A definitive reference work on 20th century popular music--more than 3,000 entries spanning the entire field of non-classical music of this era. Briefs on performers, songwriters, producers, and record labels, fully cross-referenced with albums and suggested further reading.
The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia (Volume 25, volume 25) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1987] H.S. Stuttman …
The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia (Volume 25, volume 25) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1987] H.S. Stuttman …
The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia (Volume 25, volume 25) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1987] H.S. Stuttman …
The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia (Volume 25, volume 25) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1987] H.S. Stuttman …
The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia (Volume 25, volume 25) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1987] H.S. Stuttman …
The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia (Volume 25, volume 25) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1987] H.S. Stuttman …
The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia (Volume 25, volume 25) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1987] H.S. Stuttman …
The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia (Volume 25, volume 25) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1987] H.S. Stuttman …
The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia (Volume 25, volume 25) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1987] H.S. Stuttman …
The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia (Volume 25, volume 25) [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1987] H.S. Stuttman …
No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday. This biography separates fact from fiction to reveal Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life.
A history of popular music covers balladry, minstrelsy, ragtime, blues, jazz, swing, pop, r&b, folk, country, gospel, rock'n'roll, heavy metal, dance music, punk, New Wave, technopop, and rap
From Abba to ZZ Top via Oasis, James Brown, and Frank Sinatra, this wonderful resource to the world's nonclassical music has been updated and revised to include a wider range of New World and ethnic musicians from Latin America and Africa along with a range of new entries from the contemporary Brit-pop scene and all of your old favorites. Donald Clarke covers a truly spectacular array of artists, from the early blues (Big Bill Broonzy, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith) and ragtime Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake) to the golden age of Broadway musicals, the great swing bands of the 1930s, jazz from around the world, American country, English folk, rock 'n' roll, reggae, soul, funk, punk, and the rest. The extensive Index ensures that no songwriter, musician, record label, or musical style is overlooked.
An historical chronology of inventions, Ancient the wheel, tools, numerals, paper, the bow, printing, mapmaking, water wheels, windmills, nets and rope, looms, sailing, the rudder, pulleys and gears, glass, plate glass, the crane, balances and weights, boats, bricks, pumps, smelting and alloying, casting of metals, coinage, iron and steel, plumbing, pottery, salt mining, canals and locks. Middle Ages and clocks, crank handles, spectacles, magnetic compass, quadrant, knitting machinery, barometer, firing mechanisms, microscope, thermometers, telescopes, pendulums, gunpowder. Industrial flying shuttle, seed drill, chronometer, electrostatic generation, Volta's pile, machine tools, steam engines, steamboat, locomotive, cotton gin Modern internal combustion engine, telegraph and telephone, photography, generation of electricity, sound recording, flying machine, radio and television, radar, transistor, and nuclear power.
Wishing On The Moon
