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  • When Swing Was King! by Koch, Art
    Art Koch

    When Swing Was King!

    Looking back at one of the most historical eras in America and American music. Throughout the history of the United States, music has always been a big part of the fabric that was woven to create the canvas that shaped this country. The author...
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  • Dance Band Arrangers 1900-1960. by Robinson, Keith
    Keith Robinson

    Dance Band Arrangers 1900-1960.

    The history of early 20th Century Dance Bands has generally focused on the personalities of the Band Leaders, famous soloists, or the recordings they made, but the arrangers have been neglected. This book will attempt to show what made popular dance music in the...
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  • Dance All Night: Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands, Past and Present by Boyd, Jean A.
    Jean A. Boyd

    Dance All Night: Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands, Past and Present

    Its strains may be haunting, but western swing is alive and on the upswing, enjoying a renaissance among musicians too young to recall or even comprehend its heyday. For them, the term may evoke the nationally known country music of Bob Wills and his...
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  • How To Start a Rock Band: Your Step By Step Guide To Starting a Rock Band by Howexpert
    Howexpert

    How To Start a Rock Band: Your Step By Step Guide To Starting a Rock Band

    If you have any plans of putting up your own rock band then check this "How To Start a Rock Band" guide.In this step-by-step guide you'll enjoy the following benefits: - Learn choose the genre and search for band members. - Discover organizational issues....
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  • The Music of World War II: War Songs and Their Stories by Winkler, Sheldon
    Sheldon Winkler

    The Music of World War II: War Songs and Their Stories

    Merriam Press World War 2 History. Third Edition. Some of the most memorable and enduring popular music of the Twentieth Century was written during the Second World War. With patriotism at an all-time high, the war effort became an integral part of the entertainment...
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  • The Valley Dale Ballroom by Brunetto, Landa Masdea
    Landa Masdea Brunetto

    The Valley Dale Ballroom

    The Valley Dale Ballroom began as a stagecoach stop in the 1880s and later served as a tavern and overnight inn. The dance hall was added in the early 1920s, thus bringing about the birth of the Valley Dale Ballroom, or The Dale. In...
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  • The Valley Dale Ballroom by Brunetto, Landa Masdea
    Landa Masdea Brunetto

    The Valley Dale Ballroom

    The Valley Dale Ballroom began as a stagecoach stop in the 1880s and later served as a tavern and overnight inn. The dance hall was added in the early 1920s, thus bringing about the birth of the Valley Dale Ballroom, or "The Dale." In...
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  • Rethinking Bach by Varwig, Bettina
    Bettina Varwig

    Rethinking Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach has loomed large in the imagination of scholars, performers, and audiences since the late nineteenth century.This new book, edited by veteran Bach scholar Bettina Varwig, gathers a diverse group of leading and emerging Bach researchers as well as a number of...
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  • The Real Dixieland Book, C Instruments by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Dixieland Book, C Instruments

    (Fake Book). You don't have to be from below the Mason-Dixon line to enjoy this primo collection of nearly 250 Dixieland tunes: Ain't Misbehavin' * Alexander's Ragtime Band * Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home * California, Here I Come * Dinah *...
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  • Nelson Riddle: Music With a Heartbeat by Littlefield, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Littlefield

    Nelson Riddle: Music With a Heartbeat

    'This book is about one of my all-time heroes, Mr Nelson Riddle. It makes for fascinating reading and I am enjoying it very much.' SIR MICHAEL PARKINSONNELSON RIDDLE was possibly the greatest; one of the most successful arrangers in the history of American popular...
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  • Texas Jazz Singer, 25: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond by Mooney, Kevin
    Kevin Mooney

    Texas Jazz Singer, 25: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond

    At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large family that played music together. She once said that she fell out of the...
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  • The Ultimate Broadway Musical List Book: Second Edition by Friedman, Steven M.
    Steven M. Friedman

    The Ultimate Broadway Musical List Book: Second Edition

    From Showboat to Hamilton, American musical theater has long held the imagination and enjoyment of the nations' theater goers. It creates an emotional reaction as there are favorites we cherish, the all-time bests, those that are the most reviled, the over-rated and the unforgettable....
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  • Nelson Riddle: Music With a Heartbeat by Littlefield, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Littlefield

    Nelson Riddle: Music With a Heartbeat

    'This book is about one of my all-time heroes, Mr Nelson Riddle. It makes for fascinating reading and I am enjoying it very much.' SIR MICHAEL PARKINSONNELSON RIDDLE was possibly the greatest; one of the most successful arrangers in the history of American popular...
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  • The Band Director's Guide to Success: A Survival Guide for New Music Educators by Kraemer, Jonathan M.
    Jonathan M. Kraemer

    The Band Director's Guide to Success: A Survival Guide for New Music Educators

    The Band Director's Guide to Success is the ideal guide for preparing future band directors for the practical challenges and obstacles that they will face in the introductory years of their teaching careers. Written in an easy to understand, quick-reference guide format, this book...
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  • Novelty Masterpieces of the Gershwin Era: The Music of Zez Confrey, Pauline Alpert and Rube Bloom by Mintun, Peter
    Peter Mintun

    Novelty Masterpieces of the Gershwin Era: The Music of Zez Confrey, Pauline Alpert and Rube Bloom

    This original collection of piano tunes from the 1920s and '30s features pieces by three of the era's most popular piano roll and novelty song artists: Zez Confrey, Pauline Alpert, and Rube Bloom. Pianists and music enthusiasts of all ages will rejoice in these...
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  • Cab Calloway, Me, and Minnie the Moocher by Coverdale, George R., Jr.
    George R. Coverdale Jr.

    Cab Calloway, Me, and Minnie the Moocher

    His famous Zoot Suit. His vivid smile and stylish dressing style. His penchant for wearing White Tales. These unique characteristics can only be seen on the famous Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader. Share in author George R. Coverdale Jr.'s experiences with his...
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  • Marty Grosz: It's a Sin to Tell a Lie: My Life in Jazz by Grosz, Marty
    Marty Grosz

    Marty Grosz: It's a Sin to Tell a Lie: My Life in Jazz

    It's a Sin to Tell a Lie: My Life in Jazz is the autobiography of Marty Grosz, today's foremost jazz rhythm guitarist and chord soloist. Part memoir, part transcribed oral history, it serves up Marty's story raconteur style - full of sardonic wit with...
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  • Women's Bands in America: Performing Music and Gender by Sullivan, Jill M.
    Jill M. Sullivan

    Women's Bands in America: Performing Music and Gender

    Women's Bands in America is the first comprehensive exploration of women's bands across the three centuries in American history. Contributors trace women's emerging roles in society as seen through women's bands--concert and marching--spanning three centuries of American history. Authors explore town, immigrant, industry, family,...
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  • Those Swinging Years by Barnet, Charlie
    Charlie Barnet

    Those Swinging Years

    Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) is best known as the popular bandleader whose hits included Cherokee, Pompton Turnpike, and Skyliner. But he was also the first to break the color barrier in a popular dance band, and his black musicians included Clark Terry, Roy Eldridge, and...
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  • Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan by Hayes, Elaine M.
    Elaine M. Hayes

    Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

    Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and a pioneer of women's and civil rightsSarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad...
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  • The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music: The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights by Alger, Dean
    Dean Alger

    The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music: The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights

    Lonnie Johnson (1894-1970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father's band at an early age....
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  • Drummer's Guide to Big Band: Book & DVD by Williams, Garey
    Garey Williams

    Drummer's Guide to Big Band: Book & DVD

    Playing in a big band is one of the most complex and nuanced jobs that a drummer faces. Garey Williams' new book Drummer's Guide to Big Band sets out a highly-organized game plan for tackling the demands of the big band drum chair. In...
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  • Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener's Companion by Sultanof, Jeff
    Jeff Sultanof

    Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener's Companion

    The era of popular music from about 1917 onward saw an explosion of creative songwriting that converged with a new sound from reed, brass, and rhythm instruments. Jazz was born, and the musical sophistication that accompanied this original sound set the stage for the...
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  • Hell: My Life in the Squirrel Nut Zippers by Maxwell, Tom
    Tom Maxwell

    Hell: My Life in the Squirrel Nut Zippers

    The Swing Movement -- all jazz hands and high-waisted pants -- advanced and receded in good order. I wrote this book to tell the other side of the story. I want you to know about the oddball collection of iconoclasts who got together and...
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