The Rough Guide Book of Playlists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rough Guide Book of Playlists write by Mark Ellingham. This book was released on 2007. The Rough Guide Book of Playlists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This second edition of the Rough Guide Book of Playlistscontains more than 500 lists of which 50 are new to this edition. The lists are recommendations of ten songs (sometimes a couple more, sometimes a couple less), covering artists (Rufus Wainwright to Thelonius Monk, Al Green to Manu Chao, Glenn Gould to Julie Andrews), genres (Bebop Classics to Reggae Toasters to Punk Originals to Hot Club jazz), songs (10 best Dylan covers; 8 classic versions of Summertime; 10 love songs that don't cloy), quirks and silliness (Songs about Chickens and Insects; Who let the frogs out?; Big Pizza Pie crooners; Take this Job and Shove it!). There's even a literary edge with playlists like '10 songs raved about in Murakami novels'. Each of the Playlists has a nugget about the song (why you want it on your iPod), and a listings of where it's from (remember CDs?).
The Rough Guide to Classical Music
The Rough Guide to Classical Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rough Guide to Classical Music write by Joe Staines. This book was released on 2010-05-17. The Rough Guide to Classical Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This expanded and completely revised fifth edition is a unique ebook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide to Classical Music in a new ebook (PDF) fromat has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously.
The Rough Guide to Cult Pop
The Rough Guide to Cult Pop - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rough Guide to Cult Pop write by Paul Simpson. This book was released on 2003. The Rough Guide to Cult Pop available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new Rough Guide is devoted to pop music, the tacky, catchy yet enduring music we grew up listening to when we should have been listening to something more profound. We celebrate the hits, the singers, the impresarios and the songs which have made up the soundtrack to our lives. So come along pop pickers, put on your blue suede shoes (or your tartan trousers or puffball skirt, it's your call) and take a stroll down Electric Avenue. Not aarf! Features include: bull; The Stars A celebration of those performers, from Robbie Williams to Andy Williams (and Madonna to Mungo Jerry), who have had us singing along or, in the case of Dean Friedman and Kajagoogoo, left us wondering what the world is coming to.
The Rough Guide to World Music
The Rough Guide to World Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rough Guide to World Music write by Duncan Clark. This book was released on 2006. The Rough Guide to World Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Rough Guide to Classic Novels
The Rough Guide to Classic Novels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rough Guide to Classic Novels write by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2008-05-01. The Rough Guide to Classic Novels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Get the lowdown on the best fiction ever written. Over 230 of the world’s greatest novels are covered, from Quixote (1614) to Orhan Pamuk’s Snow (2002), with fascinating information about their plots and their authors – and suggestions for what to read next. The guide comes complete with recommendations of the best editions and translations for every genre from the most enticing crime and punishment to love, sex, heroes and anti-heroes, not to mention all the classics of comedy and satire, horror and mystery and many other literary genres. With feature boxes on experimental novels, female novelists, short reviews of interesting film and TV adaptations, and information on how the novel began, this guide will point you to all the classic literature you’ll ever need.
