Títulos en Compositores y músicos

The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insights, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed The History of Jazz - brings to life the stirring music of the Delta, evoking the legendary figures who shaped its sound and ethos: Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and others. 

George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image—that of a hypermacho sex god—loomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hid—for a time—the secret he fought against revealing: Michael was gay. George Michael: A Life explores the compelling story of a superstar whose struggles, as well as his songs, continue to touch fans all over the world.

Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra, Williams was lured away to the band of Benny Goodman, one of the most popular bands in the...

Ultraje a Rigor: Nós Vamos Invadir Sua Praia, o livro que conta a história da irreverente banda paulista que ajudou a lapidar o novo rosto do rock brasileiro nos anos 80.Ascenção passeia com muito bom humor pela intimidade de uma banda com passagens hilárias quanto surreais, sem firulas...

El detrás de escenas de la vida artística de Madonna, la legendaria reina del pop. Madonna Ciccone, mejor conocida como Madonna, nació en 1958 en Michigan, y es un ícono en el mundo del entretenimiento, pero su trajectoria al estrellato no fue fácil. Marcada por una difícil infancia y el...

La historia de Queen no es solo una de las gestas más fascinantes y sorprendentes del rock: es, sobre todo, una historia de amistad y riesgo. En la Inglaterra de los años 70, cuatro muchachos se aferraron a una intuición común y transformaron cada ensayo en el prólogo de una revolución. Esa voluntad y la unión fraterna los llevaron a cambiar el rumbo de la cultura popular con canciones inmensas, hallazgos sonoros y álbumes fundamentales.

Rick Rubin, einer der erfolgreichsten Musikproduzenten der Welt, verrät in seinem Hörbuch alle wichtigen Prinzipien, um wahrhaft schöpferisch zu sein. "Kreativ. Die Kunst zu sein" ist eine weise und überaus klare Quintessenz seines Lebenswerks. Es beleuchtet den Weg des Künstlers in einer Weise, dass wir ihm alle folgen können. Es führt uns zu den magischen Momenten von Hochstimmung und Transzendenz, in denen alles möglich ist. Viele berühmte Musikproduzenten sind für einen bestimmten Sound bekannt, der seine Zeit hat.

La biografía de este irreverente e influyente presentador y escritor peruano en exclusiva. Entrevistador de celebridades, Bayly se da a conocer como escritor desde 1994, publicando una serie de novelas de estilo hedonista y casi documental (con los que la crítica tiene una relación contradictoria) que se convirtieron en bestsellers.

From an acclaimed music critic and author, an in-depth analysis of the rise and fall of rock n' roll through the lens of one of the best albums of the 21st century—The Strokes' Is This It. In 2001, The Strokes broke into the indie alt-rock scene with their debut album Is This It, a work that...

Rita pode ter tido de tudo, menos uma “vidinha besta”. E os últimos anos foram, sim, desafiadores. Ao mesmo tempo que o mundo passava por uma pandemia, ela foi diagnosticada com câncer no pulmão. Em um texto franco, ora cru e chocante, ora cheio de ironias, ora sutil e amoroso, Rita Lee não poupa detalhes de seu tratamento. Fala também da rotina, dos avisos do Universo, de seres de luz e dos caminhos que a vida tomou.

A Recorded Books Audio Original production of songs and stories performed by Dolly herself, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics goes beyond the glitz, glamour, and rhinestones to the warmth, heart, and soul of a treasured pop-culture icon. In this exclusive audio performance, the...

La facoltà dello stupore: è questo il nucleo attorno al quale orbita l'intera esperienza artistica di Franco Battiato, la matrice che accomuna tutti i brani della sua vastissima produzione. La sua musica è un dono, un invito a smarrirsi per poi ritrovarsi; è un'esortazione a sperimentare continue incursioni in un altrove sconosciuto, negli infiniti "mondi lontanissimi" che possono aprirsi lungo il cammino delle nostre vite.

A smart, funny, and refreshingly candid memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182. Narrated in his own voice, the audiobook offers an intimate and immersive experience that fans won’t want to miss. This is the story of an angst-filled kid...

La vida de aquéllos cuya historia intentaremos narrar en estas páginas fué casi siempre un martirio prolongado. Al frente de esta legión heroica, vemos, en primer lugar, al fuerte y puro Beethoven. Él mismo anhelaba, en medio de sus sufrimientos, que su ejemplo pudiera ser un sostén para todos los desvalidos, y que el desventurado se consolase al encontrar otro desdichado como él, que, a pesar de todos los obstáculos de la Naturaleza, había hecho cuanto de él dependía para llegar a ser un hombre digno de este nombre.

A remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of the '90s Alternative era by the bassist of Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins. Even the Good Girls Will Cry begins with Melissa Auf der Maur’s bohemian upbringing in Montreal, where her early, deep connection to art and music gave her entry to the...

For fans of Dilla Time and The Chronicles of DOOM, a culturally connected celebration of the groundbreaking hip-hop group De La Soul, and how they changed the look, sound, and feel of Black America. Music artists and trends come and go, but every once in a while, a moment arrives that genuinely...

For the first time, Human Nature's incredible story is told in their own words, offering an intimate portrait of four friends who navigated fame, personal hardship and the pressures of an unforgiving industry, yet chose to stay together when walking away would have been easier. It all began with...

The long-awaited memoir by the late, much-lauded theater and visual artist Robert Wilson Robert Wilson was a driving force in the avant-garde art and theater worlds for half a century: He was the creative mind behind the seminal Einstein on the Beach (1976), among dozens of other original works...

The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parents divorced and his mother Patricia remarried a jazz musician. Flea's stepfather frequently invited musicians to his house for jam sessions which sparked Flea's interest in music. The family moved...

Since 1991, only three albums have sold more than 15 million copies---Metallica (Metallica), Come on Over (Shania Twain), and Jagged Little Pill, by Alanis Morissette. JLP won Grammys, Junos, and stayed in the Billboad 200 for more than a year. Megan Volpert works through Alanis Morissette's career via JLP, her best-known record. Each chapter dives into one of the 13 tracks from the album, dissecting that song while connecting to later work that extends the relevant theme.