Cate Haste History has long vilified Alma Mahler (1879-1964). Critics accused her of distracting Gustav Mahler from his work, and her passionate love affairs shocked her peers.Drawing on Alma's vivid,...

Cate Haste The life of an extraordinary artist and intellect: the composer, author and socialite Alma Mahler, whose life spanned one of the most captivating and dramatic periods in historyAlma...

Vincent Douglas"You are the finest toy I have ever made. I will call you Pinocchio." Geppetto is delighted when his puppet comes to life. Yet no matter how hard Pinocchio...

Paul Copperwaite In this work, one hundred of the best known, most popular, awesome and awful pop lyrics are given the Powerpoint treatment. They are deliberated and disseminated across the...

Edited by Greil Marcus Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an...

James Hillman This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process. January 28, 1978 by Harper

Benedict Taylor As one of the foremost composers, conductors, and pianists of the nineteenth century, Felix Mendelssohn played a fundamental role in the shaping of modern musical tastes through his...

Rita McAllester Among major 20th-century composers whose music is poorly understood, Sergei Prokofiev stands out conspicuously. The turbulent times in which Prokofiev lived and the chronology of his travels-he left...

Ronald Taylor This integrated study of the man, his life, and his works draws on Wagner's autobiographical writings and letters, the diary of his wife, Cosima, and the reminiscences of...

John Densmore The story of the American rock band, The Doors, by its drummer. John Densmore remembers how the music grew, but cannot forget how Jim Morrison tore himself, and...

Robert Muchamore Meet Jay. Summer. And Dylan.Jay plays guitar, writes songs and dreams of being a rock star. But his ambitions are stifled by seven siblings and a terrible drummer.Summer...

Rod StewartRod Stewart was born the working class son of a Scottish plumber in north London. Despite some early close shaves with a number of diverse career paths ranging from...