Skip to main content
Search Button
Librairie Kobo Canada Cartes cadeau Aide
Kobo Rakuten
Ma liste d'envies

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Article(s) non disponible(s) à la vente
Veuillez vérifier votre panier. Vous pouvez supprimer le ou les articles qui ne sont pas disponibles maintenant ou nous les supprimerons automatiquement au moment du règlement de la commande.
articlesarticle
articlesarticle

Recommandé pour vous

Loading...


Nonfictions Série de Livres électroniques

1-12 sur 12 résultats
Skip side bar filters

  • Playing to the Camera

    Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema

    par Thomas Cohen ...
    Collections series Nonfictions
    Playing to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from rock concert films to experimental video art featuring modernist music. Unlike the 'music under' produced for films by unseen musicians, on-screen 'live' performances show us the bodies that produce the sounds we hear. Exploring the link between moving images and musical ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

Les lecteurs de ce roman ont aussi aimé

  • Giant Steps

    Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65

    par Kenny Mathieson ...
    A music journalist offers a lively history of modern jazz through its formative and most vital decades—from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane.In Giant Steps, Kenny Mathieson examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence and evolution of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. Using this as ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Blue Moment

    Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music

    par Richard Williams ...
    'It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.'Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. It is also, notoriously, the only jazz album many people own. Recorded in 1959 (in nine miraculous ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Miles Davis

    The Definitive Biography

    par Ian Carr ...
    The acclaimed classic biography, now available as an ebook.Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.The revised edition of Ian Carr’s classic biography of Miles Davis throws new light on his life and career from the early days in New York, with Charlie Parker, to his Birth of the Cool band, through his drug addiction in the early 1950s, and the years of extraordinary ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Jazz

    A Beginner's Guide

    par Stuart Nicholson ...
    Collections series Beginner's Guides
    This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader.Jazz: A Beginner’s Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon. Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson takes the reader on an entertaining journey from jazz's early stirrings in America’s south through to the present day, when almost every country in the ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Faking It

    The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music

    par Hugh Barker, Yuval Taylor ...
    Musicians strive to “keep it real”; listeners condemn “fakes”; ... but does great music really need to be authentic?Did Elvis sing from the heart, or was he just acting? Were the Sex Pistols more real than disco? Why do so many musicians base their approach on being authentic, and why do music buffs fall for it every time? By investigating this obsession in the last century through the stories of ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Just around Midnight

    Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

    par Jack Hamilton ...
    By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Morrissey

    Fandom, Representations and Identities

    Known for his outspoken and often controversial views on class, ethnicity and sexuality, Morrissey has remained an anti-establishment figure who continues to provoke argument, debate and devotion amongst critics and his many fans. Focusing exclusively on Morrissey’s solo career, the collected essays in this important book make for a rich reading of Morrissey and his highly influential creative ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert

    par Catherine Tackley ...
    Collections series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural mainstream. This reputation has been perpetuated by Columbia Records' 1950 release of the concert ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Theater Will Rock

    A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig

    par Elizabeth Lara Wollman ...
    Collections series Anthropology series
    "A much-needed study of the impact of rock music on the musical theater and its resulting challenges, complexities, failures, and successes. Anyone interested in Broadway will learn a great deal from this book."---William Everett, author of The Musical: A Research Guide to Musical Theatre"As Wollman weaves her historical narrative, she compellingly returns to . . . the conflict between the ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Miles, Ornette, Cecil

    Jazz Beyond Jazz

    par Howard Mandel ...
    Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and Cecil Taylor revolutionized music from the end of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, expanding on jazz traditions with distinctly new concepts of composition, improvisation, instrumentation, and performance. They remain figures of controversy due to their border-crossing processes. Miles, Ornette, Cecil is the first book to connect these three icons of ... En savoir plus

    $119.99 CAD

  • Miles Davis' Bitches Brew

    par George Grella ...
    Collections series 33 1/3
    It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams. Following the circumscribed grooves and ambiance of In A Silent Way; coming off a tour with a burning new quintet ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD