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Half-Cuban, half-Puerto Rican, Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeño is 100 percent Boogie Down Bronx. Born in the 60s, Wiz struggled in a turbulent and violent relationship with his alcoholic father while trying to protect his mother who was suffering from breast cancer. Raised in the 70s, Wiz learned the code of the streets while hustling with his crew, the East Side Boys.

In the spirit of VH1’s Behind the Music comes this revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making, breaking, remaking, pirating, filming and legal wrangling of the ‘60s cult phenomenon Candy. An erotic satire vaguely inspired by Voltaire’s Candide and penned under the name Maxwell Kenton (the nom de plume of its ex-pat coauthors, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg), Candy was first published in 1958 by the notorious French publisher Maurice Giordias. The book was immediately banned, then reissued under the title Lollipop, banned again, then reissued again, sanitized in England and eventually shipped stateside, where thanks to Putnam and a slew of publishing pirates, it leapt to bestsellerdom and was eventually crowned "the world’s most talked about book." Southern’s own son, Nile, has recounted the novel’s bumpy and adventurous journey in a magnificent epistolary style, reprinting the correspondence between Candy’s authors, its publisher and its increasingly complicated web of involved parties. The compilation perfectly captures the "growing misunderstandings, temper tantrums, paranoid fixations, jealousies, dreams and utter despair that each of these men went through as they tried to regain control over their book lost in a miasma of cloudy copyright." (Miasma is an apt term: by the second half of the book the legal fog is so thick that it’s nearly impossible to keep track of who’s suing whom.)

This is the incredible story of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra and the remarkable interplay between music and medicine. You may have read about the Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO) in the paper or heard them on your favorite radio station. But the LSO is not just any orchestra. It began in 1982 with a group of talented Boston-area physicians, medical students, and health-care professionals and has since flourished under the leadership of violinist Dr. Lisa Wong.

Award-winning photographer and author of My Last Supper Melanie Dunea traces the through-lines from country music’s gritty roots to the chart-topping chanteuses of today. My Country presents beautiful, imaginative, and revealing depictions of icons ranging from Taylor Swift to Wynonna Judd to Little Jimmy Dickens alongside interviews that reveal the stars’ musical roots and inspirations, their defining moments, and what makes country music the heart and soul of America.

In 1948, New Orleans veteran trumpeter and singer Louis Prima stumbled into a young girl named Keely Smith. She was barely a performer at all, almost half his age, destined for a relatively quiet life; their encounter was pure coincidence. But they went on to invent The Wildest, the most exciting and successful lounge act Las Vegas has ever seen, an act that became one of the hottest in the U.S. in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Music managers and artists will learn the secrets of successful management with scenarios from a manager’s work life, along with the legal and business skills to master them. The book teaches future music managers and artists how to acquire clients, negotiate contracts, develop image, administer taxes and finances, and deal with promoters, media, attorneys, and unions. Packed with industry guidelines and sure-fire career tips from industry icons, this book is a professional springboard for music managers, recording artists, singers, and rock bands alike.

In the wickedly bittersweet and hilarious You Must Go and Win, the Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her bizarre journey through the indie rock world, from disastrous Craigslist auditions with sketchy producers to catching fleas in a Williamsburg sublet. But Simone offers more than down-and-out tales of her time as a struggling musician: she has a rapier wit, slashing and burning her way through the absurdities of life, while offering surprising and poignant insights.

When Gustavo Dudamel, at the age of 28, ascended the podium at the Hollywood Bowl for his inaugural concert as conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he immediately captivated the hearts of his audience, just as he had the minds of music critics who designated him a modern-day Leonard Bernstein. In Changing Lives, the maestro's story becomes the entry point to an equally captivating subject: El Sistema, the music education program that nurtured his musical talent, first as a young violinist and then as a budding conductor under the mentorship of its founder, Jos Antonio Abreu.

An exploration of the cultural impact of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, the Piet of music, and its enigmatic composer. In the first book ever to explore Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, music and literary critic Thomas Larson tells the story of the prodigal composer, his seminal masterpiece and its fascinating history as America's secular hymn for grieving our dead.

Nel 1989, in provincia di Cuneo, nasceva una delle band più importanti della musica rock italiana: i Marlene Kuntz. Gloriosi, eleganti, poetici, potenti, refrattari a piegarsi ai dettami delle mode, della critica e dei fan, hanno attraversato trent'anni di carriera inseguendo sempre e soltanto la loro ispirazione e il desiderio di battere terreni inesplorati e mai scontati.

Tutti sappiamo - o pensiamo di sapere - che cos'è la canzone italiana. Ne parliamo con gli amici guardando Sanremo, la ascoltiamo su Spotify o su vinile, la cantiamo sotto la doccia, la amiamo, la odiamo, o tutt'e due le cose insieme. Ma che cosa rende "italiana" una canzone? "Felicità", siamo tutti d'accordo, suona come una tipica "canzone italiana", al punto che potremmo definirla "all'italiana". E allora "Via con me" di Paolo Conte, coeva eppure lontana miglia e miglia dal successo sanremese di Al Bano e Romina, non lo è?

Presente in tutte le culture umane da migliaia di anni, la musica ha poteri straordinari. Ma che cosa accade al nostro cervello quando facciamo musica? Di certo essa è in grado di scolpirlo nelle sue strutture e funzioni, influenzando la percezione del linguaggio, l'attenzione e la memoria. Tuffandoci nel condotto uditivo, trasformandoci in segnali elettrici capaci di raggiungere la corteccia, cavalcando le creste delle onde cerebrali, proveremo a svelare il mistero di questa forma così sofisticata di comunicazione, porta d'ingresso privilegiata per lo studio della mente.

Claudio Baglioni racconta se stesso attraverso le note di un diario che lo ha accompagnato in trent'anni di viaggi, di carriera, di vita. L'autore alterna cenni biografici e narrativi, racconti, bozzetti, riflessioni sui temi della guerra e la fine del secondo millennio, considerazioni sulla vita dell'artista girovago, sferzanti critiche musicali e sociali, intensi appunti che hanno seguito il suo primo tour in Africa, Sud America ed Est Europeo. Claudio Baglioni offre nelle pagine di questo libro uno sguardo inedito sul rapporto trentennale tra un cantore e il suo secolo.

Based on extensive research and interviews with some of the participants, Browne - a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and author of Fire and Rain and Dream Brother - vividly chronicles the year America went rock & roll in everything from politics to technology. The Spirit of '76 will make you think anew about an under-appreciated moment in the country - and will make you wonder if its optimistic, can-do spirit of reinvention and renewal will ever come again.

Bob Dylan. Non è nemmeno più un nome e cognome. È uno spettro, l'evidente incarnazione di qualcosa che non c'è più, che non c'è ancora. Si ama per resa, invidia, ammirazione. Si adora perché non saremo mai come lui, non riusciremo mai a lasciarci tutto alle spalle, non saremo mai così avanti rispetto ai nostri tempi. Forse è impossibile ascoltare Dylan per la prima volta, perché si aspetta di ascoltarlo per la prima volta tutta la vita.

Sfera Ebbasta lo champagne lo sperpera, lo dissipa, lo scialacqua, e il gracidare del liquido che precipita e macchia l’asfalto poroso sembra lo scroscio di una svergognata e liberatoria pisciata.»La gigantografia di un individuo in pelliccia sintetica rosa appare un mattino sui muri di Milano. Il suo nome è Sfera Ebbasta, la sua voce soffia dal ventre dell’Auto-Tune, le sue gengive ospitano denti dorati. Chi è quella creatura fluorescente in agguato ovunque, fra i mezzanini della metropolitana e nelle piazze scintillanti del centro?

Melodías del alma nos invita a embarcarnos en un viaje musical a través del tiempo, apelando a los clásicos de ayer y de hoy al compás de las estaciones del año, y a sumergirnos en las resonancias musicales de las profundidades del alma recorriendo la cartografía de las emociones que cada estación suscita en la autora a lo largo de las cincuenta y dos semanas del año. En este singular ejercicio de maridaje, cada una de las trece emociones asociadas a cada estación se acompaña de una composición que la representa.

The Beatles' third tour of North America was nearly a year in the planning. By late 1964, manager Brian Epstein knew that they were not only the biggest act in his stable: they had become the biggest act on earth. America worshipped them. Somewhere different for the start of this tour, in New York - somewhere appropriately massive - had to be found. It was: a baseball stadium in Flushing, Queens. On August 15, 1965, The Beatles played the concert of their lives there.

Per gli appassionati e gli studiosi di musica, Carlos Kleiber è una figura leggendaria. Un uomo che ha diretto solo 89 concerti e registrato soli 12 dischi, che aveva un repertorio molto esiguo, ma che nonostante ciò è ritenuto da colleghi, critica e pubblico uno dei più grandi direttori d’orchestra di sempre.

Esta é uma viagem sonora e literária por apresentações ao vivo inesquecíveis dos maiores nomes da música brasileira de todos tempos. Do encontro dos geniais Tom Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes e João Gilberto, em 1962, à turnê histórica dos Titãs, em 2023, o jornalista Luiz Felipe Carneiro e o pesquisador Tito Guedes, do canal Alta Fidelidade, colocam você na primeira fila dos shows dos mais consagrados artistas do Brasil - devidamente contextualizados em seu tempo e espaço.