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PEOPLE 50 Years of the CMA Awards: Country Music's Finest
by The Editors of PEOPLEPEOPLE presents a special on 50 years of the Country Music Awards.
PEOPLE Adele: 2016 World Tour
by The Editors of PEOPLEHello, It's Adele! The London-native does not need an introduction, but certainly deserves one. With accolades including multiple Grammy Awards, Golden Globes, and an Academy Award, being named "Artist of the Year" by Billboard and being recognized as one of Time's most influential people, Adele has become one of the most respected artists in the world. Inspired by legends such as the Spice Girls, Madonna, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald and more, discover how Adele has chased her dream--from 19 to 21 to 25--and found her own voice, soaring from hometown hero to global sensation.In the all-new, special collector's edition from People, Adele: 2016 World Tour, discover how Adele rose to stardom--from Tottenham to the big stage. Get an exclusive inside peek at the summer's hottest tour as well as a rare look inside her family, her style transformation, and the inspiration behind some of her greatest hits. With her heartwarming charm, natural sense of humor, and unparalleled talent, Adele is a one-woman showstopper that has changed the music industry and the world forever.
PEOPLE Celebrating Beatlemania
by The Editors of PEOPLEPeople Magazine presents Celebrating Beatlemania.
PEOPLE George Michael: A Pop Star Life
by The Editors of PEOPLEWith glorious, rarely seen photos and new interviews with Aretha Franklin, Cindy Crawford, Melissa Etheridge and remembrances from many other famous friends, this People commemorative edition celebrates the unparalleled life and career of George Michael (1963-2016). From his early years as a teen songwriter with Wham! to his incredible solo success with hits like "Faith" and "Freedom '90." A must for fans!
PEOPLE Glen Campbell: A Life In Song, 1936-2017
by The Editors of PEOPLEMemories of a music legendYou know the voice, you know the songs: from "Rhinestone Cowboy," "Gentle on My Mind," "Wichita Lineman," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and more, the music of Glen Campbell touched so many American lives. The extraordinary musician and showman sold more than 45 million records over a six-decade career that included a stint as a Beach Boy. He inspired us with his courageous battle with Alzheimer's, selling out arena after arena even as he fought off the disease. Now you can remember the star and hitmaker with a new special edition from PEOPLE, Glen Campbell: A Life in Song. This beautiful tribute is packed with photographs and rich storytelling from throughout Campbell's life and little-known personal history, as well as great stories and highlights from his Grammy-studded career and wild relationship with country star Tanya Tucker. Beloved as a guitarist, singer, TV star and actor, Campbell overcame drug and alcohol addiction to triumph musically and personally again and again.
PEOPLE Prince
by The Editors of PEOPLEThe editors of PEOPLE Magazine present Prince for PEOPLE Prince.
PEOPLE The Beatles 1969
by The Editors of PEOPLEThe editors of PEOPLE Magazine present PEOPLE The Beatles 1969.
PEOPLE The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper at 50!
by The Editors of PEOPLEFifty years ago, the Beatles introduced Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, now considered one of the greatest rock albums of all time. This special edition explores their Summer of Love masterpiece, with the stories behind the songs, interviews with the band, and a complete who's who of the crowded-with-pop-culture-icons album cover. It's hard to believe that all these groundbreaking songs first appeared on just one album: "With a Little Help from My Friends," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "A Day in the Life" and the rest of this classic lineup. Packed with glowing photos of John, Paul, George and Ringo, plus all of the friends who helped them get by, this is the perfect keepsake for Beatles fans everywhere.
PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
by Abigail GardnerPJ Harvey’s performances are premised on the core contention that she is somehow causing ’trouble’. Just how this trouble can be theorised within the context of the music video and what it means for a development of the ways we might conceptualise ’disruption’ and think about music video lies at the heart of this book. Abigail Gardner mixes feminist theory and critical models from film and video scholarship as a rich means of interrogating Harvey’s work and redefining her disruptive strategies. The book presents a rethinking of the masquerade that allies it to cultural memory, precipitated by Gardner’s claim that Harvey’s performances are conversations with the past, specifically with visualised memories of archetypes of femininity. Harvey’s masquerades emerge from her conversations and renegotiations with both national and transatlantic musical, visual and lyrical heritages. It is the first academic book to present analysis of Harvey’s music videos and opens up fresh avenues into exploring what is at stake in the video work of one of Britain’s premier singer-songwriters. It extends the discussion on music video to consider how to make sense of the rapidly developing digital environment in which it now sits. The interdisciplinary nature of the book should attract readers from a range of subject areas including popular music studies, cultural studies, media and communication studies, and gender studies.
PRIORITY SR 03.5 My Name Is Celia Me Llamo Celia The Life of Celia Cruz La Vida De Celia Cruz: The Life Of Celia Cruz
by Rafael López Monica Brown
PSICODELIA SUBURBANA - David Bowie e o Beckenham Arts Lab
by Alessandra Lobo Mary FinniganEste livro não é sobre as músicas do David Bowie. Existem vários livros já escritos sobre isso. É um livro sobre uma fatia única da história, sobre quando os jovens ao Sul de Londres se uniram para uma experiência mágica cujo auge se deu na tarde de 16 de agosto. Posso escrever uma prosa razoável, mas não sou nenhuma poeta genial ou musicista. David Bowie era desde calibre. As palavras em sua canção "Memory of a Free Festival" e a melodia que segue com ela reflete bem melhor toda a atmosfera daquele dia do que qualquer tentativa que eu faça.
PaRappa the Rapper (Boss Fight Books)
by Mike SholarsIn the mid-90s, a Japanese prog rock star, an American visual artist, and their small team of collaborators made a colorful cartoon hip hop rhythm game that looked and played (and kicked! and punched!) like nothing else on the market. Initially dismissed by some as a curiosity, PaRappa the Rapper was a hit with players that would eventually sell millions of copies, receive two sequels, and inspire entire genres into being. And for author Mike Sholars, PaRappa left a lasting impact. Featuring exclusive interviews with creators Masaya Matsuura and Rodney Greenblat, original voice cast member Saundra Williams, and a medley of sharp game critics and music experts, Sholars&’ PaRappa the Rapper is equal parts recap, remix, and recollection. Sholars uses his love of hip hop and gaming to celebrate PaRappa&‘s unprecedented mechanics, art, humor, cultural specificity, and uplifting themes as he pairs energetic game history with personal memoir to explain how a game about a rapping dog helped him feel seen when he needed it the most. Funny, informative, and sincere, Sholars&’ book is a heartfelt reminder why we all gotta believe.
Pablo Alborán: Mil secretos que contarte
by Jordi BianciottoPablo Alborán se ha convertido en un hito en la historia de la música española del siglo XXI, a pesar de su todavía breve trayectoria artística. En sólo dos años y con tres álbumes publicados, ha conseguido un impacto popular inaudito, con unas canciones que han llegado al corazón de millones de personas en España, Portugal y Latinoamérica. Sin embargo, los éxitos y los récords batidos, no han cambiado su actitud: Pablo Alborán mantiene los pies en la tierra, la sencillez de carácter y la cercanía a sus fans, consciente de que sin ellos nada hubiera sido posible.Este libro recoge las claves su éxito abrumador: desde sus raíces y su pasión por la música hasta su consagración como fenómeno de ventas discográficas con sólo 24 años, pasando por su especial vínculo con la familia y su intensa y cercana relación con los fans, incluyendo además información inédita sobre los proyectos y perspectivas de futuro de un artista que podría convertirse en poco tiempo en la nueva estrella global de la música española.
Paddington Plays On (I Can Read Level 1)
by Michael BondPaddington Bear has delighted readers of all ages for almost 60 years! Now part of the I Can Read line, Michael Bond’s classic character will drum up the interest of beginning readers with his charming antics. Paddington is having a wonderful time while on vacation with the Browns in a small French town. He loves exploring and meeting new friends. So how exactly does he end up marching through town as a drummer in the local band? Sure, he can keep the beat on the drum. But can he keep up with the band?Paddington Plays On is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences.
Paint Your Career Green
by Stan Schatt Michele LoblA roadmap for people who want to avoid starting over or taking a severe pay cut when they change careers to become part of a growing green industry. Readers will learn about green certificate programs that offer retraining in a short timeframe.
Painting Music in the Sixteenth Century: Essays in Iconography (Variorum Collected Studies)
by H. Colin SlimProfessor Slim deals here with the several roles that music can play in the artworks of the Renaissance, looking in particular at Italian painting of the 16th century. For understandable reasons, art historians sometimes neglect the role of music and, especially, that of musical notation when studying works of art. These studies not only identify musical compositions, wholly or partially inscribed in paintings - and tapestries, ceramics, prints as well - but also seek reasons why these particular musical compositions were included and analyse their relevance to the scene depicted. Furthermore, as many of these studies show, identifying a musical composition, especially if it has a text, leads to the formation of ideas about iconographical functions and thus augments interpretations of the visual art.
Painting the Cannon's Roar: Music, the Visual Arts and the Rise of an Attentive Public in the Age of Haydn
by Thomas TolleyFrom c.1750 to c.1810 the paths of music history and the history of painting converged with lasting consequences. The publication of Newton's Opticks at the start of the eighteenth century gave a 'scientific' basis to the analogy between sight and sound, allowing music and the visual arts to be defined more closely in relation to one another. This was also a period which witnessed the emergence of a larger and increasingly receptive audience for both music and the visual arts - an audience which potentially included all social strata. The development of this growing public and the commercial potential that it signified meant that for the first time it became possible for a contemporary artist to enjoy an international reputation. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the career of Joseph Haydn. Although this phenomenon defies conventional modes of study, the book shows how musical pictorialism became a major creative force in popular culture. Haydn, the most popular living cultural personality of the period, proved to be the key figure in advancing the new relationship. The connections between the composer and his audiences and leading contemporary artists (including Tiepolo, Mengs, Kauffman, Goya, David, Messerschmidt, Loutherbourg, Canova, Copley, Fuseli, Reynolds, Gillray and West) are examined here for the first time. By the early nineteenth century, populism was beginning to be regarded with scepticism and disdain. Mozart was the modern Raphael, Beethoven the modern Michelangelo. Haydn, however, had no clear parallel in the accepted canon of Renaissance art. Yet his recognition that ordinary people had a desire to experience simultaneous aural and visual stimulation was not altogether lost, finding future exponents in Wagner and later still in the cinematic arts.
Palestinian Music and Song: Expression And Resistance Since 1900 (Public Cultures Of The Middle East And North Africa Ser.)
by David A. Mcdonald Stig-Magnus Thorsén Heather Bursheh Moslih KanaanehDrawing from a long history of indigenous traditions and incorporating diverse influences of surrounding cultures, music in Palestine and among the millions of Palestinians in diaspora offers a unique window on cultural and political events of the past century. From the perspective of scholars, performers, composers, and activists, Palestinian Music and Song examines the many ways in which music has been a force of representation, nation building, and social action. From the turn of the 20th century, when Palestine became an exotic object of fascination for missionaries and scholars, to 21st-century transnational collaborations in hip hop and new media, this volume traces the conflicting dynamics of history and tradition, innovation and change, power and resistance.
Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380–1513
by Christopher Alan ReynoldsA new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context in a fertile consideration of the ways historical and musical currents affected each other. This work is both a historical account of performers and composers and an examination of how their music revealed their cultural values and educational backgrounds. Reynolds analyzes several anonymous masses copied at St. Peter's, proposing attributions that have biographical implications for the composers. Taken together, the archival records and the music sung at St. Peter's reveal a much clearer picture of musical life at the basilica than either source would alone. The contents of the St. Peter's choirbook help document musical life as surely as that musical life—insofar as it can be reconstructed from the archives—illumines the choirbook. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures
by Ted Kessler'A great writer' Paul Weller'A music journalist of integrity' Billy Childish'There's only one Ted Kessler!' Liam GallagherPAPER CUTS is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press. But it's also a love letter to it, the tale of how music magazines saved one man's life. Ted Kessler left home and school around his seventeenth birthday, determined 'to be someone who listened to music professionally'. That dream appeared forlorn when he was later arrested for theft behind the counter of the record shop he managed during acid house's long hot summer of love. Paper Cuts tells how Kessler found redemption through music and writing and takes us on a journey alongside the stars he interviewed and the work-place dramas he navigated as a senior staffer at NME through the boom-time '90s and on to the monthly Q in 2004, where he worked for sixteen years before it folded with him at its helm as editor in 2020.We travel in time alongside musical heroes Paul Weller, Kevin Rowland, Mark E Smith, and to Cuba twice, first with Shaun Ryder and Bez, then with Manic Street Preachers. We spend long, mad nights out with Oasis and The Strokes, quality time with Jeff Buckley and Florence Welch, and watch Radiohead deliver cold revenge upon Kessler in public. A story about love and death, about what it's like when a music writer shacks up with a conflict of interest, and what happens when your younger brother starts appearing on the cover of the magazines you work for, this is the memoir of "a delinquent doofus" whose life was both rescued and defined by music magazines.
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures
by Ted Kessler'A great writer' Paul Weller'A music journalist of integrity' Billy Childish'There's only one Ted Kessler!' Liam GallagherPAPER CUTS is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press. But it's also a love letter to it, the tale of how music magazines saved one man's life. Ted Kessler left home and school around his seventeenth birthday, determined 'to be someone who listened to music professionally'. That dream appeared forlorn when he was later arrested for theft behind the counter of the record shop he managed during acid house's long hot summer of love. Paper Cuts tells how Kessler found redemption through music and writing and takes us on a journey alongside the stars he interviewed and the work-place dramas he navigated as a senior staffer at NME through the boom-time '90s and on to the monthly Q in 2004, where he worked for sixteen years before it folded with him at its helm as editor in 2020.We travel in time alongside musical heroes Paul Weller, Kevin Rowland, Mark E Smith, and to Cuba twice, first with Shaun Ryder and Bez, then with Manic Street Preachers. We spend long, mad nights out with Oasis and The Strokes, quality time with Jeff Buckley and Florence Welch, and watch Radiohead deliver cold revenge upon Kessler in public. A story about love and death, about what it's like when a music writer shacks up with a conflict of interest, and what happens when your younger brother starts appearing on the cover of the magazines you work for, this is the memoir of "a delinquent doofus" whose life was both rescued and defined by music magazines.
Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones
by Elizabeth WinderDiscover the true story of the four women who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help shape and curate the image of The Rolling Stones—perfect for fans of Girls Like Us. The Rolling Stones have long been considered one of the greatest rock-and-roll bands of all time. At the forefront of the British Invasion and heading up the counterculture movement of the 1960s, the Stones' innovative music and iconic performances defined a generation, and fifty years later, they're still performing to sold-out stadiums around the globe. Yet, as the saying goes, behind every great man is a greater woman, and behind these larger-than-life rockstars were four incredible women whose stories have yet to be fully unpacked . . . until now.In Parachute Women, Elizabeth Winder introduces us to the four women who inspired, styled, wrote for, remixed, and ultimately helped create the legend of the Rolling Stones. Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, and Anita Pallenberg put the glimmer in the Glimmer Twins and taught a group of straight-laced boys to be bad. They opened the doors to subterranean art and alternative lifestyles, turned them on to Russian literature, occult practices, and LSD. They connected them to cutting edge directors and writers, won them roles in art house films that renewed their appeal. They often acted as unpaid stylists, providing provocative looks from their personal wardrobes. They remixed tracks for chart-topping albums, and sometimes even wrote the actual songs. More hip to the times than the rockers themselves, they consciously (and unconsciously) kept the band current—and confident—with that mythic lasting power they still have today.Lush in detail and insight, and long overdue, Parachute Women is a group portrait of the four audacious women who transformed the Stones into international stars, but who were themselves marginalized by the male-dominated rock world of the late '60s and early '70s. Written in the tradition of Sheila Weller's Girls Like Us, it's a story of lust and rivalries, friendships and betrayals, hope and degradation, and the birth of rock and roll.
Paradise Rules
by Beth KeryFor fans for Sylvia Day, J. Kenner and Maya Banks. A sizzlingly sexy novel from the New York Times ebook bestselling author of the Because You Are Mine series and The Affair.To most people Hawaii's crystal shores are an inviting opportunity to escape reality. But for Lana Rodriguez, the picture-perfect getaway disguises the bitter truths she escaped years ago. Now a successful blues singer, Lana's returning to Waikiki with a different outlook on the past, and a bold defiance when it comes to men, romance, and sex. Local celebrity, businessman and island god, Jason Koa, may be every woman's dream. For Lana, it's not exactly love at first sight. Though their start is rocky, they can't deny the passions they arouse in each other. Jason refuses to become Lana's pawn. It's time to show her who makes the rules on this island - and in the bedroom. But will Jason's attempt at breaking Lana's shell reveal secrets that neither are prepared to face, or will they allow themselves to get swept away by a tidal wave of desire?Enter the seductive world of Beth Kery where the rules are broken with that first electrifying touch in the sizzling Because You Are Mine, One Night of Passion and The Affair novels.
Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece (SOAS Studies in Music)
by Eleni KallimopoulouSince the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the urban musical style of 'paradosiaká' ('traditional'). Drawing from a varied repertoire that includes Turkish art music and folk and popular musics of Greece and Turkey, and identified by the use of instruments which previously had little or no performing tradition in Greece, paradosiaká has had to define itself by negotiating contrastive tendencies towards differentiation and a certain degree of overlapping in relation to a range of indigenous Greek musics. This monograph explores paradosiaká as a musical style and as a field of discourse, seeking to understand the relation between sound and meanings constructed through sound. It draws on interviews, commercial recordings, written musical discourse, and the author's own experience as a practising paradosiaká musician. Some main themes discussed in the book are the migration of instruments from Turkey to Greece; the process of 'indigenization' whereby paradosiaká was imbued with local meanings and aesthetic value; the accommodation of the style within official and popular discourses of 'Greekness'; its prophetic role in the rapprochement of Greek culture with modern Turkey and with suppressed aspects of the Greek Ottoman legacy; as well as the varied worldviews and current musical dilemmas of individual practitioners in the context of professionalization, commercialization, and the intensification of cross-cultural contact. The text is richly illustrated with transcriptions, illustrations and includes downloadable resources. The book makes a valuable contribution to ethnomusicology, cultural studies, as well as to the study of the Balkans and the Mediterranean.
Paralelismos y paradojas
by Edward W. Said Daniel BarenboimEl israelí Daniel Barenboim -director de la orquesta Sinfónica de Chicago y de la Ópera Estatal de Berlín- y el palestino-noreteamericano Edward Said -eminente crítico literario y comprometido analista del conflicto de Oriente Próximo- han cultivado desde hace muchos años una profunda amistad que se hace patente en el apasionado y cordial intercambio de ideas que tiene lugar en estas conversaciones.Barenboim y Said hablan, entre otras cuestiones, de las diferencias entre la escritura de prosa y la de la música, de políticos que tratan de llegar a acuerdos y de artistas que sólo se comprometen con su arte, del famoso director Furtwängler, de Beethoven como supremo compositor de sonatas, de Wagner, de maestros y discípulos y, sobre todo, del poder de la cultura para ir más allá de las barreras nacionales y las diferencias políticas.Paralelismos y paradojas es un libro de ideas originales y sorprendentes sobre música, política y cultura que despliega un derroche de inteligencia de dos grandes mitos de nuestra cultura contemporánea.