The Virgin Encyclopedia Of Fifties Music

Author : Colin Larkin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music written by Colin Larkin and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the facts and informed opinion that you need on the artists who made the history of this decade are contained in this single volume, distilled from The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world's leading source of reference on rock and pop history.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Encyclopedia of Country Music written by Colin Larkin and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of country music. Based on the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the book contains over 1000 entries covering musicians, bands, songwriters, producers and record labels which have made a significant impact on the development of country music. It brings together people such as Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks and Jimmie Rogers and the influence of Patsy Cline and Hank Williams and more recent figures such as Mary-Chapin Carpenter and LeAnn Rimes. Each entry offers information such as dates, career facts, discography and album ratings.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz written by Colin Larkin and published by Virgin Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential companion to this distinctive music style.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music written by Colin Larkin and published by Virgin Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the facts and informed opinion that you need on the artists who made the history of this decade are contained in this single volume, distilled from The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world's leading source of reference on rock and pop history.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music written by Colin Larkin and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the first time in hard cover this invaluable handbook contains 1000 entries taken from theEncyclopedia of Popular Music, offering an insight into the 60s -- the most analyzed yet least understood decade in the history of popular music. It includes every artist who had a significant impact on the development of rock and pop music in those ten years, from the Beatles-led invasion of America to the States' own pop aristocracy of Phil Spector and the Beach Boys, from the rise of Motown to the arrival of psychedelia and the Summer of Love. A perfect mix of fact and informed opinion contained in one single volume. Covers the essential elements -- dates, career facts, discography, album ratings plus a sense of context for each artist.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music written by Colin Larkin and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nineties has been a thrilling and varied decade for pop, with a renaissance of both rock and roll and pop music. Along with new acts like the Spice Girls, Oasis, Beck, Bjork and Nirvana, there has been an explosion of dance music and the emergence of powerful new genres like drum'n'bass and thrash metal. All the entries have been created from the massive data-base of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, first published in 1992, which is the acknowledged champion of contemporary music reference books.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Encyclopedia of 80s Music written by Colin Larkin and published by Virgin Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember the 80's? The Virgin Encyclopedia of 80's Music is a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of the most fragmented and frequently maligned decade in the history of popular music. Here are 1000 entries on the bands, musicians, songwriters, producers and record labels - everyone who had a significant impact on the development of rock and pop music in those ten years, from the New Romantics who brought colour and image to fill the gap left by punk and the new wave, to the stadium acts who provided a launch pad for Live Aid, to the myriad variations of house and techno spawned in the latter half of the Eighties. As well as all the giants of the period the encyclopedia has the range and depth to include artists who flourished briefly and yet were quintessential to the decade. A perfect mix of fact and informed opinion contained in one single volume, distilled from the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world's leading source of reference on rock and pop history. Informed, infatuating and invaluable.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul written by Colin Larkin and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of R&B and soul music. Based on the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the book contains over 1000 entries covering musicians, bands, songwriters, producers and record labels which have made a significant impact on the development of R&B and soul music. It brings together people such as Otis Reading and Aretha Franklin with the great Philly groups of the 1970s, the mainstream soul of Will Downing and Anita Baker and the modern generation of artists such as Mary J. Blige, Babyface and Toni Braxton. As well as headline acts, the book also covers performers who flourished briefly. Each entry offers information such as dates, career facts, discography and album ratings.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz written by Colin Larkin and published by Virgin Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From boogie-woogie to bebop and beyond, the sounds and rhythms of Jazz is mercurial- always creative, seldom static, frequently cultish and often contentious. The latest edition of The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz is the essential companion to making an acquaintance with Jazz. It will inform you and it will not talk down to you. There are over 3,500 entries detailing every artist who has had an impact on the development of jazz since it headed out from New Orleans and spread to New York, London, Paris, Montreux, Munich and way beyond. Here are all the legends whose genius is evoked in a single name - Ella, Duke, Satchimo, Bird, Miles, Trane, the Hawk, Monk and Diz - together with all the younger talent - Brad mehidau, jacky terrasson, Nicholas Payton and the youngest phenomenon of them all, Norah Jones. They line up with modern-day giants of the genre such as John Schofield, Dave Holland, Joe Lovano and Keith Jarrett. All entries have a detailed album chronology, together with a five-star rating system.The text is non-pompous, non-judgemental yet friendly and constructive. All the text has been taken from the gigantic database of The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, first published in 1992. the EPM and its spin-off series swiftly and firmly established itself as the undisputed champion of all contemporary-music reference books.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Virgin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virgin Encyclopedia of Stage and Film Musicals written by Colin Larkin and published by Virgin Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the greatest shows and films in the history of the musical, as well as their stars, lyricists and composers. Over 1600 entries provide facts, figures and critical opinion on all aspects of the field.