Taking a big-picture view of the post-punk period, this book recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. It presents many anecdotes and insights, and features the likes of Joy Division, The Fall, Pere Ubu, PiL and Talking Heads. It is of interest to fans of post-punk music.
In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about her route from girl to woman and pioneering icon within the music and art scene of New York City in the 1980s and 90s as well as marriage, motherhood, and independence. Filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a remarkable life, Girl in a Band is a moving, evocative chronicle of an extraordinary artist.
Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and respected guitarists of his generation - but it wasn''t always easy.
Graham grew up as an Army kid, moving frequently in his early years from West Germany to Derbyshire and Winchester before settling in Colchester, Essex. A shy child, he had a thing for eating soil and drawing intense visions; his anxiety was tempered by painting and a growing love of music.
These twin passions grew into obsessions, and as he honed his artistic skill at school, Goldsmiths and beyond, his band with school friend Damon Albarn, fellow student Alex James, and a drummer called Dave Rowntree began to get noticed.
But there are things they don''t tell you before you get famous. There are monsters out there. And some may even be lurking inside yourself.
Verse, Chorus, Monster! is an intimate, honest reflection on music, fame, addiction and art by one of Britain''s most iconic musicians.
From Morrissey and Nick Cave to The Streets and Kanye West, this book explores the links between hip-hop and rock. It focuses on two strands: white alternative rock and black street music. It identifies the strange dance of white bohemian rock and black culture, how they come together at various points and then go their own way.
Jarvis Cocker is regarded as one of the most original and memorable lyricists and performers. This title includes a selection of sixty-six lyrics, presented with commentary. It includes such classics "Common People", "Disco 2000", "Babies", "This is Hardcore" and "Do You Remember the First Time?".
**Featuring a new introduction by Jon Savage**
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
Over a career that spans four decades and fourteen studio albums with Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant has consistently proved himself to be one of the most elegant and stylish of contemporary lyricists. Arranged alphabetically, One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem presents an overview of his considerable achievement as a chronicler of modern life: the romance, the break-ups, the aspirations, the changing attitudes, the history, the politics, the pain.
The landscape of Tennant's lyrics is recognisably British in character - restrained and preoccupied with the mundane, occasionally satirical, yet also yearning for escape and theatrical release. Often surprisingly revealing, this volume is contextualised by a personal commentary on each lyric and an introduction by the author which gives a fascinating insight into the process and genesis of writing.
Flamboyant, understated, celebratory and elegiac, Neil Tennant's lyrics are a document of our times.
Legendarily reticent, perverse and misleading, Prince is one of the few remaining 80s superstars who still, perhaps, remains unexplained. Now a firm fixture in the pop canon, where such classics as 'Purple Rain', 'Sign o' the Times' and 'Parade' regularly feature in Best Ever Album polls, Prince is still, as he ever was, an enigma.
For fifty years, pop music was created and consumed like this: you heard a record on the radio, or read about it in a music paper; you bought it on Saturday; you lent it to, or taped it for, a friend; and they reciprocated with another record. This book covers the birth of rock, soul, punk, disco, hip hop, indie, house and techno.
È opinione pressoché universalmente condivisa che i solfeggi accompagnati ottocenteschi, ancora oggi nel programma ministeriale d'esame dei Conservatori italiani, abbiano fatto il loro tempo.
Prendono continuamente vita numerosi metodi pratici ed eserciziari per strumento, ma poche pubblicazioni di questo genere sono indirizzate alla voce cantata, pur essendo la voce per nulla esente dai capricci delle mode e dei compositori.
Con questo metodo pratico ho inteso contribuire a diffondere una scuola che ha creato molte delle voci dell'epoca d'oro dell'Opera e che oggi, vantando per di più avalli di diverse correnti foniatriche, continua ad essere oltremodo attuale ed indiscutibilmente valida.
It is almost universally shared opinion that the Nineteenth century accompanied solfeggio, even today in the ministerial examination program of the Italian conservatories, have had it.
A lot of practical methods and workbooks actually come to life and develop, but few publications of this kind are devoted to the singing voice, though the voice for anything free from the vagaries of fashion and of the composers.
With this practical method I intended to spread a school that has created many of the items from the golden age of the Opera and today, boasting more endorsements for various phoniatric currents, continues to be extremely timely and unquestionably valid.
