Author: Chris Woodstra
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780879309176
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collects reviews for one thousand enduring classic rock albums ranging from the extremely popular to more obscure works.
Author: Chris Woodstra
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780879309183
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(Reference). The only guide available that focuses exclusively on this massively popular category, this comprehensive guide to country music of the last 25 years includes nearly 500 reviews, plus bios and histories, featuring artists from Willie Nelson to Kenny Chesney.
Author: Michael Erlewine
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780879304751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reviews and rates the best recordings of country artists and groups, provides biographies of the artists, and charts the evolution of country music
Author: Chris Woodstra
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780879309169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains brief reviews of over five hundred old school rap and hip-hop albums, as well as albums from the 1960s and 70s that provided inspiration for the development of rap; arranged alphabetically, some with cover art.
Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1508
ISBN-13: 9780879306274
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.
Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 963
ISBN-13: 9780879307608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 'All Music Guide to Country' is a complete guide to country music's performers and their top recordings, covering the entire spectrum of the genre, from old-time country to new alternative country.
Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 772
ISBN-13: 9780879307363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reviews and rates the best recordings of 8,900 blues artists in all styles.
Author: Kelefa Sanneh
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0525559604
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 • Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year “One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities. In Major Labels, Sanneh distills a career’s worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a brilliant and omnivorous reckoning with popular music—as an art form (actually, a bunch of art forms), as a cultural and economic force, and as a tool that we use to build our identities. He explains the history of slow jams, the genius of Shania Twain, and why rappers are always getting in trouble. Sanneh shows how these genres have been defined by the tension between mainstream and outsider, between authenticity and phoniness, between good and bad, right and wrong. Throughout, race is a powerful touchstone: just as there have always been Black audiences and white audiences, with more or less overlap depending on the moment, there has been Black music and white music, constantly mixing and separating. Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes, and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes, the best popular music isn’t transcendent. Songs express our grudges as well as our hopes, and they are motivated by greed as well as idealism; music is a powerful tool for human connection, but also for human antagonism. This is a book about the music everyone loves, the music everyone hates, and the decades-long argument over which is which. The opposite of a modest proposal, Major Labels pays in full.
Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 918
ISBN-13: 9780879307448
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With informative biographies, essays, and "music maps, " this book is the ultimate guide to the best recordings in rhythm and blues. 20 charts.