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Mick Wall penetrates the closed world of Aussie rock legends AC/DC.AC/DC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975, and soon set up a residency at London's Marquee Club. Their short hair (including the odd mullet), loud rock and attitude chimed well with the lingering pub...
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Orion
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2012-10-25
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On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-10-19
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Tulisa Contostavlos is one of the most talented and high-profile recording artists working in the UK today. She has three platinum N-Dubz albums, four MOBO awards, a groundbreaking drama series, two documentaries, a MIND award and an X Factor judge's win under her belt....
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Headline
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2012-09-27
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Die Kompositionen von Joseph Strauß (1827-1870) als klingendes Buch seines Jahrhunderts, seiner persönlichen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Beziehungen, Träume und Hoffnungen im Spiegel seiner mehr als 280 Kompositionen. Der geniale Musiker war «ausgelassen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-06
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The 1970s heartthrob who remains just as popular as ever finally reveals all in this 'emotionally raw and startlingly candid autobiography'By the time Donny Osmond's first solo single, 'Puppy Love', hit Number One in the summer of 1972, the 14-year-old was already a...
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Orion
Parution :
2012-07-26
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Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narratives of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera. And for contemporary audiences, many of these characters--and the celebrated women who played them--still define opera at its finest and most searingly...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-06-01
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'Excellent ... paints an affectionate portrait of this unpretentious, humorous presenter who seems to have been loved by everyone who met him' SUNDAY TIMES'A leisurely stroll through the life of an "irreplaceable man" - [a] thoughtful, well-paced portrait' OBSERVERA...
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Orion
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2012-04-09
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From patriotic "God Bless America" to wistful "White Christmas," Irving Berlin's songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war, and come home for the holidays. Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater is the first book to fully consider this...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-04
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Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry. Music, especially music with text, was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-04-01
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The contributions in this volume reflect the efforts of musicology to understand a hybrid area with a fascinating evolution. They aim to address the relationship between opera and audiovisual technology from its origins to today by offering the results of a balanced...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-08
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Immediately upon publication in 1998, the Encyclopedia of Country Music became a much-loved reference source, prized for the wealth of information it contained on that most American of musical genres. Countless fans have used it as the source for answers to questions...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-02-01
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Mike Doughty first came to prominence as the leader of the band Soul Coughing then did an abrupt sonic left turn, much to the surprise of his audience, transforming into a solo performer of stark, dusky, but strangely hopeful tunes. He battled addiction, gave up fame...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2012-01-10
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Nana Mouskouri, the Greek singer and one of the world's most popular entertainers, tells her life story for the first time.For more than 40 yearsNana Mouskouri has been a global singing sensation, from her earliest childhood memories of mid-Thirties Greece to her...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-12-15
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What did Time magazine consider the twentieth-century's greatest album? Which anthem by Prince was an attempt to emulate Bob Seger? And what links Count Basie and Batman?If you thought you knew your music, then think again. 1001Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, is...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2011-12-05
Collection :
1001
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Explosive autobiography of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver bass guitarist Duff McKaganDuff 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...
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Orion
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2011-11-01
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UPDATED FOR 2017 WITH A NEW CHAPTERThe definitive history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's great bands, by founder member Nick Mason.Pink Floyd is one of the most creative, successful and enduring bands of all time. As the only member to have been part of the band...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-09-01
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In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde das damalige System der Ausbildung von Musikern stark in Frage gestellt. Auch Richard Wagner beteiligte sich daran. Er erhoffte sich 1865 durch den Bau einer deutschen Musikschule in München eine deutliche Verbesserung...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-16
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Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-06-03
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Die beiden Künstlerinnen setzen mit ihrer Zusammenarbeit seit Jahren neue Akzente in der österreichischen Opern-, Musiktheater- und Theaterszene. Jelinek (Literaturnobelpreis 2004) als kritische Literatin und Neuwirth als ebensolche Komponistin bilden zusammen ein...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-05-27
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Although Berg decided immediately after seeing Büchner's play Woyzeck in May 1914 to set it to music, he did not complete his opera until 1922, with the Berlin premiere taking place in 1925. Berg's Wozzeck traces the composer's slow but determined progress. Using...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-05-10
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