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World Musical Instruments
Author: Pepin Press Format: Mixed media product Number of Pages: 224 This book is an extraordinary pictorial dictionary of musical instruments from around the world, containing over 1500 drawings. Each...
The B.B. King Reader: Six Decades of Commentary
Author: Richard Kostelanetz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 348 B.B. King is a national treasure. For more than five decades he has been the consummate blues performer. His...
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
Author: John Szwed Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection forBiography Published in celebration of Holiday s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer...
Menuhin: A Life
Author: Sir Humphrey Burton, CBE Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as...
Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
Author: Peter Ames Carlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames...
A Drop of Patience
Author: William Melvin Kelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here...
Gypsy Music The Balkans and Beyond
Author: Alan Ashton-Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 248 The figure of the gypsy is simultaneously vilified and romanticized. Gypsies have for centuries been associated with criminality and...
Beethovens Eroica The First Great Romantic Symphony
Author: James Hamilton-Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and...