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Women of power volume 9
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"Music Mavens transports readers around the world (and beyond)--to a jazz performance in Genoa, an instrument lab in London, a Tokyo taiko dojo, a New York City beatbox battle, and even a film scoring session aboard the starship Enterprise, to name a few. Along the way, it spotlights artists whose work spans musical genres and industry roles, including composing and songwriting, performing and conducting, audio engineering, producing, and rock photography....
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The global business icon, in a sequel to his best-selling 1998 memoir Losing My Virginity, brings his life story up to date, including all the successes and failures of ventures such as Virgin Galactic, and also shares his personal, intimate thoughts on 50 years as a world entrepreneur and his shift to focusing more and more on public service.
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2019.
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A collection of stories about some of the music world's most beloved stars and their crimes.
You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know he shot his bass player in the chest with a shotgun or that a couple of his wives died under extremely mysterious circumstances? Or that Sam Cooke was shot dead in a seedy motel after barging into the manager's office naked to attack her? Maybe not. Would it change your view...
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Sophia Chang is a badass of the music industry. As the daughter of Korean immigrants in predominantly white suburban Vancouver, she grew up shunning the model minority myth. Armed with a fierce sense of independence, she moved to New York City and infiltrated the world of hip-hop, yet remained mostly in the shadows of the artists she supported. With her debut memoir, Sophia Chang is finally ready to grab the mic for herself. This inspiring story spans...
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Sam Cutler was the personal tour manager for the Rolling Stones at some of their major gigs, including the never-to-be-repeated free concert in Hyde Park in London. And he was the man left behind after the Altamont concert fiasco, with $300 to make peace with the Hell's Angels, the Grateful Dead who had supported the concert, the various mobsters and organizations who had taken an overt interest in the event, and the people of America. There has never...
6) Beyoncé
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From Destiny's Child to her solo career, Beyonce Knowles has taken the music scene by storm. Young readers discover how this talented entertainer has also become one of the most influential people in the world of fashion with her own label, House of Dereon.
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2022.
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"Peter Shapiro is the best known and most influential concert promoter of his generation. In The music never stops, Shapiro shares the inside story of how he became a power-house in the music industry through the lens of fifty iconic concerts. Along the way, readers gain insight into what it was like to work with some of the most celebrated bands in modern music"--
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"How Music Works is David Byrne's incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological. Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaboration with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and many others, Byrne taps deeply into his lifetime of knowledge to explore the panoptic elements of music and how it shapes the human experience, and reveals...
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[2015]
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English
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Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band called the The Who a rebellious restlessness that was just...
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