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"The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...
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Believing that every great song has a fascinating backstory, Myers brings to life five decades of music through oral histories of forty-five transformative songs woven from interviews with the artists who created them.From "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" by Lloyd Price to "Losing my religion" by R.E.M., leading artists reveal the emotions, inspirations, and techniques behind their influential works. The result is a love letter to the songs that have defined generations....
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What most songwriting guides won't tell you is that success as a songwriter - however you define it - is as much about how you live your life and the way you see the world as it is about your skill with words and music."The Art of Songwriting is a comprehensive guide to life, art and making great songs. It's not about chasing a hit song. It's not about theories that are interesting but no use filling the blank page. And most of all - it's not just...
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Hal Leonard Corporation
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 score (416 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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Highlighted composers of selected works include: Fred Ahlert; Harold Arlen; Irving Berlin; Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn; Hoagy Carmichael; Cy Coleman; B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson; Walter Donaldson; Vernon Duke; Duke Ellington; Sammy Fain; Dorothy Fields; George Gershwin; Johnny Green; Gus Kahn; Jerome Kern; Ted Koehler; Burton Lane; Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe; Jay Livingston and Ray Evans; Frank Loesser; Jimmy...
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"This revealing and timely book is a must-have for anyone passionate about music. LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community's struggle for acceptance worldwide. With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time transferred from the cabaret stage and brought to the homes of millions. David Bowie Made Me Gay is...
9) Songwriting
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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xvi, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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This friendly, hands-on guide shares insight from songwriters who've written legendary songs that have gotten airplay for five decades. Discover tips on identifying the music genre that best fits your talents, building your own lyric-writing voice, and creating music and melodies. This book also guides you through collaborating with other writers, creating demo recordings and navigating the business of professional songwriting.
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Vintage
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2016.
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728 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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Its rhythms have influenced how we walk down the street, how we face ourselves in the mirror, and how we handle the world around us. It has influenced our morals and social mores; it has transformed our attitudes towards race and gender, religion and politics. Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the first recording in the 1890s to the early pop superstars of the twentieth century and the omnipresence...
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HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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8 audio discs (9.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Believing that every great song has a fascinating backstory, Myers brings to life five decades of music through oral histories of forty-five transformative songs woven from interviews with the artists who created them. From "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" by Lloyd Price to "Losing my religion" by R.E.M., leading artists reveal the emotions, inspirations, and techniques behind their influential works. The result is a love letter to the songs that have defined...
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Time-Life
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©2010
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9 videodiscs (approximately 17 hr., 15 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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For over thirty-five years, Soul Train was a national institution, the premier U.S. television show for showcasing the latest names in the world of black music--Container.
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In The Way You Wear Your Hat, author Bill Zehme presents a masterful assembly of the most personal details and gorgeous minutiae of Frank Sinatra's way of livingmatters of the heart and heartbreak, friendship and leadership, drinking and cavorting, brawling and wooing, tuxedos and snap-brimsall crafted from rare interviews with Sinatra himself as well as many other intimates, including Tony Bennett, Don Rickles, Angie Dickinson, Tony Curtis, and Robert...
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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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viii, 254 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Is our love of pop music innately queer? That's the question Sasha Geffen answers--with a "yes," of course--in this book. Beginning with the Beatles and moving to the present, Geffen identifies artists of all stripes who performed "outside the limitations of their assigned genders." This includes not only trans artists like Wendy Carlos, or openly gender-bending artists like David Bowie and Prince, but ostensibly cis and hetero artists whose work...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xii, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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English
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"An illuminating deep dive into the making of Bruce Springsteen's most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen's career--from the New York Times bestselling author of Petty: The Biography. Without Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen might not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen's hugely successful The River should have been the hit-packed album Born in the U.S.A, but instead, in 1982, he came out with Nebraska,...
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Daniel Radcliffe is "Weird" Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.
18) Maybe now
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What is more important? Friendship, loyalty, or love? Colleen Hoover and Griffin Peterson collaborate once again to bring fans of "Maybe Someday" back into the musical world of Ridge Lawson and Sydney Blake. And Maggie. And Warren and Bridgette.
Maggie meets Jake, a cardiologist with a penchant for tandem skydiving. Getting ready for a post-jump date, Maggie comes across an old list of things she wanted to do "maybe one of these days," and decides...
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""Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow."--Kansas City Star. Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth-century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor, and host of the hit NPR music radio program, What makes it great? Now, in Listening for America, he turns his keen ear to the great American songbook, bringing...
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"In Rise Up and Sing!, Andrea Warner explores how music has contributed to the fight for social justice. Across eight areas of activism--the climate emergency, Indigenous rights, civil rights, disability rights, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, gender equality, the peace/anti-war movement, and human rights--Warner introduces some of the artists, past and present, who have made a difference both on stage and off. Through ground-breaking artists and iconic moments,...
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