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McFly - Unsaid Things...Our Story

by Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd & Dougie Poynter et al.

Prepare to meet the real McFly .

In 2003, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter came together and formed what would become one of the most popular and successful bands in the UK. Just teenagers...

Whitney Houston: An Unauthorized Biography

by Belmont and Belcourt and Be Biographies

She still wondered, "Am I good enough? Am I pretty enough? Will they like me?" It was the burden that made her great and the part that caused her to stumble in the end. If you could hear me, no I would tell...

Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter

by Randy L. L. Schmidt & Dionne Warwick

An intimate profile of one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century, this first full-length biography of Karen Carpenter details every aspect of her life, from her modest Connecticut upbringing...

KISS FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Hottest Band in the Land

by Dale Sherman

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The Book of Exodus: The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century

by Vivien Goldman

Follow the Sacred Journey to Create One of the Lasting Musical Masterpieces of Our Time

Bob Marley is one of our most important and influential artists. Recorded in London after an assassination attempt on his...

Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny

by Nile Rodgers

NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 10 ROCK MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME BY ROLLING STONE

From Chic to Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers is the creative force behind some of the biggest hits ever recorded. Here is the story of how global...

Take a Walk on the Dark Side

by R. Gary Patterson

Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban...

Funky Nassau: Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music

by Timothy Rommen

This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the...

Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia

by Uroš Cvoro

Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Beginning with 1970s Socialist Yugoslavia, Uroš Čvoro explores the cultural and political paradoxes...

Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface between Print and Oral Traditions

by David Atkinson & Steve Roud

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into 'street literature'. Not only are some traditional singers known to have...

Rock Singing Lessons for Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Sing (Free Audio Available)

by LearnToPlayMusic.com & Peter Gelling

Teach yourself how to sing with our easy rock singing lessons for beginners. Covers the important techniques required to learn to sing including how to match pitch and rhythms, pre-hear notes, copy melodies...

They All Played Ragtime - The True Story Of An American Music

by Ridi Blesh

Blesh published They All Played Ragtime as first major scholarly work on ragtime music in 1950, which sparked a ragtime revival. He founded Circle Records in 1946, which recorded new material from aging early...

Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond

by Mark Fitzgerald & John O'Flynn

This interdisciplinary volume of essays contemplates whether 'music in Ireland' can be regarded as one interrelated plane of cultural and/or national identity, given the various conceptions and contexts of both...

Countercultures and Popular Music

by Sheila Whiteley & Jedediah Sklower

'Counterculture' emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and socio-political phenomena. This volume provides an essential new...

S Club 7

by Anna Louise Golden

GET THE SCOOP ON YOUR FAVORITE BRIT BAND!

S Club 7 is a group of seven cheeky guys and gals who like to have fun wherever they go. They're also a hot new band with their own cool TV show. Now author Anna Louise...

The Moffatts

by Anna Louise Golden

Scott, Clint, Dave and Bob. They're brothers, friends, and talented musicians. Hailing from Victoria, British Columbia, these four cuties (three of them are triplets!) sing pop music for a new generation. It's...

'N Sync

by Anna Louise Golden

With such groovin' Top 20 songs as "I Want You Back," "Tearing Up My Heart," and their unforgettable remake of Christopher Cross's "Sailing," 'N Sync is one of today's hottest all-boy bands. And not only are...

Black Music, Black Poetry: Blues and Jazz's Impact on African American Versification

by Gordon E. Thompson

Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that range from...

Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler

by Ethan Brown

Based on police wiretaps and exclusive interviews with drug kingpins and hip-hop insiders, this is the untold story of how the streets and housing projects of southeast Queens took over the rap industry.

For...

Living Politics, Making Music: The Writings of Jan Fairley

by Jan Fairley, edited by Simon Frith & Stan Rijven

The late Jan Fairley (1949-2012) was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and this book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most...