The Sound Of Stevie Wonder

Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313051089
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Stevie Wonder written by James E. Perone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his professional debut in 1962, Stevie Wonder has recorded sixty-four singles that have made the Billboard top 100, including ten that reached number one. Wonder was one of the first Motown artists to have complete control over the writing, arranging, and recording of his songs, and achieved that stature before he was 20 years old. He has won 17 Grammy awards, was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and earned the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. Equally important, his work as a producer, arranger, and instrumentalist on other artists' recordings has put him in the highest rank of musical collaborators. This is the first work of criticism on this important documentarian of American life, as well as the introductory volume in The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection. Through a combination of biography and critical analysis, James Perone's groundbreaking new book reveals the many ways in which Stevie Wonder's body of work emerged, developed, reflected its time, and influenced myriad other artists. After revealing the social, cultural, and political context of Wonder's work, the book provides detailed analysis of his compositions and recordings, with a focus on both his well-known songs and those known only to his hardcore fans. The volume also contains discussions of cover versions of Wonder's compositions, a discography of his recordings, a song title index, an annotated bibliography, and a general index.

Author : Quincy Jones
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781423459767
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Q on Producing written by Quincy Jones and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents music-business veteran Quincy Jones's observations on how to produce successful songs and albums, culled from over a year of in-depth interviews, in a book that also includes a DVD-ROM featuring Jones.

Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313051089
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Stevie Wonder written by James E. Perone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his professional debut in 1962, Stevie Wonder has recorded sixty-four singles that have made the Billboard top 100, including ten that reached number one. Wonder was one of the first Motown artists to have complete control over the writing, arranging, and recording of his songs, and achieved that stature before he was 20 years old. He has won 17 Grammy awards, was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and earned the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. Equally important, his work as a producer, arranger, and instrumentalist on other artists' recordings has put him in the highest rank of musical collaborators. This is the first work of criticism on this important documentarian of American life, as well as the introductory volume in The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection. Through a combination of biography and critical analysis, James Perone's groundbreaking new book reveals the many ways in which Stevie Wonder's body of work emerged, developed, reflected its time, and influenced myriad other artists. After revealing the social, cultural, and political context of Wonder's work, the book provides detailed analysis of his compositions and recordings, with a focus on both his well-known songs and those known only to his hardcore fans. The volume also contains discussions of cover versions of Wonder's compositions, a discography of his recordings, a song title index, an annotated bibliography, and a general index.

Author : Stevie Wonder
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780634066603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stevie Wonder - Greatest Hits written by Stevie Wonder and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (E-Z Play Today). 26 of Stevie Wonder's best songs arranged in our world-famous, easy-to-play notation that features large notes with the note names in the note heads. Includes: For Once in My Life * Higher Ground * I Just Called to Say I Love You * My Cherie Amour * Overjoyed * Part Time Lover * Ribbon in the Sky * Send One Your Love * Sir Duke * Superstition * That Girl * more.

Author : Steve Lodder
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879308216
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stevie Wonder written by Steve Lodder and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A musician looks at Wonder's life and career and explores the artist's writing and performing techniques with special emphasis on his early 1970s recordings.

Author : Mark Ribowsky
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780470481509
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signed, Sealed, and Delivered written by Mark Ribowsky and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first definitive biography of music legend Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder's achievements as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer are extraordinary. During a career that has spanned almost fifty years, he has earned more than thirty Top 10 hits, twenty-six Grammy Awards, and a place in both the Rock and Roll and Songwriter Halls of Fame—and he's not finished yet. On the verge of turning sixty, he is still composing, still touring, and still attracting dedicated fans around the world. For the first time, Signed, Sealed, and Delivered takes an in-depth look at Stevie Wonder's life and his evolution from kid-soul pop star into a mature artist whose music helped lay the groundwork for the evolution of hip hop and rap. Explores the life, achievements, and influence of one of America's biggest musical icons, set against the history of Motown and the last fifty years of popular music Based on extensive interviews with Motown producers, music executives, songwriters, and musicians, including founding Temptation Otis Williams, Mickey Stevenson, surviving Funk Brother Eddie Willis, synthesizer genius Malcolm Cecil, guitar legend Michael Sembello, and many others Traces Stevie's personal and musical development through the decades, from the early 1960s R&B of "Fingertips" to the social and political themes of "Living for the City" and other 1970s classics, through periods of musical and personal confusion, uncertainty, and, later, renewal Read Signed, Sealed, and Delivered to explore the life and work of one of pop music's most compelling masters of invention.

Author : Sonja Wiley
Publisher : Golden Press
ISBN 13 : 9780307740441
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Stevie Wonder in Places Under the Sun written by Sonja Wiley and published by Golden Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Stevie Wonder and his friends journey to other countries and have adventures, in a special picture book offering its text also in Braille and featuring SoundPicture buttons with ten sounds, including Stevie's music.

Author : Jim Gigliotti
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0515156426
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Is Stevie Wonder? written by Jim Gigliotti and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover more about Stevie Wonder, the music prodigy whose awards include 25 Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Stevie Wonder is one of the most successful singer-songwriter-musicians of our time. Signing his first record deal when he was only eleven, he had his first No.1 hit when he was thirteen. Since then he has had thirty US top ten hits, won a range of awards for his music and his civil rights work, and created such iconic songs as "Isn't She Lovely" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You." Stevie Wonder is a beloved entertainer who continues to tour and perform around the world.

Author : Francesca T. Royster
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472051792
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sounding Like a No-No written by Francesca T. Royster and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sounding Like a No-No traces a rebellious spirit in post–civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights, black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements, who through reinvention created a repertoire of performances that have left a lasting mark on popular music. The book's innovative readings of performers including Michael Jackson, Grace Jones, Stevie Wonder, Eartha Kitt, and Meshell Ndegeocello demonstrate how embodied sound and performance became a means for creativity, transgression, and social critique, a way to reclaim imaginative and corporeal freedom from the social death of slavery and its legacy of racism, to engender new sexualities and desires, to escape the sometimes constrictive codes of respectability and uplift from within the black community, and to make space for new futures for their listeners. The book's perspective on music as a form of black corporeality and identity, creativity, and political engagement will appeal to those in African American studies, popular music studies, queer theory, and black performance studies; general readers will welcome its engaging, accessible, and sometimes playful writing style, including elements of memoir.

Author : Stevie Wonder
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1458452344
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Stevie Wonder (Songbook) written by Stevie Wonder and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 20 of the greatest hits from this legendary Motown superstar's illustrious career. Includes: Ebony and Ivory * For Once in My Life * Higher Ground * I Just Called to Say I Love You * I Was Made to Love Her * I Wish * Isn't She Lovely * Living for the City * My Cherie Amour * Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours * Sir Duke * Superstition * Uptight (Everything's Alright) * You and I * You Are the Sunshine of My Life * and more.