HAL LEONARD THE BEST IN MUSIC | THEATRE | FILM | TV FALL 2015 | PERFORMING ARTS Hal Leonard Books | Backbeat Books | Applause Books | Amadeus Press TABLE OF CONTENTS Frontlist Titles Backbeat Books ....................................................................2 Hal Leonard Books ..............................................................22 Amadeus Press ...................................................................32 Applause Books ...................................................................35 Opus Books .........................................................................54 Hal Leonard .........................................................................57 Vintage Guitar ......................................................................58 Recently Released ...............................................................59 Previously Announced .........................................................63 Songbooks & Music Instruction ...........................................67 Selected Backlist Titles MUSIC Biographies .........................................................................79 Business ..............................................................................80 History .................................................................................81 Education ............................................................................81 Guitar ..................................................................................82 Audio Technology ................................................................84 FILM/TV ..........................................................................85 THEATRE Acting ..................................................................................86 Plays ...................................................................................87 Biographies .........................................................................87 Opera ..................................................................................88 CULTURE .......................................................................88 DISPLAY .........................................................................89 NOTATION EXPLANATION ......................................90 INDEX ..............................................................................91 TERMS & POLICIES ..........................Front Inside Cover SALES REPRESENTATIVES ...........Back Inside Cover Disney characters and artwork © Disney Enterprises, Inc. FALL 2015 CATALOG 1 1132988 2015FallBookCat.indd 1 4/30/15 3:37 PM SEPTEMBER You Don’t Own Me The Life and Times of Lesley Gore by Trevor Tolliver Backbeat Books Assembled over five years of research and interviews, this is the first and long overdue biography of Lesley Gore. 1963—tail fins were in, sock hops were hot, and a fairytale white knight was president. That summer, sixteen-year-old singer Lesley Gore released her debut single, “It’s My Party,” propelling her to Number One on the charts. For the next several years, the crowned Princess of Pop dominated the radio with a string of hits including “Judy’s Turn to Cry,” “She’s a Fool,” “Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows,” and the rousing anthem for independence, “You Don’t Own Me,” making her the most successful and influential solo female artist of the ’60s. But beneath the bubblegum façade was a girl squirming against social and professional pressures to simply be herself and to forge a future where she could write and perform music beyond the trappings of teenage angst and love triangles. Assembled over five years of research and interviews, this is the first and long overdue biography of Lesley Gore, one of pop music’s MARKETING pioneering Mothers, which chronicles her meteoric rise to fame, • The Lesley Gore fan club and tribute site has committed to her devastating fall from popularity, and struggle for relevance heavily promoting the book in the 1970s, and her reemergence as a powerful songwriter, • Radio interviews with the author on local, national and satellite political activist, and camp icon. The biography includes behind- oldies radio programs the-scenes stories about the making of her hit records, debunks • National media outreach to music and mainstream print and or clarifies popular myths about her career, and places her online outlets, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Billboard, and Entertainment Weekly remarkable life and times within a historical context to reveal how her music was both impacted by, and contributed to, each • Promotions with music websites, blogs, and podcasts decade of her astounding fifty-year career. • Media outreach to LGBT outlets—print, online, and radio TREVOR TOLLIVER (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) was RELATED TITLES: Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country raised in Duarte, California, and received his formal Singer (9781423499480); Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized degrees from California Polytechnic University, Pomona, Biography of Joan Jett (9780879309909); Will You Take Me as and his musical education from his mom and dad and I Am: Joni Mitchell’s Blue Period (9781617130281) their stacks of oldies records. Trevor Tolliver is currently an adjunct English professor at Mount San Antonio College where he teaches literature and developmental writing. He lives with his husband, four active sons, and two jolly guinea pigs. MUSIC BIOGRAPHY 9781495024412 BISAC: MUS050000, MUS029000 224 pages HL00146488 6" x 9" US $27.99 Hardcover World Rights Two 8-page photo inserts E-book Editions Available 2 HAL LEONARD PERFORMING ARTS PUBLISHING GROUP 1132988 2015FallBookCat.indd 2 4/30/15 3:37 PM SEPTEMBER The Beat Generation FAQ All That’s Left to Know About the Angelheaded Hipsters by Rich Weidman FAQ Series Backbeat Books An entertaining ride through the American literary movement that defined cool and inspired generations. The Beat Generation FAQ is an informative and entertaining look at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the repression and conformity encompassing post–World War II life in the United States, the Beat writers sought creative alternatives to the mind-numbing banality of modern culture. Beat Generation writers were no strangers to controversy: Both Allen Ginsberg’s prophetic, William Blakean–style poem “Howl” (1956) and William S. Burroughs’ groundbreaking novel Naked Lunch (1959) led to obscenity trials, while Jack Kerouac’s highly influential novel On the Road (1957) was blamed by the establishment for corrupting the nation’s youth and continues to this day to serve as a beacon of hipster culture and the bohemian lifestyle. MARKETING The Beat writers shared a vision for a new type of literature, • Review and feature coverage in magazines and newspapers in one that escaped the boundaries of academia and employed New York, San Francisco, and other former hotbeds of an organic use of language, inspired by the spontaneity and Beat culture improvisational nature of jazz music and abstract expression- • Coverage and interviews in literary magazines and websites ism (Kerouac coined this writing style “spontaneous prose”). • Online reviews, excerpts, and giveaways on cult film and classic In search of deeper meaning, Beat Generation writers experi- TV websites, such as Skewed and Reviewed, DVD Snapshot, VideoScope, and On Screen & Beyond mented not only with language but also with spirituality, art, drugs, sexuality, and unconventional lifestyles. Although the • Author interviews on local, national, and online radio programs, including Pop Culture Tonight movement as a whole flamed out quickly in the early 1960s, • Inclusion in all FAQ Series promotions replaced by the onset of the hippie counterculture, the Beats made an indelible mark on the nation’s consciousness and left RELATED TITLES: Beat Down Your Soul (9780141001517); The a long-lasting influence on its art and culture. This book details Beats: A Graphic History (9780809016495); The Typewriter Is Holy the movement—its works, its creative forces, and its legacy. (9781416592426) RICH WEIDMAN (Ocoee, FL) is a writer and editor. His work includes The Doors FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Kings of Acid Rock and several regional travel LITERARY CRITICISM/POP CULTURE guides. He serves as the editor of two pop culture and 9781617136016 BISAC: LIT000000 movie-related websites: Alternative Reel and Forgotten Movie Classics. 400 pages HL00127076 6" x 9" US $24.99 Paperback Original World Rights B&W images throughout E-book Editions Available FALL 2015 CATALOG 3 1132988 2015FallBookCat.indd 3 4/30/15 3:37 PM SEPTEMBER The Band Photographs, 1968–1969 Photographs by Elliott Landy Commentary by John Simon and Elliott Landy Foreword by Jonathan Taplin Backbeat Books The only photographer to capture the Band giving birth to a new kind of music known as Americana, photographically documenting the making of their first two albums, Music from Big Pink and The Band. Once in a while a photographer gains the trust of an artist or a band, and his work fuses with that of the artist in such a way MARKETING that the two become married in the public consciousness. One can think of David Duncan’s pictures of Picasso at work or Alfred • National TV, online, print, and radio publicity campaign Wertheimer’s pictures of Elvis backstage in 1956. Elliott Landy’s • Publicity targeting rock music magazines, including Rolling chronicle of the Band from 1968 to 1969 is of similar impor- Stone, Spin, and music websites