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    The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia 18
    The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia 10
    The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music
    Billie Holiday
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    Billie Holiday

    • Billie Holiday

      • 616 Seiten
      • 22 Lesestunden

      Keine Sängerin wurde mehr mythologisiert und missverstanden als die Jazzlegende Billie Holiday. Diese Biografie trennt Fakt von Fiktion und zeigt Lady Day in allen Phasen ihres kurzen, tragischen Lebens.

      Billie Holiday
      3,9

    • The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music

      • 1378 Seiten
      • 49 Lesestunden

      A definitive reference work on 20th century popular music--more than 3,000 entries spanning the entire field of non-classical music of this era. Briefs on performers, songwriters, producers, and record labels, fully cross-referenced with albums and suggested further reading.

      The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music
      5,0

    • The Rise and Fall of Popular Music

      • 620 Seiten
      • 22 Lesestunden

      A history of popular music covers balladry, minstrelsy, ragtime, blues, jazz, swing, pop, r&b, folk, country, gospel, rock'n'roll, heavy metal, dance music, punk, New Wave, technopop, and rap

      The Rise and Fall of Popular Music
      3,1

    • The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Second Edition

      • 1536 Seiten
      • 54 Lesestunden

      From Abba to ZZ Top via Oasis, James Brown, and Frank Sinatra, this wonderful resource to the world's nonclassical music has been updated and revised to include a wider range of New World and ethnic musicians from Latin America and Africa along with a range of new entries from the contemporary Brit-pop scene and all of your old favorites. Donald Clarke covers a truly spectacular array of artists, from the early blues (Big Bill Broonzy, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith) and ragtime Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake) to the golden age of Broadway musicals, the great swing bands of the 1930s, jazz from around the world, American country, English folk, rock 'n' roll, reggae, soul, funk, punk, and the rest. The extensive Index ensures that no songwriter, musician, record label, or musical style is overlooked.

      The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Second Edition

    • Wood

      • 136 Seiten
      • 5 Lesestunden
      Wood

    • The Encyclopedia of Inventions

      The Story of Technology Through the Ages

      • 152 Seiten
      • 6 Lesestunden

      An historical chronology of inventions, Ancient the wheel, tools, numerals, paper, the bow, printing, mapmaking, water wheels, windmills, nets and rope, looms, sailing, the rudder, pulleys and gears, glass, plate glass, the crane, balances and weights, boats, bricks, pumps, smelting and alloying, casting of metals, coinage, iron and steel, plumbing, pottery, salt mining, canals and locks. Middle Ages and clocks, crank handles, spectacles, magnetic compass, quadrant, knitting machinery, barometer, firing mechanisms, microscope, thermometers, telescopes, pendulums, gunpowder. Industrial flying shuttle, seed drill, chronometer, electrostatic generation, Volta's pile, machine tools, steam engines, steamboat, locomotive, cotton gin Modern internal combustion engine, telegraph and telephone, photography, generation of electricity, sound recording, flying machine, radio and television, radar, transistor, and nuclear power.

      The Encyclopedia of Inventions