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By Christopher Ward. 2016
On August 31, 1984, the Nation’s Music Station launched. The dream child of TV visionary Moses Znaimer and John Martin,…
Much was live and largely improvised, and an entire generation of Canadians grew up watching the VJs and embraced the new music that became the video soundtrack of our lives. Stories of the bands, the music, the videos, the specialty shows, the style and the improvisational approach to daily broadcast life at Much are told by the people who were there - the colourful cast of on-air VJs, the artists who found their way into our living rooms as never before, and the people behind the cameras. 2016.This music myth-debunking volume is organized by subjects such as song lyrics, deaths, and the origins of album and song…
titles. Some of the rumours and mysteries Edwards untangles are old favourites, such as Paul McCartney's alleged death, Robert Johnson's purported sale of his soul to the devil, and the subject of Carly Simon's "You're so Vain." Others are more recent and obscure, such as Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro's death, what's not tattooed on Tom Waits's chest, and the inspiration for the White Stripes's "Hotel Yorba." Some descriptions of sex, strong language. 2006.By Andrew Blauner. 2017
An anthology of essays from a chorus of twenty-nine luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs. Arranged chronologically…
by the date of the song's release, these essays highlight both the Beatles' evolution as well as the span of generations their music affected. 2017.By Marian Fowler. 1993
Between 1870 and 1914, hundreds of America's wealthiest heiresses married into Europe's titled families. Of the 100 who married into…
British nobility, Marian Fowler portrays the lives of five who captured the highest prize -- a duke. 1993.By Alexis S Troubetzkoy. 2002
In 1825, at the age of 48, Tsar Alexander, a sturdy man in excellent health, died under mysterious circumstances. Rumour…
had it that the Tsar had faked his death in order to shed the burdens of the throne, a position he had reluctantly assumed after his father was assassinated, and escaped into self-imposed exile. This book attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of Tsar Alexander I and offers up an explanation of what really happened to the leader of one of the world's most powerful nations. 2002.By Tim Falconer. 2016
The author is part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia -- tone-deafness. The book chronicles his…
quest to understand human evolution and music, the brain science behind tone-deafness, his search for ways to retrain the adult brain, and his investigation into what we really hear when we listen to music. 2016.By Sarah Bradford. 1996
Published in the year of the Queen's 70th birthday, this biography draws on private archives and interviews with political figures,…
former palace employees, and friends of Elizabeth II, some of whom have not shared their stories before. 1996.By Nancy Bazelon Goldstone. 2018
Elizabeth Stuart's life was transformed when her father, James I, ascended to the illustrious throne of England. Her marriage to…
a German count far below her rank was arranged with the understanding that James would help her husband achieve the crown of Bohemia. Her father's terrible betrayal of this promise would ruin "the Winter Queen," as Elizabeth would forever be known, imperil the lives of those she loved, and launch a war that would last thirty years. 2018.By Bob Suren. 2018
A small-town Florida teenager discovers punk rock through a loaned mix tape, and punk music and culture slowly takes over…
all aspects of his life. His new passion causes him to form a band, track down out-of-print records he loves and reissue them, open a record store, start a record distribution operation as a public service, mentor a host of young musicians, and befriend all manner of punk luminaries along the way. Slowly his life's pursuit pushes him to the point of personal ruination and, ultimately, redemption. 2018.By Leonie Frieda. 2018
King Francis I was the founder of modern France, whose personality shaped his kingdom into the first European superpower. Francis…
was also the prototype Frenchman--a national identity was molded on his character. With access to private archives, Leonie Frieda explores the life of the man who was the most human of the monarchs of the period--and yet, remains the most elusive. 2018.Wolff braids three disparate strands--Calumet, Michigan; Woody Guthrie; and Bob Dylan--together to create a revisionist history of twentieth-century America. This…
book chronicles the struggles between the haves and have-nots, the impact changing labour relations had on industrial America, and the way two musicians used their fury to illuminate economic injustice and inspire change. 2017.By David Byrne. 2012
A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and…
responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history. 2012.By Carolly Erickson. 2014
In lively, absorbing prose that rivals the finest literary fiction, prize-winning historian Carolly Erickson recreates the life of the notorious…
Tudor king, Henry VIII. In his youth as a charming national hero, his reign as a monstrous king, and his final days as a tottering old man, Erickson draws a thoroughly convincing portrait of one of English history's most notorious characters. 2014.By Christopher Hibbert. 2000
George III is portrayed as not only a competent ruler during most of his reign, but also as a patron…
of the arts and sciences, a man of wit and intelligence. Indeed, he was a man who greatly enhanced the reputation of the British monarchy until he was finally stricken with a rare hereditary disease. 2000.By Robert B Asprey. 1986
Biography of the Hohenzollern King of Prussia, military strategist, statesman, and patron of the arts. Part of the enigma of…
the title is that as a young prince he was known for "effeminate, lascivious, and womanly activities", he was later recognized as an active military genius. Some strong language. 1986.Learn how to make even the noisiest gear dead quiet, getting instruments to sound crisp and distinct in a mix,…
making drum programs and sequences sound like they were played live, getting the most out of a limited number of tracks or mixer channels, blending tracks together into a professional-sounding mix, and how to avoid the most common mistakes amateur recordists make. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.By Charles Osborne. 1987
Written concisely for the non-opera goer, the author covers the development of opera to the present century and lists 100…
popular operas with their stories, from Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" in 1689 to "Sweeney Todd" by Stephen Sondheim in 1978. 1987.By Michael Kosser. 2006
How a single studio in a tiny house in Nashville became Music Row, a ten-block area populated by hundreds of…
talented people whose job is to simply make music. It's the place where Elvis ushered in rock 'n' roll with "Heartbreak Hotel," Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, and Willie Nelson taught America to love soulful ballads, and Bob Dylan recorded three of his most important albums. Features stories from publishers, songwriters and others who describe the evolution of this fabled centre of music. 2006.By Robert Lacey. 1987
The author believes that the wife of King George VI, who died in 1952, helped make her husband a great…
modern king. Lacey states that the monarchy owes its continued secure status in British political and social life largely to the Queen Mother. 1987.By Carolly Erickson. 1994
Erickson looks for the real woman behind the tarnished image of Empress Catherine II of Russia. Catherine, an indomitable and…
visionary ruler, increased the size of Russia, raised its prestige, and imposed political and legal order on the country during her 18th century reign. 1994.