Sports Ticket is the ultimate guide to the premier British and selected international sporting events for 2005, and plenty more besides. and venue, this book will make a visit to the action hassle free and more fun. showpieces in sport as well as enhancing the experience of regular events. Comprehensive guides include pointers, parking tips and travel information. If you want to make a holiday out of your sporting trip, the book provides tips on other local attractions, city information and recommendations for accommodation, wining and dining. World sporting action is also covered. 2005 features top European drama with home nations football teams in World Cup qualifying matches and far flung adventures with the British Lions in New Zealand. is an in-depth appendix to cover all the nagging pieces of information so often forgotten.

When the Swedish concert singer Jenny Lind toured the U.S. in 1850, she became the prototype for the modern pop star. Meanwhile, her manager, P.T. Barnum, became the prototype for another figure of enduring significance: the pop culture impresario. Starting with Lind's fabled U.S. tour and winding all the way into the twenty-first century, Live Music in America surveys the ongoing impact and changing conditions of live music performance in the U.S. It covers a range of historic performances, from the Fisk Jubilee Singers expanding the sphere of African American music in the 1870s, to Benny Goodman bringing swing to Carnegie Hall in 1938, to 1952's Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland - arguably the first rock and roll concert - to Beyoncé's boundary-shattering performance at the 2018 Coachella festival. More than that, the book details the roles played by performers, audiences, media commentators, and a variety of live music producers (promoters, agents, sound and stage technicians) in shaping what live music means and how it has evolved. Live Music in America connects what occurs behind the scenes to what takes place on stage to highlight the ways in which live music is very deliberately produced and does not just spontaneously materialize. Along the way, author Steve Waksman uses previously unstudied archival materials to shed new light on the origins of jazz, the emergence of rock 'n' roll, and the rise of the modern music festival.