Music-History & Criticism

Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival is the first book to explore in depth the lives and song traditions of two of the most influential English traditional singers: Sam Larner and Harry Cox.Larner and Cox were born in late nineteenth-century Norfolk, within...

A sixty-year history of Afro-South Asian musical collaborations From Beyonc 's South Asian music-inspired Super Bowl Halftime performance, to jazz artists like John and Alice Coltrane's use of Indian song structures and spirituality in their work, to Jay-Z and Missy Elliott's high-profile collaborations with...

Music theorists labelled the musical art of the 1330s and 1340s as 'new' and 'modern'. A close reading of writings on music theory and the polyphonic repertory from the first half of the fourteenth century reveals a modern musical art that arose due to...

Back by popular demand in a new paperback edition, Punk is Dead exposes the lasting impact of punk on visual culture worldwide. Hundreds of flyers, photos, set lists, vintage fashions and other ephemera from all of your favorite bands are jammed into this menacing...

A comprehensive look-and once dubious and loving-at one of the most important rock 'n' roll bands since the Beatles.Author: Dan CaffreyISBN-10: 161713712XISBN-13: 9781617137129Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2021Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d

The second woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University-and the first from south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do so-Kentucky native Katherine Jackson French broke boundaries. Her research kick-started a resurgence of Appalachian music that continues to this day, but French's collection of...

This unique volume is the only book solely about antebellum American fiddling. It includes more than 250 easy-to-read and clearly notated fiddle tunes alongside biographies of fiddlers and careful analysis of their personal tune collections. The reader learns what the tunes of the day...

How the Chinese pop of the 1960s participated in a global musical revolution What did Mao's China have to do with the music of youth revolt in the 1960s? And how did the mambo, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan sound on the front lines...

Why couldn't Schubert get his 'great' C-Major Symphony performed? Why was he the first composer to consistently write four movements for his piano sonatas? Since neither Schubert's nor Beethoven's piano sonatas were ever performed in public, who did hear them? Addressing these questions and...

Presenting a fresh approach to French organ music, David Ponsford analyses the repertory from the reign of Louis XIV by genre. The colourful French organ was so consistent in design that the very titles of pieces that were constituent parts of organ masses, Magnificats...

Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental - 'music's only form'. This incongruity testifies to the surprising difficulties during the nineteenth century of conceptualizing melody. Despite its indispensable place in opera,...

This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic notation from reconstructed origins, through various adaptations necessitated by changing musical styles and newly invented instruments, to...

Pop Music: Our Most Influential Laboratory for Social and Aesthetic Experimentation--Changing the World Three Minutes at a Time Named a Must-Read by Vanity Fair and the BBC as well as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly In Love for Sale: Pop...

""Everybody's Guide to Music"" is a comprehensive guidebook for music lovers, published in 1893 by author Josiah Booth. The book contains illustrated chapters on singing and voice cultivation, as well as full and explicit instructions for playing the piano and organ. It is designed...

Music in the Classical World: Genre, Culture, and History provides a broad sociocultural and historical perspective of the music of the Classical Period as it relates to the world in which it was created. It establishes a background on the time span-1725 to 1815-offering...

Innovation in Music: Performance, Production, Technology and Business is an exciting collection comprising of cutting-edge articles on a range of topics, presented under the main themes of artistry, technology, production and industry. Each chapter is written by a leader in the field and contains...

Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world. Listening to Rap: An Introduction enables students to understand the historical context, cultural impact, and unique musical...

The major objective of this collection of 28 essays is to analyze the trends, musical formats, and rhetorical devices used in popular music to illuminate the human condition. By comparing and contrasting musical offerings in a number of countries and in different contexts from...

Focus: Music of the Caribbean presents the most important issues of Caribbean musical history and current practice, discussing thought-provoking questions in a student-friendly fashion. It uses current ethnomusicological research on Caribbean music to tell the stories of Caribbean history-those of colonialism and neocolonialism, race...

This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.Author: E. UptonISBN-10: 113727770XISBN-13: 9781137277701Publisher: Palgrave...

The writer, composer and organist Thomas Busby (1754-1838) was originally articled to the composer Jonathan Battishill before setting out to make his living from both musical and literary labours. His compositions (many now lost) include songs, theatre music and oratorios. His written output comprised...

While acknowledging that Pierre Boulez is not a philosopher, and that he is wary of the potential misuse of philosophy with regard to music, this study investigates a series of philosophically charged terms and concepts which he uses in discussion of his music. Campbell...

Schoenberg is often viewed as an isolated composer who was ill-at-ease in exile. In this book Kenneth H. Marcus shows that in fact Schoenberg's connections to Hollywood ran deep, and most of the composer's exile compositions had some connection to the cultural and intellectual...

New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School, ' through a wealth of primary sources and analytical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subsequent collapse of...

In eighteenth-century Germany the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of its proportions still held philosophical, moral and devotional significance. Reproducing proportions close to the unity (1:1) across compositions could render them beautiful, perfect and even eternal. Using the principles of her...

Mozart's greatest works were written in Vienna in the decade before his death (1781-1791). This biography focuses on Mozart's dual roles as a performer and composer and reveals how his compositional processes are affected by performance-related concerns. It traces consistencies and changes in Mozart's...

In eighteenth-century Germany the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of its proportions still held philosophical, moral and devotional significance. Reproducing proportions close to the unity (1:1) across compositions could render them beautiful, perfect and even eternal. Using the principles of her...

Music criticism has played a fundamental and influential role throughout music history, with numerous composers such as Berlioz, Schumann, and Wagner, as well as many contemporary musicians, also maintaining careers as writers and critics. The Cambridge History of Music Criticism goes beyond these better-known...

A DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF CANADIAN POPULAR MUSIC BY RITCHIE YORKE ONE OF ITS PIONEERING FORCES During the 70s, rock music represented one of Canada's fastest growing industries. Her artists, composers and producers were establishing themselves at the top of the pop music world. Hot...

Beatlemania swept across North America when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr appeared on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' in February, 1964. The decade of the 1960s seemed to change overnight from black and white to color as a generation fell under...

A major resource for new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century, the acclaimed Arcana series looks at the inner workings of the artistic process through manifestoes, scores, interviews, notes and critical papers written by the practitioners themselves, providing insight into the work,...

Author: Paul WilliamsISBN-10: 0934558361ISBN-13: 9780934558365Publisher: Entwhistle BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1993Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.55h x 5.55w x 0.62d

Author: Kim Jong IlISBN-10: 0898752035ISBN-13: 9780898752038Publisher: University Press of the PacificLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.00w x 0.47d

GREATEST MUSIC NEVER SOLD: SECRETS OF LEGENDARY LOST ALBUMSAuthor: Dan LeroyISBN-10: 0879309059ISBN-13: 9780879309053Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2007Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.16h x 6.16w x 0.67d

TABOO TUNES A HISTORY OF BANNED BANDS & CENSORED SONGSAuthor: Peter BlechaISBN-10: 0879307927ISBN-13: 9780879307929Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2004Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.50d

45 RPM THE HISTORY AND THE VILLIANS OF A POP MUSIC REVOLUTIONAuthor: Jim DawsonISBN-10: 0879307579ISBN-13: 9780879307578Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2003Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.22h x 7.36w x 0.45d

BEBOP, INFLUENTIAL GROUPS, GREAT MUSICIANSAuthor: Scott YanowISBN-10: 0879306084ISBN-13: 9780879306083Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2000Pages: 402Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.77lbsSize: 9.22h x 7.42w x 1.13dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 11/15/2000 pg. 26

Singing Jazz looks at the ups and downs of this tough profession through the eyes of legendary jazz singers, well-established performers, and some newcomers. Drawing on accounts from vocalists of yesterday and today in all major jazz styles, the book explores the musical influences...

This book relays the complete history of gospel music, paying special attention to the relationship between gospel and other African American musical forms in America such as jazz and R&B. It discusses specific gospel music singers as well as the world of the gospel...

Author: FloydISBN-10: 0870498002ISBN-13: 9780870498008Publisher: Univ Tennessee PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/1993Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.07w x 0.53d

The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive only if there are gifted listeners. But today's listeners must choose between classical and rock, opera and rap, and the choices...

The punk explosion of the mid-1970s unleashed an amazing wave of creativity, both musically and graphically. As punk's DIY, cut-and-paste ingenuity gave rise to groundbreaking designers like Jamie Reid and Neville Brody, the picture sleeve became an essential aspect of any new single. Featuring...

In this biography of the Ramones, Dick Porter tells the story of one of the most important bands ever, fashioning a punk rock history in the process. The book covers the Ramones' residency at CBGB's and the New York punk scene, and relates all...

An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present Marcel Duchamp famously championed a "non-retinal" visual art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty. In the Blink of an Ear is the first book to ask why the sonic arts did...

Composers often write pieces in highly contrasting moods in very close proximity. But no composer took this process further than Beethoven. His famous Fifth Symphony, with an opening any child knows, became the standard for the Romantic, tragedy to triumph, "victory symphony." The sunny...

To absorb Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash is to be taken on a wild voyage with a cast of downtrodden revolutionaries. Despite this notion, the epic themes of the Pogues' second full length record have been overlooked by both critics and biographers in favor...

Noise/Music looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and glitch electronica of today. It situates different musics in their cultural and historical context, and analyses them in terms of cultural...

Text and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll explores the interaction between two of the most powerful socio-cultural movements in the post-war years - the literary forces of the Beat Generation and the musical energies of rock and its attendant culture.Simon Warner examines the interweaving strands, seeded...

(Music Sales America). The final volume in Frederick Noad's Guitar Anthology series brings us up to the Romantic period, with works by Jose Ferrer, Napoleon Coste, Francisco Tarrega, and many more. Audio demos available online. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside...

Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s...