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The Sound of Stevie Wonder

Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Stevie Wonder written by James E. Perone and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 224 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.

Q on Producing

Author : Quincy Jones
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781423459767
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 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.

The Sound of Stevie Wonder

Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313051089
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 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.

Stevie Wonder - Greatest Hits

Author : Stevie Wonder
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780634066603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 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.

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered

Author : Mark Ribowsky
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780470481509
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (815 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.

Stevie Wonder

Author : Steve Lodder
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879308216
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (82 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.

Little Stevie Wonder in Places Under the Sun

Author : Sonja Wiley
Publisher : Golden Press
ISBN 13 : 9780307740441
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 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.

Who Is Stevie Wonder?

Author : Jim Gigliotti
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0515156426
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (151 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.

Sounding Like a No-No

Author : Francesca T. Royster
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472051792
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 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.

The Best of Stevie Wonder (Songbook)

Author : Stevie Wonder
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1458452344
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 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 99 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.

Stevie Wonder

Author : Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 0711257752
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Stevie Wonder written by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Stevie Wonder, the genius behind some of the world’s best-loved songs. At just 8 years old, it was clear that Steveland Judkins was going to be a star. Renamed Stevie Wonder for his astonishing talent on the piano and other instruments, he wrote and performed some of the biggest hits of the 1970s. Stevie became known for his inventiveness, his soulful voice, and the social commentary in his lyrics. He is a UN Messenger of Peace and remains one of the music world’s most iconic figures. This inspiring book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the great musician’s life. Little People, BIG DREAMS is a best-selling series of books and educational games that explore the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream. This empowering series offers inspiring messages to children of all ages, in a range of formats. The board books are told in simple sentences, perfect for reading aloud to babies and toddlers. The hardcover versions present expanded stories for beginning readers. Boxed gift sets allow you to collect a selection of the books by theme. Paper dolls, learning cards, matching games, and other fun learning tools provide even more ways to make the lives of these role models accessible to children. Inspire the next generation of outstanding people who will change the world with Little People, BIG DREAMS!

Motown

Author : Adam White
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500294852
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Motown written by Adam White and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the definitive visual history of Motown, the Detroit-based record company that became a music powerhouse. The music of Motown defined an era. From the Jackson 5 and Diana Ross to Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson, Berry Gordy and his right-hand man, Barney Ales, built the most successful independent record label in the world. Not only did Motown represent the most iconic recording artists of its time and produce countless global hits—it created a cultural institution that redefined pop and gave us the vision of a new America: vibrant, innovative, and racially equal. This new paperback edition of the first official visual history of the label includes a dazzling array of images, and unprecedented access to the archives of the makers and stars of Motown. Extensive specially commissioned photography of treasures extracted from the Motown archives, as well as the personal collections of Barney Ales and Motown stars, lends new insight into the lives of the legends. Motown also draws on interviews with key players from the label’s colorful history, including Motown founder Berry Gordy; Barney Ales; Smokey Robinson; Mary Wilson, founding member of the Supremes; and many more.

Everything Is on the One

Author : Scott Goldfine
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541256606
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Everything Is on the One written by Scott Goldfine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funk used to be a bad word. That was then. Now, funk is a pervasive style of music that has earned its rightful place alongside such other aural American art forms such as folk, blues, jazz and rock 'n roll. What's more, for those who free themselves, funk is a positive state of consciousness that brings together mind, body and soul in a quasi-spiritual experience of mesmerizing intensity. It took quite a while for funk to gain the respect it deserves. As with most other American music forms of the 20th century, funk remained a predominantly black phenomenon until the white public caught up and embraced it some 20 years after the fact. It had to survive the psychedelic 1960s, the disco 1970s and the new wave 1980s. This long-overdue book is a labor of love from a devout lifelong funk enthusiast. Everything Is on the One: The First Guide to Funk is designed to serve as an eye-opener for the uninitiated and as a reference guide for those already indoctrinated. The following pages thoroughly examine every aspect of funk through the inclusion of assorted text, reviews and lists. Everyone from J.B., Sly Stone and Hendrix to Clinton, Prince and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Kool & the Gang and the Isley Brothers to the Bar-Kays and Slave to Run-D.M.C. and Dr. Dre to Stanley Clarke and Tom Browne to Muddy Waters and Stevie Ray Vaughan to the Talking Heads and Aerosmith is covered. There isn't really any specific formula for funk. But, you must have the right attitude and the music has to be on THE ONE. THE ONE stands for the first beat of standard four/four time in music (four counts per measure). Funk jumps on the first beat with a hard accent and then lays back in the groove for counts two through four. So just about everything in this book is on THE ONE. The content of this book is intended to be opinionated. It is designed to stimulate intelligent debate as to myriad topics that fall under the umbrella of funk. The objective is not to bash musical achievements or pursue character assassinations, but at the same time, measures are necessary to ensure the book's integrity. There are far too many music publications out there that find pandering to the industry and soft-pedaling issues seemingly unavoidable. This isn't one of them. By the same token, exceptional artists and outstanding work are given their just due. At this point, a word of caution is in order. Funk is extremely addictive and frequently results in an unquenchable desire to fill your ear hole with thumpin', bumpin', slammin', jammin' tunes. It can be an expensive habit, but always an immensely rewarding one. So slap your favorite jams into your stereo or iPod and read to the rhythmic rush while The First Guide of Funk does it to your eyeballs baby bobba!

Stevie Wonder for Piano Solo

Author : Stevie Wonder
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1458471624
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Stevie Wonder for Piano Solo written by Stevie Wonder and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop/Rock/R&B Piano Solos

Stevie Wonder

Author : Sharon Davis
Publisher : Robson
ISBN 13 : 9781861059659
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Stevie Wonder written by Sharon Davis and published by Robson. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stevie Wonder has been a dominant figure in contemporary music for over three decades, making the transition from child prodigy to ground-breaking adult superstar with apparent ease. Acknowledged as one of the finest songwriters of all time, Wonder was also instrumental in securing the late Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday as a national holiday in the USA. The performer remains one of the most respected figures on the international music scene, a fact reflected in vivid detail in a book that finally does justice to the legend that is Stevie Wonder.

Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life

Author : Zeth Lundy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826419267
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life written by Zeth Lundy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stevie Wonder's album, Songs in the Key of Life, came out in 1976.

Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life

Author : Zeth Lundy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144117012X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life written by Zeth Lundy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious. If its titular concern - life - doesn't exactly allow for rigid focus, it's still a fiercely inspired collection of songs and one of the definitive soul records of the 1970s. Stevie Wonder was unable to control the springs of his creativity during that decade. Upon turning 21 in 1971, he freed himself from the Motown contract he'd been saddled with as a child performer, renegotiated the terms, and unleashed hundreds of songs to tape. Over the next five years, Wonder would amass countless recordings and release his five greatest albums - as prolific a golden period as there has ever been in contemporary music. But Songs in the Key of Life is different from the four albums that preceded it; it's an overstuffed, overjoyed, maddeningly ambitious encapsulation of all the progress Stevie Wonder had made in that short space of time. Zeth Lundy's book, in keeping with the album's themes, is structured as a life cycle. It's divided into the following sections: Birth; Innocence/Adolescence; Experience/Adulthood; Death; Rebirth. Within this framework, Zeth Lundy covers Stevie Wonder's excessive work habits and recording methodology, his reliance on synthesizers, the album's place in the gospel-inspired progression of 1970s R'n'B, and many other subjects.