Author: Di StubbsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780953912377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Author: Peter Buckley
Author: Diana CrossleyJoseph Smith
Author: Richard Lyman BushmanPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400077532
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud to explore his personality, his relationships with others, and how he received revelations. An arresting narrative of the birth of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling also brilliantly evaluates the prophet’s bold contributions to Christian theology and his cultural place in the modern world.
Rock
Author: Al SpicerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781858284903
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A selection of rock albums from the 50's to the 90's "that packs the whole story of rock" from "zillion-sellers to the wilfully obscure". Reviews the artist, the album, and sone of the individual songs.
The Rough Guide to Nirvana
Author: Gillian G. GaarPublisher: Rough Guides UK
ISBN: 1405381124
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
The Rough Guide to Nirvana uncovers the magic and tragedy of this iconic 90's grunge band - from small-town gigs to the last days of Kurt Cobain, delve into the story of the life and afterlife of this extraordinary, all too short-lived group. This essential guide for Nirvana fans is written by Gillian G. Gaar, a Seattle music journalist who has personally interviewed many of those involved in the story. No other book explores and documents Nirvana's history, critiques every Nirvana album, single, EP and compilation, including the rare, stray Nirvana tracks and solo projects, and summaries the array of other Nirvana books and Nirvana films, in one volume. From Nirvana's early days on the burgeoning Seattle music scene, the birth of grunge, their global success from Smells Like Teen Spirit and Nevermind to In Utero and the untimely death of lead singer Kurt Cobain, The Rough Guide to Nirvana delivers a wealth of musical insight as the definitive guide to Nirvana.
Rock Addiction
Author: Nalini SinghPublisher: Tka Distribution
ISBN: 9781937776992
Category : Love stories
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Molly Webster has always followed the rules. After an ugly scandal tore apart her childhood and made her the focus of the media's harsh spotlight, she vowed to live an ordinary life. No fame. No impropriety. No pain. Then she meets Zachary Fox, a tattooed bad boy rocker with a voice like whiskey and sin, and a touch that could become an addiction.
When That Rough God Goes Riding
Author: Greil MarcusPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458758125
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Readhowyouwant 16 point large print. Van Morrison, says Greil Marcus, remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music. When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was re-released as a live album in 2009 it reached the top of the Billboard charts, a first for any Van Morrison recording. The wild swings in the music, mirroring the swings in Morrison's success and in people's appreciation (or lack of it) of his music, make Van Morrison one of the most perplexing and mysterious figures in popular modern music, and a perfect subject for the wise and insightful scrutiny of Greil Marcus, one of America's most dedicated cultural critics. This book is Marcus's quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through the extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day. In these dislocations Marcus finds the singer on his own artistic quest precisely to reach some extreme musical threshold, the moments that are not enclosed by the will or the intention of the performer but which somehow emerge at the limits of the musician and his song.
Author: Hannah Harrington
Author: Ken Englade