ICONS OF ROCK will be an inspirational read for anyone with an ounce of creativity in their body and a frank and honest look at the experiences of some of rock's finest musicians.

There have been innumerable 'rock star' biographies and music histories before, but there is no book that presents the deepest, innermost thoughts from some of the industry's most legendary musicians on not only how they create, but what drives their creative process. Have you ever wondered how your favourite rock s...

Explore the inspiration, the stories and the songcraft behind every single track Taylor Swift has released.

Hip Hop is rewriting the rules of business; The Hip Hop MBA takes you on a guided tour of just how and what we can all learn from it, by banker-turned-writer Nels Abbey

James came behind me and I felt him putting his arms around my waist and resting his chin on my shoulder. I knew James for a couple of hours but he made me feel familiar. The lights went on again and Sam came on stage with her guitar, a blond god sat behind the drums and a dark adonis followed them and started singing right away:

"Savage

I've seen this face before So many times I swore never again

But I can't escape who I am The savage I've become

From the freak that I was first Here I am I ...

For more than 30 years, Jazz Hot, the world's oldest jazz magazine (created in 1935, as DownBeat), has regularly published Pascal Kober's photos, breakfast interviews, album and festival reviews and feature articles. Over the years, he has built up a unique catalog of more than 35,000 jazz photos taken all over the world. As a freelance journalist and photographer, he later contributed to many publications in the French and international press. The venue : musée de l'ancier évêchée. Locat...

Boek/Book/Buch: English + Nederlands + Deutsch.

With this book the experienced author has created a communis opinio, a standard work for the int. rock & roll scene, for finding songs in (and an overview of) movies containing vintage rock & roll. Songs and movies from: USA, UK, Germany (including GDR and Austria), Italy, France and The Netherlands. Although the focus is on vintage rock & roll songs, the intension is, with the help of snapshots (even when the quality might be dated due to the o...

Who am I as a musician and how can I contribute to society?

It is the key question in this reflective handbook on Lifelong Learning in Music, in which Rineke Smilde reflects on today’s musicians’ emerging identity and its relationship with their professional performance. For many years she has been leading the research group Lifelong Learning in Music of Prince Claus Conservatoire (Hanze University Groningen), examining questions about the relationship between musicians and society. What ...

Discover how to achieve release-quality mixes even in the smallest studios by applying power-user techniques from the world's most successful producers.

A lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on over ninety interviews.

Indisch Classical Music

When in 2004, in collaboration with the National Music Institute in The Hague, Henk Mak van Dijk started researching the lives and works of Dutch composers with close links to the Netherlands Indies, he had no idea that so much unknown, yet extraordinary music was to be uncovered. Here were compositions in which a western, romantic or impressionistic idiom would to a greater or lesser extent be mixed with elements of the music indigenous to the then Netherlands Indies:...