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Sweat the Technique
On the heels of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and "The greatest MC of all time," Rakim.
The musician and Hip Hop legend-hailed as "the greatest MC of all time" and compared to Thelonious Monk-reimagines the writing handbook in this memoir and guide that incorporates the soulful genius, confidence, and creativity of a master artist.
When he exploded on the music scene, musical genius Rakim was hailed for his brilliant artistic style, adding layers, complexity, depth, musicality, and soul to rap. More than anyone, Rakim has changed the way MCs rhyme. Calm on the mic, his words combine in a frenzy of sound, using complicated patterns based on multisyllabic rhymes and internal rhythms. Rakim can tell a story about a down-on-his-luck man looking for a job and turn it into an epic tale and an unforgettable rhyme. He is not just a great songwriter-he's a great modern writer.
Part memoir, part writing guide, Sweat the Technique offers insight into how Rakim thinks about words, music, writing, and rhyming as it teaches writers of all levels how to hone their craft. It is also a rare glimpse into Rakim's private life, full of entertaining personal stories from his youth on Long Island growing up in a home and community filled with musiciansto the clubs of New York and the studios of Los Angeles during his rise to the top of popular music. Rakim celebrates the influences that shaped his development, including the jazz music of John Coltrane and the spirituality of the streets, and shares anecdotes spotlighting personalities such as L. L. Cool J. and Dr. Dre, among others.
Filled with valuable lessons for every writer, Sweat the Technique reveals the heart and mind of an artist and his love for great storytelling, and always, the words.
Zenekar az egész világ - A karmester Fischer Ádám
Szimfonikus vagy kamarazenekar, olasz opera vagy bécsi klasszikus, Wagner vagy Haydn - Fischer Ádám, a legendás karmester élettel tölti meg a zenét, miközben nem feledkezik meg magáról a világról sem, ahol ez a zene szól. Fischer meggyőződéssel állítja, hogy a zenekarokon belül kis léptékben ugyanazok a frontvonalak húzódnak, és ugyanazok a hullámmozgások jönnek létre, mint a társadalomban, s a viszonyok egy-egy zenekaron belül miniatűr formában hűen leképezik mindennapi világunkat.
Napjaink egyik legkeresettebb karmestere zenészcsaládba született Budapesten, s már fiatalon Hans Swarowsky mesterosztályába került a Bécsi Zeneakadémián. Oplatka András életrajzi kötetében a világhírű művész karrierjét követi végig, s eközben nem csupán egy lenyűgöző pályakép és életszemlélet bontakozik ki előttünk, de a 20. századi magyar és európai történelemről is átfogó képet kaphatunk.
"A muzsika összehozza az embereket, minket pedig arra kötelez, hogy hallassuk azok hangját, akik nem tudnak magukért kiállni."
Fischer Ádám
Hudba přítelkyně + CD
Stejně voní žluté květy šafránu jako tvoje vlasy, Kristýnko Psal se 10. květen roku 1953 a v Československém rozhlase poprvé zazněla hudební komedie Sto dukátů za Juana hudebního skladatele Zdeňka Petra a textaře Vladimíra Dvořáka. Na druhý den už improvizovaná serenáda, Píseň pro Kristýnku, zněla ve všech kavárnách a hudebních klubech. Zrodil se hit, který ovlivnil celé generace posluchačů a navždy se nesmazatelně zapsal do dějin české populární hudby. Nikdy jsme s Vladimírem Dvořákem nemohli pochopit, jak šestnáctitaktová písnička, která v podstatě vznikla za pětačtyřicet minut, může způsobit takový rozruch a mít tak dalekosáhlé následky, vzpomíná ve své knize Hudba přítelkyně Zdeněk Petr.
Není to však jen tato inscenace, jejíž zrod nám kniha odhaluje. Jako hudební aranžér, redaktor, režisér a skladatel se během svého života setkal s řadou osobností tehdejší hudební i divadelní scény a podílel se ať už jako autor či spoluautor na mnoha vynikajících a dodnes uváděných hudebních, divadelních i televizních představeních. Ve své knize vzpomíná nejen na své začátky v hudebním nakladatelství R. A. Dvorského, ale i na spolupráci se slavnými V+W, pro které aranžoval hudbu k muzikálu Divotvorný hrnec, s textaři Vladimírem Dvořákem či Ivo Fischerem, s nímž vytvořil mj. muzikály Filosofská historie a Pan Pickwick, anebo s objeviteli Járy Cimrmana Zdeňkem Svěrákem, Miloněm Čepelkou a mnoha dalšími.
Zdeňku Petrovi by bylo letos přesně sto let. Zemřel v roce 1994. Jeho vzpomínky však žijí dál a to, co si z nich odneseme, je vědomí, že řemeslo, dělá-li se poctivě, nikdy nezestárne. Jeho hudba je toho dokladem.
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Praha Calling (jít svou cestou) + CD
Autobiografie muzikanta Jiřího Šimečky (* 1957), geograficky zpřesněná sloganem ze Spořilova na Broadway a zpět není jen o jeho dvou zásadních kapelách. Ta první, Letadlo, se stala jednou z nejvýznamnějších a nejpřesvědčivějších kapel české nové vlny, smetené tažením komunistickými úředníků. Ta druhá, Toyen, se narodila v polistopadové euforii zlatých devadesátek jako Šimečkův majstrštyk, a to dokonce v zahraničí. Kniha Praha Calling s podnázvem Jít svou cestou není jen o hudbě na pódiu, ale i o každodenní trpělivé organizačně manažerské práci. A protože se opravdu nestává každý den, aby česká rocková kapela koncertovala v USA a plnila si tak jeden z klukovských snů, nemůže v knize chybět CD se záznamem koncertu Toyen z roku 1991 v legendárním newyorském klubu CBGB.
OBSAH:
Namísto předmluvy * Prenatal (19571972) * I. Léta gymnazijní (19731977) * II. Zásah osudu (19771980) * III. Letadlo (19811983) * IV. Léta hledání (19841988) * V. Toyen (19891997) * VI. Epilog * VII. Anketa: Co se vám vybaví, když se řekne Jiří Šimeček? (Amrit Sen * Petr Václavek * Ivo Heger * Josef Vondrášek * Daniel Šustr * Jaromír Švejdík * Richard Ulrych * Blanka Šrůmová * Jan P. Muchow * Moimir Papalescu * Lou Fanánek Hagen * Antonín Kocábek * David Ondříček * Jan Hájek * Jaroslav Rudiš * Jirka Neumann * Pavel Zvolenský * Miloslav König * Michal Kořán * Ondřej Bezr * Jiří Vyorálek * Petr Rákosník) * Biografie * Vybraná diskografie
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My Thoughts Exactly
So, this is me. Lily Allen.
I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I have loved and been let down. I've been stalked and assaulted. I am a success and a failure. I've been broken and full of hope. I am all these things and more.
I'm telling my truth because when women share their stories, loudly and clearly and honestly, things begin to change - for the better.
So, this is my story. These are my thoughts exactly.
**Includes an exclusive new chapter**
Never Grow Up
Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and mind-bending stunts. In 2016-after fifty-six years in the industry, over 200 films, and many broken bones-he received an honorary Academy Award for his lifetime achievement in film.
But at 64 years-old, Jackie is just getting started. Now, in Never Grow Up, the global superstar reflects on his early life, including his childhood years at the China Drama Academy (in which he was enrolled at the age of six), his big breaks (and setbacks) in Hong Kong and Hollywood, his numerous brushes with death (both on and off film sets), and his life as a husband and father (which has been, admittedly and regrettably, imperfect). Jackie has never shied away from his mistakes.
Since The Young Master in 1980, Jackie's films have ended with a bloopers reel in which he stumbles over his lines, misses his mark, or crashes to the ground in a stunt gone south. In Never Grow Up, Jackie applies the same spirit of openness to his life, proving time and time again why he's beloved the world over: he's honest, funny, kind, brave beyond reckoning and-after all this time-still young at heart.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - The Biography
'Peter Dogett's book is a fascinating, rip-roaring and timely re-telling of a corner of music history that was hugely important but is all too often forgotten. The rehabilitation of Crosby, Stills and Nash's reputation (and of Young's contributions here) is long overdue' - FRANK TURNER
At 3 a.m. on Monday, 18 August 1969, the final night of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, four men armed only with acoustic guitars faced the gaping darkness of a vast open-air audience. An hour later, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young had confounded and convinced their peers, and cemented their place in rock history. They had also made themselves, for better or worse, synonymous with Woodstock, and with the nebulous Woodstock generation which it inspired.
Between 1969 and 1974, CSNY were the most successful, influential and politically potent rock band in America. More than any of their peers, they channelled and broadcast all the radical anger, romantic idealism and generational angst of their era. The vast emotional range of their music, from delicate acoustic confessionals to raucous counter-culture anthems, was mirrored in the turbulence of their personal lives. Their trademark may have been vocal harmony, but few if any of their contemporaries could match the recklessness of their hedonistic and often warring lifestyles, as four stubborn, driven songwriters pursued chemical and sexual pleasure to life-threatening extremes.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is the first major biography of a band whose first two albums are undisputed rock classics, and which continues to attract a large and loyal following to their sporadic reunions. At the same time, Peter Doggett illuminates the pivotal years of 1960s counterculture through the story of four of its key protagonists, whose music, beliefs and relationships with each other chronicle both its trajectory and its legacy.
Filmař Jaromír Kallista
Publikace je výstupem rozsáhlého, pět let trvajícího orálního výzkumu (cca 150 h materiálu) zaměřeného na život a kariéru Jaromíra Kallisty, producenta s rozsáhlou praxí sahající od konce 50. let po nynější filmovou tvorbu. V rozhovoru jsou zachycena všechna zásadní údobí Kallistova odborného působení vedoucího od studií na FAMU přes působení v Armádním filmu, ve Státním filmu, Laternu magiku až po vznik společnosti Athanor a pedagocickou činnost na FAMU. Interview zahrnuje rovněž témata jako financování a podpora národní kinematografie, postavení profese producenta v rámci transformujícího se systému, role odborného filmového vzdělávání. Nevyhýbá se ani privátním zájmům Jaromíra Kallisty, které ilustrují povahu profese i naturel subjektu, jenž přímo ovlivňuje jeho profesní zaměření a styl. Kniha je doprovozena bohatým poznámkovým aparátem korigujícím, upřesňujícím či rozšiřujícím základní výpověď.
Na kafi s Josefem Dvořákem
Pokud bychom měli knihu charakterizovat jedním slovem, pak tedy jde o knihu bilanční. Populární herec, komik a nejslavnější český vodník se v ní ohlíží za celou svou kariérou a v pohodové kavárenské atmosféře přináší nejen vřelé povídání plné humoru a historek, z nichž mnohé byly dosud nevyřčeny, ale i zamyšlení nad životem. Tato kniha je zcela odlišná od všeho, co jste o Josefu Dvořákovi četli, a přináší kopec lehké nadsázky i upřímnosti z celoživotní cesty člověka, který zasvětil svůj život humoru, divadlu, televizi, filmu, tvorbě pro děti a zejména nespoutanému, kreativně-bláznivému autorskému herectví. Přijměte pozvání na kafe s Pepou Dvořákem a nechte se pobavit či oslovit názory zajímavé osobnosti, která má co říct.
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Arnold Schoenberg
The most radical and divisive composer of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg remains a hero to many, and a villain to many others. In this refreshingly balanced biography, Mark Berry tells the story of Schoenberg's remarkable life and work, situating his tale within the wider symphony of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. Born in the Jewish quarter of his beloved Vienna, Schoenberg left Austria for his early career in Berlin as a leading light of Weimar culture, before being forced to flee in the dead of night from Hitler's Third Reich.
He found himself in the United States, settling in Los Angeles, where he would inspire composers from George Gershwin to John Cage. Introducing all of Schoenberg's major musical works, from his very first compositions, such as the String Quartet in D Major, to his invention of the twelve-tone method, Berry explores how Schoenberg's revolutionary approach to musical composition incorporated Wagnerian late Romanticism and the brave new worlds of atonality and serialism. Essential reading for anyone interested in the music and history of the twentieth century, this book makes clear Schoenberg changed the history of music forever.
Debussy
An accessible and thought-provoking biographical study of Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arguably one of the three or four most influential composers of the early twentieth century.
Shortlisted for the royal philharmonic society award for storytelling
Claude Debussy was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. He is the modernist everyone loves. How did he manage this? Was it through the association of his music with visual images, or was it simply that, by throwing out the rule book of the Paris Conservatoire where he studied, his music put beauty of sound above the spiritual ambitions of the German tradition from which those rules derived.
Stephen Walsh’s thought-provoking biography, told partly through the events of Debussy’s life, and partly through a critical discussion of his music, addresses these and other questions about one of the most influential composers of the early twentieth century.
This searing light, the sun and everything else
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-decades long Manchester scene that was to become much mythologised. It was then a city still labouring in the wake of the war and entering a phase of huge social and physical change, and something of this spirit made its way into the DNA of the band. Over the course of two albums, a handful of other seminal releases, and some legendary gigs, Joy Division became the most successful and exciting underground band of their generation. Then, on the brink of a tour to America, Ian Curtis took his own life.
In This searing light, the sun and everything else, Jon Savage has assembled three decades worth of interviews with the principle players in the Joy Division story: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Deborah Curtis, Peter Saville, Tony Wilson, Paul Morley, Alan Hempsall, Lesley Gilbert, Terry Mason, Anik Honore, and many more. It is the story of how a band resurrected a city, how they came together in circumstances that are both accidental and extraordinary, and how their music galvanised a generation of fans, artists and musicians. It is a classic story of how young men armed with electric guitars and good taste in literature can change the world with four chords and three-and-a-half minutes of music. And it is the story of how illness and demons can rob the world of a shamanic lead singer and visionary lyricist.
This searing light, the sun and everything else presents the history of Joy Division in an intimate and candid way, as orchestrated by the lodestar of British music writing, Jon Savage.
Madonna
For more than three decades, Madonna has been generating headlines and topping charts. Now J. Randy Taraborrelli has written the definitive biography of one of the richest and most successful pop stars in the world, whose music has constantly evolved and who has remained relevant even as she hits her sixtieth year.
From the driven, ambitious young woman struggling to get a break in New York to the outrageous pop diva and more spiritual mother, the changing faces of Madonna are revealed. We see her relationships with men like Basquiat, Tupac, Prince and Warren Beatty, and what happened in her marriages to Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie. We see her embracing motherhood. And we see her today with five children, still recording and touring, finding happiness with much younger boyfriends, defiantly living life on her own terms.
Madonna is based on decades of research and exclusive interviews with people speaking of her publicly for the first time - including friends, business associates and even family members. J. Randy Taraborrelli has also interviewed the star herself on numerous occasions and he draws on first-hand experiences to bring Madonna to life as not merely a sensational tabloid delight, but as a flesh-and-blood woman with human foibles and weaknesses, as well as great strengths and ambitions.
Inner City Pressure: The Story Of Grime
The year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the crumbling council estates of inner-city London. Making beats on stolen software, spitting lyrics on tower block rooftops and beaming out signals from pirate-radio aerials, a group of teenagers raised on UK garage, American hip-hop and Jamaican reggae stumble upon a dazzling new genre.
Against all odds, these young MCs will grow up to become some of the UK’s most famous musicians, scoring number one records and dominating British pop culture for years to come. Hip-hop royalty will fawn over them, billion dollar brands will queue up to beg for their endorsements and through their determined DIY ethics they’ll turn the music industry's logic on its head.
But getting there won’t be easy. Successive governments will attempt to control their music, their behaviour and even their clothes. The media will demonise them and the police will shut down their clubs. National radio stations and live music venues will ban them. There will be riots, fighting in the streets, even murder. And the inner-city landscape that shaped them will be changed beyond all recognition.
Drawn from over a decade of in depth interviews and research with all the key MCs, DJs and industry players, in this extraordinary book the UK’s best grime journalist Dan Hancox tells the remarkable story of how a group of outsiders went on to create a genre that has become a British institution. Here, for the first time, is the full story of grime.
Minimal Film - The Universe of Cinema Reinterpreted Graphically
Minimal Film tells the stories of the movies we all know and love--from Alien to Rain Man, Star Wars to Psycho, E.T. to Ghost--through the often comically concise pictographic language of Shortology.
Something of an internet craze, Shortology can narrate anything through pictograms. This has allowed Milan-based graphic designer Matteo Civaschi to isolate the very essence of movie plots, eliminating the superfluous and focusing on the essential. For example, two white triangles perpendicular to a red field suffice to evoke Dracula. But even complex or lengthy plots can be reduced to this language, as the inclusion of TV series from Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad attests. This book serves as a great gift for cinephiles, comedy fans and graphic designers alike.
Withdrawn Traces
New discoveries and a fresh perspective, with unprecedented access to Richey's personal archive
On 1 February 1995, Richey Edwards, guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers, went missing at the age of 27. On the eve of a promotional trip to America, he vanished from his London hotel room, his car later discovered near the Severn Bridge, a notorious suicide spot.
Over two decades later, Richey's disappearance remains one of the most moving, mysterious and unresolved episodes in recent pop culture history.
For those with a basic grasp of the facts, Richey's suicide seems obvious and undeniable. However, a closer investigation of his actions in the weeks and months before his disappearance just don't add up, and until now few have dared to ask the important questions.
Withdrawn Traces is the first book written with the co-operation of the Edwards family, testimony from Richey's closest friends and unprecedented and exclusive access to Richey's personal archive.
In a compelling real-time narrative, the authors examine fresh evidence, uncover overlooked details, profile Richey's state of mind, and brings us closer than ever before to the truth.
The Dark Stuff
In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. From Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, the Rolling Stones to Neil Young, Iggy Pop to Lou Reed, he offers intimate portraits that are unimaginable in the world of today's market driven music business.
Mary McCartney - From Where I Stand
From Where I Stand introduces the very best of Mary McCartney's work from the mid-1990s onward.
Mary McCartney's work is characterized by an intimacy that reveals her subjects' true character and humanity. Here, portraits of the likes of Paul and Linda McCartney, Madonna, Bono, Debbie Harry, Dennis Hopper and Kate Moss sit alongside photographs that capture the raw energy of catwalks and concerts, the feverish communion of backstage preparations at the Royal Opera House and the private spaces of home and family.
Elegant and always at ease, this is the work of an intelligent, soulful photographer with an authentically intuitive eye.
Majstri piatich čiar
Beletrizované rozprávanie Karola Dubeckého sa opiera o historické fakty a zachované dokumenty. Autor pri písaní knihy čerpal nielen z odbornej literatúry, ale i z listov, denníkov, poznámok umelcov a zo životopisov. Za každým príbehom čitateľ nájde poznámky, v ktorých sú v skratke zhrnuté základné údaje o skladateľovi a jeho diele aj vysvetlené hudobné termíny, cudzie slová, mená a historické udalosti. Čitateľa určite poteší príloha „Malé skladby veľkých majstrov“, v ktorej nájde notový materiál najjednoduchších skladieb majstrov. Albín Brunovský, jeden z našich významných výtvarníkov, v roku 1975 doplnil knihu portrétmi hudobníkov a krásnymi ilustráciami, ktoré čitateli oslovia i dnes.
Ilustrácie: Albín Brunovský
Biografie zo sveta filmu a hudby sú fascinujúcou kategóriou literatúry, ktorá sa zameriava na skúmanie života a kariéry osobností zo sveta filmu a hudby. Tieto biografie nám ponúkajú jedinečný pohľad do života slávnych hercov, režisérov, hudobníkov a ďalších tvorcov, a ukazujú nám ich cestu k úspechu, ale aj výzvy, s ktorými sa stretávali.
V biografiách zameraných na film sa dozvieme viac o slávnych hercoch a herečkách, ako napríklad ich detstve, vzdelaní, prvých krokoch vo svete filmu a postupnom stúpaní k vrcholom ich kariéry. Tieto príbehy nám tiež poskytujú pohľad do zákulisia filmových štúdií, natáčacích procesov a vzťahov medzi hercami a režisérmi. Biografie filmových tvorcov a režisérov nám zase umožňujú spoznať ich tvorivý proces, ich vízie a prístup k filmovému umeniu.
Biografie v oblasti hudby sa zameriavajú na životy hudobných ikon, ako sú speváci, skladatelia, hudobní producenti a ďalší umelci. Tieto knihy nám poskytujú podrobný pohľad na ich pôvod, rodinné prostredie, hudobné začiatky a cestu k úspechu. Okrem toho sa dozvieme aj o ich hudobných vplyvoch, tvorivých procesoch, vzniku ikonických albumov a koncertných tour. Biografie hudobníkov nám tak ponúkajú hlbšie porozumenie ich hudobnému odkazu a významu pre populárnu kultúru.
Tieto biografie sú často napísané na základe rozsiahlych rozhovorov so samotnými osobnosťami, ich rodinnými príslušníkmi, priateľmi a spolupracovníkmi. Autori týchto kníh sa snažia čitateľom priblížiť emocionálne a profesionálne aspekty života týchto osobností, a tak nám umožňujú získať hlbší vhľad do ich osobnosti a životného príbehu.
