-
Author:Jeff Apter
Keith Urban
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,...- $28.00
$28.00- $28.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Ian Glasper
A Country Fit For Heroes: DIY Punk in Eighties Britain
A COUNTRY FIT FOR HEROES: DIY Punk in Eighties Britain by Ian GlasperPRIMARILY COLLECTING THE STORIES OF OVER 140 UK PUNK BANDS FROM THE EIGHTIES WHO ONLY RELEASED EPS AND DEMOS, OR ONLY APPEARED ON COMPILATION LPS, 'A COUNTRY FIT FOR HEROES: DIY PUNK...- $34.99
$34.99- $34.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Tony Suspect
Running at the edge of their world: The Suspect Device fanzine story
'Running at the edge of their world: The Suspect Device fanzine story' by Tony and Gaz Suspect is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the U.K.'s longest running, and best loved punk fanzines. From the typewriter set, cut and paste layouts, to the illicit...- $27.99
$27.99- $27.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:William E. Spevack
Nirvana: Every Album, Every Song
Despite only being active for less than a decade and releasing just three studio albums during their short tenure, Nirvana's overwhelming musical and cultural impact on the world cannot be understated. Within such a narrow timespan, the famous trio made themselves synonymous with what...- $22.95
$22.95- $22.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Earl H. Brooks
On Rhetoric and Black Music
How Black musicians and composers used their craft to define and influence public discourse. This groundbreaking analysis examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H....- $36.99
$36.99- $36.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Kate Kennedy
Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
A cello has no language, yet it possesses a vocabulary wide enough to tell, bear witness, and make connections across time and continents--a feat brought to life in this brilliant new book. In this luminous narrative, Kate Kennedy, a writer and cellist herself, weaves...- $29.95
$29.95- $29.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Martin Hutchinson
The Stranglers: Every Album, Every Song
The Stranglers, or Meninblack, were once considered the bad boys of punk despite never really being a punk band. Formed in Guildford in 1974, they celebrate their golden anniversary as a band that have continued to tour and record throughout their history, giving us...- $22.95
$22.95- $22.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Elizabeth Amisu
The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife
An essential companion to Michael Jackson's music, films, and books, this work offers 21 original, academic essays on all things Jackson-from film, music, and dance to fashion, culture, and literature.Michael Jackson is regarded as one of the most important musicians of our time. Going...- $39.95
$39.95- $39.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Justin Patrick Moore
The Radio Phonics Laboratory: Telecommunications, Speech Synthesis and the Birth of Electronic Music
The Radio Phonics Laboratory explores the intersection of technology and creativity that shaped the sonic landscape of the 20th century. This fascinating story unravels the intricate threads of telecommunications, from the invention of the telephone to the advent of global communication networks. At the...- $20.00
$20.00- $20.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Scott Meze
Procol Harum: Every Album, Every Song
Few artists have had as great an impact with their debut single as Procol Harum. Mesmerising and perplexing in equal measure, 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' remains the perfect distillation of the possibilities of psychedelia in that brief period when British pop seemed to...- $22.95
$22.95- $22.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Sean Albiez
The Velvet Underground: What Goes On
Though The Velvet Underground were critically and commercially unsuccessful in their time, in ensuing decades they have become a constant touchstone in art rock, punk, post-punk, indie, avant pop and alternative rock. In the 1970s and 80s Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico produced...- $39.95
$39.95- $39.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Nancy Guy
Resounding Taiwan: Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant Island
This book vibrantly demonstrates how the study of music allows for identification and interpretation of the forces that form Taiwanese society, from politics and policy to reactions to and assertions of such policies. Author: Nancy GuyISBN-10: 0367529424ISBN-13: 9780367529420Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.21h...- $54.99
$54.99- $54.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Joseph R. Gibson
Vision and Voice: Critical Essays on the Impact on Black Consciousness Attributed to the Lyrics of Curtis Mayfield, Bob Marley, and Tupa
This book depicts the socio-philosophic and historic influence and impact of the lyrics of Curtis Mayfield, Bob Marley, and Tupac Shakur. My most emphasized objective is the critically conscious dissection and elucidation of the lyrical artistry created by these great men. The critical essays...- $18.99
$18.99- $18.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Robin Leaver
The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach
The Ashgate Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach provides an indispensable introduction to the Bach research of the past thirty-fifty years. It is not a lexicon providing information on all the major aspects of Bach's life and work, such as the Oxford Composer Companion:...- $56.95
$56.95- $56.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Inessa Bazayev
Analytical Approaches to 20th-Century Russian Music: Tonality, Modernism, Serialism
This volume brings together analyses of works by thirteen Russian composers from across the twentieth century, showing how their approaches to tonality, modernism, and serialism forge forward-looking paths independent from their Western counterparts. Russian music of this era is widely performed, and much research...- $51.99
$51.99- $51.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Sumangala Damodaran
The Radical Impulse: Music in the Tradition of the Indian People's Theatre Association
The period from the mid-1930s to the end of the 1950s in India saw the cultural expression of a wide range of political sentiments and positions around imperialism, fascism, nationalism, and social transformation. It was a period that covered a crucial transitional phase: from...- $40.00
$40.00- $40.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Nick Coleman
Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life
"Voices isn't just illuminating and thought-provoking and clever; it is exciting." --Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments A personal exploration of what singing means and how it works, Voices is a book about our deepest, most telling relationships with music. Nick Coleman examines the...- $26.00
$26.00- $26.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Rudi Blesh
This Is Jazz: A Series Of Lectures Given At The San Francisco Museum Of Art
This Is Jazz: A Series Of Lectures Given At The San Francisco Museum Of Art is a book written by Rudi Blesh. The book is a compilation of lectures given by Blesh at the San Francisco Museum of Art. The lectures cover the history...- $33.95
$33.95- $33.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Dave McAleer
Hit Singles: Top 20 Charts from 1954 to the Present Day
HIT SINGLES TOP 20 CHARTS FROM 1954 TO THE PRESENT DAY (US AND UK) 5TH EDITIONAuthor: Dave McAleerISBN-10: 0879308087ISBN-13: 9780879308087Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2004Pages: 508Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.47lbsSize: 9.48h x 7.96w x 1.16dReview Citation(s): Rec Ref Bks for Small/Med Libr 01/01/2006 pg. 243American Reference Bks...- $29.95
$29.95- $29.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Bruce Wexler
The History of Rock in Fifty Guitars
Popular music in the 1920s called out for a guitar sound that was more dominant. Early experiments with steel cones or resonators, Hawaiian electric guitars and the first Electric Spanish style 6-string guitar in 1936 made musicians suddenly realise that it was possible to...- $24.95
$24.95- $24.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Loren Schoenberg
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz
A concise history of jazz The noteworthy composers and musicians, from Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk to Miles Davis and Charles Mingus Major performers from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington Classic songs and compositions The most...- $24.00
$24.00- $24.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Ronald M. Radano
Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music
Author: Ronald M. RadanoISBN-10: 0226701980ISBN-13: 9780226701981Publisher: University of Chicago PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2003Pages: 417Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.24h x 5.90w x 0.97dReview Citation(s): Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1674- $44.00
$44.00- $44.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:William Kinderman
Beethoven
Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth...- $55.00
$55.00- $55.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Neal Peres Da Costa
Off Record C
Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing practices of the high Romantic era. Author and well-known keyboard player Neal Peres Da Costa bases his investigation on a range of early sound recordings (acoustic, piano roll and electric) that capture a generation...- $80.00
$80.00- $80.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Robert Gjerdingen
Music in the Galant Style C
Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a unique approach, based on a massive but little-known corpus of pedagogical workbooks used by the most influential teachers of the...- $92.00
$92.00- $92.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Darryl W. Bullock
Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music
This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from the award-winning Darryl W. Bullock.From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community....- $28.99
$28.99- $28.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Daniel Elphick
Music Behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and His Polish Contemporaries
Complements the ongoing revival of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's music and explains its unique blend of Polish and Soviet Russian influences.Author: Daniel ElphickISBN-10: 1108737765ISBN-13: 9781108737760Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2022Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.67d- $32.99
$32.99- $32.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Andrew H. Weaver
Narrative and Robert Schumann's Songs: A New Approach to the Romantic Lied
Featuring 28 music examples this book takes an innovative approach to analyzing and interpreting nineteenth-century German song, offering new perspectives on Robert Schumann's Lieder and song cycles. Robert Schumann's Lieder are among the richest and most complex songs in the repertoire and have long...- $115.00
$115.00- $115.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Marc W. Ryan
Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street
Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Milton, and James Waller-all of these musical powerhouses furthered their recording careers at a little label on once-thriving Farish Street, the historic black district of Jackson, Mississippi. These blues, gospel, and R&B all-stars are featured in Trumpet Records:...- $35.00
$35.00- $35.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Andr疽 Simonyi
Rocking Toward a Free World: When the Stratocaster Beat the Kalashnikov
From renowned diplomat and musician Andr疽 Simonyi -- whom Stephen Colbert calls "the only ambassador I know who can shred a mean guitar!" -- comes a timely and revealing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain and longing for freedom while chasing the...- $28.00
$28.00- $28.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:C. S. Fuqua
Muscle Shoals: The Hit Capital's Heyday & Beyond
From Dexter Johnson's garage studio to James Joiner's "A Fallen Star," Tune Records to FAME and Muscle Shoals Sound studios, Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones, from the beginning to present day-Muscle Shoals: The Hit Capital's Heyday & Beyond is an updated, expanded version...- $15.20
$15.20- $15.20
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Randall Thompson
College Music: An Investigation for the Association of American Colleges
""College Music: An Investigation For The Association Of American Colleges"" by Randall Thompson is a comprehensive study of the role of music in American colleges and universities. The book examines the history of music education in higher education, the current state of music programs,...- $46.95
$46.95- $46.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Church Music And Musical Life In Pennsylvania In The Eighteenth Century
""Church Music And Musical Life In Pennsylvania In The Eighteenth Century"" is a historical research book written by The Committee On Historical Research. The book explores the musical culture and practices of churches in Pennsylvania during the 1700s. It provides a detailed account of...- $27.95
$27.95- $27.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Nicolás Puyané
Liszt Recomposed: Exploring Intertextual Fluidity in Song
Explores Liszt's compositional processes and methods of revision as the product of the composer's interactions with a large variety of social, cultural, personal and political forces. Franz Liszt (1811-86) is mostly known for his virtuosic piano works, but his compositional achievements in the genre...- $115.00
$115.00- $115.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Carrie Churnside
Transitions in Mid-Baroque Music: Style, Genre and Performance
Featuring 102 music examples, this edited collection features contributions by leading scholars from the UK, United States, Australasia and Europe on what characterized the period. This collection focusses on the stylistic and cultural interchange that characterizes the musical period of the mid-Baroque (c.1650-1710). The...- $145.00
$145.00- $145.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Barbara Barry
In Time: Map-Making Strategies and Musical Journeys
'In Time' is an innovative study of classical music that integrates contemporary theory, such as problem-solving strategies (resembling map-making) with the expressive dimension of music. This integration is suggested as a metaphor for life journeys, encompassing both external experiences and internal memories within alternative...- $67.95
$67.95- $67.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author: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"...- $28.95
$28.95- $28.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:John Cage
Musicage: Cage Muses on Words * Art * Music
The entire range of John Cage's work and thought, explored in three wide-ranging dialogues, which constitute his last unified statement on his art."I was obliged to find a radical way to work -- to get at the real, at the root of the matter,"...- $29.95
$29.95- $29.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Mary Hunter
Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Among the topics explored are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French...- $39.99
$39.99- $39.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:John Kmetz
Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts
This collection of fourteen essays explores the musical culture of the German-speaking realm between c. 1450 and 1600. The essays demonstrate the important role played by German speakers in the development of instrumental music in the Renaissance, in setting patterns of musical patronage, and...- $46.99
$46.99- $46.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Kevin Karnes
Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History: Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna
More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological...- $45.99
$45.99- $45.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Javier Moreno-Luzón
Music, Words, and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era
Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era considers the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and national songs as symbolic and representative elements of the national identity of individuals, peoples, or collectivities. The volume shows that...- $139.99
$139.99- $139.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Mark Guarino
Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival
The untold story of Chicago's pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched major figures like blues legend Muddy Waters, gospel soul icon Mavis Staples, hip-hop firebrand Kanye West, and the jazz-rock band...- $20.00
$20.00- $20.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Martin Torgoff
Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs
The gripping story of the rise of early drug culture in America, from the author of the acclaimed Can't Find My Way Home With an intricate storyline that unites engaging characters and themes and reads like a novel, Bop Apocalypse details the rise of...- $32.00
$32.00- $32.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Don Michael Randel
The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians
This new compact guide to the history and performance of music is both authoritative and a pleasure to use. With entries drawn and condensed from the widely acclaimed The New Harvard Dictionary of Music and its companion The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, it...- $33.00
$33.00- $33.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Shea Serrano
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
From Sugarhill Gang to NWA to Biggie to Kanye, The Rap Year Book takes readers on a journey that begins in 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cultural and musical landscape, and works its way right up...- $25.99
$25.99- $25.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Graham McDonald
The Ukulele: An Illustrated Workshop Manual
The Ukulele is the first comprehensive book on building all styles of ukulele, from the little soprano ukuleles of 19th century Hawai'i to concert, tenor and baritone sizes. The book will lead the first-time ukulele builder through the various steps of crafting a ukulele...- $24.95
$24.95- $24.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Joe Davies
Clara Schumann Studies
Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.Author: Joe DaviesISBN-10: 1108747671ISBN-13: 9781108747677Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2023Pages: 327Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.69d- $32.99
$32.99- $32.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Robert Sholl
Messiaen in Context
Exploring the many dimensions of Messiaen's life, thought and music, this book provides fresh perspectives on the contexts within which the composer worked, the intellectual currents that influenced him, and the influence he himself exerted on twentieth-century music. It enables a holistic understanding of...- $125.00
$125.00- $125.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Franz Liszt
Twenty Original Piano Compositions
This book contains twenty original piano compositions by August Spanuth and Franz Liszt. The pieces showcase a variety of musical techniques and styles, ranging from romantic ballads to lively dances. With clear notation and detailed performance instructions, this book is a must-have for any...- $18.95
$18.95- $18.95
- Unit price
- per