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’The sheer definition of a page-turner’ Reader review ’A truly original, bittersweet tale of life, loss and enduring love that had me completely hooked. A treasure of a book!’ Sunday Times bestseller, Ruth Hogan ’Stunning, stunning, stunning’ Anstey Harris
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR • WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS • Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past • SUNDAY TIMES OF…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: konst och underhållning Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
Erik Grönwall shot to stardom over night when he won the Swedish edition of Idol. In his autobiography, Power – Music, Death, Life, we follow Erik’s life from his upbringing till today; his struggles to make it as an artist, his devastating leukemia diagnosis at the height of the pandemic, and his…
Music insinuates itself into our earliest memories; it is intimately connected to our emotional regulation and cognition; its shared rhythms and sounds are essential to our social behaviours. That is why we can remember songs word for word years later, or why certain music has the power to uplift us almost instantly.…
The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. The Liberty Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this…
A Lost Great American Master: meet Jack Kerouac’s inspiration in these heart-expanding tales of immigrant life in 1930s USA, introduced by superfan Stephen Fry.JACK KEROUAC: ’I loved him … He just got me’ ARTHUR MILLER: ’The first to let it all hang out and write like a child in…
’A forgotten classic: darkly funny and startlingly contemporary, full of witty one-liners and stop-you-in-your-tracks observations about romance, work, and life.’ (Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually).
Lord, I have been more chased than chaste . . It feels remarkable to be a deserted wife when one is only…
The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are among the finest of their generation. The Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber…
What does it mean for music to be considered local in contemporary Christian communities, and who shapes this meaning? Through what musical processes have religious beliefs and practices once ‘foreign’ become ‘indigenous’? How does using indigenous musical practices aid in the growth of local Christian religious…
Through in-depth case studies, Religion and Popular Music explores encounters between music, fans and religion. The book examines several popular music artists – including Bob Dylan, Prince and Katy Perry – and looks at the way religion comes into play in their work and personas. Genres explored by…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: konst och underhållning Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Kompositörer och låtskrivare Konst Musik
Music legend Gary Wright reflects on his professional collaboration, friendship and spiritual journey with “quiet Beatle” George Harrison and releases for the first time a song they wrote together.
Best known for his multiplatinum hits “Dream Weaver” and “Love is Alive,” Gary Wright came to prominence as a singer and…
Beth Szczepanski examines how traditional and modern elements interact in the current practice, reception and functions of wind music, or shengguan, at monasteries in Wutaishan, one of China’s four holy mountains of Buddhism. The book provides an invaluable insight into the political and economic history of…
Whilst Contemporary Worship Music arose out of a desire to relate the music of the church to the music of everyday life, this function can quickly be called into question by the diversity of musical lives present in contemporary society. Mark Porter examines the relationship between individuals’ musical lives away from…
Once you’ve collected every 7” from your favorite label, broken your back in the mosh pit, and become so well-versed in the interpersonal dynamics of every hardcore band that there’s nothing more to learn, what’s a punk to do? Try jazz, recommends Bob Suren. No, really. Suren, who wrote Crate…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Minnesteknik och tanketräning Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Whether used to jot down your inner most thoughts, reflect on what you’re grateful for, or to simply write down what needs to be remembered at the store, let this beautifullydesigned journal guide you through your day. This lined journal is sprinkled with words of inspiration throughoutand features a ribbon…
Kategorier: Arbetsterapi Kreativ terapi (t.ex. konst-, musik-, och dramaterapi) Medicin och omvårdnad Omvårdnad och medicinska stödfunktioner
Through the ages, music has proven to be one of the few common links that connects humanity despite language barriers or cultural influences. The purpose of music could then be considered a medium of communication that has evolved into an art form where individuals outwardly express an inner rhythm by means of…
Kategorier: Kulturvetenskap Kulturvetenskap och medievetenskap Populärkultur Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Punk is notorious for its loud music, aggressive attitude and safety pinned style. Less well known is the radical value system that has emerged hand in hand with the sound and aesthetic. Since the 1970s, punks have built their music, fashion and lifestyles around core values of social justice, creative freedom,…
’He’s a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and cunning, and such ordinary comic sadness, that he wins your affection and admiration.’ Hermione Lee, Guardian
Fast Music refers as much to the fast dance music that caused Williams to run round the room on the furniture aged three as to the speed of…
It’s summer, 1984, in blue-collar Swaffham, Massachusetts.
Mel is thirteen, drinking a Slush Puppie at the drugstore, when she hears a voice, ’deep and movie-star dramatic, like Lauren Bacall’: Sylvia.
What follows is a story of transgender awakening. Sylvia’s shameless swagger and tough-girl…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: konst och underhållning Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Fotografi Konst Musik Musiker, sångare och grupper
How can you tell when a new star is born? When does it become clear that the present moment has the power to change the future for ever? When Tim Bergling held his arm in the air in an iconic pose, he did more than get the crowd to dance – he also totally redefined electronic dance music. This book pays tribute to…
The idea that the universe is created out of sound or music (and therefore ismusic) is a very ancient one. In this book, Joscelyn Godwin brings together three contemporary German thinkers who exemplify this tradition in its modern variants: Marius Schneider, Rudolf Haase, and Hans Erhard Lauer. The selections draw on…
Parents and teachers can enrich their toddlers’ lives by encouraging and playing music with them. Research proves that:
Human communication skills are helped by exposure to music at an early age?even before birth!
Neurologically and anthropologically, infants and young children need music as a way to rhythmically…
Jamesina Ross is long finished with men. But one night a stranger seeking lodgings knocks on the door of her tenement flat. He doesn’t recognise her, but she remembers him at once. Not that she plans to mention it. She has no intention of trusting anyone enough to let herself be vulnerable again.
A lifetime ago…
’A brilliant musical almanac, compiled by an engaging writer whose musical knowledge is not just detailed but wide-ranging and generous.’ Jonathan Coe
With entries for every day of the year, ranging from mini-essays to pithy and engaging sentences, Don’t Stop the Music is a novel musical companion…
This thesis examines encounters between music and nature through a
productive and transversal approach to music analysis with examples
from the contemporary Western art music repertoire. In three
analytical chapters, I study how contemporary music potentially
reframes the positions and relations between music, humans…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
”It takes a great journalist to find the stories behind the mysteries we carry. Howard Fishman has done that with his superb examination of Connie Converse.” – Ken Burns
”Nothing short of remarkable.” – Publishers Weekly
”A massive and fascinating feat.” – MOJO…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: konst och underhållning Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Självbiografi: konst och underhållning
Discover the captivating world of music with "Your Backstage Pass to My Life in Music" by Staffan Öfwerman. This engaging book takes you on an unforgettable journey through the author’s remarkable experiences in the music industry.
Step behind the scenes as Staffan, a former musician with an impressive…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
Foreword by Bob Stanley
On a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.
The song was ’Heartbreak Hotel’ by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing…
For three years Song Yan has filled her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students.
She finds herself adrift, but her husband seems reluctant for a child of their own. It takes the arrival of her mother-in-law, together with sudden strange parcels and stranger dreams, to shake Song Yan from…
Kategorier: Bildbehandlingsprogram Digital musikproduktion Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Industrier och branscher Informationsteknik Media-, underhållnings-, informations- och kommunikationsbranschen Musikindustri
Digital technologies and metadata are increasingly intervening in use and consumption of music. This thesis offers an analysis of the role of metadata in contemporary music streaming practices. The study sees a correlation between archival strategies and the presentation of recorded music, and it exemplifies this by…
For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps and the gulags of Stalin’s Soviet Union. Between 1933, the year of the opening of the Dachau Lager in Germany, to Stalin’s…
Introduced by Hilton Als, in ’one of the best novels about adolescence in American literature’ (New York Times) two siblings come of age in a mountainous wilderness … ’One of the strangest and angriest novels of the twentieth century.’ Lauren Groff ’An extraordinary, savage…
An eccentric professor saves a London Zoo ape from a rocket experiment in this dazzling classic by a trailblazing animal rights activist. ’Flawless.’ Sunday Times ’Ingenious.’ Observer ’Sheer originality.’ Daily Telegraph When my species has destroyed itself, we may need yours to…
This practical guide opens with an overview of the therapeutic counselling techniques and medical treatments used for children suffering from ADHD. Dick de Ruiter then describes the possibility of using special sounds and music as an extension of these therapies. As a therapeutic tool music and sound has been…
Kategorier: Alternativa terapier, healing och hälsa Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
Full-colour images of beautiful, astounding water crystals are accompanied by two CDs full of music to improve your health and vitality. Masaru Emoto’s beautiful high-speed photographs capture water at the precise moment it freezes—and his scientific research demonstrates how words, music and thoughts can…
Chailley, a professor of music history at the Sorbonne, reveals the coherence of the opera and the hidden significance of its characters and situations. The author relates each of these elements to the esoteric tradition from which they emanate and to Mozart’s own involvement with the Masonic brotherhood.
Music has always been esteemed for its power to speak directly to our higher consciousness, a power founded in the purity of simple harmonic ratios. In this book, Alain Danielou traces the development of musical scales and tuning from their origins in both China and India, through their merging in ancient Greece, and…
Drawing upon ancient Indian ragas, or musical compositions, Harish Johari has created meditation music especially for the early morning and evening hours. Traditionally, ragas are inspired by, and reflect, sounds of nature–such as birds, insects, rivers, and wind–which change in quality depending upon the…
Joe Franklins Great Entertainmant Trivia : Put Your Movie, TV and Music Trivia Knowledge to the Test
Created by Joe Franklin – one of show business’s enduring personalities – this book is guaranteed to provide hours of pure enjoyment for anyone who loves to be quizzed about movies, television, radio or music. Joe has created a trivia game – in book form – that provides over 1000…
This easy-to-read picture book contains actual photographs of children playing music, moving to a beat and enjoying music alone or with parents or peers. The rhyming text, using the simplest vocabulary, says how everyone can play music. It emphasizes that no special training is needed to shake a rattle, dance to a…
This handbook of musical alchemy emphasizes the role of music in raising consciousness to benefit body and mind.
A gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB”A nerve-racking political thriller with the most exciting detective duo in a long time. Bring on their next case” Romy Hausmann, author of Dear Child
”A rich, engrossing novel” Literary Review
The launch of…