Títulos em Música

A stunning celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic career as a performer, featuring entertaining personal stories alongside full-color photographs, including exclusive images and ephemera from her archive. In Star of the Show, the culminating book in Dolly Parton’s photographic...

This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music's relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed, and governed.

O livro descreve o surgimento, nos anos 1920, do rádio de galena,no Rio de Janeiro,através do qual se projetariam duas manifestações musicais básicas da música popular: o maxixe e o choro.Sérgio se debruça sobre a influência da política republicana nas composições, sobre a...

Acho que era outubro de 86. Ali começava uma história que continua até hoje. E só parece melhorar. Uma história sobre três garotos sem os braços tatuados, nerds e amigos de colégio, que amavam música, sonhavam em formar uma banda de rock e subiam em um palco juntos pela primeira vez. Um...

A HISTÓRIA DA BANDA DE ROCK MAIS POLÊMICA DO BRASIL CONTADA ATÉ A ÚLTIMA PONTA Como um terremoto, o Planet Hemp abalou as estruturas do rock nacional nos anos 1990. A mistura explosiva de rap e rock e o discurso de legalização da maconha fizeram a cabeça de milhões de jovens brasileiros...

Sérgio Cabral vai às origens das escolas de samba, destacando com detalhes o papel dos sambistas pioneiros e narrando como se desenvolveram as escolas: de vítimas dos preconceitos sociais e culturais e das perseguições policiais para protagonistas do que é considerado o maior espetáculo...

O Festival de Woodstock, de 1969, é uma referência cultural norte-americana e mundial, e nenhum outro livro captura o ambiente, a música e as maquinações dos bastidores com mais brilho e fidelidade do que a obra de Michael Lang, um best-seller do New York Times. A estrada para Woodstock...

The fourth volume of the Solo Acoustic Musician series expands on subjects only touched upon in earlier volumes. Michael Nichols chooses in this book to focus on a unique musical environment and subculture — the “open mic” event, at which performers sign up to play. Some are amateurs, some are professionals, and many are Solo Acoustic Musicians. Michael once again strives to give you a truthful and transparent look into a Solo Acoustic Musician's lifestyle by sharing his experiences at various types of open mics, as a performer, as a host, and as a member of the audience.

Группа-феномен, которой нет равных! Спустя десятилетия после конфликта фронтменов, окончательного распада и трагической гибели Горшка, наследие "Короля и Шута" продолжает жить в сердцах миллионов. Что невероятно, с каждым днем их музыка звучит все громче и громче! Откройте для себя новые грани "Короля и Шута" - самой провокационной и влиятельной хоррор-рок-группы СССР и современной России - через интервью участников, коллег по сцене и близких, чтобы прочувствовать всю страсть и бунтарство, с которыми создавались вечные шедевры "КиШ". Эта книга - не о музыке.

Uma travesti chamada Madona. Uma motogirl lésbica chamada Elvis. Por causa da entrega de uma pizza no pior momento possível, eles se encontram. E, entre os antigos rolos amorosos de Madona, e os sonhos de Elvis de se tornar um grande fotógrafo, eles vão precisar um do outro. E assim começa...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, THE NEW YORKER “God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper,” writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life...

Essa sou eu: Lily Allen. Sou mulher. Sou mãe. Fui esposa. Eu bebo. Já usei drogas. Amei e fui decepcionada. Tive sucesso e fracasso. Componho músicas. Canto. Sou tudo isso e muito mais. Quando mulheres contam suas histórias, em alto e bom som, com franqueza, as coisas começam a...

Como é viver à sombra de um mito? Ou, pior, de um legítimo rei do rock: John Lennon. Essa é a sina de Juan LMK, que pelos desígnios do acaso nasceu no mesmo dia, hora e hospital onde morria o gênio dos Beatles. Estamos em 2020, e a banda de Juan, a Paralelepípedos do Óbvio, está...

Ultraje a Rigor: Nós Vamos Invadir Sua Praia, o livro que conta a história da irreverente banda paulista que ajudou a lapidar o novo rosto do rock brasileiro nos anos 80.Ascenção passeia com muito bom humor pela intimidade de uma banda com passagens hilárias quanto surreais, sem firulas...

Jungkook is one of the world's biggest stars, period. His first album, Golden, sold more than 2 million copies on the day of its release and stayed on the Billboard 200 for twenty-four consecutive weeks. How did a young prodigy from South Korea make music history? The Meaning of Jungkook is an...

Singer-songwriter. Trailblazer. Mastermind. The Beatles of her generation. From her genre-busting rise in country music as a teenager to the economic juggernaut that is the Eras Tour, Taylor Swift has blazed a path that is uniquely hers. But how exactly has she managed to scale her success—multiple times—while dominating an industry that cycles through artists and stars like fashion trends? How has she managed to make and remake herself time and again while remaining true to her artistic vision?

Eminent and highly respected nature writer Richard Mabey regards Whistling in the Dark as one of his Top Ten most significant books. After being exceptionally well-received on publication, it remains the only title from his collection that is no longer in print, and the timing feels perfect to...

What the hell is shoegaze? A scene? A movement? A sound? Back in the Nineties, many would have said the so-called genre was entirely fabricated. The term itself, an offensive piss-take given by the notoriously catty and scene-obsessed British music press, was plainly rejected by the absurdly small collection of bands to which it supposedly applied. In this ambitious oral history of a genre that has eluded definition for three decades, Ryan Pinkard unearths the first wave of shoegaze, following the core bands, their sounds, their influence, and their journeys in and out of obscurity.

Math rock sounds like blueprints look: exact, precise, architectural. This trance-like progressive metal music with indie rock and jazz influences has been captivating and challenging listeners for decades. Bands associated with the genre include King Crimson, Black Flag, Don Caballero, Slint, American Football, Toe, Elephant Gym, Covet, and thousands more. In an online age of bedroom producers and sampled beats and loops, math rock is music that is absolutely and resolutely played: men and woman in rooms with instruments creating chaos, beauty, and beautiful chaos.

Seattle band, The Gits and their charismatic front person Mia Zapata were on the verge of international rock stardom but on July 7, 1993, days before their third United States tour, Mia Zapata, The Gits twenty-seven-year-old singer-songwriter, was brutally assaulted and murdered by a stranger. Zapata's death sent chilling ripples through progressive communities throughout the United States. She became a cause-celebre for women's rights activists outraged by the brutal killing and lack of law enforcement support.