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Leonard Cohen

By (author) Christophe Lebold
Categories: History of music

Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. But he never ceased doing what he did best: going from ...

Bach's Architecture of Gratitude

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. In Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude James ...

City Symphonies

By (author) Daniel P. Schwartz
Categories: Music

Cinema scholars categorize city symphony films of the 1920s and early 1930s as a subgenre of the silent film. Defined in visual terms, the city symphony organizes the visible elements of urban experience ...

Noir satin

Après De préférence la nuit, Stanley Péan revient avec autant d’entrain, de savoir historique et de ferveur pour défendre et illustrer le monde du jazz. Cette fois-ci, rien que des femmes : une ...

Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses

By (author) Art Tavana
Categories: Popular music

The final statement on one of the greatest bands of the twentieth century. A definitive, uncensored and exclusive biography of Guns N’ Roses entire history from a celebrated music journalist with exclusive ...

Le Goût délicieux d'une mozzarella!

Voyagez dans le temps pour faire la rencontre de Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovsky en suivant Minime, une charmante petite souris qui raffole du fromage et de la musique ! Sasha et Bobik attendent impatiemment ...

Approaching Fire

By (author) Michelle Porter
Categories: Biography: general

In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and ...

Les résistants du jazz

By (author) Serge Truffaut
Categories: Music: styles and genres

Des musiciens et des musiciennes de jazz de la catégorie des mi-moyens (Red Garland, Elvin Jones, Lester Bowie, Julius Hemphill, etc. ), pour reprendre le qualificatif du célèbre critique Leonard Feather, ...

Working for the Man, Playing in the Band

By (author) Damon Wood
With Phil Carson
Categories: Popular music

In a memoir certain to fascinate Mr. Dynamite’s millions of fans, as well as musicians and industry insiders, Wood recalls how a chance encounter with James Brown led him to embrace soul and funk music ...

Les récits cachés de Richard Wagner

By (author) Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Categories: Opera
Series: PUM

Projetant les principes théoriques de Wagner sur ses œuvres, l’auteur fait apparaître les récits cachés derrière la lettre de leur propos, en montrant le rôle que jouent les emprunts à des formes ...