Music-History & Criticism

Rock and R&B history told with original charts, tables, and timelinesA New and Concise History provides a strong foundation for understanding how music, the music industry, and American culture intersect. Ethnomusicologist Eric Charry's innovative and road-tested teaching style is brought to you in this...

One of the most important critics writing in the past 35 years, Jonathan Cott has interviewed and reviewed major artists in publishing, art, film and music, often unearthing new voices years before they're discovered by the mainstream. In Back to a Shadow in the...

Leonard B. Meyer's writings on the theory, history, perception, and aesthetics of music have inspired and provoked generations of readers. The Spheres of Music makes available a selection of his most important essays (originally published between 1974 and 1998). Gathering them together in one...

Author: Luigi GiussaniISBN-10: 1639821872ISBN-13: 9781639821877Publisher: Slant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2025Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.37d

Author: Luigi GiussaniISBN-10: 1639821880ISBN-13: 9781639821884Publisher: Slant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2025Pages: 158Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

An entertaining and deeply nostalgic dive into how female pop stars--from Britney Spears to Taylor Swift to Beyonc?--broke through the music industry in the 2000s and altered the cultural landscape forever, from the Ringer writer and co-host of the podcast Every Single Album Low-rise...

Author: Eleanor AshwoodISBN-13: 9798348288938Publisher: Eleanor AshwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2025Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Studies in Modern Music, Second Series;Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvoř?k, Johannes Brahms, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our...

For almost five decades, the band known as Riders in the Sky ("America's Favorite Cowboys") has entertained and delighted audiences in Nashville and throughout the United States with their mixture of quirky sendups of the silver-screen Western and their "faultless, evocative instrumentation, perfect harmony,...

In this thought-provoking work, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut and William Henry Gladstone explore the themes of purity and beauty in musical art. Drawing on their extensive knowledge of music theory and aesthetics, they provide a compelling argument for the importance of maintaining artistic purity...

At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities and their...

The long-awaited sequel to Andrew Ashbee's pioneering study of the life and music of John Jenkins (1592-1678). The primary focus of this second volume is Jenkins' huge output of fantasia-suites, but his vocal music also comes under examination, and a complete source-list of Jenkins'...

This volume gathers interviews with and studies of the music of Henryk Mikolaj Górecki (1933-2010). Interviews span his career (1962-2008) and studies are by Górecki scholars from Poland, the U.K., the U.S., and Australia. Chapters highlight three symphonies: the Second Copernican (Kiwala), the Third...

A Handbook of Vocal Music is a comprehensive guide written by John W. Tufts in 1896. The book is designed to provide readers with a thorough understanding of the principles and techniques of vocal music. It covers a wide range of topics, including the...

Songs And Tales From The Dark Continent is a collection of traditional African folktales and songs compiled and retold by Natalie Curtis. The book features stories and songs from various regions of Africa, including West Africa, Central Africa, and South Africa. The tales and...

Melodic Index To The Works Of Johann Sebastian Bach is a comprehensive guide to the works of the renowned German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Authored by May De Forest Payne, this book provides a detailed index of the melodies contained in Bach's works, including...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Kevin N. MollISBN-10: 113896686XISBN-13: 9781138966864Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2016Pages: 430Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.87d

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time." - Benny GoodmanSprightly swing music spills across...

Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History is a vivid account of the events that led to the "accidental" invention of the steel drum: the only acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century. Angela Smith walks readers through the evolution of the steel drum...

Trumpeter and composer Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014) was one of the most enigmatic and influential musicians in recent memory. His instantly recognisable sound was a driving force within every major innovation in modern European jazz during the last half of the 20th century. More importantly,...

In the seventies, Record Plant Studios was at the heart of the largest boom in record production in music history. With studios in New York, Los Angeles, and Sausalito, and a fleet of remote recording trucks, Record Plant was everywhere there was music. In...

Emerging from a period of protest and social unrest, 1968 was the year that ushered in gut-punching sounds that would define classic and hard rock--the formation of bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath rolled away the light sounds of psychedelic music and Flower...

Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General NonfictionParking lot rumbles, teen dance riots, and the rise of the Northwest SoundLong before the world discovered grunge, the Pacific Northwest was already home to a singular music culture. In the late 1950s, locals...

The first full-length history of the Shangri-Las, one of the most significant--and most misunderstood--pop groups of the 1960s.Sisters Mary and Betty Weiss, together with twins Mary Ann and Marguerite Ganser, were schoolgirls when they formed the Shangri-Las in 1963, and had a meteoric rise...

Reflecting on current debates in media cultural studies, this monograph develops a methodology that offers new readings of race, class, and gender paradigms. This methodology is explored in concrete case studies by applying it to popular and contemporary music video productions. The conclusion is...

Examines how stories of biblical families were reconfigured and projected in the genre of the oratorio, a form of sacred opera, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Based to a great extent on the Old Testament, the largely Catholic musical-dramatic genre was popular in...

A new history of how the musical worlds of German towns and cities were transformed during the Nazi era. In the years after the Nazis came to power in January 1933 and through the war years all aspects of life in Germany changed. However,...

Porcupine Tree began in 1987 as a solo project for Steven Wilson but became a four-piece band when Steven was later joined by Richard Barbieri, Colin Edwin, and Chris Maitland (who was later replaced by Gavin Harrison). Their first live gig was in a...

Every now and then, a band comes along that defies convention, refuses to be pigeon-holed, thumbs its nose at comfy predictability and blows raspberries at commercial wisdom. That band is Gong. From 1970 to the present day, Gong have ploughed a unique musical furrow...

This book explores intermedial compositional processes in later Byzantium, building on the Akathistos Hymnos. The relationship between the hymn's text, music, and illustrations has yet to be explored in detail. The contributions here argue that these painted cycles should be studied as a result...

This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera's performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro...

In this groundbreaking work, John B. L. Soule explores the world of polychords, and offers a new perspective on musical harmony and tonality. Through detailed analyses of works by composers like Bartok, Scriabin, and Stravinsky, Soule demonstrates how polychords can be used to create...

Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam uncovers a forgotten yet fascinating chapter on glam rock music and culture...from Canada. Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary artist Robert Dayton taps his Canadian roots to reveal mind-blowing stories of musicians fighting to be heard. It's a universal...

Experiencing Jazz, Third Edition is an integrated textbook, website, and audio anthology for jazz appreciation and history courses. Author: Richard J. Lawn, Justin G. BinekISBN-10: 1032231041ISBN-13: 9781032231044Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2024Pages: 390Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.08lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.86d

Despite the catastrophe caused by the 2005 failure of the New Orleans levee system, the biggest engineering failure in U.S. history, New Orleans was re-inhabited, rebuilt, and re-ignited with the spirit that makes it one of the world's greatest cultural gems.This book tells the...

Nick Drake was a folksy English singer/ songwriter who died at age 26 in 1974 after releasing three solo studio albums between 1969 and 1972. Those three albums accounted for only 31 of the 60+ songs/ compositions he recorded, many which appeared years later...

The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated...

This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in science and technology studies (STS), which propose that facts are neither absolute truths, nor completely relative, but emerge from an intensely collective process of...

The third volume of Vincent Lenti's history of the Eastman School of Music Nurturing the Love of Music is the third volume of Vincent Lenti's history of the Eastman School of Music, being preceded by For the Enrichment of Community Life: George Eastman and...

While music lovers from all over the world have tried to recreate the ambience of French caf s by playing music from stars such as Piaf, Tr net and Chevalier, intellectuals, sociologists and policy makers in France have been embroiled in passionate debate about...

""A Treatise On Musical Form And General Composition"" is a book written by Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley in 1875. The book provides a comprehensive guide to musical form and composition, covering topics such as harmony, melody, counterpoint, and orchestration. It is written in a...

Wotan, Siegfried, and Brunnhilde is a book written by Anna Alice Chapin and published in 1899. The book is a retelling of the famous Germanic mythological tale of the Nibelungenlied, which tells the story of the hero Siegfried, his love for the Valkyrie Brunnhilde,...

Church Chorals and Choir Studies is a book written by Richard Storrs Willis and originally published in 1850. The book is a comprehensive guide to choral singing in the context of church music. It includes a detailed history of choral music in the church,...

This guide, written by one of the foremost interpreters of early clarinet music, is intended for all clarinetists with a desire to investigate music of earlier periods. It contains practical help on both the acquisition and playing of historical clarinets, while performers on modern...

Perhaps the most widely recognized figure in folk music and one of the most well-known figures in American political activism, Pete Seeger now belongs among the icons of 20th-century American culture. The road to his current status as activist and respected voice of folk...

From the Romantic era onwards, music has been seen as the most quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time. Through its play of themes and recurrence of events, music has the ability to stylise in multiple ways...

The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whiteman and his band premiered Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Duke Ellington acknowledged his achievements. His astonishing ear for talent vaulted a...

Grounded in Charles Joyner's unique blend of rigorous scholarship and genuine curiosity, these thoughtful and incisive essays by the eminent southern historian and folklorist explore the South's extraordinary amalgam of cultural traditions. By examining the mutual influence of history and folk culture, Shared Traditions...

Compiles accounts of the Beatles by mainstream reporters, rock journalists, cultural commentators, acquaintances, and friends to trace the group's rise to stardom, unique song structure and recording techniques, embrace of psychedelic drugs and pacifism, and much more.Author: Mike EvansISBN-10: 0859653153ISBN-13: 9780859653152Publisher: Plexus PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished:...