Music-History & Criticism

Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution.This wide-ranging book examines the concept and...

An A-Z listing of the song discography of the British synth pop band Depeche Mode, covering the years of 1981 - 2000. This work includes a studio album discography for this time period, and a more in-depth discography that includes the four compilation albums...

This volume honors and extends the contributions of educator and scholar Dr. Michael J. Budds to the field of musicology, particularly the study of American music. As the longtime editor of two book series for the College Music Society, Budds nurtured a wide range...

In 1985, Suzanne Vega released her debut, garnering platinum status in the U.K and this New York-based singer-songwriter's self-titled album claimed the number 80 spot on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Best Albums of the Eighties. Vega began her career as an ambitious 'second wave'...

Presents a first analytical study that looks at the overarching designs of Benjamin Britten's John Donne, Thomas Hardy and William Blake solo song cycles. By questioning when a group of songs ought to be understood not merely as a collection, but as a cycle,...

INTERPOL released their debut album TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS in 2002. Fast forward twenty years to 2022 and they have released a total of seven studio albums and numerous EPs. This project simply pairs the alphabet with 26 corresponding songs from their first...

Too often the study of great composers is limited to either a musical analysis of their compositions, or biographical scrutiny of their personal lives. Yet, particularly in the case of the Romantic composers, the artistic and personal sides of their lives are not separate...

The first book-length study of musical education and culture in twentieth-century Oxford. Music has always played a central role in the life of Oxford, in both the city and university, through the great collegiate choral foundations, the many amateur choirs and instrumentalists, and the...

The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert,...

The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory. Its numerous copies of significant texts have been the focus of substantial scholarly attention to date, but the...

This volume draws together a collection of Robin A. Leaver's essays on Bach's sacred music, exploring the religious aspects of this repertoire through consideration of three core themes: liturgy, hymnology, and theology. Rooted in a rich understanding of the historical sources, the book illuminates...

Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrarais a study of the rise of music at a vital center of Italian Renaissance culture, focusing on the patrons and musicians whose efforts gave Ferrara a primary role in European music during the...

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,...

During a period of tumultuous change in English political, religious and cultural life, music signified the unspeakable presence of the divine in the world for many. What was the role of music in the early modern subject's sensory experience of divinity? While the English...

Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways. Record stores speak volumes...

Bob Dylan has constantly reinvented the persona known as "Bob Dylan," renewing the performance possibilities inherent in his songs, from acoustic folk, to electric rock and a late, hybrid style which even hints at so-called world music and Latin American tones. Then in 2016,...

This compelling survey examines the remarkable relationship between the Nazis and classical music through the stories of musicians, composers, and conductors across the political spectrum. May 1945. A Soviet military patrol searches Hitler's secret bunker in Berlin. They find bodies, documents, jewelry, paintings--and also...

A riotous, rambling and incomplete history of classical music, complete with leg measurementsAuthor: Stephen Fry, Tim LihoreauISBN-10: 0330438565ISBN-13: 9780330438568Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2005Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90d

During the early nineteenth century, the harp was transformed into a sophisticated instrument that became as popular as the piano. This was largely the result of the harp's intensive technical, musical and visual upgrading, which gradually led to the transition from the single- to...

Timbre is among the most important and the most elusive aspects of music. Visceral and immediate in its sonic properties, yet also considered sublime and ineffable, timbre finds itself caught up in metaphors: tone "color", "wet" acoustics, or in Schoenberg's words, "the illusory stuff...

This book is the first monographic study of 19th-century transcriptions of Chopin's music. The study is based on the rich source material, which formed the basis for considerations from the perspective of social history, music analysis and aesthetics. This work reveals an important document...

From humble beginnings, as they emerged pimple-popped and sweaty out of a global New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene infiltrating California in the early 80s, through to almost complete world domination, sell out tours and Billboard chart success, Metallica's story is like few...

This major new title builds out of Musical Crossroads, one of the 12 permanent exhibitions at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, to present a vibrantly illustrated exploration of 400 years of African American musical culture.Music is the great equalizer around...

The Poconos In B Flat shines a warm and loving light on the incredible jazz culture of the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Through personal interviews, the book brings to life the unique insights, observations and motivations of a group of very talented musicians -...

The study of Viennese harmonic theory has developed widely since Schoenberg educated a generation of American musicians during the 1930s and 1940s. This volume is a critical survey of primary materials: Viennese treatises on harmony, together with some unpublished material, from the late eighteenth...

Author: Andrew Grant JacksonISBN-10: 1250909937ISBN-13: 9781250909930Publisher: St. Martin's GriffinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2019Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 8.86h x 5.51w x 1.02d

A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera -- and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic...

Memoir of Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's first guitarist and manager. It was written by Scotty Moore with award-winning journalist James L. Dickerson.Author: Scotty Moore, James L. DickersonISBN-10: 194164452XISBN-13: 9781941644522Publisher: Sartoris Literary GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2018Pages: 326Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d

Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the Seventies. As the seductive focus of "T Rex", he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of classic records, but then lost his way, bingeing on cocaine and booze and apparently heading for obscurity....

The present volume includes contributions presenting a wide range of materials and methodologies, revealing a rich multiplicity of perspectives on Giuseppe Tartini's work, ideas, personality and reception history.Author: Gabriele TaschettiISBN-10: 3631869088ISBN-13: 9783631869086Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der WLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/26/2023Pages: 318Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize:...

It has become widely accepted among musicologists that medieval music is most profitably studied from interdisciplinary perspectives that situate it within broad cultural contexts. The origins of this consensus lie in a decisive reorientation of the field that began approximately four decades ago. For...

Yonkers early Hip-Hop History - ( mid/late 70's) *Solo Sounds *The BedRock Crew *Just 4 *The Serious 3 *Wheels *Jackson St *King School. *Brown Eyes *Arthur's *School 12 What most have recently begun to realize and appreciate is the hip-hop music that comes from...

Ernest Bloch left his native Switzerland to settle in the United States in 1916. One of the great twentieth-century composers, he was influenced by a range of genres and styles - Jewish, American and Swiss - and his works reflect his lifelong struggle with...

Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on the most important composers, musicians, methods, styles, and media in modernist and postmodern classical music.Author: Nicole...

Song Atlas is a unique piece of social history by a German rhythm and blues fan who traveled the United States searching for the places referred to in the great blues and rock songs he loved so much. But his investigation of place and...

An intimate history of the crooner in popular music from the 1950s to the present. In this book, Alex Coles explores the history of the crooner--someone who sings close to the mic in a soft style--in popular music from the 1950s to the present....

Describes digital musical instruments, industries that supply and promote them, and the meanings they have for musicians.Winner of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Book Award (1997)Recent innovations in musical instrument design are not simply a response to the needs...

First Floor started small. At first it was just a newsletter, an outlet where veteran electronic music journalist Shawn Reynaldo could write and share his ideas without having to contend with outside editors or cater to social media algorithms. It was a blank canvas,...

Canadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed "cowpunk," with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and frequent North American TV spots, mainstream country radio excluded lang from airplay due to her...

How does music convey meaning? The answer, known to Plato 2400 years ago, is all but forgotten. His insight, simple yet penetrating, hiding in plain sight, is almost never discussed today. In this book, the secret Plato perceived is revealed anew alongside the author's...

Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop's US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class...

The White Stripes Complete Lyrics is a deluxe new 300+ page hardbound book documenting all of Jack White's original words written for the 6x Grammy Award-winning duo he and Meg White formed in 1997 through the release of their final album in 2007. The...

This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night takes in sex, style, politics and philosophy,...

Arvo P rt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world,...

Fantasy has had a modern resurgence in cinema due largely to the success of superhero narratives and the two major fantasy series, the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Often regarded as mere escapism, works of both literature and cinema wishing to be...

George Harrison: Soul Man Vol. 1 is the first in-depth illustrated critical review of a remarkable musician, songwriter, producer and star. It maps his career from 1968 to in 1979. It places his songs in their historical, cultural and, crucially, spiritual context, and maps...

This vintage book contains a catalogue of the rare and antique violins offered for sale by the Lyon & Healy company of Chicago in 1917. For each piece there is provided an authentic photograph, as well as an expert description and other notable information....

CHILDREN OF THE BLUES - 49 MUSICIANS SHAPING A NEW BLUES TRADITION - REFERENCEAuthor: Art TipaldiISBN-10: 0879307005ISBN-13: 9780879307004Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.16h x 6.03w x 0.81d

As countries went into lockdown in 2020, people turned to music for comfort and solidarity. Neighbours sang to each other from their balconies; people participated in online music sessions that created an experience of socially distanced togetherness. Nicholas Cook argues that the value of...

REGGAE AND CARIBBEAN MUSIC: THIRD EARAuthor: Dave ThompsonISBN-10: 0879306556ISBN-13: 9780879306557Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2002Pages: 546Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.30lbsSize: 9.23h x 7.37w x 1.29dReview Citation(s): American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2003 pg. 522