Mervyn Cooke This book provides a comprehensive and lively introduction to the major trends in film scoring from the silent era to the present day, focussing not only on dominant...

Gergely Hubai A film is nearly finished and ready to make its way into theaters, when one or more of its prime movers producer, director, studio brass decides that it...

Chris Heath For the last twenty years, ever since a 16-year-old boy called Robert Peter Williams joined a boy band and was told what his new name should be, he...

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...

Sir Jack Westrup and FLI Harrison; Revised By Conrad Wilson January 1, 1984 by Chancellor Press

Ian Strasfogel OPERALAND follows Richie Verdun, a funny, fearless little dynamo, as he enters the glamorous and treacherous world of opera facing almost impossible odds. He's in his early forties,...

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...

Michael Chabon As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there, longtime friends, band mates and co-regents of Brokeland Records,...

John Miller Chernoff "We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."—Andrew Tracey, African Music"John Miller Chernoff, who spent 10 years studying...

TE Carhart At first glance, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is simply an autobiography covering the author's blissful years in Paris. This is actually something much rarer and more original:...

John Stanley This invaluable reference book explores the background to 800 years of musical history, from 12th century chanting monks to 21st century virtuoso performers. Recommended key recordings of central...

Timothy White This wonderful Catch a Life of Bob Marley is a joy to read. Bob Marley was the undisputed sovereign of rage music and the revolutionary soul-prophet whose music...