Music-History & Criticism

The Harvard Song Book is a collection of songs compiled by the Harvard Glee Club and first published in 1922. This book contains over 100 songs, including traditional Harvard songs, popular tunes, and patriotic songs. The songs are arranged for four-part harmony, making them...

Old Plantation Hymns is a book that contains a collection of previously unpublished melodies that were sung by slaves and free African Americans in the Southern United States during the 19th century. The book is compiled by William E. Barton and includes historical and...

A century after his death Anton Bruckner still remains one of the most complex and enigmatic creative personalities of the nineteenth century. A leading avant-garde figure of his generation, he was an accomplished performer and teacher in addition to being a great composer; few...

Discovering Music: A Course in Music Appreciation is a comprehensive guide to understanding and appreciating music. Written by Howard D. McKinney, a renowned music educator and composer, this book is designed to help readers develop a deeper understanding of music and its role in...

*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingLouis Armstrong once claimed that "Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine-I look right in the heart of good old New Orleans...It has given me something to live for." This statement...

The German Requiem is Brahms' largest work, written for orchestra, chorus and two soloists. It made Brahms an international name, and the scope and technique of the composition brought him not only a new audience but also comparison with Bach and Beethoven. In the...

This book, a milestone in American music scholarship, is the first to take a close look at an important and little-studied component of African American music, one that has roots in Europe, but was adapted by African American congregations and went on to have...

One of the most beloved film musicals of all time, The Wizard of Oz represents an enduring family favorite and cultural classic. Yet there is much more to the story than meets the eye, and the MGM movie is just one of many ways...

Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of styles. But...

In 1947, when Ahmet Ertegun and two fellow music fans started Atlantic Records in New York City, they never could have known that their passion for discovering artists and making records would shape 75 years of popular culture. The reason for such tremendous global...

The early decades of American popular music are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music -- black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude -- made it onto records for all to...

This book studies how the complex relationship between music, the avant-garde, and counterculture challenges all sorts of boundaries. By exploring the avant-garde as a thoughtful inquiry into experimentation, creativity, and originality, we bring to the fore the "invisible republics" of culture, the ephemeral, the...

Einstein A Go-Go is the legendary all-ages live music and dance club in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, that became a celebrated clubhouse of sorts for thousands of young people from 1985-1997. Emerging acts at the time such as Nirvana, The Replacements, 10,000 Maniacs, The Cranberries,...

John Cale's enigmatic masterpiece, Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever. It was 1973, the year of the Watergate hearings and the oil crisis, and Cale was at a crossroads. The white-hot rage of his Velvet...

THE BEATLES DISCOGRAPHY - THE RELEASES presents the Beatles recorded legacy like never before, with US and UK releases side by side, with important releases from Germany, France and more. Plus their solo efforts in the same chronological listings, complete with release dates, record...

THE BEATLES DISCOGRAPHY - THE RELEASES presents the Beatles recorded legacy like never before, with US and UK releases side by side, with important releases from Germany, France and more. Plus their solo efforts in the same chronological listings, complete with release dates, record...

Conceived and first composed on her laptop at home, with some vocals recorded in her bathroom, Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two is lo-fi and highly sophisticated-exquisitely analog and experimentally techy. It begins with a radio signal tuning in, and it asks its listener...

Radiohead is among the few bands in contemporary popular music that have combined considerable commercial success with widely recognized artistic significance. In an epoch in which reflection on technological change is paramount in every discipline and field of research, its connection to music stands...

Few artists can legitimately claim to have created truly groundbreaking popular music, but Talking Heads is one of them. Like Elvis, the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Radiohead (who took their name from a Talking Heads song), Talking Heads recorded some of the most memorable...

Written by Gary Lachman, who, as Gary Valentine, was an original member of Blondie, this fold-out map and guide draws on his firsthand experiences. It offers an insider's view of the clubs, streets, and landmarks that defined New York's underground music scene between 1974...

An in-depth look at the rise of enigmatic Australian rock band TISM, the unexpected success of their 1995 album, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, and the continued trajectory of their storied career. Focusing on one of Australia's most enigmatic bands, This Is Serious Mum...

An in-depth look at the rise of enigmatic Australian rock band TISM, the unexpected success of their 1995 album, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, and the continued trajectory of their storied career. Focusing on one of Australia's most enigmatic bands, This Is Serious Mum...

Capturing a fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches has enthralled listeners for decades. Since I Left You has a reputation amongst its advocates...

A study of John Sangster's jazz suite Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s. At more than 6 LP recordings, the Lord of the Rings suite, produced during the 1970s, based on the Tolkien books,...

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches.Since I Left You has a reputation amongst its advocates that exceeds those of nearly all...

Examining the cultural significance of the rap album Jarmark (2020) as a reflection of Polish politics and history during the country's populist turn and migration following EU enlargement. Taco Hemingway is the first Polish artist to be streamed a billion times on Spotify. His...

Examining the cultural significance of the rap album Jarmark (2020) as a reflection of Polish politics and history during the country's populist turn and migration following EU enlargement. Taco Hemingway is the first Polish artist to be streamed a billion times on Spotify. His...

This book reviews the 13 songs of Coke Studio's 14th season and highlights how those innovations resulted in a successful reboot of the show. In a country fraught with political instability and violence, the television show Coke Studio serves as a beacon of hope...

This book reviews the 13 songs of Coke Studio's 14th season and highlights how those innovations resulted in a successful reboot of the show. In a country fraught with political instability and violence, the television show Coke Studio serves as a beacon of hope...

This book reassesses the place of politics and emotion within Romantic music aesthetics. Drawing together insights from the history of emotions, cultural history, and studies of philosophical idealism, 'affective relationality' - the channelling of emotion through music's social and cultural synergies - emerges as...

Musician and rapper Mac Miller, who sadly passed away in September 2018 at the age of 26, left behind a vast amount of recorded material. In addition to his own credited projects, he was a guest/ "featured artist" on over 60 other projects during...

Gregorian Music - An Outline of Musical Palaeography is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres....

OK! THE STORY OF OKLAHOMA! A CELEBRATION OF AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED MUSICAL.Author: Max WilkISBN-10: 1557835551ISBN-13: 9781557835550Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/BloomsburyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2002Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.06h x 7.10w x 0.73d

Famous Violinists And Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, And Reminiscences (1903) by Thomas Lamb Phipson is a comprehensive exploration of the world of violinists and violins. The book delves into the history of the instrument, tracing its development and evolution from its earliest days...

A Manual of Counterpoint is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of counterpoint, written by Theodore Baker. Published in 1887, this book is designed to serve as a sequel to Professor Oscar Paul's Manual of Harmony. The book covers a range of...

This work is a comprehensive treatment of the music of Biblical and early Talmudic times. It is thoroughly documented, setting forth the origins, forms and ethos of Hebrew music. It draws upon the most recent archaeological discoveries and contemporary Biblical research, dealing not only...

A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote...

Mahler's Third Symphony was conceived as a musical picture of the natural world. This handbook describes the composition of Mahler's grandiose piece of philosophical program music in the context of the ideas that inspired it and the artistic debates and social conflicts that it...

This Life of Sounds portrays an important and previously unexplored corner of the history of new music in America: the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts int eh State University of New York at Buffalo. Composers Lukas Foss (the Center's founder), Lejaren Hiller,...

The People and the Music: Country and Bluegrass, that is! is a first-hand look at how the music business has been conducted, and the people involved each day, on 16th & 17th Avenues South (now known as Music Row or Music Block) in Nashville,...

From the Seattle streets to studio beats.In the early 1980s, a subterranean shift in Seattle's music scene began. Disco's reign over parties and dance clubs faded, and hip-hop became the new attraction. A generation of young musicians emerged, and local rappers catapulted the genre...

Capitol Records brought the Beatles to America and the Beach Boys to the world, and, with its iconic Hollywood tower, was also home to Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. This epic photographic and musical history is the official account of Capitol Records, featuring...

A love letter to the sonic maelstrom that is noise rock, From Chaos to Ambiguity charts a path of exploration through a fertile but often ignored genre of music, tracing its history through roots in both punk and no wave, into the full fruition...

Highlighting the diversity of musical practice that flows though Australia, this book places the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at its heart. It presents the latest research alongside perspectives of current creative artists, whilst acknowledging the fluid nature of music, and...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up to the 1960s counterculture movement. Few cities represent the countercultural movement of the 1960s...

A study of John Sangster's jazz suite The Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s. In three volumes and more than six LP recordings, The Lord of the Rings suite, produced during the 1970s, based...

Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism offers a clear, hands-on guide for emerging music critics that brings together aesthetics, critical theory, and practical music criticism in an accessible format. Over the course of the book, readers develop a vocabulary and framework...

Establishing an intersection between the fields of traditional music studies, English folk music history and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari, this book responds to the problematic emphasis on cultural identity in the way traditional music is understood and valued. Author: Joseph...

Author: Robert F. WatersISBN-10: 1107628067ISBN-13: 9781107628069Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2023Pages: 277Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

The original edition of Beyond and Before extends an understanding of "progressive rock" by providing a fuller definition of what progressive rock is, was and can be. Called by Record Collector "the most accomplished critical overview yet" of progressive rock and one of their...