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Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise

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Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise Joel Selvin 320 Pages ISBN: # 978-1487007218 House of Anansi Press 2021 Joel Selvin may well grab the reader's attention with his very first sentence of Hollywood Eden. and quite likely never lose it over the ...

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Ben Sidran, There Was A Fire

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There Was a Fire-Jews Musica and the American Dream [Nuova edizione] Ben Sidran 404 pagine ISBN: # 978-0-578-77359-9 Nardis Books 2021 Esce in queste settimane negli Stati Uniti la nuova edizione—revisionata e aggiornata a tutto il 2020—del fondamentale volume di Ben Sidran del 2012, che delinea il contributo ...

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Glen Sweeney's Book of Alchemies - The Life and Times of the Third Ear Band 1969-1973

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Glen Sweeney's Book of Alchemies Luca Chino Ferrari 226 pagine ISBN: 978-0-9560184-6-5 ReR Megacorp 2020 Uno tra i gruppi storici della scena underground londinese dei tardi anni '60, la Third Ear Band fondata dal percussionista Glen Sweeney sta vivendo un momento di rinnovato interesse. Dapprima la Esoteric Recordings ...

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Bruno Tommaso: La Scuola che sognavo

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La Scuola che sognavo Bruno Tommaso con Alfredo Gasponi 209 pagine ISBN: 978-88-905478-3-6 EDI-PAN Edizioni Musicali 2020 Questa non è una biografia, anche se è composta da un mosaico di tessere biografiche. Bruno Tommaso definisce il testo un libello, ma c'è molto di più: una serie di riflessioni su ...

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Laurie Anderson: All the Things I Lost in the Flood

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All The Things I Lost In The Flood Laurie Anderson 320 Pages ISBN: 9780847860555 Rizzoli Electa 2018 The story of performance artist and cultural icon Laurie Anderson's book All The Things I Lost In The Flood started in 2012 when Hurricane Sandy (the third costliest storm in U.S. history) ...

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Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

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Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 Richard Thompson with Scott Timberg 304 Pages ISBN-13 : 978-1616208950 Algonquin Books 2021 Legendary British folk and folk-rock guitarist/singer/songwriter Richard Thompson focuses on his early career in this memoir. The story of his musical coming of age, it is devoted ...

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A Year With Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary, 25th Anniversary Edition

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A Year with Swollen Appendices Brian Eno 480 Pages ISBN: 0571364616 Faber & Faber 2020 Published diaries are a strange affair. The relationship between the diarist and the diary itself is a private affair, considered to be almost sacred. People write their deepest, most heartfelt passions ...

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The Essential W. Royal Stokes: Jazz, Blues, and Beyond 2020

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The Essential W. Royal Stokes: Jazz, Blues, and Beyond W. Royal Stokes 560 Pages ISBN: # 979-8611405475 Hannah Books 2020 Musician-actor Martin Mull once expressed that, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." That is certainly good for a laugh, but there is a lot of music out ...

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Early Music: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Forrest Kelly

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Early Music: A Very Short Introduction Thomas Forrest Kelly 144 Pages ISBN: # 978-0199730766 Oxford University Press 2011 There is a Romantic desire to get back to the beginning of things because, somehow, a certain purity is believed to have existed that has since been sullied by modernity and ...

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La rivoluzione di Joe Harriott nel jazz britannico, tra guerra fredda e spy stories

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Subversion Through Jazz—The Birth of British Progressive Jazz in a Cold War Climate Matt Parker 286 pagine ISBN: #978-1-9163206-3-5 Jazz In Britain 2020 Nei primi anni sessanta è stato il sassofonista giamaicano Joe Harriott a condurre il jazz britannico nella sua fase adulta, sganciata dai modelli del New ...


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