Music-Genres & Styles

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of...

Music tells stories. Musical stories entertain and stimulate in moments of boredom, they offer solace in times of despair, they create solidarity in times of loneliness, they liberate the imagination and open up visions of a better future. Musical stories also become parts of...

A comprehensive guide to London's 60 independent record shops Features extensive original photography by Sam Mellish that documents and celebrates London's record shop culture From the author of the bestselling The 500 Hidden Secrets of London Part of a new series exploring London culture,...

This book contains the lyrics of the 63 studio songs The Doors have released during their active career with Jim Morrison, exactly as they have been sung on the original LPs. Included are also all available handwritten lyrics by Jim Morrison, facsimiles of the...

Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries of the social space.Techno is one of the more spectacular and mediatized aspects of contemporary culture. But is it more than mere entertainment, more than just an escape from a world that no...

Following his investigation into experimental music and sound recording in Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs turns his attention to the live performance of improvised music with an altogether different form of writing. Now that the audience is assembled is a book-length prose poem...

Music has always been central to the cultures that young people create, follow, and embrace. In the 1960s, young hippie kids sang along about peace with the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and tried to change the world. In the 1970s, many...

On summer nights on downtown Los Angeles's Bunker Hill, Grand Performances presents free public concerts for the people of the city. A hip hop orchestra, a mariachi musician, an Afropop singer, and a Chinese modern dance company are just a few examples of the...

Van Morrison is primal but sophisticated; he's accessible but inscrutable; he's a complex songwriter and a raw blues shouter; he's a steady influence on the musical scene but wildly unpredictable as well, and it's these complex and often conflicting qualities that make him such...

In A Kiss across the Ocean Richard T. Rodr?uez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their Latinx audiences in the United States since the 1980s. Melding memoir with cultural criticism, Rodr?uez spotlights a host of influential bands and performers including Siouxsie and...

Interpreting Music Video introduces students to the musical, visual, and sociological aspects of music videos, enabling them to critically analyze a multimedia form with a central place in popular culture. With highly relevant examples drawn from recent music videos across many different genres, this...

This book provides an overview of the current evidence demonstrating the positive impact singing has on our physical and mental health and wellbeing. Including case studies that illustrate the power of singing, it also discusses potential barriers for singing and the strategies needed to...

THE WORLD BOOK OF MILITARY MUSIC AND MUSICIANS covers a wide range of subjects in the ALPHA style. The material is very well researched by the author Jack Kopstein, who was a military musician for 35 years in the Canadian Forces. The author has...

Theological Stains offers the first in-depth study of the development of art music in Israel from the mid-twentieth century to the turn of the twenty-first. In a bold and deeply researched account, author Assaf Shelleg explores the theological grammar of Zionism and its impact...

In Performance Bond, Wayde Compton, among the most progressive and experimental poets in Canada, defiantly and eloquently confronts the globalization and commodification of black culture.With poetry inspired by the insistent cadences of hip-hop and jazz, Compton fuses language, history, and contemporary black politics. He...

Lexicon of the Mouth surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. Questions of embodiment and agency, attachment and loss, incorporation and hunger, locution and the non-sensical are critically examined. In doing so, LaBelle emphasizes...

The study moves from tradition to modernity, explores a range of topics such as: song life in the traditional village; rural-urban tensions; local min'yo 'preservation societies'; the effects of national and local min'yo contests; the 'new folk song' phenomenon; min'yo and tourism; folk song...

'It's all about the Music' is a guide through all the different genres and subgenres of music. It ventures into the history, sound style, fashion, psychology and sociology of these. With an A-Z list of each genre's best albums, giving an introduction to the...

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 include...

Delve deep into the history of new wave music in this new, encyclopedic take by author/keyboardist William Rygiol, founding member of "The Dark Alleys".Author: William T. RygiolISBN-10: 1535262664ISBN-13: 9781535262668Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2016Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.34d

"We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers. These pages have been written to provide a key to the attainment of your desires." BehrendAuthor: Genevieve BehrendISBN-10: 1463794940ISBN-13: 9781463794941Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

Low End Theory probes the much-mythologized field of bass and low-frequency sound. It begins in music but quickly moves far beyond, following vibratory phenomena across time, disciplines and disparate cultural spheres (including hauntings, laboratories, organ workshops, burial mounds, sound art, studios, dancefloors, infrasonic anomalies,...

Much like other volumes in the series, this book focuses on the background and development of Elmer Bernstein, a brief discussion of his notable scores, and the context in which he created the music The Magnificent Seven. Author Whitmer provides an analysis of the...

A lifetime collection of interviews, essays, and reviews of music and the artists who create it. During a conversation on Bob Edwards' radio show some years back, longtime CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace indicated that he had forgotten most of the thousands of interviews...

The trumpet is a brilliant instrument which shines brightly when playing proclamatory pieces. However, the trumpet also has a wonderfully lyrical side. The sound of an unaccompanied trumpet causes people to take note. It is a sound that announces something to come, or as...

A comprehensive collection of essays on the long history of Detroit music by some of America's best-known music writers. Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music...

Mel Bay's top drum set manuscript book with tear out pages. 64 pages, including a drum set notation page, with 12 staves per page.Author: Mel Bay PublicationsISBN-10: 0786683732ISBN-13: 9780786683734Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2012Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 11.50h x 8.50w x 0.30d

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give...

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of...

The recent history of New Orleans is fraught with tragedy and triumph. Both are reflected in the city's vibrant, idiosyncratic music community. In Keith Spera's intimately reported Groove Interrupted, Aaron Neville returns to New Orleans for the first time after Hurricane Katrina to bury...

Decomposition is a bracing, revisionary, and provocative inquiry into music--from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, from Conlon Nancarrow to Evelyn Glennie--as a personal and cultural experience: how it is composed, how it is idiosyncratically perceived by critics and reviewers, and why we listen to it...