Music-General Books

After being friends for 30 years and sharing occasional Dutch-treat lunches, Max Morath ("Mr. Ragtime"), invited Diane Fay Skomars to attend "Jelly's Last Jam" on Broadway and to Joe Allen's after, and he, picked up the tab! They married on the shores of Lake...

Cream - A People's History is an oral history of the 1960s power trio featuring Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce who between 1966 and 1968 rose to become the biggest band in the world after The Beatles, laying the foundations for the...

Songs For A World Of Change Are Songs About Many Things. A Lot Of The Song Lyrics Touch On Subjects About Social Acceptance (Childhood Fantasies) And Searching For Romance (Twilight Nights). Also, The Author (William Gammon) Touches On Deep Issues About War (Battle Scars)...

The rock-and-roll memoir of one of the world's greatest guitaristsYngwie Malmsteen's revolutionary guitar style--combining elements of classical music with the speed and volume of heavy metal--made him a staple of the 80s rock scene. Decades later, he's still a legend among guitarists, having sold...

Author: Carlos Van TongerenISBN-10: 1009307894ISBN-13: 9781009307895Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2025Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Cross-cultural collaboration in popular music represents opportunities for the audibility of multiple voices and the creation of new sounds, but it also presents many challenges. These challenges are both musical - that is, how to technically match voices - and ethical - that is,...

An informal but knowledgeable guide to the array of research in music, with comments on the terms, methodologies, and biases of each, and a discussion of solutions for improving navigation and exchange of ideas between areas and other cognate disciplines. The book aims to...

A History of American Popular Music helps readers become more discerning consumers of American popular music through the study of its fascinating history. The text underscores the increased enjoyment and inherent discovery of new music styles and artists when one learns how to describe,...

Music involves time in all its aspects - from soundwaves to dance forms to recording - but the way it is discussed depends on the perspective and discipline. This book aims to demystify the subject of time and suggest some practical means for thinking...

The first collection of essays on Argentine metal music. This is an interdisciplinary study of Argentina's heavy metal subculture between 1983 and 2002, a period in which metal music withstood the onslaught of military dictatorship and survived the neoliberal policies of bourgeois democracy. Edited...

This comprehensive bibliography and research guide details all the works currently available on Vincenzo Bellini, the Italian opera composer best known for his work Norma, which is still regularly performed today at Covent Garden and by regional opera companies. 2001, the bicentennial anniversary of...

This is a simple 8.5 by 11 inch workbook of 200 pages of sheet music, where the music artist can load up and compose all his music imagination as he or her desires.Author: Mja PublishingISBN-10: 1099284708ISBN-13: 9781099284700Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2019Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize:...

Author: Jean-Paul C. MontagnierISBN-10: 1009411063ISBN-13: 9781009411066Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/2025Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d

Author: Jean-Paul C. MontagnierISBN-10: 1009517368ISBN-13: 9781009517362Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/2025Pages: 90Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

An ethnographic approach to global pop music studies. This edited collection offers evocative ways into an international selection of popular music, from the Ecuadorian indie scene to Chinese rock. In exploring the experiences of musicians, fans, industry professionals, and academics, the rich complexity of...

Author: Laura EmmeryISBN-10: 100953713XISBN-13: 9781009537131Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2025Pages: 84Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Author: Laura EmmeryISBN-10: 1009537148ISBN-13: 9781009537148Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2025Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

SDM Magazine Issue #12 2017 featuring King Dillon, P Dot, Charlie B. Keyz, Philly Pal, 7 Mile Radio, NO'EL Snyder, Sarah Appleb, Lasuria "Kandi" Allman and ToySoulja Lagoon.Author: Cheraee C, Donele Casino BaileyISBN-10: 1940831334ISBN-13: 9781940831336Publisher: Mocy PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2017Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.00h x...

The Official Albums Charts: The Eighties is an unmissable collection of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week - full Top 75s, chronicling the great variety of music reflected by the most popular albums, on vinyl, CD, cassette (even 8-Track), in this most memorable of...

Unlike much of the literature on Venezuela in the Chávez period, this book shifts focus away from 'top down' perspectives to examine how Venezuelan folksinger Alí Primera (1942-1985) became intertwined with Venezuelan politics, both during his lifetime and posthumously. Alí's 'Necessary Songs' offered cultural...

Police brutality is addressed from an interactionist approach to highlight the dynamics of a police-government-justice nexus. Crosschecking of motivational patterns, public discourses, internal and criminal investigations, Court's rulings and accountability-avoiding practices shows how their interaction allows excessive force to become perennial. Author: Emanuel Guittet,...

This book approaches music in audiovisual culture as a complex merged signal rather than as a simple 'addition' to the images of film. The audiovisual is central to modern culture, with screens and speakers (including headphones) dominating communication, leisure and drama. While this book...

This book is Tony's collection of poems/songs from his writings. Some are true, some are not. Most are based on his own feelings and come from deep down inside.Author: Tony PayneISBN-10: 1504970217ISBN-13: 9781504970211Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/23/2015Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.16d

Author: Milton MermikidesISBN-10: 1009258575ISBN-13: 9781009258579Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2025Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This book will give them a view of the other side of Motown. It was not just a record company, there was also a spiritual side of the company.Author: Frances MaclinISBN-10: 1664196005ISBN-13: 9781664196001Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2021Pages: 70Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Author: Various, Tom Magliozzi, Ray MagliozziISBN-10: 1665169729ISBN-13: 9781665169721Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2004Format: CD

Carpe Nocturne is the preeminent digital and print publication to feature aspects of the contemporary creative cultures and alternative subculture offering of all things Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Steampunk, and Goth. We are OTHER THAN THE NORM We feature aspects of the eclectic creative subcultures to...

Each page is filled with tablature staves for writing banjo music. The bottom ofeach page contains five-string blank chord grids.Author: Mel Bay Publications IncISBN-10: 1562221507ISBN-13: 9781562221508Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1991Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 11.50h x 8.45w x 0.09d

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Frèdèric ChopinISBN-10: 1446516091ISBN-13: 9781446516096Publisher: Classic...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Franz SchubertISBN-10: 1446516385ISBN-13: 9781446516386Publisher: Newman...

This classic reference on musical acoustics and performance practice begins with a brief introduction to the fundamentals of acoustics and the generation of musical sounds. It then discusses the particulars of the sounds made by all the standard instruments in a modern orchestra as...

A poignant and humorous retrospective of a young musician's struggle to maintain a career in music. It exposes the hidden motives that sometimes impel performing artists to suceed.Author: Gene HullISBN-10: 1412067219ISBN-13: 9781412067218Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2005Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

This early work on Mozart's Piano Concertos is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains analyses of the themes and structure of some of Mozart's greatest piano compositions. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested...

In this powerful memoir, Darlene confronts the painful realities of growing up in a society still grappling with its fractured past, while navigating a world where lingering divisions are masked by forced unity. With raw vulnerability, she explores her experiences of trauma, identity, and...

Author: Eamon Maher, Se?n CreaghISBN-10: 1803748931ISBN-13: 9781803748931Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic PublisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d

Author: Nadine WinstonISBN-10: 3384511840ISBN-13: 9783384511843Publisher: Tredition GmbhLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2025Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.51d

During lockdown, Lyell Cresswell wrote this far from conventional autobiography. Each chapter begins with an increasingly fanciful - and very colourful - account of an exciting life. Under the cover of this playful narrative, he smuggles in deeply considered ideas about music, and about...

"Revelatory and propulsively arranged." - The New York Times The first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music. West Germany, 1968. Like everywhere else in the Western world, the young generation is pushing for radical change, still suffering the after-effects of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This open access book explores the disciplinary, disciplined, and recent interdisciplinary sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both academic realms are founded upon a destructive masculinity--indissolubly linked to coloniality and epistemic hegemony--and marked by a monologic, ethnocentric silencing of embodied, same-sex...

This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health, and wellbeing. In the first part of the book, the author draws on a wide range of sources...

This volume of The Musical Woman continues the long-neglected task of documenting the full scope of participation by women in every facet of the music world. The time period covered is the 1982-1983 season through 1984-1985; forecasts have been included for 1985-1986. The work...

Whereas Dr Burney's writings are often mentioned in studies on eighteenth-century music, not much interest seems to have been given specifically to his relation to the organ, which played an important part in his professional career as a practising musician. No better introduction to...

Born out of the clash of inner-city oppression and jubilation, Hip Hop's meteoric rise to the top of Western culture has been partly defined by its initial designation as counter-culture by the mainstream. However, when counter-culture becomes mainstream, what then becomes counter-culture? In his...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Romain RollandISBN-10: 1406767719ISBN-13: 9781406767711Publisher: Holley...

Book 2 in the Melanie Smith violin theory series introduces students to new music and theory concepts which are fundamental in developing a deeper understanding of the violin. Book 2 will begin by covering the theory involvingthe ranges of notes for the violin and...

Author: Marc DubyISBN-10: 1009249916ISBN-13: 9781009249911Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2025Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Author: Marc DubyISBN-10: 1009517155ISBN-13: 9781009517157Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2025Pages: 82Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d