Music-History & Criticism

In the first and only definitive biography of country music star Keith Urban, insider Jeff Apter chronicles how a skinny, shy high school dropout with an outrageous mullet went from humble origins in Australia to conquering Nashville and global stardom--plus his struggles with addiction,...

Author: Daniel BedrosianISBN-13: 9798881800642Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2025Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 1.11h x 1.11w x 1.11d

The objective of this book is to disseminate the rich history of the guitar in Latin America, with special emphasis on Mexico, covering a period that goes from the viceregal age to the present day. The collaborators are some of the most outstanding guitarists...

At the dawn of the 21st century, the New York City indie rock scene emerged as a beacon of artistic innovation, capturing widespread attention. Within this vibrant milieu, Interpol's second album, Antics, stands out as a landmark release. Released in 2004, Antics initially received...

Author: Chatstick TeamISBN-13: 9798281993173Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2025Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

Iconic Albums - The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleedby Richard WardAuthor: Richard WardISBN-13: 9798281054379Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2025Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d

Author: Richard WardISBN-13: 9798280636262Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2025Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d

Violins and Violin Makers; Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history. So that this...

An in-depth study of a medieval manuscript of songs from the Cistercian monastery in Vyssí Brod. Manuscript 42 from the Cistercian monastery in Vyssí Brod (Hohenfurth), Czech Republic, compiled in 1410, today represents one of the most important music sources from medieval Bohemia, providing...

The founder of a music festival tells its story. To begin his first job in 1976, a young physician moved to a small woodland community in rural Pennsylvania, learning only later of its history as a Chautauqua. Eager to play his flute again after...

Not Just Bits Of Paper is a portal into a world now diminished, a world where the importance of specific bits of paper cannot be overstated. Not that these bits of paper had any intrinsic purpose beyond the sole reason they were produced for...

A celebration and guide to the land of fire and ice's music history. Iceland punches well above its weight in the world of music, producing global icons like Björk, Sigur Rós, Of Monsters and Men, and Laufey, while at the same time nurturing a...

Oasis: The Band, The Breakup, and the Unbelievable ReturnIn this definitive inside account of one of the most important Britpop bands, Oasis, Iain Robertson chronicles the meteoric rise, chaotic reign, painful breakup--and stunning 2024 reunion--of one of the greatest rock bands of all time.Oasis:...

How a small town in New England became a home for jazz, challenging conventional assumptions about the relationship between culture and landscape, art and geography, town and city, and race and place. This is a book about what happened in the 1950s in a...

Author: Jack McCarthy, The Mann Center for the Performing ArtsISBN-10: 1439924333ISBN-13: 9781439924334Publisher: Temple University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2025Pages: 420Format: Hardcover

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

George Bernard Shaw's "The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring" offers a compelling and insightful analysis of Richard Wagner's epic opera cycle. Shaw, renowned for his sharp wit and critical acumen, delves into the social and political themes embedded within the "Nibelung's...

A comprehensive guide to the history and evolution of pianoforte music from its origins in the early 18th century to modern times, written by Herbert Westerby, a renowned musicologist and pianist.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part...

How should one interpret music of another century? What standards should be applied to an 18th century harpsichord work, for instance, being performed on a piano? Keyboard "methods"--systematic approaches to training, touch, and interpretation--did not evolve until the 19th century, and written methodologies are...

From the exhilarating impact of Isaac Albeniz at the beginning of the century to today's complex and adventurous avant-garde, this complete interpretive history introduces twentieth-century Spanish music to English-speaking readers. With graceful authority, Tomas Marco, award-winning composer, critic, and bright light of Spanish music...

In this provocative new study, William Newman presents to the reader "whatever intentions on Beethoven's part can be documented or can be supported by reasoning and analysis in the primary sources for his music." His aim, in brief, is to get as close as...

A new theory of personhood makes the case that a "person" has always been an aesthetic category, not just a legal, political, or moral one. What does it mean to be a person? One might think of the possession of certain rights, having the...

Selected as one of the Best Music Books of 2010 by The Independent, here is a wonderful collection of 20 wide-ranging interviews with the preeminent opera singers, conductors, and directors working on and behind the stage today. Joshua Jampol invites opera-lovers to listen in...

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,...

In the mid-1960s, two notable bands emerged from the rarified cloisters of Charterhouse Public School in rural Surrey: The Anon, with guitarists Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford and The Garden Wall, a unit driven by the duo of Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks. Following...

The objective of this book is to disseminate the rich history of the guitar in Latin America, with special emphasis on Mexico, covering a period that goes from the viceregal age to the present day. The collaborators are some of the most outstanding guitarists...

In November 1923, Max Ehrmann, author of the classic Desiderata, interviewed Theodore Dreiser, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. For two days, they discussed the life of Paul Dresser (Dreiser's brother), the composer of On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away, one...

Unlock the secrets to mastering the theremin in this comprehensive beginner's guide, Mastering the Art of Playing Theremin as a Beginner. Whether you're an aspiring musician, a fan of electronic music, or simply captivated by the unique sound of the theremin, this book is...

Keith Richards: Revolutionizing Rock and Roll - A Tale of Creativity, Innovation, and His Unmistakable Laugh Discover the extraordinary journey of Keith Richards, rock's most iconic survivor, whose evolution from a young, rebellious guitarist to one of the most influential musicians in history is...

conic Albums: Paul McCartney - RamWhen Ram was first released in 1971, it was met with skepticism, controversy, and even outright dismissal by critics. But over the decades, Paul McCartney's most eccentric and fearless solo album has undergone one of the greatest critical reevaluations...

Iconic Albums - Cat Stevens - Tea for the TillermanBy Richard WardExplore the profound artistry of Cat Stevens through an in-depth look at his groundbreaking album, Tea for the Tillerman. Released in 1970, this iconic record cemented Stevens as one of the defining voices...

Author: Andrew CranemanISBN-10: 9526570308ISBN-13: 9789526570303Publisher: Craneman PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2025Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d

Guitargonaut (gĭ-tär′gə-nôt)An adventurer engaged in a quest. With a guitar. And a constantly evolving idea of how to play it.Sluggo started rock bands and toured the world for four decades; 1980-2020.These are stories of what he found out there.Each chapter mostly revolves around individual...

After 34 individual issues, 8 collected books, and 25 years, author Robin Bougie's celebrated cult movie magazine Cinema Sewer came to a lamented finish -- but out of the ashes rises a new titan of the odd media underground: Sonic Sewer! A handmade mix...

Lectures on music, delivered at Oxford University, by William Crotch in 1797. He was both Professor of Music at Oxford and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music.Author: William CrotchISBN-10: 1906857709ISBN-13: 9781906857707Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2010Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.50h x...

Inspired by bands like The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith became master arbiters of 'blooze rock', in the process inspired legions of bands in their wake. This is the story of every officially released Aerosmith song, interwoven with biographical information and key chapters in...

Blue Öyster Cult On Track is a song-by-song analysis of the discography of Long Island's greatest sons, the Blue Öyster Cult. Dubbed "the thinking man's heavy metal band" and celebrated by critics, fans and musicians since their debut album in 1972, the band carved...

Sometime in the early nineteenth century, most likely in the year 1818, the Reverend Robert Scott, minister of the parish of Glenbuchat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, compiled a collection of traditional ballads that until now has not been published. Most of the ballad collections produced...

Joe Davis (1896-1978), the focus of The Melody Man, enjoyed a fifty-year career in the music industry, which covered nearly every aspect of the business. He hustled sheet music in the 1920s; copyrighted compositions by artists as diverse as Fats Waller, Carson Robison, Otis...

The Johnson Family Singers, a gospel group from North Carolina, rose to national acclaim during the 1940s and 1950s. This memoir was written by one of the three sons who sang with them. It focuses not only upon family singers who became famous on...

A fascinating study of the role that music played in Jane Austen's life. Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her novels to illuminate...

Written by one of the most prominent thinkers in sound studies, Amplifications presents a perspective on sound narrated through the experiences of a sound artist and writer. A work of reflective philosophy, Amplifications sits at the intersection of history, creative practice, and sound studies,...

Ludic Dreaming uses (sometimes fictional) dreams as a method for examining sound and contemporary technoculture's esoteric exchanges, refusing both the strictures of visually dominated logic and the celebratory tone that so often characterizes the "sonic turn." Instead, through a series of eight quasi-analytical essays...

Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a quirky, innovative and enigmatic composer whose impact has spread far beyond the musical world. As an artist active in several spheres - from cabaret to religion, from calligraphy to poetry and playwriting - and collaborator with some of the...

""A List Of All The Songs And Passages In Shakespeare Which Have Been Set To Music"" is a comprehensive reference book compiled by J. Greenhill that lists all the songs and passages in the plays of William Shakespeare that have been set to music....

"The Russian Ballet," by A. E. Johnson, offers a detailed exploration of the history and development of ballet in Russia. A vital resource for anyone interested in dance history, theatre, and the performing arts, this book delves into the rich traditions of Russian ballet....

Delve into the formative years of a musical giant with "The Life of Johannes Brahms," Volume 1 of 2, by Florence May. This meticulously prepared biography explores the early life and artistic development of Johannes Brahms, one of history's most influential composers of classical...

Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out...

Making Master Guitars is a craftsman's handbook about the exciting and challenging pursuit of making classical guitars--a craft that the author reveals to be surprisingly accessible by following his instructions. The book is unique in that it includes nine separate detailed plans of instruments...