their silly little sitcom about a New York comedian sitting around talking to his friends. NBC executives didn't think anyone would watch either, but they bought it anyway, hiding it away in the TV dead zone of summer. But against ...Show more
Pleasure To Be Here: Best of Clarke and Dawe by John Clarke
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Category: Performing Arts
Drawn from John Clarke?s and Bryan Dawe?s weekly broadcasts, these timelessly funny scripts will delight readers as they revisit the scandals and stuff-ups of our lifetimes. Politics was never so preposterous. All the old favourites are here- Bob Hawke, Margaret Thatcher, Bob Collins ('the front fell of ...Show more
Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke by John Clarke
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Category: Performing Arts
Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Kareninain forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents. ...Show more
It's So Easy (and Other Lies): The Autobiography by Duff McKagan
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Category: Performing Arts
Duff McKagan was a co-founder of Guns N' Roses, with a 13-year tenure on bass in what was at the time the biggest band on earth. As well as pulling together the classic line-up (Slash on guitar, Steven Adler on drums, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin and vocalist Axl Rose), Duff was the unofficial musical ...Show more