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33 1/3 Greatest Hits. T. 2 / Edited by David Barker. - New York : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007. - IX, 338 s. ; 22 cm.

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Barker, David.

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Język angielski Muzyka

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Wydawnictwa popularne

This second compendium of extracts from Continuum's acclaimed and successful 33 1/3 series, Volume 2 features twenty sharp, savvy and very different writers' takes on albums by Neutral Milk Hotel, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, David Bowie, the Pixies, the Beastie Boys, Nirvana, REM the Band and many more.

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Highway To Hell / Joe Bonomo. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010. - X, 131 s. : il. ; 17 cm.

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Bonomo, Joe (1966- ).

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AC/DC. Język angielski Muzyka rozrywkowa

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Released in 1979, AC/DC's Highway To Hell was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon Scott, who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980. Officially chalked up to "Death by Misadventure," Scott's demise has forever secured the album's reputation as a partying primer and a bible for lethal behavior, branding the album with the fun chaos of alcoholic excess and its flip side, early death. The best songs on Highway To Hell achieve Sonic Platonism, translating rock & roll's transcendent ideals in stomping, dual-guitar and eighth-note bass riffing, a Paleolithic drum bed, and insanely, recklessly odd but fun vocals. Joe Bonomo strikes a three-chord essay on the power of adolescence, the durability of rock & roll fandom, and the transformative properties of memory. Why does Highway To Hell matter to anyone beyond non-ironic teenagers? Blending interviews, analysis, and memoir with a fan's perspective, Highway To Hell dramatizes and celebrates a timeless album that one critic said makes "disaster sound like the best fun in the world."

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Amazing Grace / Aaron Cohen. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011. - VII, 166 s. ; 17 cm.

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Cohen, Aaron.

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Franklin, Aretha (1942- ). Język angielski Muzyka rozrywkowa

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Wydawnictwa popularne Publicystyka amerykańska

This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the best-selling gospel album of all time. For two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potential to be historic: five years after ascending to soul royalty and commercial success, Franklin was publicly returning to her religious roots. Her influential minister father stood by her on the pulpit. Her mentor, Clara Ward, sat in the pews. Franklin responded to the occasion with the performance of her life and the resulting double album became a multi-million seller - even without any trademark hit singles. But that was just one part of the story. Franklin's warm inimitable voice, virtuoso jazz-soul instrumental group and Rev. James Cleveland's inventive choral arrangements transformed the course of gospel. Through new interviews, musical and theological analyses as well as archival discoveries, this book sets the scene, traces the recording's traditional origins and pop infusions and describes the album's enduring impact.

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The Who Sell Out / John Dougan. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010. - [4], 131 s. ; 17 cm.

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Dougan, John.

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The Who. Język angielski Muzyka rozrywkowa

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Wydawnictwa popularne Publicystyka amerykańska

Released in the U.S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire--the album sold well, but not spectacularly [and was] ultimately a nostalgic in-joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying its in-joke status was its unapologetic Englishness; 13 tracks stitched together in a mock pirate radio broadcast, without a DJ, with cool, anglocentric commercials to boot. In the 36 years since its release, Sell Out, though still not the best selling release in The Who's catalog, has been embraced by a growing number of fans who regard it as the band's best work, one of the few recordings of the late 1960s that best represents the ambitious aesthetic possibilities of the concept album without becoming mired in a bog of smug, self-aggrandizing, high art aspirations. Sell Out, powerfully and ecstatically, articulates the nexus of pop music and pop culture.

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Born in the USA / Geoffrey Himes. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004. - [2], 144 s. ; 17 cm.

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Himes, Geoffrey.

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Springsteen, Bruce (1949- ) Język angielski Muzyka rozrywkowa

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Bibliography s. 141-144.

When Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, "one, two, one, two, three, four," followed by the droning synth chords of "Born in the U.S.A." Max Weinberg hit his drums with a two-fisted physicality that cut through the swelling chords. With a rolled-up red kerchief around his head and heavy black boots under his faded jeans, Springsteen looked like the character of the song, and from the very first line ("Born down in a dead man's town") he sang with the throat-scraping desperation of a man with his back against the wall. When he reached the crucial lines, though, the guitars and bass dropped out and Weinberg switched to just the hi-hat. Springsteen's voice grew a bit more private and reluctant as he sang, "Nowhere to run. Nowhere to go." It was as if he weren't sure if this were an admission of defeat or the drawing of a line in the sand. But when the band came crashing back at full strength-building a crescendo that fell apart in the cacophony of Springsteen's and Weinberg's wild soloing, paused and then came together again in the determined, marching riff-it was clear that the singer was ready to make a stand.

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Songs in the Key of Life / Zeth Lundy. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007. - VI, 154 strony ; 17 cm.

Autor

Lundy, Zeth.

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Wonder, Stevie (1950- ). Piosenkarze Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Like all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious. If its titular concern - life - doesn't exactly allow for rigid focus, it's still a fiercely inspired collection of songs and one of the definitive soul records of the 1970s. Stevie Wonder was unable to control the springs of his creativity during that decade. Upon turning 21 in 1971, he freed himself from the Motown contract he'd been saddled with as a child performer, renegotiated the terms, and unleashed hundreds of songs to tape. Over the next five years, Wonder would amass countless recordings and release his five greatest albums - as prolific a golden period as there has ever been in contemporary music. But Songs in the Key of Life is different from the four albums that preceded it; it's an overstuffed, overjoyed, maddeningly ambitious encapsulation of all the progress Stevie Wonder had made in that short space of time. Zeth Lundy's book, in keeping with the album's themes, is structured as a life cycle. It's divided into the following sections: Birth; Innocence/Adolescence; Experience/Adulthood; Death; Rebirth. Within this framework, Zeth Lundy covers Stevie Wonder's excessive work habits and recording methodology, his reliance on synthesizers, the album's place in the gospel-inspired progression of 1970s R'n'B, and many other subjects.

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Music from Big Pink : A Novella / John Niven. - Wydanie 4. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2012. - 160 stron ; 17 cm.

Autor

Niven, John.

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Książki Proza

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Beach Boys (zespół muzyczny) Muzyka rozrywkowa

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Powieść

"Music From Big Pink" is a factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of twenty-three-year-old Greg Keltner, drug dealer, wannabe musician, and hanger-on, we witness the gestation and birth of an album that will go on to cast its spell across forty years. John Niven brings these characters to life with remarkable skill, and the result is an exhilarating, vivid, and powerfully moving book about the highs - and lows - of creating musical history.

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Some Girls / Cyrus R. K. Patell. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011. - XII, 178 stron : ilustracje ; 17 cm.

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Patell, Cyrus R. K.

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Książki Publikacje popularnonaukowe

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Rolling Stones (zespół rockowy) Język angielski Muzyka Historia

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Horses / Philip Shaw. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008. - [4], 151 s. ; 17 cm.

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Shaw, Philip.

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Smith, Patti (1946- ). Język angielski Muzyka rozrywkowa

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Wydawnictwa popularne Publicystyka angielska

Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. While Horses pays homage to the record's origins in the nascent New York punk scene, the book's core lies in a detailed analysis of Patti Smith's lyrics and includes discussions of lyrical preoccupations: love, sex, gender, death, dreams, god, metamorphosis, intoxication, apocalypse and transcendence. Philip shaw demonstrates how Horses transformed the possibilities of both poetry and rock music; and how it achieved nothing less than a complete and systematic derangement of the senses.

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American Recordings / Tony Tost. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011. - XIII, 202 s. ; 17 cm.

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Tost, Tony.

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Cash, Johnny (1932-2003). Język angielski Muzyka rozrywkowa

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This title offers a superb investigation of what is arguably Johnny Cash's greatest album, focusing on his enduring mythology. When Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin's record label in 1993, he was a country music legend who, like his fellow Highwaymen Willie, Waylon and Kris, remained a fondly regarded yet completely marginalized Nashville figure, unheard on the radio and unseen on the charts. Cash's odyssey from oldies act to folk hero pivots on his first American Recordings album, a document of almost unbearable solitude and directness. It is a singular record, an instance in which a musical giant has been granted a kind of midnight reprieve, a chance to regain and renew his legend. Tony Tost illuminates the ways in which American Recordings is the crossroads where cultural, spiritual and mythic archetypes come together in the figure of The Man in Black. Ultimately, this is a guidebook to myth and mystery, a means of apprehending the stark beauty of Cash's greatest record, the sound of a man alone and fighting for his soul, one song at a time.

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Tusk / Rob Trucks. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011. - VII, 131 strona ; 17 cm.

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Trucks, Rob (1961- ).

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Książki Publikacje popularnonaukowe

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Fleetwood Mac (zespół rockowy) Język angielski Muzyka Historia

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Wydawnictwa popularne Publicystyka

After Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significant cash in the long run) and then handed the reins to their guitarist and resident perfectionist Lindsey Buckingham. “You know,” Buckingham said, “we had this ridiculous success with Rumours. We were poised to do another album, and I guess because the axiom 'If it works, run it into the ground' was prevalent then, we were probably poised to do Rumours II. I don't know how you do that, but somehow my light bulb that went off was, 'Let's just not do that. Let's very pointedly not do that.' ” Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and the USC Trojan marching band in order to chart both the story and the impact of an album born of personal obsession and a stubborn unwillingness to compromise.

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Abba Gold / Elisabeth Vincentelli. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004. - [2], 131 s. ; 17 cm.

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Vincentelli, Elisabeth.

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ABBA (zespół muz.) Język angielski Muzyka rozrywkowa

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Wydawnictwa popularne Publicystyka amerykańska

Throughout her meticulously researched, song-by-song exploration of Abba's most famous moments, Vincentelli examines with insight, wit and unabashed fanaticism everything from "Knowing Me, Knowing You"'s domestic drama to, well, the shoulder pads, tights, and foil shirts worn in the "Voulez-Vous" video. In the process, she not only makes a compelling, sincere case for all things Abba but also for pop music itself.

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Use Your Illusion I and II / Eric Weisbard. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007. - [2], 125 s. ; 17 cm.

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Weisbard, Eric.

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Guns N' Roses. Język angielski Muzyka rozrywkowa

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Wydawnictwa popularne Publicystyka amerykańska

It was the season of the blockbuster. Between August 12 and November 26 1991, a whole slew of acts released albums that were supposed to sell millions of copies in the run-up to Christmas. Metallica, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Garth Brooks, MC Hammer, and U2 - all were competing for the attention of the record-buying public at the same time. But perhaps the most attention-seeking act of all was Guns N Roses. Their albums Use Your Illusion 1 and 2, released on the same day, were both 75-minute sprawlers with practically the same cover design - an act of colossal arrogance. On one level, it worked. The albums claimed the top two chart positions, and ultimately sold 7 million copies each in the US alone. On another level, it was a disaster. This was an album that Axl Rose has been unable to follow up in fifteen years. It signaled the end of Guns N Roses, of heavy metal on the Sunset Strip, and the entire 1980s model of blockbuster pop/rock promotion. Use Your Illusion marked the end of rock as mass culture. In this book, Eric Weisbard shows how the album has matured into a work whose baroque excesses now have something to teach us about pop and the platforms it raises and lowers, about a man who suddenly found himself praised to the firmament for every character trait that had hitherto marked him as an irredeemable loser.

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Dusty in Memphis / Warren Zanes. - New York ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007. - IX, 121 s. ; 17 cm.

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Zanes, Warren.

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Springfield, Dusty (1939-1999) Język angielski Muzyka rozrywkowa

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Wydawnictwa popularne Szkice literackie amerykańskie

'Dusty in Memphis', Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his own love affair with the record.

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