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This sequel to Mark LeVine's celebrated Heavy Metal Islam shows how some of the world's most extreme music not only helped inspire and define region-wide protests, but also exemplifies the beauty and diversity of youth cultures throughout the Muslim world.    Two years after Heavy Metal Islam was published in 2008, uprisings and revolutions spread like wildfire. The young people organizing and protesting on the streets—in dozens of cities from Casablanca to Karachi—included the very musicians and fans LeVine spotlighted in that book. We'll Play till We Die revisits the groundbreaking stories he originally explored, sharing what has happened to these musicians, their music, their politics, and their societies since then. The book covers a stunning array of developments, not just in metal and hip hop scenes, but with emo in Baghdad, mahraganat in Egypt, techno in Beirut, and more. LeVine also reveals how artists have used global platforms like YouTube and SoundCloud to achieve unprecedented circulation of their music outside corporate or government control. The first collective ethnography and biography of the post-2010 generation, We'll Play till We Die explains and amplifies the radical possibilities of music as a revolutionary force for change.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56290640822645,"sku":"9780520350762","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780520350762_a38864eb-aa7a-4af1-b96b-f90fc5cdfb0d.jpg?v=1786013486"},{"product_id":"9780520299344","title":"Art Beyond the Edge","description":"Art Beyond the Edge is not just a title: it's a designation, a call to action, and a means to achieve enduring impact. Reflecting over a quarter century of collaborative artistic production, research, and activism across five continents, this book is a field-breaking and era-defining exploration of art created during sociopolitical conflict and war, protests and calamities, and their aftermaths. With the goal of generating a critical theory that can meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, Mark LeVine and Bryan Reynolds propose a new and radical vocabulary, epistemological foundation, and praxiological roadmap for engagement with and in performance activism and political art. From Gaza to Chiapas, Baghdad to Kabul, the Niger Delta to the Congo River, the US to Ukraine, the authors establish an innovative matrix to analyze the conditions through which artistic production empowers struggles for freedom, dignity, and survival in a world on fire.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368043557237,"sku":"9780520299344","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780520299344.jpg?v=1790000962"},{"product_id":"jazz-piano-book","title":"The Jazz Piano Book","description":"The most highly acclaimed jazz piano method ever published. 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Via 500+ pages of text and more than 750 musical examples, it takes the student from the most basic techniques such as chord construction and the II-V-I progression through scale theory, the blues, \"I've Got Rhythm\" changes, slash chords, the bebop and pentatonic scales, how to read a lead sheet and memorize tunes and a study of reharmonization that is almost a book in itself. The author, Mark Levine, has worked with Bobby Hutcherson, Cal Tjader, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, and many other jazz greats.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490075681141,"sku":"9781883217044","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781883217044.jpg?v=1786441969"},{"product_id":"how-to-voice-standards-at-the-piano-the-menu","title":"How to Voice Standards at the Piano - The Menu","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt last! A simple, easy-to-learn method for playing the melodies of your favorite tunes, using hip voicings as played by Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron, etc. Famed jazz pianist and author of “The Jazz Piano Book,” Mark Levine has created “The Menu” — a succinct guide to learning a multitude of voicings so you can harmonize melodies on the spot.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e‘So What’ chords, upper structures, 4th chords, etc. are not only good for ‘comping,’ but are also ideal for voicing melodies. For example, the note G in the melody on top of a D-7 chord is the 4th of the chord. Did you know that a ‘stacked 3rd’ voicing, as well as the ‘Kenny Barron chord’ would be perfect for that? This book explains all of that, so you can instantly play jazz songs with the best available voicings.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eUsing two standards and a bebop melody as examples, Mark breaks each tune up into four-bar sections, then shows the best voicings to use on each chord and why those choices were made. These voicings are all drawn from a one-page ‘Menu’ that, once internalized, will allow you to spontaneously create your own style of playing jazz piano, based on the masters of the art form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490082333045,"sku":"9781883217808","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781883217808.jpg?v=1786441976"},{"product_id":"jazz-piano-masterclass-with-mark-levine","title":"Jazz Piano Masterclass with Mark Levine","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 'Drop 2 Book' is the first and only publication to explore the 4-note, block-chord approach to jazz piano playing – as used by piano masters like Kenny Barron, McCoy Tyner, Barry Harris, Cedar Walton and Bill Evans. In this book, world-renowned educator and pianist Mark Levine gives the reader a comprehensive, step-by-step, beginning to advanced Masterclass on this fascinating approach to voicing chords. An invaluable insight into the harmonic minds of some of our greatest piano players, the 68-page book includes complete chapters on: The basic Drop 2 approach, more advanced Drop 2 techniques, soloing and 'comping' in Drop 2, techniques for practicing Drop 2. Online audio is included of the author demonstrating each exercise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57495334715765,"sku":"9781883217471","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781883217471.jpg?v=1786618017"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-mark-levine.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}