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Philip Lambert. To Broadway, To Life!: The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick (Broadway Legacies)

Publisher:
Year:2010
Pages:384
ISBN:0195390075

In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof (1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me (1963), and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Fiorello! (1959). With their charm, humor, and boundless musical invention, their musicals have won eighteen Tony Awards and continue to capture the imaginations of millions around the world. To Broadway, To Life!: The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick is the first complete book about these creative figures, one of Broadway's most important songwriting teams. Drawing from extensive archival sources, and from personal interviews and communications with Bock and Harnick themselves and their most ...

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Michael Stasik. DISCOnnections: Popular Music Audiences in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Publisher:
Year:2012
Pages:256
ISBN:9956728519

This book offers an intriguing account of the complex and often contradictory relations between music and society in Freetown's past and present. Blending anthropological thought with ethnographic and historical research, it explores the conjunctures of music practices and social affiliations and the diverse patterns of social dis/connections that music helps to shape, to (re)create, and to defy in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. The first half of the book traces back the changing social relationships and the concurrent changes in the city's music life from the first days of the colony in the late 18th century up to the turbulent and thriving music scenes in the first decade of the 21st century. Grounded in this comprehensive historiography of Freetown's socio-musical palimpsest, ...

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Rikky Rooksby. Complete Guide to the Music of Fleetwood Mac (Complete Guide to the Music of...)

Publisher:
Year:2004
Pages:125
ISBN:1844494276

Book DescriptionClassic guides to the music of the world?s best-known acts. Written by experts, each book examines every song in a given artist?s recorded repertoire, making it an invaluable guide for collectors and fans alike.

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Michael Bolton. The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life

Publisher:Sphere
Year:2013
Pages:384
ISBN:978-0-7515-5057-3

After four decades in the music industry, Michael Bolton has become one the most successful musicians of our time. "The Soul of It All: My Music, My Life" is his backstage pass into his life lived thus far-into the venues, busses, limos, and hotel rooms of stardom, and finally into his home and heart. His story will go long and dive deep, not only into his self-proclaimed "vagabond vampire" life, but also into the belly of the beast that is the music industry, with its joys, follies, and torments. From a 14 year old kid performing in dive bars in his hometown of New Haven, CT, to struggling to provide for his wife and kids, to finally breaking through with the Soul Provider album, and going on to sell more than 53 million albums and singles worldwide, Bolton has fought for and earned ...