In 1948, the Orioles, a Baltimore-based vocal group, recorded "It's Too Soon to Know." Combining the sound of Tin Pan Alley with gospel and blues sensibilities, the Orioles saw their first hit reach #13 on the pop charts, thus introducing the nation to vocal rhythm & blues and paving the way for the...

The official technical reference book for Beatles Rock Band, written by the official consultant to the game for technical specifications! This landmark book details exactly which guitars, drums, amplifiers and keyboards The Beatles used at the key points of their relatively brief but entirely rev...

A Talk On The Wild Side is a rock music Audio-Visual first involving ten iconic rock personalities in one-on-one situations with internationally renowned writer and producer Roy Carr discussing their music and other relevant subjects. Made public for the first time, these audio interviews will be ac...

The first full-scale biography of the enduring first lady of country music The twentieth century had three great female singers who plumbed the darkest corners of their hearts and transformed private grief into public dramas. In opera, there was the unsurpassed Maria Callas. In jazz, the torment...

Uit Kill your darlings:

‘Nergens wordt zo openlijk en veel gebruikgemaakt van elkaars manier van vertellen als in de film en televisie. Dat heet in de filmwereld dus niet jatten, niet plagiëren, maar citeren...’

‘“Kill your darlings” is een van de eerste regels die me werden bijgeb...

'Popmuziek van Dag Tot Dag. Jaren '70' is geschreven door popspecialisten Ton van Draanen en Tom Blomberg. Zij worden geraadpleegd als nationaal bekendere popkenners als Frits Spits en Leo Blokhuis het niet meer weten. In het boek staan feiten, anekdotes en trivia over popmuziek in de jaren zeventig...

Henkjan Honing
Iedereen is muzikaal
Wat we weten over het luisteren naar muziek

Het meeklappen op de maat van muziek lijkt heel gewoon. Ook het herkennen van een liedje is voor de meesten van ons een fluitje van een cent. Maar hoe gewoon is dat eigenlijk? En wat heeft het met muzika...

J.S. Bach – A Listener's Guide to His Choral Music introduces the general listener to a genre of music that is mistakenly supposed to be “difficult.” A vivid biographical sketch of Bach's life and times provides the necessary background. The book then takes on the question “What is a cantata?” and g...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center ...

Tom Weschler spent more than ten years from the late 1960s through the 1970s in the Bob Seger camp, working as tour manager and photographer during Seger’s hard-gigging, heavy-traveling, reputation-making early days. Weschler’s behind-the-scenes photographs document the frustrations and triumphs of ...

Analyzes the influence of Mississippi Delta music, tracing its rise from the plantation songs of the nineteenth century through the achievements of modern performers....

The Rise Of A Prominent Auditory Culture Reveals The Degree To Which Sound Art Is Lending Definition To The 21st Century. This Book Sets Out A Historical Overview, While At The Same Time Shaping That History According To What Sound Art Reveals - The Dynamics Of Art To Operate Spatially Through Media...

Het is 1910. Anna Karenina en Oorlog en vrede hebben Lev Tolstoj tot de beroemdste schrijver ter wereld gemaakt. Maar de jaren hebben hun tol geeist. Op zijn landgoed Jasnaja Poljana wijdt Tolstoj zich aan het uitwerken van zijn filosofieën. Maar zijn onvrede met de omstandigheden waarin hij leeft n...

Informed by a wealth of information that has come to light in recent years, this engaging biography tells the complete story of the life and musical work of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Drawing on Sibelius's own correspondence and diaries, contemporary reviews, and the remarks of fami...

Even at four in the morning, the strip clubs and watering holes surrounding the Honolulu studio were still hopping. The recording engineer heard a car pull into the lot, and soon the biggest man he had ever seen walked in. When he stepped into the studio, the floated floor shifted beneath the engine...

A Massive Underground Sensation, "the Big Lebowski" Has Been Hailed As The First Cult Film Of The Internet Age. This Book Addresses The Film's Influences - Westerns, Noir, Grail Legends, The 1960s, And Fluxus - And Its Historical Connections To The First Iraq War, Boomers, Slackerdom, Surrealism, Co...

Dit boek vertelt het verhaal van de arbeidersjongen Herman van Veen (1945) die uitgroeide tot een van de meest veelzijdige artiesten van Nederland en tot op de dag van vandaag grote internationale waardering oogst. In 1965 beklom Van Veen voor het eerst het podium en sindsdien reist hij met zijn voo...

Doug Sahm was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist of legendary range and reputation. The first American musician to capitalize on the 1960s British invasion, Sahm vaulted to international fame leading a faux-British band called the Sir Douglas Quintet, whose hits included "She's About a Mover," "The...

Toy Instruments comprises an eye-popping collection of musical toys made between the 1950s and 1990s. Created to excite children about learning how to play an instrument, it turns out that adults also had fun with these products. Just ask David Bowie; he used the Stylophone in his song “Space Oddity...