From a legend of rock n' roll comes a memoir that traces at once the author's own struggles with drugs, sex, and the ghosts of his tumultuous upbringing, and an extremely intimate portrait of an all-time great band as it...
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Author:Schneider, JasonSummary:Whispering Pines is the first comprehensive history of Canada’s immense songwriting legacy, from Gordon Lightfoot to Joni Mitchell.
Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment...
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Author:Thompson, KateSummary:Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tir na nOg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his...
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Author:Goobie, BethSummary:"Shadow Council chooses Sally to be their go-fer, and deliver messages of doom to selected targets. How will the other students respond? A tense, complex novel"
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Author:Gold, NoraSummary:The Dead Man is a compelling novel about a woman who is obsessed. Eve, a composer of sacred music and a music therapist, is well aware of the saying, “Physician, heal thyself,” but she just can’t seem to do this. For some...
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Author:Nietzsche, Friedrich WilhelmSummary: - Author:TAYLOR, WilliamSummary:
n his sixth form year, Matthew 'Spider' Trent must make decisions regarding his future with little guidance from his family, but the opportunity to enter a piano competition gives him a focus and provides the direction he...
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Author:Goodman, SteveSummary:An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality―when sound helps produce a bad vibe.
Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread―to...
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Author:Browne, DavidSummary:The Grateful Dead's long, strange trip has been the subject of countless books- but none like So Many Roads. Drawing on new interviews with surviving members and people in their inner circle along with previously unknown details...
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Author:Pawagi, ManjushaSummary:Priva begs and begs for a piano. But when her parents grant her wish, she discovers that she can't make the wonderful sounds she hears in her head! A resourceful girl, she comes up with an ingenious solution that creates havoc at the...
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Fourteen-year-old Rose is sure she's going to become a folk-music sensation, with her best friend, Shilo, at her side. But first she needs to convince her mom to keep paying for her expensive violin lessons. Her mom wants her to...
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Author:Ball, HeatherSummary:This book features a selection of politically-active, inspiring women who have made important contributions to music history. Their stories begin in the mid-18th Century with Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart, a gifted German composer whose...
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Mercedes Leroyer, femme de cœur, oscille entre le Québec et la Louisiane. Toujours à la recherche d’elle-même, la musique est son outil de prédilection pour prendre conscience de la différence qui existe entre les peuples. Être à l’...
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Author:Ross, AlexSummary:One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011
Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of...
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Author:Marom, MalkaSummary:When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer that she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville...
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A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history.
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Author:Madden, KerrySummary:In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that...
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A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time.Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C.,...
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Author:Noriega Rachwal, MariaSummary:In the 1940s it was unheard of for women to be members of a professional orchestra, let alone play “masculine” instruments like the bass or trombone. Yet despite these formidable challenges, the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra (MWSO...
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