What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time

In a stretch of just seven years, the Beatles recorded hundreds of songs which tower above those of their worthy peers as both the product of cultural leadership and an artistic reflection of their turbulent age, the1960s. Walter Everett and Tim Riley's What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time blends historical narrative, musicology, and music analysis to tell the full story of the Beatles and how they redefined pop music. The book traces the Beatles' development chronologically, marking the band's involvement with world events such as the Vietnam War, strides in overcoming racial segregation, gender stereotyping, student demonstrations, and the generation gap. It delves deeply into their body of work, introducing the concepts of musical form, instrumentation, harmonic structure, melodic patterns, and rhythmic devices in a way that is accessible to musicians and non-musicians alike. Close readings of specific songs highlight the tensions between imagination and mechanics, songwriting and technology, and through the book's musical examples, listeners will learn how to develop strategies for creating their own rich interpretations of the potential meanings behind their favorite songs. Videos hosted on the book's companion website offer full definitions and performance demonstrations of all musical concepts discussed in the text, and interactive listening guides illustrate track details in real-time listening. The unique multimedia approach of What Goes On reveals just how great this music was in its own time, and why it remains important today as a body of singular achievement.

Arts & Photography

Everett, Walter

Riley, Tim

Music

Oxford University Press

A unique combination of musical analysis and cultural history, Tell Me Why stands alone among Beatles books with its single-minded focus on the most important aspect of the band: its music. Riley offers a new, deeper understanding of the Beatles by closely considering each song and album they recorded in an exploration as rigorous as it is soulful. He tirelessly sifts through the Beatles discography, making clear that the legendary four were more than mere teen idols: They were brilliant innovators who mastered an extremely detailed art. Since the first publication of Tell Me Why in 1988, much new primary source material has appeared—Paul McCartney's authorized biography, the Anthology CDs and videos, the complete Parlophone-sequenced albums on CD, the Live at the BBCsessions, and the global smash 1. Riley incorporates all the new material in an update that makes this a crucial book for Beatles fans.

Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album By Album, Song By Song, The Sixties And After

Da Capo Press

Citing a lack of appropriate role models in today's government and professional sports, an examination of the positive influence of rock-and-roll artists identifies the contributions of such figures as Elvis, Tina Turner, and Bruce Springsteen and notes their particular influence on gender identity. 30,000 first printing.

Fever: How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America

St.Martin's Press

In Fever, music critic Tim Riley argues that while political and athletic role models have let us down, rock and roll has provided enduring role models for men and women. From Elvis Presley to Tina Turner to Bruce Springsteen to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Riley makes a persuasive case that rock and roll, far from the corrosive force that conservative critics make it out to be, has instead been a positive influence in people's lives, laying out gender-defying role models far more enduringly than movies, TV, or "real life."

Picador

Untitled John Lennon Biography

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Perhaps the first serious analysis of the Beatles' work and its impact on popular music, Tell Me Why is meticulous in its purpose and long overdue....Of the hundreds of books written about [the Beatles] none bring the musical knowledge and the familiarity with the period that Riley offers here." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer Album by album, song by song, Tim Riley gives us a new, deeper understanding of the Beatles. Outdistancing the countless tell-all biographies that have been written, Riley's study of the Beatles' music is as rigorous as it is soulful. He explores the entire Beatles catalogue, making clear that the legendary four were not simply teen idols -- that they were, in fact, brilliant musical innovators who created timeless songs and virtually invented the album-as-art. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary

KNOPF

A biography of Bob Dylan discusses his relationship with his songs, his critics, and his audience; details the roots of his music; and traces his humor and social conscience to Woody Guthrie and his eccentricity to Elvis Presley

Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hard Rain: Dylan Commen

Random House Value Publishing

Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. But testing is not a routine process, it's a constant exploration of methods and an evolution of good ideas. Beautiful Testing offers 23 essays from 27 leading testers and developers that illustrate the qualities and techniques that make testing an art. Through personal anecdotes, you'll learn how each of these professionals developed beautiful ways of testing a wide range of products -- valuable knowledge that you can apply to your own projects. Here's a sample of what you'll find inside:
<ul>
<li>Microsoft's Alan Page knows a lot about large-scale test automation, and shares some of his secrets on how to make it beautiful </li>
<li>Scott Barber explains why performance testing needs to be a collaborative process, rather than simply an exercise in measuring speed </li>
<li>Karen Johnson describes how her professional experience intersected her personal life while testing medical software </li>
<li>Rex Black reveals how satisfying stakeholders for 25 years is a beautiful thing </li>
<li>Mathematician John D. Cook applies a classic definition of beauty, based on complexity and unity, to testing random number generators</li>
</ul>
All author royalties will be donated to the Nothing But Nets campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a disease that kills millions of children in Africa each year. This book includes contributions from:
<ul>
<li>Adam Goucher </li>
<li>Linda Wilkinson </li>
<li>Rex Black </li>
<li>Martin Schröder </li>
<li>Clint Talbert </li>
<li>Scott Barber </li>
<li>Kamran Khan </li>
<li>Emily Chen </li>
<li>Brian Nitz </li>
<li>Remko Tronçon </li>
<li>Alan Page </li>
<li>Neal Norwitz </li>
<li>Michelle Levesque </li>
<li>Jeffrey Yasskin </li>
<li>John D. Cook </li>
<li>Murali Nandigama </li>
<li>Karen N. Johnson </li>
<li>Chris McMahon </li>
<li>Jennitta Andrea </li>
<li>Lisa Crispin </li>
<li>Matt Heusser </li>
<li>Andreas Zeller </li>
<li>David Schuler </li>
<li>Tomasz Kojm </li>
<li>Adam Christian </li>
<li>Tim Riley </li>
<li>Isaac Clerencia</li>
</ul>
 5 Key Tips and Tricks for Testing by Tim Riley 1. If you are going to run a test more than 3 times, think hard about automating it. The time saved is more than worth the front-end investment. 2. Test the riskiest, most changed, and most complex areas first, since they are most critical. These may be tests #10, #35 and #99. But if you start at test #1 and methodically work you way towards test #100 you may never get to #35 and most likely not #99. 3. Always take time to think through the testing before jumping in. This is the "Ready"part of Ready, Aim, Fire. Many testers jump straight to "Fire" and don't know what they are shooting at. This includes talking to the developer, talking through the testing with others, and writing down a plan and asking for feedback. This provides a way to see if you achieved what you originally planned and gives you something to build on in the future. 4. Have the tests ready _before_ the feature is done, or at least very soon after. Testing a week after a feature is done is a hundred times better then testing it a month later. And a thousand time better then testing is 6 months later. 5. Get to know your developers. Not just to show them your test plan and send them bug reports. Go to lunch with them. Walk to meetings with them. Make sure you know what they are working on and what their plans are. And make sure they know what you are working on and what your plans are. By having a richer working relationship, they will remember to include you when new features come alone, requirements change, and plans are updated. And they will eagerly help you out when developing test cases!

Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software

Computers & Technology

Goucher, Adam

Web Development & Design

O'Reilly Media

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What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time

What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time

Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album By Album, Song By Song, The Sixties And After

Fever: How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America

Fever: How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America

Untitled John Lennon Biography

Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary

Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary

Hard Rain: Dylan Commen

Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software