From Sia to Elton John, from Billie Holiday to David Bowie, LGBT musicians have changed the course of modern music. But before their music-and the messages behind it-gained understanding and a place in the mainstream, how did the queer musicians of yesteryear fight to build foundations for those who would follow them? David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community. Darryl W....

Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.

A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band.

Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative-from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the airwaves took hold and the Beatles...

"From the age of song sheets in the late nineteenth-century to the contemporary era of digital streaming, pop music has been our most influential laboratory for social and aesthetic experimentation, changing the world three minutes at a time. ... Hajdu ... draws on a lifetime of listening, playing, and writing about music to show how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies of love and sex to teenagers"--Amazon.com.

"Pinkalicious and her friends want to start a band, but they don't have any instruments. [She'll] need to find a creative answer. When [she] realizes there are amazing sounds all around, she figures out what to do"--Provided by publisher.

Each selection includes music in standard notation and tablature, chord symbols, and performance notes. Most songs include lyrics.

Retelling of the classic Christmas carol with a snowmen twist.