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The Beatles
by Allan Kozinn Norman LebrechtThe Beatles follows the extraordinary development of four self-taught musicians from Liverpool who revolutionized the world of popular music and created a treasury of songs astonishing for ary a loser in the lot. Kozinn is a thorough, persuasive guide through the Beatles' musical bridges, crescendos, odd bars and dialogue loops-for the most part without the snappy, shallow patter of too many rock critics.
Garth Pig Steals the Show
by Mary RaynerFrom the book: The Pig family has formed a band, but they need one more player. On the very day of their big concert, a hairy horn-blower sticks her long, pointed nose through the door and volunteers to play. William Pig wonders about this mysterious musician who spends most of the performance licking her lips. And when Garth suddenly disappears from his chair, it's up to William to save his little brother and the show. With some creative conducting, he brings the concert to an unforgettable finale. Performing with all the humor and affection of their previous adventures, Mary Rayner's beloved Pig family is sure to receive a hearty "Bravo!" for their latest triumph. Other books about the Pig family are available from Bookshare.
Famous Hymns and Their Stories
by Christopher IdleThe author has collected traditional stories about the inspirations that led to the writing of such hymns as "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken," "Now Thank We All our God," "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing," "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross," and quite a few more.
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
by Russell Freedman"A voice like yours," celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto Marian Anderson, "is heard once in a hundred years." This insightful account of the great African American vocalist considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country. Drawing on Anderson's own writings and other contemporary accounts, Russell Freedman shows readers a singer pursuing her art despite the social constraints that limited the careers of black performers in the 1920s and 1930s. Though not a crusader or a spokesperson by nature, Marian Anderson came to stand for all black artists -- and for all Americans of color -- when, with the help of such prominent figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, she gave her landmark 1939 performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, which signaled the end of segregation in the arts.<P><P> Carefully researched, expertly told, and profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs, this Newbery Honor and Sibert Medal-winning book is a moving account of the life of a talented and determined artist who left her mark on musical and social history. Through her story, Newbery Medal-winning author Russell Freedman, one of today's leading authors of nonfiction for young readers, illuminates the social and political climate of the day and an important chapter in American history. Notes, bibliography, discography, index.<P> Newbery Honor book and Winner of the Sibert Medal
The Beatles
by Hunter DaviesA comprehensive look at the greatest rock and roll band to ever produce music.
A Gift of Hope: The Tony Melendez Story
by Tony Melendez Mel WhiteFrom the Publisher: The inspiring story of a young thalidomide victim and talented musician who has gained international recognition. Wonderful reading for anyone--especially those facing seemingly insurmountable difficulties. ... This is a beautifully, and positively, written autobiography. Melendez neither downplays his and his family's struggles resulting from his lack of arms, nor does he whine about them. Writing about his father, "Still, he knew that only in America would he find the kind of medical treatment I needed, so he put his own dreams aside and began to dream for me. He was young, strong, and determined to provide for each of us-but especially, I believe, for me. Imagine his growing frustration as he tried to support us on the minimum wage jobs that he could find. And there was no extra time or money to train in another field. [In Nicaragua, he was educated and accomplished in the fields of agriculture and animal husbandry.] Instead, he found himself in a huge pool of cheap labor as more and more unskilled young people migrated to America."
Los vecinos mueren en las novelas
by Sergio AguirrePorque todo comenzará así: un hombre llega a la casa de una anciana absolutamente desconocida. El mismo no sabe, hasta que llama a la puerta, que ha decidido matarla.
El libro del fantasma
by Alejandro DolinaPrólogo. Los fantasmas prosperan con las arquitecturas perseverantes y las memorias leales. Castillos milenarios y ofensas imprescriptibles los engordan. El progreso y el olvido, que son hábitos de estos tiempos y de estas tierras, no los auspician. Por eso son tan escasos los fantasmas criollos. El que habita este libro es, me temo, uno de los menos atrayentes. Pertenece quizá a esa raza de espectros que son una verdadera decepción para los amantes de los prodigios. Me refiero a los fantasmas interiores, a las creaciones alucinatorias e individuales de honrados burgueses incapaces ya de ver un espanto hecho y derecho. Los textos recopilados a pedido de esta modesta aparición han sido escritos en épocas diferentes. Algunos tienen más de veinte años. Los escritores suelen mentir que prefieren sus obras más recientes, acaso para producir sensación de progreso artístico. Yo sólo puedo decir que con el tiempo crecen los territorios de mis desagrados y me voy arrepintiendo de casi todo cuanto he escrito. El lector podrá rechazar estos trabajos por distintas razones, por ser variada la naturaleza de sus defectos. En la invención y en el recuerdo, cuando no en el saqueo, me han acompañado Daniel Narezo y Maria Laura Franco. En la ardua consumación del libro nombro a Ianina Trigo y a Nicolás Tolcachier.
El mar de los deseos. El caribe hispano musical. Historia y contrapunto
by Antonio García De León GriegoUna de las grandes riquezas del Caribe, poco mencionadas sin embargo y que nos produce un profundo deleite, es su música. Este valor inmaterial tiene detrás suyo una historia de conquista, esclavitud, defensa de identidades y luchas libertarias. Es esta música el punto de encuentro entre las comunidades de África y América, además de que constituye los movimientos artísticos más importantes de los reinos de España y Portugal, porque cuando se escuchan las formas de acompañamiento musical y del canto para la improvisación de la décima espinela en Canarias y en América, la tonada del punto guajiro cubano, del galerón del Oriente venezolano, de la guajira andaluza, el zapateado jarocho, el punto canario o la mejorana panameña, entre muchos otros, no cabe duda de que estamos ante un lenguaje compartido que nos hace mirar a la región de una manera distinta.
En el sur
by Alma MaritanoEste título, como así también los otros tres de la zaga de aventuras que se inicia con "Vaqueros y trenzas", son recomendados para la lectura y trabajo en el aula. "Mediante una variada gama de actividades de investigación y de creación se intenta que los alumnos enriquezcan su lectura, abriendo a la vez la posibilidad de profundizar en la comprensión de una realidad que les llega de cerca."""
Ability Development From Age Zero
by Shinichi Suzuki Mary Louise NagataThis book is required reading for most parents of children studying music via the Suzuki method. It discusses Suzuki's philosophy of raising children and developing musical talent and good character.
Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education, 2nd Edition
by Shinichi Suzuki Waltraud SuzukiThis is typically required reading for parents of children studying music via the Suzuki Method. It discusses Suzuki's philosophy of talent education and methods for raising a musical child with good character.
Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams
by Paul HemphillBiography of the quintessential country music singer and songwriter
The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz
by Tom PiazzaFrom the book's back cover: "Here is a brilliant and deeply informed overview of jazz history, one which gives a rich sense of who the major figures were and how they fit in with one another while showing the reader what to listen for and which recordings are indispensable for a full experience of the music. No other book fuses a singular examination of the key recordings with a presentation of the entire sweep of the music's classic period to provide the listener with such a useful and spirited companion." - WYNTON MARSALIS Tom Piazza writes about jazz and other American music for the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, New Republic, and Village Voice. He is a former professional jazz pianist and a graduate of Williams College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop; his short fiction has appeared in a number of literary magazines.
If I Only Had A Horn: Young Louis Armstrong
by Roxane OrgillFrom the book: There was a poor boy in New Orleans who was in love with music. And music was everywhere in his city -- dancing out of doorways, singing on street corners, best of all there was the great Joe Oliver's cornet crying wah-wah for all to hear. If I only had a horn, that boy thought, I too could sing, bring home pennies, and most of all tap happy feet blues till the sun rose. It wasn't going to be easy. Many things, not all of them good, had to happen before that boy got his horn. But when at last he did, his cornet would send music spiraling up into the New Orleans night sky like a spinning top gone crazy.
San Antonio Rose: The Life And Music Of Bob Wills
by Charles R. TownsendThe virtual creator of Western Swing, Bob Wills, gets his due from Charles R. Townsend's SAN ANTONIO ROSE, a thoroughly researched study of the bandleader's life and times. Born to a large family of fiddlers, Wills gained much of his musical knowledge from the black workers the family picked cotton with and sometimes employed; he credited the blues with lending his brand of country dance music much of its originality. After various truncated careers, including farming, a turn at horse racing, and some time spent as a barber, Wills finally turned professional when his band performed weekly radio spots for a flour company as the Light Crust Doughboys, whose popularity led to a name change and the birth of the legendary Texas Playboys. Wills' music was an eclectic mix of jazz, blues, Mexican music, and West Texas fiddling that attempted to sound like a jazz dance band while using the instruments common to country music; the resulting mix was an irresistible hybrid that would outlast many of the jazz swing bands of the 1940s. Townsend's discerning overview of Wills' career and musical influence is an authoritative and entertaining biography of this celebrated country music original. Above synopsis from Allbris.com http://www.alibris.com/books/isbn/0252004701%20025201362X/San%20Antonio%20Rose:%20The%20Life%20and%20Music%20of%20Bob%20Wills The book's author, CHARLES R. TOWNSEND won a Grammy Award in 1975 for his brochure notes accompanying United Artists' release of For the Last Time, the last recording session of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.
Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons
by Ben Fong-TorresFrom Publishers Weekly This entertaining biography examines the eventful life of singer/guitarist Gram Parsons, who collaborated with the Byrds on the album Sweetheart of the Rodeo , founded the Flying Burrito Brothers with Chris Hillman and worked with country singer Emmylou Harris. Although Parsons achieved only minimal stardom prior to his 1973 drug-related death at age 26, his fusion of country and rock influenced such bands as the Eagles and the Grateful Dead. Fong-Torres ( The Motown Album ) describes the free-spirited, flamboyant musician's privileged but troubled Southern background and interviews individuals including the Byrds' Roger McGuinn, the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards and loyal road manager Phil Kaufman, who, according to Parsons's wishes, attempted--unsuccessfully--to cremate Parsons's body in Joshua Tree National Monument, a park in California. Fong-Torres drops music-biz names and reports on the colorful 1960s and '70s fast lane with finesse; Parsons's profound, continuing impact is felt in admiring testimonies from friends and fans.
Devotions for Choirs
by Genevieve DehoogThese brief, easy-to-use devotions are ideal for use during choir rehearsal or before a choir program. Each devotion includes Scripture, devotional reflection, and a prayer.
Woody Guthrie: A Life
by Joe KleinBiography of the singer, songmaker and restless spirit who defined the American character for a generation.
Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life Of Bill Monroe, Father Of Bluegrass
by Richard A. SmithFrom the book jacket: Elvis Presley chose one of his songs, "Blue Moon of Kentucky," for his first single. A young Jerry Garcia traveled crosscountry to audition for his band. Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, and even Frank Sinatra were fans. Considering the range of stars and styles that claim him as an influence, no single artist has had as broad an impact on American popular music as Bill Monroe. Born in 1911 in rural Kentucky, Monroe melded the fiddle tunes, ballads, and blues of his youth into the "high lonesome" sound known today as bluegrass, making him perhaps the only performer to create an entire musical genre. His distinctive bluegrass style profoundly influenced country, early rock 'n' roll, and the folk revival of the 1960s. A Grand Ole Opry star for almost sixty years, Monroe was a searing mandolinist who redefined the instrument, a haunting high-range vocalist, and a godlike figure to generations of admirers who became famous in their own right. When Monroe died in 1996, he was universally acclaimed as "the Father of Bluegrass," but the personal life of this taciturn figure remained largely unknown. His childhood feelings of isolation and abandonment- "lonesomeness" he called it-fueled his reckless womanizing in adulthood and inspired his most powerful compositions. From his professional breakthrough in the Monroe Brothers duet act to his bitter rivalry with former sidemen Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs to his final days as a revered elder statesman of bluegrass, Monroe's career was filled with trials and triumphs. Now, veteran bluegrass journalist Richard D. Smith has interviewed a multitude of Monroe's surviving friends, lovers, colleagues, and contemporaries to create a three-dimensional portrait of this brilliant, complex, and contradictory man. Compel lingly narrated and thoroughly researched, Can't You Hear Me Callin' is the definitive biography of a true giant of American music. RICHARD D. SMITH is a journalist whose work has appeared in a number of national publications, including the NewYork Times, Bloomberg magazine, and the Journal of Country Music. The author of Bluegrass: An Informal Guide, he is also a reviewer for Bluegrass Unlimited magazine and plays mandolin and guitar. He lives in Rocky Hill, New Jersey.
Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
by Ed CrayA patriot and a political radical, Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. From Booklist Although Woody Guthrie has been a favorite topic of children's books in recent years, there has not been a substantive adult biography written about him since Joe Klein's definitive Woody Guthrie (1980). Cray (Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren, 1997) may well supplant Klein, as he was given access to the Woody Guthrie Archives, which contain previously unpublished letters, diaries, and journals. Although his narrative is sometimes too thick with details, Cray eloquently sums up the Okie songwriter's sorrowful life, during which he endured his sister's and daughter's deaths by fire, his mother's committal to an insane asylum, and his own diagnosis and death from Huntington's disease. Cray is especially insightful on Guthrie's politics and his deep empathy for Depression-era migrant workers. A man of contradictions, the songwriter emerges as an intellectual who took pains to hide his intellect and as a crusader for social justice who neglected his own family. His second wife, Marjorie, takes on near-heroic stature as the caregiver who, though they were long divorced, looked after him during the last decade of his debilitating illness. Joanne Wilkinson Copyright © American Library Association.
History of Rock and Roll
by Thomas E. LarsonThis book was written by a college professor who teaches a class about the history and evolution of rock music over the past 55 years. Each chapter discusses an ear in rock history, pointing out the influences that shaped it and featuring key artists from that period. The book is rich in content and is so entertaining that you might forget it's a textbook until you see the study questions at the end of each chapter. The author provides suggestions for listening to songs that help you get an idea of the style he is describing.
Excelsior, You Fathead!: The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd
by Eugene B. BergmannComprehensive biography of Jean Shepherd, radio personality and raconteur.
Josiah
by Stephen Arterburn Angela Elwell HuntMeet a group of young believers who had the guts to live out their Christian faith. Some of them had to make tough decisions, others had to hold on to God's prom
Hush, Little Alien
by Daniel KirkA goodnight book, to the tune of "Hush Little Baby, Don't Say a Word, Papa's Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird"