Wax Poetics 50

• Author : Alan Leeds,Gwen Leeds,Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 26 May 2016

The special-edition reprint of Wax Poetics Magazine Issue 50--our bestselling issue ever--featuring Prince on the cover, with features on Prince and the Revolution; Morris Day and the Time; the Time's guitarist Jesse Johnson; Grand Central: the roots of Prince and Andre Cymone; Prince's jazz side project Madhouse; the Prince side project the Family; early Prince recordings, 94 East; and Questlove's commentary "33 Reasons Why Prince Is Hip-Hop." Also featuring Larry Graham, Blood Orange, Toro y Moi, DJ Quik, and Frank Ocean. This

• Author : Alan Leeds
• Publisher : Post Hill Press
• Release : 25 February 2020

“Alan Leeds was a protegé of James Brown and a true historian of the world that nurtured the great entertainer. Alan was a witness to the vibrant black music scene of the ’60s and ’70s—whose book is both a memoir and a document of a lost world of sound.”—Nelson George, an American author, columnist, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker A behind-the-scenes look at the Chitlin’ Circuit during American’s most vital period of soul music—from

• Author : Various Authors
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 17 January 2020

Hardcover version of Issue 68. Cover 1: Digable Planets. Cover 2: P.M. Dawn. Winter 2020.

• Author : Brandon Stosuy
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 21 August 2018

From the author of Music Is... Brandon Stosuy comes a second pitch-perfect board book that’s a kid-friendly music history lesson—perfect for the little record collectors in your life. From music writer and The Creative Independent/Kickstarter Editor in Chief, Brandon Stosuy, comes a new board book called We Are Music that dives into the history of music. It starts with clapping, tapping, and drums, and from there the music moves in many different directions. From classical to blues

• Author : Various Authors,Wax Poetics
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 20 April 2020

Reprint of the Aug/Sept 2006 Issue 18 edition of Wax Poetics magazine, covering Parliament-Funkadelic.

• Author : Adam Bradley
• Publisher : Civitas Books
• Release : 27 June 2017

If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to

• Author : Vikki Tobak
• Publisher : Clarkson Potter
• Release : 07 March 2021

An inside look at the work of hip-hop photographers told through their most intimate diaries--their contact sheets. Featuring rare outtakes from over 100 photoshoots alongside interviews and essays from industry legends, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop takes readers on a chronological journey from old-school to alternative hip-hop and from analog to digital photography. The ultimate companion for music and photography enthusiasts, Contact High is the definitive history of hip-hop's early days, celebrating the artists that shaped the iconic album

• Author : Ian Johnson
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 01 February 2015

Since his 2008 monograph, Ian Johnson has had six solo shows and undergone an evolution, while remaining just as jarringly cool and full of life. This new book presents all-new paintings and drawings by Johnson in his signature style: portraits of jazz musicians from the '40s, '50s, and '60s that were produced using gouache, acrylic or pen on paper or wood panel. Johnson combines abstract background shapes with figurative representations to create jaw-dropping pieces that succeed at evoking

• Author : John Kruth
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 01 October 2015

THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN: THE ENDURING BEAUTY OF RUBBER SOUL FIFTY YEARS ON

• Author : Victoria Rimell
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 05 June 2015

An ambitious analysis of the Roman literary obsession with retreat and closed spaces, in the context of expanding empire.

• Author : Ingo Gildenhard
• Publisher : Open Book Publishers
• Release : 07 March 2021

Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked by the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic's opening. Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the gods, decides to leave his beloved Dido, causing her suicide in pursuit of his historical destiny. A dark plot, in which erotic passion culminates in sex, and sex leads to tragedy and death in the human realm, unfolds

• Author : David G. Dodd
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 13 October 2015

A complete collection of annotated lyrics by the prolific rock band, published to coincide with their fiftieth anniversary, features literary, historical, and cultural references for every original song.

• Author : Steve Parke
• Publisher : Cassell
• Release : 05 September 2017

PICTURING PRINCE sees the late icon's former art director, STEVE PARKE, revealing stunning intimate photographs of the singer from his time working at Paisley Park. At least half of the images in the book are exclusively published here for the first time; most other images in the book are rare to the public eye. Alongside these remarkable images are fifty engaging, poignant and often funny written vignettes by Parke, which reveal the very human man behind the reclusive superstar: from

• Author : Allen Thayer
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release : 29 November 2018

At the height of Tim Maia's soaring fame, he joined a radical, extraterrestrial-obsessed cult and created two plus albums of some of Brazil's-and the globe's-best funk and soul music. This book explores the career of the man often hailed as the James Brown or Barry White of Brazil, and the time of his radical transformation from a musician notorious for hedonistic living to a devoted follower of Manoel Jacinto Coelho's Rational Culture. After suddenly joining Coelho's cult in 1974 (which started

• Author : Marisa Aveling
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 23 September 2019