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The story of Motown
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Peter Benjaminson |
Motown was part of growing up in the 1960's and 70's. An amazing number of well-known stars worked for Motown: Diana Ross and the Supremes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Gladys Knight and the Pips… |
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Hitman
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David Foster |
After almost four decades in the music business, David Foster--producer, arranger, songwriter, performer--relates his compelling and outspoken memoir, describing the delicate balancing act between ar… |
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Por amor a la música
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Kike Santander |
The award-winning Colombian composer, lyricist, and arranger, now living in Miami, recounts his early years in Cali, his attraction to both medicine and music, and other highlights of his professiona… |
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Life and Def
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Russell Simmons |
Simmons tells the story of the founding of Def Jam Records and his expansion into television, movies, clothing and more. |
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Def Jam, Inc
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Stacy Gueraseva |
An inside look at the world's largest and most successful hip-hop record label traces the evolution of Def Jam, Inc. from an idea hatched in an NYU dorm room in 1984 to a multibillion-dollar hip-hop … |
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Pharrell Williams
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Chris Roberts |
In 2003, Pharrell Williams was responsible (performing or producing) for 43 per cent of all the music played on radio across the USA, and 20 per cent in the UK. His prolific and varied collaborations… |
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Sweet revenge
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Tom Bower |
Simon Cowell has made an international name for himself as the no-holds-barred judge on the television phenomenon American Idol. He's been called mean, arrogant, brash, and unapologetic, but his stin… |
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A new America
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Tommy Mottola |
The legendary music impresario explores and expounds on his lifelong love of Latin music and its ever-growing influence in America, in a book inspired by the HBO documentary "The Latin Explosion."
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In search of Pharrell Williams
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Lester, Paul (Music journalist) |
Pharrell Williams is one of the biggest names on today's top 40 charts. He's won eleven Grammys (and immeasurable attention for his Grammys fashion choices), been nominated for an Oscar, and is about… |
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By love alone
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Kathryn Ross |
"Do a story on Cole Adams, the music producer."
Lauren, a music reporter, couldn't believe her ears when the boss gave her the assignment.
"It may be my job, but I have to do a story on the e… |
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Phil Spector
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Sean MacLeod |
Musician, songwriter, and producer-- Spector's musical ability and visionary foresight charted the future of popular music and culture of the late twentieth century. He reshaped the business and mark… |
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Siren song
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Seymour Stein |
Seymour Stein is America's greatest living record man. Not only has he signed and nurtured more important artists than anyone alive, now sixty years in the game, he's still the hippest label head, tr… |
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Days like this
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J. Torres,Scott Chantler |
In the early 1960s, Anna Solomon, recently divorced from a music mogul, decides to start her own record label. The first act she signs is Tina & the Tiaras. Add one talented song writer named Karen S… |
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Creation stories
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Alan McGee |
Alan McGee's role in shaping British musical culture over the past thirty years is hard to overstate. As the founder of Creation Records he brought us the bands that defined an era. A charismatic Gla… |
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Ralph Peer and the making of popular roots music
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Barry Mazor |
The first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous A&R man and music publisher who changed the breadth and flavor of popular music in the United States and around the world, a man who was crucial in … |
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How music dies (or lives)
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Ian Brennan |
All recordings document life, arising from a specific time and place, and if that place is artificial, the results will be as well. Culled from a lifetime of learning through failure and designed to … |
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The keys
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DJ Khaled |
The hip-hop impresario and social-media guru presents a collection of motivational success strategies based on his "keys" video posts and drawing from his personal experiences, sharing the philosophi… |
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My British Invasion
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Harold Bronson |
322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm |
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All Things Remembered
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C. M. Goldie |
1 online resource |
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Hiro in Exile
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Hiro Igarashi,VERBAL,Nigo |
271 pages : 31 cm |
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