Books Revovling Around Music
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Books Revovling Around Music
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1. Taboo Tunes: A History of Banned Bands & Censored Songs by Peter Blecha. As long as there's been songs there's been attempts to censor songs, usually by preachers or politicians. This book is a must in any music book collection.
2. This one is strange but a FUN read: Alien Rock: the RnR ET Connection by Michael C. Luckman.
3. Believe it or not the FBI spent years trying to track down the lyrics of the famous 1963 song Louie Louie as the book Louie Louie by Dave Marsh will explain - but there are several books about this FBI fiasco.
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As a music buff, I appreciate this post. The movie Naked Juliet came out last year, I think.marvelmite wrote: ↑14 Dec 2009, 20:46 If your looking for fiction, Nick Hornby's High Fidelity and I believe Naked Juliet hit on music quite a bit. A good hunk of On the Road is about jazz. If you're looking for non-fiction, and are into the history of punk, you can't go wrong with Please Kill Me by Legs McNEil and Gillian McCain, American Hardcore by Steven Blush, and My So Called Punk by Matt Diehl. They go together to tell a pretty good history of punk from the late 60's (The Stooges and Velvet Underground) through today (Rancid and the Distillers). Also a great biography is Kurt Cobain by Christopher Sanford.
Speaking of Nick Hornby, he's recently released a book called Dickens and Prince. Yeah, Charles Dickens and Prince R. Nelson, as you can guess. I haven't read it yet, but it's been on my tbr list.
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This concept seems like an innovative way to blend different art forms and create a new form of storytelling. I will definitely have to check out "The Law of Love" and experience this multimedia novel for myself. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this intriguing book.Word Wise Wiz wrote: ↑10 Mar 2023, 06:46 The book "The Law of Love" by Laura Esquivel is actually a multimedia novel - it is a blend of fiction and music. The music is integrated into the novel and the reader listens to specific tracks of a CD (that accompanies the novel) when signalled to do so by the text. This means that you hear what the characters are hearing at any point in the novel!