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Author:Robert Nasatir
Cuban Troubadours: Nueva Trova and Contemporary Cuban Song
In this comprehensive new guide, Robert Nasatir delves into the history of Cuba's nueva trova and its legacy, providing context for the most popular songs of the past three decades.Nasatir begins his journey in 1986, a pivotal moment for Cuban music. It was in...- $19.95
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Author:Sean Egan
Rod Stewart: The Classic Years
Many have long found it difficult to take Rod Stewart seriously. However, once we get past the awkward stuff--leopard-skin leggings, bum-wiggling stage schticks, and a hairstyle unseemly for a man of his age--there remains the undeniable fact that the "Caledonian Cockney" is responsible for...- $32.95
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Author:Craig Dabelstein
Essays on the Modern Wind Band
David Whitwell is one of the most influential college band directors of the twentieth century and the author of more than forty books on music, education, history and aesthetics. In this new collection of essays, Essays on the Modern Wind Band, he provides a...- $35.00
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Author:Langston Collin Wilkins
Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town
Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston's hip hop culture. Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an exploration of how artists, audiences, music, and place...- $24.95
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Author:Craig Dabelstein
The History and Literature of the Wind Band and Wind Ensemble: The Wind Band and Wind Ensemble of the Classical Period
The Wind Band and Wind Ensem-ble of the Classical Period is the fourth vol-ume in Dr. David Whitwell's ground break-ing thir-teen vol-ume His-tory and Lit-er-a-ture of the Wind Band and Wind Ensem-ble series. Whitwell's metic-u-lous schol-ar-ship reveals the con-tin-u-ous his-tory of the wind ensem-ble,...- $35.00
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Author:Steve Parry
The Beat, General Public and Fine Young Cannibals: Every Album, Every Song
Bursting out of industrial Birmingham in the late 1970s and hitching a ride on the Two-Tone bandwagon for their first single, The English Beat answered the question of whether punk and reggae should mix better than anyone else. Their stunning first album in 1980...- $22.95
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Author:Bertrand Harris Bronson
The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, Vol 1
The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads begins where Francis Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads leaves off. Bronson has collected all available tunes for each of Child's ballads, annotated and organized them, with notes describing the history and development of each tune...- $50.00
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Author:Louis Madeira
Music in Philadelphia and the Musical Fund Society
Author: Louis MadeiraISBN-10: 1932109447ISBN-13: 9781932109443Publisher: Ross & PerryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2003Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 0.53h x 5.00w x 8.00d- $24.95
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Author:Opher Goodwin
Bob Dylan: 1962 to 1970
Bob Dylan is the magician who sprinkled poetic fairy dust on to the popular music of the early sixties and his songwriting sparked a revolution and changed rock music forever. The diminutive poet/singer claimed he was merely a 'song and dance man' but Dylan...- $22.95
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Author:Bob Stanley
The Story of the Bee Gees: Children of the World
A dazzling biography of one of the bestselling bands of all time, told with brilliant insight by renowned pop music scholar Bob Stanley. The world is full of Bee Gees fans. Yet for a band of such renown, little is known about Barry, Maurice,...- $29.95
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Author:Mark Goodall
The Beatles, or the White Album
Critical opinion on The Beatles (aka the 'White Album') in 1968 varies, the record being seen as something of a comedown after the exhilaration of the group's somewhat over-rated predecessor, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In addition, conventional wisdom holds that The Beatles...- $22.95
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Author:Rudolf Rasch
Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Improvisation is an important aspect of music, not only in jazz and other 'improvised music', but also of classical music. Pianists may add improvised interludes to their recitals and cadenzas to a concerto they perform. They may conclude their recitals by playing compositions composed...- $125.00
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Author:Merrell Fankhauser
Calling from a Star
Merrell Fankhauser has led one of the most diverse and interesting careers in music. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and moved to California when he was 13 years old. Merrell went on to become one of the innovators of surf music and psychedelic...- $20.00
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Author:Andrew Ford
Earth Dances: Music in Search of the Primitive
All music is a synthesis of intellectual design and bodily urge. The human soul cannot make do with dancing alone - it will inevitably seek more fantastic musical designs, more complex patterns, more rarefied sounds. Equally, when the intellect dominates for too long, we...- $28.99
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Author:Willi Apel
The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900 1600 (Hardback)
Author: Willi ApelISBN-10: 1849028044ISBN-13: 9781849028042Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/08/2010Pages: 518Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d- $25.99
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Author:Michael Barclay
Have Not Been the Same (Rev): The Canrock Renaissance 1985-1995
?Published in autumn 2001, Have Not Been the Same became the first book to comprehensively document the rise of Canadian underground rock between the years 1985 and 1995. It was a tumultuous decade that saw the arrival of Blue Rodeo, The Tragically Hip, Sarah...- $29.95
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Author:Titus Hjelm
Heavy Metal: Controversies and Counterculture
Heavy metal is now over 40 years old. It emerged at the tail end of the 1960s in the work of bands including Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and - most importantly - Black Sabbath. In the 1970s and...- $90.00
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Author:Friedrich Kerst
Beethoven Speaks: The Man and the Artist in His Own Words
One of the greatest of composers, Ludwig van Beethoven was also a profound and sensitive thinker. Although they are not well known, his writings and quotations about art, nature, and suffering illuminate his music, give insight into his life, and provide an uncommon wisdom...- $17.99
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Author:Duncan Heining
Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers: British Jazz, 1960-75
The 1960's was a decade of major transformation in British jazz and in British popular music in general. The British jazz scene had been, arguably, the first outside America to assert its independence. At first slowly but with gathering speed, it began to define...- $45.00
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Author:Hugo Leichtentritt
Music, History, And Ideas
This present work had it's origin in two series of twelve public lectures on music as part of the general culture, given at Harvard University between 1934 and 1935. Since these lectures this subject matter has been considerable enlarged, supplemented and concluded. Chapters include:...- $34.99
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Author:Chris Barber
Jazz Me Blues: The Autobiography of Chris Barber
Jazz trombonist Chris Barber formed his first band in the late 1940s, but it is the band that he formed in 1952 and has led continuously from 1954, after parting company with trumpeter Ken Colyer, that has established all kinds of records for success...- $29.95
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Author:Aimee Mollaghan
The Visual Music Film
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, The Visual Music Film explores the concept and expression of musicality in the visual music film, in which visual presentations are given musical attributes such as rhythmical form, structure and harmony.Author: Aimee MollaghanISBN-10: 1349578606ISBN-13: 9781349578603Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2018Pages: 216Format:...- $159.99
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Author:Olivier Urbain
Music and Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics
How far can the relationship between music and politics be used to promote a more peaceful world? That is the central question which motivates this challenging new work. Combining theory from renowned academics such as Johan Galtung, Cindy Cohen and Karen Abi-Ezzi with compelling...- $160.00
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Author:Rebecca Schmid
Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein: A Study of Influence
The first study to explore the crucial influence of Kurt Weill on operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein. Theodor Adorno famously proclaimed that the model of Kurt Weill could not be repeated. Yet Weill's stage works set an inescapable precedent for...- $135.00
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Author:Michel Delville
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism
A comparative account of the musical and cultural acts of Zappa and his cohort, collaborator and antagonist Captain Beefheart. Written in the iconoclastic spirit of Zappa's art, this book traces the mixed media experiments of California freakdom through the dada blues of Beefheart, mapping...- $38.95
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Author:Stephen Duncombe
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains.Author: Stephen DuncombeISBN-10: 1844676889ISBN-13: 9781844676880Publisher: VersoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2011Pages: 392Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.17w x 1.14dReview Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 160- $34.95
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Author:Richard James
Horslips: Every Album, Every Song
Horslips: arguably the greatest band in Irish rock music history. This five-piece band produced truly special, unique music in the 1970s. By joining literary craft and their cultural heritage with a fusion of traditionally inspired music with rock instrumentation, they created a genre of...- $22.95
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Author:Nic Ransome
Killing Joke: Every Album, Every Song
Forged in a West London fire ritual in 1979 and reborn with their original line-up in 2008, Killing Joke have been creating uncompromising music for 44 years. In addition to their incandescent self-titled debut in 1980, they have released essential albums in each of...- $22.95
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Author:Tessa Murray
Thomas Morley: Elizabethan Music Publisher
An essential book for scholars and students of renaissance music, as well as the history of music publishing and print. The Renaissance composer and organist Thomas Morley (c.1557-1602) is best known as a leading member of the English Madrigal School, but he also built...- $115.00
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Author:Claire Seymour
The Operas of Benjamin Britten: Expression and Evasion
This controversial analysis of Britten's operatic works demonstrates how he used music to explore his most private concerns. Claire Seymour examines ways in which Britten's operas explored and articulated the inherent ambiguity and latent sexuality of music, particularly song, and suggests that they may...- $37.95
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Author:Michael Dango
Madonna's Erotica
Everyone wanted Madonna's 1992 album Erotica to be a scandal. In the midst of a culture war, conservatives wanted it to be proof of the decline of family values. The target of conservative loathing, gay men reeling from the AIDS epidemic wanted it to...- $14.95
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Author:Dave Marsh
Kick Out the Jams: Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 25 Years of Music Writing
Selected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation.Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic...- $39.99
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Author:Florian Scheding
Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in Twentieth-Century Music
The displacement of European musics and musicians is a defining feature of twentieth-century music history. The displacement of European musics and musicians is a defining feature of twentieth-century music history. Musical Journeys uses vignettes of migratory moments in the works of Hanns Eisler in...- $105.00
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Author:Robert Day-Webb
Humble Pie: Every Album, Every Song
The hard-rocking British supergroup was fronted by Steve Marriott, possessor of what is generally regarded as one of the finest ever rock and blue-eyed soul voices. They achieved global success in the early 1970s and earned themselves a reputation as one of the best...- $22.95
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Author:Philip Bullock
1917 and Beyond: Continuity, Rupture and Memory in Russian Music
Long before the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 2017, scholars of Russia and the Soviet Union had questioned the notion that 1917 might constitute some kind of single, decisive rupture, whether in historiography or history itself. In particular, historians...- $20.00
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Author:Clark Tracey
The Godfather of British Jazz: The Life and Music of Stan Tracey
This is the first biography of jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey CBE (1926-2013). Drawing on personal diaries, Stan's many interviews over a career that spanned 70 years, and his own recollections of working with his father, Clark Tracey draws a picture of what...- $49.95
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Author:Tom Moore
From My Life: The Autobiography of Eduard Hanslick
From My Life is the autobiography of Eduard Hanslick, one of the most noted and honored music critics in nineteenth-century Vienna who made his mark with his relatively brief disquisition On the Musically Beautiful first issued in 1854. His highly informative autobiography has never...- $125.00
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Author:Dean Duncan
Charms That Soothe: Classical Music and the Narrative Film
From Chaplin's brilliant use of Wagner in The Gold Rush to the Bach chorale closing Scorsese's Casino, classical music has played a fascinating role in movies. Dean Duncan provides a fresh critical survey of the aesthetics of classical music in film. Exploring tensions between...- $95.00
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Author:﨩rbj鰎g Daphne Hall
Sounds Icelandic: Essays on Icelandic Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Over the past 25 years, Icelandic music has been gaining considerable international attention. This is attested to by the international success of such acts as the Sugarcubes, and then Bj鰎k as a solo artist, followed by the worldwide success of Sigur R髎, and more...- $90.00
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Author:Zohar Eitan
Highpoints
In Highpoints Zoltan Eitan investigates a universal melodic phenomenon--the melodic peak--in Western repertories ranging from eighteenth-century Galant music to twentieth-century Expressionism. Using "hard" statistical analysis, Eitan examines the rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and dynamic configurations associated with contour peaks in the music of Haydn, Chopin,...- $84.95
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Author:Michael Colen
The History of Sacramento Rap: The Rise and Fall (1982-2009)
Author: Michael ColenISBN-10: 1728882362ISBN-13: 9781728882369Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2018Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d- $13.99
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Author:Heidi Hart
Hanns Eisler's Art Songs: Arguing with Beauty
Best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler also set nineteenth-century German poetry to music that both absorbs and disturbs the Lieder tradition. This book traces Eisler's art songs (German: Kunstlieder) through twentieth-century political crises from World War I to Nazi-era...- $105.00
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Author:John Rosselli
The Life of Verdi
Verdi's long life spanned Napoleonic rule and the age of broadcasting. In this new biography, John Rosselli considers a boldly innovative artist whose twenty-eight operas still speak to us. He investigates Verdi's businesslike running of a landed estate as well as a highly successful...- $46.99
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Author:Lawrence Schenbeck
Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943
Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943 traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans' embrace of classical music around the turn of the previous century, from the collapse of Reconstruction to the death of composer/conductor R. Nathaniel Dett,...- $30.00
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Author:Jonathan Mael
Harlem World: How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever
A thrilling narrative history of how one rap battle in New York transformed American culture forever.July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America's newest art form: hip hop. In New York's Harlem World Club, the Fantastic Romantic Five and the...- $26.95
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Author:Anna Szemere
Up from the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary
What happens to a community of oppositional artists when the purpose and meaning of their opposition are undermined by social transformation? Such was the dilemma facing many underground artists in Eastern Europe following the collapse of state socialism. In Up from the Underground, Anna...- $35.95
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Author:Guy Hartopp
Paris, a Concise Musical History
Paris, the City of Light, is one of the most romantic cities in the world. The millions of visitors which flock to the French capital every year follow in the footsteps of countless artists, writers and composers who for centuries have been drawn to...- $57.00
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Author:Robert Gordon
The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical
The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and features of British musicals, which...- $54.00
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Author:Vic Hobson
Creating Jazz Counterpoint: New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues
The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the "First Man of Jazz." Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed...- $110.00
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Author:Lajoyce Brookshire
Women Behind The Mic: Curators of Pop Culture - Volume One - "Word To The Wise"
Women Behind The Mic: Curators of Pop Culture Volume One "Word To The Wise" contains the stories of 22 veteran Executives who were the engines behind the most iconic artists of all time. They are the industry "Sheroes" who quietly toiled in the trenches...- $16.99
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