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An informative look at the man and his career, drawing on interviews with Elvis' associates as well as his own words by covering the 50 essential Elvis songs and 33 movies. It looks at Elvis the icon, reviews all the biographies and includes a fan's travel guide to Memphis and the main sites of Graceland and Sun Studios.

Pocket reference guide covering the arrival of the breakbeat on British shores and its subsequent re-circulation throughout the world in genres such as Jungle, Drum 'n' Bass, Hardcore Techno, Trip-Hop and Big Beat. It details the innovators and apprentices of this science in an encyclopaedic format.

"The Rough Guide to Cult Pop" is devoted to pop music, the tacky, catchy yet endearing music we grew up listening to when we should have been listening to something more profound. It celebrates the hits, the singers, the impresarios and the songs which have made up the soundtrack to our lives. Providing an entertaining look at the artists from Britney to Blue and the number one hits from Billy Jean to Billy Don''t Be a Hero, the guide tells the stories behind the chart-toppers and all the key chart statistics. The decades of pop are broken down into genres, complete with recommended discographies of the best and the weirdest.

Spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant to works by contemporary composers such as Judith Weir and Wolfgang Rihm, The Rough Guide to Classical Music forms an indispensable guide to composers and key-recordings. The book combines informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, with incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs, selecting the best of the latest recordings and the pick of the re-issues. Lively articles on such topics as sonata form, the concerto, atonality, and film music are also included.

In his seventh decade and still going strong, Bob Dylan is the ultimate singer-songwriter - hugely revered, baffingly idiosyncratic, an enigma and a music legend responsible for a staggering number of classic songs. Now in it''s second edition, the Rough Guide clarifies the mysteries surrounding the man and the music, looking at the lyrics, the influences, the legends and the musicians he worked with. Features include: The Life - from Minnesota to Manchester, from the Albert Hall to the Never Ending Tour, The Music - 50 essential Dylan songs and the stories behind them and Dylanology - the movies, the sayings, books and websites.

The Rough Guide to Blues gives you the complete lowdown on all the grittiest singers, bottleneck guitarists, belt-it-out divas and wailing harmonica players that made the most influential music of the last century. From music legend B.B. King to folk hero Robert Johnson, the guide includes detailed profiles of hundreds of artists and critical reviews of their best albums. The fascinating story is told in full - how the blues crawled from the Mississippi Delta, went electric in the big cities, and spread across the world - with feature boxes on topics like boogie woogie, gospel and the best blues record labels. Check out the ten greatest slide-guitar tracks - or the ten most miserable "woke up this mornin"s with the handy playlists that help you to pick''n''choose quick "best of''s" to download to your iPod or MP3 player.

Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete.His talent was unbounded a raw force that commanded attention and respect.His death was tragica violent homage to the power of his voice.His legacy is indomitableas vibrant and alive today as it has ever been.This collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many contradictions.Written in his own hand from the time he was nineteen, these seventy-two poems embrace his spirit, his energyand his ultimate message of hope.

What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so it conveys the very sense of Romantic music. In readings uniquely informed by his performing experience, Rosen offers consistently acute and thoroughly engaging analyses of works by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Bellini, Liszt, and Berlioz, and he presents a new view of Chopin as a master of polyphony and large-scale form. He adeptly integrates his observations on the music with reflections on the art, literature, drama, and philosophy of the time, and thus shows us the major figures of Romantic music within their intellectual and cultural context. Rosen covers a remarkably broad range of music history and considers the importance to nineteenth-century music of other cultural developments: the art of landscape, a changed approach to the sacred, the literary fragment as a Romantic art form. He sheds new light on the musical sensibilities of each composer, studies the important genres from nocturnes and songs to symphonies and operas, explains musical principles such as the relation between a musical idea and its realization in sound and the interplay between music and text, and traces the origins of musical ideas prevalent in the Romantic period. Rich with striking descriptions and telling analogies, Rosen's overview of Romantic music is an accomplishment without parallel in the literature, a consummateperformance by a master pianist and music historian.

Embrace the art of listening seasonally with BBC Radio 3 presenter Dr Hannah French as she explores Antonio Vivaldi s evergreen work The Four Seasons The Four Seasons Antonio Vivaldi s famous set of highly descriptive violin concertos was published 300 years ago but the themes it contains continue to reveal new truths to listeners today Through the rich imagery of each concerto and its accompanying poetry Dr Hannah French uncovers the detail of Vivaldi s personal and creative life In conversation with fellow musicians and experts in health nature food wine and science she helps bring a new perspective to the music through our shared experiences of the joys and fears of the ever evolving seasons To spend a year in the company of Vivaldi is to witness the sounds of both ancient festivals and the beauty and brutality of the natural world a rolling year that enhances our sensory experience of the seasons today

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright presents this impressionistic, visual diary of the 22-city tour of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975, which included Joni Mitchell, Allen Ginsberg, and Arlo Guthrie. Shepard captures the camaraderie, isolation, and pill-popping mayhem of the tour. 40 photos. In the autumn of 1975, when "New England is festering with Bicentennial madness," Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue-a rag-tag variety show that Dylan envisioned as a traveling gypsy circus-toured twenty-two cities across the Northeast. Swept up in the motley crew, which included Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, and Ramblin' Jack Elliot, was playwright Sam Shepard, ostensibly hired to write, on the spot, the script for a Fellini-esque, surreal movie that would come out of the tour. The script never materialized, but throughout the many moods and moments of his travels with Dylan and his troupe, Shepard kept an impressionistic "Rolling Thunder Logbook" of life on the road. Illuminated by forty candid photographs by official tour photographer Ken Regan, Shepard's mental-snap shots capture the camaraderie, isolation, head games, and pill-popping mayhem of the tour, providing a window into Dylan's singular talent, enigmatic charisma, and vision of America.