Music-History & Criticism

This book examines the BBC's campaign to raise the cultural awareness of British mass audiences in the early days of radio. As a specific case, it focuses on policies and plans behind transmissions of contemporary music between 1922, when the BBC was founded, and...

From the cinema to the recording studio to public festival grounds, the range and sonic richness of Indian cultures can be heard across the subcontinent. Sound articulates communal difference and embodies specific identities for multiple publics. This diversity of sounds has been and continues...

Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post-Elvis Era combines music and cultural history and criticism to examine how rock and the rock lifestyle have been merchandised first to a teenage audience and eventually to a worldwide consumer society. Well-known, iconoclastic writer/ critic...

Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the...

Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold is a milestone in the composer's output and in the history of music in general. It marked Wagner's return to operatic composition after a hiatus of five years, and signified his definitive break with earlier operatic conventions. It also...

A long-needed reassessment of the musical culture of fifteenth-century Bohemia, liberating it from nineteenth- and twentieth-century nationalist agendas and reassessing its position in European music history. What was musical culture like in a country in fifteenth-century Central Europe where theologians tried to restore the...

Opéra de salon emerged in the early 1850s out of a much longer tradition of théâtre de société: the cultivation of performing plays in aristocratic town houses and châteaux which continued into the Second Empire of the 1850s and 1860s, and beyond. It consisted...

Author: Tony ConradISBN-10: 047205791XISBN-13: 9780472057917Publisher: University of Michigan PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/16/2026Pages: 472Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbs

Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, and the King's Greatest MovieIn 1964, Elvis Presley lit up the silver screen in Viva Las Vegas - the dazzling MGM musical that paired him with the fiery Ann-Margret, delivered unforgettable songs, and forever tied the King...

Iconic Albums: Prince - Purple RainBy Richard WardStep into the purple haze and discover the untold story behind one of the greatest albums of all time.Prince's Purple Rain wasn't just a record-it was a revolution. Released in 1984, it shattered boundaries, redefined pop stardom,...

A detailed historical account of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, from its founding in 1815. This volume offers insights into the society's activities, performances, and its role in shaping musical culture in the United States. Explore the development of classical music appreciation...

The scene that bulldozed the path from prog and glam to punk and new wave, pub rock was a short-lived phenomenon in the U.K., emerging amidst the bloated landscape of prog rock and an increasingly oppressive economic outlook. In the U.K. in the early...

K-Pop sensation Itzy is a five member girl group. They released their first single in February 2019, and have since released numerous EPs and one studio album as of the end of 2022. This project simply pairs the alphabet with 26 songs from their...

Musical Studies, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations....

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

Author: Lit VerlagISBN-10: 3643916841ISBN-13: 9783643916846Publisher: Lit VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2024Pages: 308Format: Paperback

This book traces the trajectories of modern globalization since the late nineteenth century, and considers hegemonic cultural beliefs and practices during the various phases of the history of capitalism. It offers a way to study world popular music from the perspective of critical social...

Addressing questions about the musical life in English nunneries in the later Middle Ages, Yardley pieces together a mosaic of nunnery musical life, where even the smallest convents sang the monastic offices on a daily basis and many of the larger houses celebrated the...

Discussions surrounding music and ethical responsibility bring to mind arguments about legal ownership and purchase. Yet the many ways in which we experience music with others are usually overlooked. Musical experience and practice always involve relationships with other people, which can place limitations on...

How To Play The Harp by Clark, Melville is a comprehensive guide for beginners who want to learn how to play the harp. The book covers all the basics of playing the harp, including the different types of harps, how to choose the right...

The Theory and Practice of Tone Relations: An Elementary Course of Harmony is a book written by Percy Goetschius and originally published in 1900. This book is a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of music theory and harmony, aimed at students of music who...

The Jewish Songster is a book of Jewish music compiled by Israel Goldfarb and published in 1918. It contains a collection of traditional Jewish songs, including prayers, hymns, and folk songs, as well as modern compositions by Jewish composers. The book includes lyrics in...

The composer and music teacher John Pyke Hullah (1812-84) enjoyed considerable success with The Village Coquettes, his 1836 opera with a libretto by Charles Dickens. He is best remembered, however, for his 'singing school for schoolmasters' which he directed at London's Exeter Hall in...

Fugal invention has proved a successful line of analytical inquiry in recent studies of repertoires from Josquin to J. S. Bach. Alan Howard brings similar insights to the music of Henry Purcell, and proposes the first analytical approach to his music to examine compositional...

Steinway & Sons, the renowned piano maker, assembled an impressive collection of artworks by leading American painters, featuring portraits of great composers. This book showcases these masterpieces along with insightful and charming essays written by James Huneker, a celebrated music critic and Steinway aficionado....

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...

This book invites the art and music lover to place these two realms of creative endeavor in conversation with one another. In Looking and Listening, conductor and art connoisseur Brenda Leach explores unique pairings of well-known visual art works and musical compositions from the...

Morris Dance Tunes V9: Collected From Traditional Sources (1913) is a book written by Cecil James Sharp. The book is a collection of traditional Morris dance tunes that were collected by Sharp from various sources. The book is the ninth volume in a series...

Wye Jamison Allanbrook's The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook shows that...

Anselm Gerhard explores the origins of grand opéra, arguing that its aesthetic innovations (both musical and theatrical) reflected not bourgeois tastes, but changes in daily life and psychological outlook produced by the rapid urbanization of Paris. These larger urban and social concerns--crucial to our...

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre. Taking corporeality as an idea that unites the work of dance and theater scholars and artists, and embodiment as a negotiation of power...

Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by...

Percy Grainger was one of the most colourful of this century's cultural figures. The All-Round Man depicts that scrambling diversity through seventy-six challenging letters from Grainger's "American" years, 1914-61. These letters are fascination to read: they are cultivated "rambles" (as Grainger actually called several...

In this first full-scale study of performance practice in Haydn's keyboard music, Bernard Harrison confronts the important issues facing any performer of this repertoire, and considers some of the recurring controversial questions in broader research on Haydn's oeuvre.Author: Bernard HarrisonISBN-10: 0198163258ISBN-13: 9780198163251Publisher: Clarendon PressLanguage:...

In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of British musicians rediscovered traditional folk ballads, fusing the old melodies with rock, jazz, and blues styles to create a new genre dubbed "electric folk" or "British folk rock." This revival featured groups such as Steeleye Span,...

Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to connect the material aspects of musical instruments with their social functions, this volume brings together leading voices from new wave of research on musical instruments at the center of cultural interactions. An essential read for students, academics and general...

Author: Richard WardISBN-13: 9798264780424Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2025Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

When Black Sabbath parted ways with Ozzy in 1979, it could have all gone badly wrong for them. Instead, with Ronnie James Dio, fresh from Rainbow, they came back rejuvenised with a brace of albums which helped redefine rock and metal in the 80s....

'Sounding the Bookshelf 1501' explores how everyday texts in Renaissance Italy engaged with music, sound, and hearing. Of the 358 known editions printed in 1501, only a few contained formal music notation or specialist theory. Yet a surprising wealth of musical knowledge emerges from...

'Sounding the Bookshelf 1501' explores how everyday texts in Renaissance Italy engaged with music, sound, and hearing. Of the 358 known editions printed in 1501, only a few contained formal music notation or specialist theory. Yet a surprising wealth of musical knowledge emerges from...

Through rare access to the Violent Femmes and their archives, this book investigates the creation of such iconic songs as "Blister in the Sun", "Kiss Off", "Add it Up" and "Prove My Love", as well as the album's recording process. The self-titled debut from...

Between 1846 and 1966, in the unlikely creative world of Bartholomew County, Indiana, innovation prevailed and quality of life was pursued. We can't divorce innovation then from what is available now; . The past led to the present, and the present shapes the future....

Night Comes Down by Bob ShortIf nothing is true and Gods and Morality are banished, is everything permitted?For some, Punk was about a handful of big‐name bands who built careers fighting about their supreme importance in the general scheme of things. For most of...

A massively entertaining oral biography of the golden era of radio rock, when Journey, Boston, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Toto, and more ruled the airwaves Paul Rees' Raised on Radio is, remarkably, the first biography of AOR ("Album-Oriented Rock"), critically derided at the time but...

"Songs of the Northern Lights" guides readers into a musical exploration of the rich Baltic State musical environment. Through this book, readers discover how music functions as both a cultural foundation and an instrument of resistance in the historical contexts of Estonia, Latvia, and...

(Guitar). Introduced in 1922, the Gibson L5 is the precursor of the modern archtop guitar. It was the first archtop to feature f-holes, which allowed it to project through the horn-dominated bands of the day. Its strong, full, warm sound was an immediate and...

Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers is what author and compiler Barry Lee Pearson calls a "blues quilt." These blues stories, collected by Pearson for thirty years, are told in the blues musicians' own words. The author interviewed over one hundred musicians,...

Noted jazz scholar, biographer, and critic Stuart Nicholson has written an entertaining and enlightening consideration of the music's global past, present, and future. Jazz's emergence on the world scene coincided with America's rise as a major global power. The uniqueness of jazz's origins--America's singularly...

""Stradivari: The Violin Maker"" by Helen Tinyanova is a book that explores the life and work of Antonio Stradivari, one of the most renowned violin makers in history. The book delves into the history of Stradivari's craft, his techniques, and the instruments he created....

A Practical Introduction to Composition: Harmony Simplified (1901) is a book written by Francis L. York that provides a comprehensive guide to the basics of music composition, with a focus on harmony. The book is designed for beginners who have little or no knowledge...