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Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"This book is a rare look at Lynn's handwritten lyrics and memorabilia, personal photographs, and anecdotes that give deeper insights into her childhood in Butcher Holler, Kentucky; her marriage and relationship with Doolittle Lynn; her experience as a mother; her meteoric rise to the top of the charts; [and more]."--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Celtic Music" explores all aspects of this genre, from its roots to the exciting developments on the contemporary scene. Sawyers profiles hundreds of artists and compiles suggestions for recommended listening as well providing a list of 100 essential Celtic recordings.
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The story of how Russ Giguere and his fellow band members in the legendary and influential pop group The Association came together to create unparalleled music, unique to the time and place, and never again to be repeated. Yes, there were drugs, and there were women, such as the lovely Linda Ronstadt and Helen Mirren, but it was the sixties, after all. In reading 'Along Comes The Association,' you are transported back in time to post-1963 America....
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus. . . . No one alive knows the music that fueled Dylan's imagination better. . . . Folk Music . . . [is an] ingenious book of close listening."-David Remnick, New Yorker "Marcus delivers yet another essential work of music journalism."-Kirkus...
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Series
Publisher
Paradigm Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In this new book, we hear directly from the artist through the widest array of sources--letters, notes to himself, published articles, rough drafts, stories, and poetry--creating the most detailed picture available of Seeger as a musician, an activist, and a family man, in his own words and from his own perspective... The portrait that emerges is not a saint, not a martyr, but a flesh-and-blood man, struggling to understand his gift, his time, and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Café to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records, New York City's cultural, artistic, and commercial assets helped to shape a distinctively urban breeding ground for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s. Folk city explores New York's central role in fueling the nationwide craze for folk music in postwar America. It involves the efforts of record company producers and executives, club owners, concert promoters,...
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