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  • John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson: The Blues Harmonica of Chicago's Bronzeville by Inaba, Mitsutoshi
    Mitsutoshi Inaba

    John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson: The Blues Harmonica of Chicago's Bronzeville

    John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson was one of the most popular blues harmonica players and singers from the late 1930s through the 1940s. Recording for the Bluebird Records and RCA Victor labels, Sonny Boy shaped Chicago's music scene with an innovative style that gave...
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  • South Carolina Blues by Delune, Clair
    Clair Delune

    South Carolina Blues

    The history of South Carolina blues is a long, deep--and sometimes painful--story. However, it is a narrative with aspects as compelling as the music itself. Geographical differences in America led to variations in the styles of music that developed from African rhythms. The wet,...
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  • South Carolina Blues by Delune, Clair
    Clair Delune

    South Carolina Blues

    The history of South Carolina blues is a long, deep--and sometimes painful--story. However, it is a narrative with aspects as compelling as the music itself. Geographical differences in America led to variations in the styles of music that developed from African rhythms. The wet,...
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  • Southern Crossroads: Georgia Blues by Akamatsu, Rhetta
    Rhetta Akamatsu

    Southern Crossroads: Georgia Blues

    ...Captures no only the rich history of the blues in Georgia but the strong and vibrant Blues scene that exists today..." - George Klein, Co-President of the Atlanta Blues Society, from the ForewordTake a journey into the rich territory of Georgia's blues history starting...
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  • Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities by Terry, Jill
    Jill Terry

    Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities

    This book presents a collection of essays on the debates about origins, authenticity, and identity in folk and blues music. The essays had their origins in an international conference on the Transatlantic routes of American roots music, out of which emerged common themes and...
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  • Soul of the Man: Bobby Blue Bland by Farley, Charles
    Charles Farley

    Soul of the Man: Bobby Blue Bland

    Bobby "Blue" Bland's silky-smooth vocal style and captivating live performances helped propel the blues out of Delta juke joints and into urban clubs and upscale theaters. Until now, his story has never been told in a book-length biography. Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue"...
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  • The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book Three - Beyond Pentatonics by Joseph Alexander
    Joseph Alexander

    The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book Three - Beyond Pentatonics

    Sometime it seems like our favourite blues guitar players simply have more notes to choose from... those notes that just make you go 'ahhhh' The truth is that they are often simply targeting the right note at exactly the right time. The Complete Guide...
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  • Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come from: Lyrics and History by Springer, Robert
    Robert Springer

    Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come from: Lyrics and History

    Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect...
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  • Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar: Fundamental, Advanced & Improvisation: (suitable for electric & acoustic guitar) by Su, Scott
    Scott Su

    Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar: Fundamental, Advanced & Improvisation: (suitable for electric & acoustic guitar)

    ★ Great volume of 12-measure exercises, 75 demo songs, arrangements, and MP3 downloads, ...more in-depth experiences in the beauty of Blues music. ★ Various types of theme-oriented Blues trainings on melody, harmony, rhythms and fingerstyle, ...more diverse and rich Blues playing. ★ Step-by-step hands-on...
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  • Slide Guitar Soloing Collection by Clay, Levi
    Levi Clay

    Slide Guitar Soloing Collection

    3 Definitive Slide Blues Guitar Books in one Great Compilation The Slide Guitar Soloing Collection brings together three bestselling books to help you master slide guitar - from the authentic roots of the Delta Blues to the styles and techniques of the modern slide...
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  • Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture: An Introduction to Music, Race, and Food by Dekaney, Elisa Macedo
    Elisa Macedo Dekaney

    Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture: An Introduction to Music, Race, and Food

    Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture takes an interdisciplinary approach by utilizing several aspects of Brazilian music, race, and food as a window to understanding Brazilian culture, with music at the core. Through a holistic understanding of the Brazilian experience - exploring issues...
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  • Urban Music Education: A Practical Guide for Teachers by Fitzpatrick-Harnish, Kate
    Kate Fitzpatrick-Harnish

    Urban Music Education: A Practical Guide for Teachers

    The prevailing discourse surrounding urban music education suggests the deficit-laden notion that urban school settings are "less than," rather than "different than," their counterparts. Through the lens of contextually-specific teaching, this book provides a counternarrative on urban music education that encourages urban music teachers...
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  • Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists by Obrecht, Jas
    Jas Obrecht

    Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists

    ROLLIN' AND TUMBLIN' - THE POSTWAR BLUES GUITARISTSAuthor: Jas ObrechtISBN-10: 0879306130ISBN-13: 9780879306137Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2000Pages: 466Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94dReview Citation(s): Booklist 12/15/1999 pg. 768Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 143
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  • Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson by Greenberg, Alan
    Alan Greenberg

    Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson

    Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring...
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  • Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story by Dance, Helen Oakley
    Helen Oakley Dance

    Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story

    The most significant factor in the career of Aaron "T-Bone" Walker was his ability to bridge the worlds of blues and jazz. The guitar artistry of this early exponent of urban blues was not only admired by blues musicians like B.B. King, Gatemouth Brown,...
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  • Piano Blues: Playing Minor Blues Scales & Songs on the Piano for Moderate Level Pianists by Pace, Kevin G.
    Kevin G. Pace

    Piano Blues: Playing Minor Blues Scales & Songs on the Piano for Moderate Level Pianists

    Piano Blues: Playing Minor Blues Scales & Songs on the Piano for Moderate Level Pianists is a book to teach how to play the blues on the piano. The blues scales are shown in all 12 keys, each in the following ways: Right hand...
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  • The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar: Book Three - Beyond Pentatonics by Alexander, Joseph
    Joseph Alexander

    The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar: Book Three - Beyond Pentatonics

    Ever wondered how the great blues guitar players find those 'secret' notes? Sometime it seems like our favourite blues guitar players simply have more notes to choose from.. those notes that just make you go 'ahhhh' The truth is that they are often simply...
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  • Portrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson's Lost Photograph by Schein, Zeke
    Zeke Schein

    Portrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson's Lost Photograph

    While searching for vintage guitars on the internet, Zeke Schein came across what he believed was a photograph of one of the most influential blues musicians of all time. Schein, both a fan and historian of the Delta Blues, suspected that the image depicted...
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  • Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures by Reynolds, John
    John Reynolds

    Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures

    Photos, memorabilia and more from the life of Lead Belly, of "Goodnight, Irene" and "Midnight Special" fameThis is a new edition of Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures, the rich visual biography of legendary Louisiana blues musician Lead Belly, originally published by Steidl in...
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  • W. C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues by Robertson, David
    David Robertson

    W. C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues

    David Robertson charts W. C. Handy's rise from a rural-Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to his emergence as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century. The child of former slaves, Handy was first inspired by spirituals...
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  • Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945 by Lawson, R. a.
    R. a. Lawson

    Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945

    In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form--the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R. A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians...
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  • The Blues Cookbook by Hoffman, Laura Ann
    Laura Ann Hoffman

    The Blues Cookbook

    The Blues Cookbook is a comprehensive piano method book for pianists of all ages who want to learn timeless secrets of how to play the Blues like the pros! The book is 134 pages and contains: preliminary exercises,"intros" and "endings", licks and patterns, a...
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  • Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins by O'Brien, Timothy J.
    Timothy J. O'Brien

    Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins

    In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and beyond, Lightnin' Hopkins became one of America's greatest bluesmen, renowned for songs whose topics effortlessly ranged from his African American roots to space...
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  • The Legend of Booker's Guitar by Daniels, Peter
    Peter Daniels

    The Legend of Booker's Guitar

    "That instrument he plays - when you hear it recorded correctly or live in a room, it has a tremendous comforting resonance and a hypnotic feeling. There are all sorts of tones coming from (the guitar) and it makes me feel really good when...
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  • Jon Batiste Beautiful Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Adult Coloring Book for All Ages by Bond, Liberty
    Liberty Bond

    Jon Batiste Beautiful Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Adult Coloring Book for All Ages

    Practice some colorfully meditative self-care with Jon Batiste Beautiful Adult Coloring Book. Color away the stress and start enjoying life at its fullest.Author: Liberty BondISBN-10: 864205302XISBN-13: 9798642053027Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2020Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.09d
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  • Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues by Wiggins, Phil
    Phil Wiggins

    Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues

    Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues depicts the life and times of harmonica player Phil Wiggins and the unique, vibrant music scene around him, as described by music journalist Frank Matheis. Featuring Wiggins's story, but including information on many musicians, the volume presents...
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  • Shake Your Hips: The Excello Records Story by Fox, Randy
    Randy Fox

    Shake Your Hips: The Excello Records Story

    The electrifying sounds of groovin' jump blues, Southern-fried rock 'n' roll, fervent black gospel, and the simmering sounds of the Louisiana swamp came bursting out of Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1950s courtesy of Excello Records and its sister Nashboro label.Operating out of Ernie's...
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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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  • London Life by Wells, Simon
    Simon Wells

    London Life

    While many publications claim to have captured the phenomenon that was "swinging London," only one magazine was present to illustrate this extraordinary moment as it unraveled. London Life magazine emerged in October 1965, and over the next fifteen months would document the capital's action...
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  • The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book Two - Melodic Phrasing by Joseph Alexander
    Joseph Alexander

    The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book Two - Melodic Phrasing

    We all have the same 12 notes.... It's how and when we play them that sets the masters apart from the amateurs. We all know it's important to learn the licks and vocabulary of the musicians who we wish to emulate, but in order...
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  • Sounds From The 60s - Club 60 & The Esquire: Behind the scenes during the great days of 60s rock n' roll, blues, pop and jazz by Thornton, Terry
    Terry Thornton

    Sounds From The 60s - Club 60 & The Esquire: Behind the scenes during the great days of 60s rock n' roll, blues, pop and jazz

    This is a completely new, revised, updated and expanded book: Sounds From the 60s - takes you behind the scenes with the stars of rock n' roll, pop, blues and jazz at two of the top Northern UK clubs, Club 60 & The Esquire,...
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  • Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues: An Oral History by Wolkin, Jan Mark
    Jan Mark Wolkin

    Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues: An Oral History

    MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD: IF YOU LOVE THESE BLUES AN ORAL HISTORYAuthor: Jan Mark WolkinISBN-10: 1480394645ISBN-13: 9781480394643Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2014Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
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  • The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy by Greene, Kevin D.
    Kevin D. Greene

    The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy

    Over the course of his long career, legendary bluesman William "Big Bill" Broonzy (1893-1958) helped shape the trajectory of the genre, from its roots in the rural Mississippi River Delta, through its rise as a popular genre in the North, to its eventual international...
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  • The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy by Greene, Kevin D.
    Kevin D. Greene

    The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy

    Over the course of his long career, legendary bluesman William "Big Bill" Broonzy (1893-1958) helped shape the trajectory of the genre, from its roots in the rural Mississippi River Delta, through its rise as a popular genre in the North, to its eventual international...
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  • Piano Major Blues: Playing Major Blues Scales & Songs on the Piano for Moderate Level Pianists by Pace, Kevin G.
    Kevin G. Pace

    Piano Major Blues: Playing Major Blues Scales & Songs on the Piano for Moderate Level Pianists

    Piano Major Blues: Playing Major Blues Scales & Songs on the Piano for Moderate Level Pianists is a book to teach how to play the major blues on the piano. The major blues scales are shown in all 12 keys, each in the following...
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  • Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists by Leszczak, Bob
    Bob Leszczak

    Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists

    In Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the second volume in Bob Leszczak's exciting Who Did It First? series, readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, pop songs and standards. As Leszczak points out,...
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  • Slow Blues [With CD (Audio)] by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Slow Blues [With CD (Audio)]

    (Blues Play-Along). For use with all C, Bb, Eb, and Bass Clef instruments, the Hal Leonard Blues Play-Along Series is the ultimate jamming tool for all blues musicians. With easy-to-read lead sheets, and other split-track choices on the inlcuded CD, these first-of-a-kind packages will...
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  • Tell the Truth Until They Bleed by Friedman, Josh Alan
    Josh Alan Friedman

    Tell the Truth Until They Bleed

    "Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf. The French had a phrase for his tropism for the seedy, the gutter, the outcasts: nostalgie de la boue. This book deserves wide attention." --Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records "A can't-put-it-down rock 'n' roll read...
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  • Too Much UnConvenience by Beauchamp, Lincoln T., Jr.
    Lincoln T. Jr. Beauchamp

    Too Much UnConvenience

    Lincoln T Beauchamp, Jr., known artistically as Chicago Beau, was raised in an environment rooted in blues, literature, law, and travel. An unlikely circumstance provided by his Great Migration, agrarian background parents. He is a musician, writer, publisher, and adventurer. He has published several...
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  • The Logic of the Fretboard: The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar [With DVD] by Mann, Woody
    Woody Mann

    The Logic of the Fretboard: The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar [With DVD]

    (Music Sales America). The ability to improvise and create variations within a song is the essence of the guitar work of the great traditional acoustic blues guitarists such as Blind Blake, Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Rev. Gary Davis, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. By...
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  • Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism by McGinley, Paige A.
    Paige A. McGinley

    Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism

    Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. The press even described these women as "actresses"...
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  • The Best of Stevie Ray Vaughan by Vaughan, Stevie Ray
    Stevie Ray Vaughan

    The Best of Stevie Ray Vaughan

    (Easy Guitar). Easy arrangements in notes & TAB for 16 songs, plus guitar solos. Includes: Cold Shot * Couldn't Stand the Weather * Crossfire * Love Struck Baby * Pride & Joy * The Sky Is Crying * Texas Flood * You'll Be Mine...
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  • Robert Johnson - Signature Licks: A Step-By-Step Breakdown of the Legendary Guitarist's Style and Technique (Bk/Online Audio) [With CD with Examples o by Rubin, Dave
    Dave Rubin

    Robert Johnson - Signature Licks: A Step-By-Step Breakdown of the Legendary Guitarist's Style and Technique (Bk/Online Audio) [With CD with Examples o

    (Signature Licks Guitar). Explore the music of one of the greatest acoustic bluesmen of all time with this fascinating book/audio pack. Blues expert Dave Rubin provides an introduction on Johnson's place in musical history, and extensive notes on his tunings, arrangements, fingerstyle technique and...
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  • Ma Rainey Sings the Blues by Anekwe, Obiora N.
    Obiora N. Anekwe

    Ma Rainey Sings the Blues

    This children's book depicts the musical story of Gertrude "Ma Rainey" Pridgett (1886-1939), one of the earliest African American blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record in the 20th century. As illustrator and writer of this children's book,...
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  • Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre by Oliver, Paul
    Paul Oliver

    Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre

    This book combines three influential and much-quoted books Savannah Syncopators; Blacks, Whites and Blues and Recording the Blues, updated with additional new essays, which collectively confront the problem of how, when and from where the blues emerged and developed. It emphasizes the significance of...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music by Moore, Allan
    Allan Moore

    The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music

    From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists play significant roles in twentieth-century culture. This overview of these genres provides an expression of the twentieth-century black American experience. Histories are questioned; songs and lyrical imagery are...
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  • Josh White: Society Blues by Wald, Elijah
    Elijah Wald

    Josh White: Society Blues

    First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Elijah WaldISBN-10: 0415942047ISBN-13: 9780415942041Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2002Pages: 374Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 8.60h x 6.68w x 0.83d
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  • Jelly Roll: A Blues by Young, Kevin
    Kevin Young

    Jelly Roll: A Blues

    In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as "Stride Piano," "Gutbucket," and "Can-Can," these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized...
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  • Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception by Grimshaw, Mark
    Mark Grimshaw

    Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception

    In Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception, authors Mark Grimshaw and Tom Garner introduce a novel theory that positions sound within a framework of virtuality. Arguing against the acoustic or standard definition of sound as a sound wave, the book builds a case for...
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  • Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works by Zohn, Steven
    Steven Zohn

    Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works

    Georg Philipp Telemann gave us one of the richest legacies of instrumental music from the eighteenth century. Though considered a definitive contribution to the genre during his lifetime, his concertos, sonatas, and suites were then virtually ignored for nearly two centuries following his death....
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