Music-History & Criticism

Despite high and low brow pop culture references in their lyrics, sleeve art, and in interviews, no concise in-depth study exists of the Manic Street Preachers. This book is in some ways a response to that fact, a study of the band through one...

Don't Lose Track is a collection from the widely published arts and culture journalist, Jordannah Elizabeth. The book includes reviews, essays and interviews hand selected by Jordannah from a catalog of over 200 articles.Author: Jordannah ElizabethISBN-10: 1785351931ISBN-13: 9781785351938Publisher: Zer0 BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2016Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight:...

For more information, see http: //www.corpusmusicae.com/msd/msd_cc014.htmAuthor: James HaarISBN-10: 1595512519ISBN-13: 9781595512512Publisher: American Institute of MusicologyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1965Pages: 80Format: Hardcover

Winner of the IASPM Canada Book Prize 2019Honorable Mention for PROSE Award for Excellence in Music and the Performing Arts 2018When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and...

Niemen Enigmatic is the fourth album in the career of Czeslaw Niemen, arguably one of the greatest Polish musicians of all time (from pop and rock to jazz-rock and avant-garde). The book asks how significant was this album? How enduring is its popularity? Has...

In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral...

Fugue Analysis A Practical Guide offers a systematic approach to the analysis of fugal counterpoint, previously unavailable to scholars and students. It focuses on the tonal repertoire of the late-Baroque period, with suggestions on applicability to other repertoires. The author proposes an analytical framework...

The Science of Music by W. Baldwin is a comprehensive exploration of the scientific principles behind music. The book delves into the physics of sound, the anatomy of the human ear, and the psychology of perception to explain how music works and why it...

Based on primary sources, many of which have never been published or examined in detail, this book examines the music of the late seventeenth-century composers, Biber, Schmeltzer and Muffat, and the compositions preserved in the extensive Moravian archives in Kromeriz.Author: Charles E. BrewerISBN-10: 1138247537ISBN-13:...

The author presents a completely new, revolutionary approach towards music as the language of divinity, and towards musical performance as a way of revealing the inner, spiritual being of the listener as well as the performer. This book is of particular interest to musicians,...

It is a common misconception that it is difficult or impossible to discuss music, that a piece of music simply speaks to the listener-or not. Paul Steenhuisen, in conversation with composers, offers readers insight into the creative process, and ways of listening and entering...

Why does a harpsichord sound different from a piano? For that matter, why does middle C on a piano differ from middle C on a tuning fork, a trombone, or a flute? Good Vibrations explains in clear, friendly language the out-of-sight physics responsible not...

From its roots in the black and white "under classes" through its clash with the broader culture to its multifaceted incarnation today, rock and roll has fostered and reflected a genuine cultural revolution that has gone on to influence the world. This critical work...

Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others when speaking about music? How do we locate these meanings within particular musical styles? These are questions that have occupied Derek Scott's thoughts and driven his...

Charles Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussy's music through the lens of Bergson's philosophical perspective of durée, revealing his 'revolution' in musical time.Author: Charles FrantzISBN-10: 0367479117ISBN-13: 9780367479114Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2024Pages: 166Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

THINK ROCK is the first Music title in the THINK series. It is designed for an introduction to rock music course for the non-music major at an economical price. Taking a chronological approach, it offers a basic introduction to the key eras, performers, and...

The authentic performance of sixteenth-century music involves more than just reading the notes. The singers and musicians of the time were expected to add elaborate ornamentation according to very precise rules, but exactly how these rules should be interpreted and applied has always presented...

Music in Medieval Europe combines a cultural history of the Middle Ages and in-depth scholarship on the music and leading composers active during the period. It includes an integrated anthology of key works with approachable and enlightening explanations, making it easily accessible for both...

A dazzling archaeological journey that illuminates the unsung role of music and sound in shaping human civilization What if you could hear the history of the world through a bronze bell buried deep in the ground? Or an old terracotta pot? Or a long...

From ancient times to the present day, writers and thinkers have remarked on the unique power of music to evoke emotions, signal identity, and bond or divide entire societies, all without the benefit of literal representation. Even if we can't say precisely what our...

For much of his career, Johnny Cash opened his shows with the tagline, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." This introduction seemed unnecessary, since everyone in the audience knew who he was--the famous musical artist whose career spanned almost five decades, whose troubled life on and...

Starting from the late Renaissance, efforts to make vocal music more expressive heightened the power of words, which, in turn, gave birth to the modern semantics of musical expression. As the skepticism of seventeenth-century science divorced the acoustic properties from the metaphysical qualities of...

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is a classic in the history of American popular culture. The book tells the story of the folk music community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms and Harvard Square coffeehouses in the late 1950s to...

How music functions as a metaphor and model for democracy.Musical metaphors abound in political theory and music often accompanies political movements, yet music is seldom regarded as political communication. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy S. Love explores how music functions as metaphor and model...

The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. A large collection of recently discovered account books belonging to him and his...

Is Jazz Dead? examines the state of jazz in America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Musicians themselves are returning to New Orleans, Swing, and Bebop styles, while the work of the '60s avant-garde and even '70s and '80s jazz-rock is roundly ignored....

Music in the Age of the Renaissance, written by one of the country's leading scholars, brings to life the musical styles and genres that mark this humanistic period of artistic and scientific revolution. In his compelling treatment of how the music was developed and...

Unlike their rock 'n' roll predecessors, many rock musicians of the mid-sixties came to consider themselves as artists--self-consciously presenting themselves as creators of a new sonic medium. Sixties Rock offers a provocative look at these artists and their innovations in two pivotal rock genres:...

Since the 1950s, writing about popular music has become a staple of popular culture. Rolling Stone, Vibe, and The Source as well as music columns in major newspapers target consumers who take their consumers seriously. Until recently, no one has tackled popular music criticism...

Written by a fan, about the fans, and for the fans, this book is about Beatles fandom and excitement for the band as it continues, undiminished, in the 21st century. The author conducted nearly 100 interviews with superfans across the globe, gathering stories that...

Author: Rollie PembertonISBN-10: 0771051905ISBN-13: 9780771051906Publisher: McClelland & StewartLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2026Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.75h x 5.60w x 0.88d

As the 1980s commenced, The Bee Gees were ensnared by a fervent backlash stemming from their unparalleled late-1970s commercial halcyon. Undeserving of the anti-disco ire that came to an eruptive peak in 1979, the Gibbs found themselves embargoed from the same airwaves that propelled...

This book tells the extraordinary story of a heavy metal icon whose voice and vision helped define an era of music. From his early years in Louisiana to becoming the frontman of Pantera, the book explores the life, career, and legacy of one of...

The story of the reinvention of punk rock's most misunderstood subgenre, featuring Algernon Cadwallader, Title Fight, Modern Baseball, and the dozens of other bands who saved emo from implosion. Emo didn't start with the rise of bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical...

Volcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's music writings. Keenan has been writing about music since publishing his first fanzine, inspired by The Pastels and by Glasgow (and Airdrie's) DIY music scene, in 1988. Since then, he has written...

This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space.Author: Elke WeesjesISBN-10: 1032565470ISBN-13: 9781032565477Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Defending the Music: Michael Steinberg at the Boston Globe, 1964-1976 brings together, for the first time, some 300 selections from the more than 2,000 reviews, essays, and features written by the eminent critic and musicologist Michael Steinberg during his dozen years--from 1964 to 1976--as...

Pathbreaking study that explores the piano as an instrument of globalism, colonialism and mobility and what this meant for women pianists from around the world. This book surveys women pianists around the world. It focuses on the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, an era...

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 marked the boldest turning point in George Michael's career. Following the global phenomenon of Faith, George rejected pop superstardom and instead created an album of honesty, restraint, and timeless artistry.This book in the Iconic Albums series takes you deep...

The rousing chords and stirring message of 'Jana Gana Mana' are familiar to every Indian citizen. The song defines with clarity India's most cherished values. Composed by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, it celebrates the unity in our diverse and plural society, praises the beauty...

Step into the moment when Michael Jackson became more than a prodigy - when he transformed into a global superstar. Off the Wall (1979) wasn't just an album; it was a revolution in sound, style, and ambition. With infectious dance anthems, heartfelt ballads, and...

Author: Samantha EgeISBN-10: 1009169378ISBN-13: 9781009169370Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2026Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.69d

Who were the first giants of American rock and roll? Which songs and labels and performers drove rock's emergence and explosive growth in the mid-twentieth century? In what ways did the rhythm and blues sound created by African-American composers, singers, and musicians between the...

By carefully piecing together musical and documentary evidence, Amateur Musicians in the Nineteenth Century reveals the musicians that have so far been largely invisible in histories of music. Musical amateurs occupy an indistinct, low-status, peripheral place in musical life today. Often defined by what...

Bob Leszczak is a longtime radio personality, actor, singer, historian and author. A New Jersey native, The Answer Is: A Guide to the Lost Art of the Answer Record is Leszczak's twelfth pop culture book. "Answer Records" all but disappeared in the mid to...

A riotous look at the intersection of politics, protest, and punk--and what it means to turn to art for survival.Since its inception, punk has defied convention. Angry, unruly, and equipped with an "anti" ethos--anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian, anti-corporation, and anti-conformity--it became a rebellion bound in leather...

When Harpo Marx turned a broken piano on its side and played the harp, he wasn't inventing something new-he was reversing history. Learn how all kinds of interesting instruments were invented, plus stories like these: -Frustrated by his students' inability to learn music in...

Iconic Albums - Bob Dylan - Blonde on BlondeBy Richard WardStep into the whirlwind world of Blonde on Blonde, the groundbreaking double album that redefined the boundaries of rock, poetry, and recording itself.In this riveting exploration, music historian Richard Ward guides you through the...

From Bobby Fuller to The Monks, from The Creation to Soul Asylum, Aaron Poehler covered the most interesting corners of the music world during a time of unprecedented upheaval and change in the music industry.ENCORE: THE ANTHOLOGY OF MUSIC WRITING BY AARON POEHLER is...

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama" is a classic book, that has held significant value throughout history, and to ensure its timeless wisdom is never lost, Alpha Editions has carefully preserved it by republishing it in a modern, accessible format...