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Memoir of four musicians who left Wales to pursue their art in the USA: composers Joseph Parry and Daniel Protheroe, pianist Marie Novello and the author herself. It is written in a blend of literary...

Explore Edinburgh's hidden music heritage, plus a few of its more tuneful tall tales, with this eye-opening guide of the city's music milestones, famous gigs, infamous incidents and colourful characters.

Pipers takes the reader inside the world of the performer community of Scottish piping, introducing the instrument itself and the various different repertories. It also discusses piping techniques as...

The history of the Welsh love of hymn singing, and of how hymns and the religious movements and revivals of which they were part fired the Welsh imagination and spread via Welsh emigrants to the religious communities of the USA.

Songs to stir the soul and move the feet, raise a roar or bring a tear to the eye. From Danny Boy to Boulavogue and more, this book celebrates the cream of Irish ballads, explaining the origins of each song, along with words, melodies and chords. Illustrated with evocative photographs and woodcuts..

Gaelic Scotland is one of the world's great treasure-houses of song. In this anthology, Anne Lorne Gillies has gathered together music and lyrics from all over the Gaelic-speaking Highlands and Islands...

Harlem 69 brings Stuart Cosgrove’s epic sixties trilogy to a dramatic conclusion and looks forward to brilliant music yet to come – jazz funk to disco and hip hop.

Memphis 68 is the second book in Stuart Cosgrove's vibrant trilogy of American soul music, told through the prism of social and civil upheaval. It takes the reader through the tumultuous year of 1968: from the aftermath of Otis Redding’s death to the rise of Black Power radicalism, and the tragic assassination of Martin Luther King.

A volume tracing the story of brothers Richard and Wyn Jones and the band Ail Symudiad from Cardigan. The ups and downs of gigs during the peak years are featured, together with the story of founding Fflach, their recording company, which today boasts 400 catalogue titles. A free CD is included comprising familiar and less familiar songs.

Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial disputes.