Music-History & Criticism

Although hip hop is now a well-established global music genre and cultural form, its history and current impact have not yet been sufficiently studied. The interdisciplinary contributions to this volume address hip hop's historical and regional struggles for representation of race, gender, generation, place,...

PROSE AWARDS MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS FINALIST 2024 YouTube has afforded new ways of documenting, performing and circulating musical creativity. This first open access sustained exploration of YouTube and music shows how record companies, musicians and amateur users have embraced YouTube's potential to promote...

This book focuses on the 'dark side' of popular music by examining the ways in which popular music has been deployed in association with violence. Cloonan and Johnson address the physiological and cognitive foundations of sounding/hearing and provide a historical survey of examples of...

Sheet music for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major, K. 282. Reprinted from the "Breitkopf & Härtel" edition.Author: Samwise Publishing, Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN-10: 1503342247ISBN-13: 9781503342248Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2014Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.07d

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...

The scholar Robin A. Leaver holds a unique place in sacred music scholarship because of his training in both music and theology. He has written widely, bringing acute insights on a variety of musical repertories and topics related to Martin Luther, sixteenth-century psalmody, hymnody,...

Composers of serial music in post-war Europe wrote almost as much about music as the music itself, but the relationship between theory and practice in the work of key figures like Stockhausen, Eimert, Pousseur and Schnebel has often been misrepresented. Focusing on the controversial...

Asserting that hip hop culture has become another locus of postmodernity, Osumare explores the intricacies of this phenomenon from the beginning of the Twenty-First century, tracing the aesthetic and socio-political path of the currency of hip hop across the globe.Author: H. OsumareISBN-10: 0230609619ISBN-13: 9780230609617Publisher:...

William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "last card," explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career. This book offers a reassessment of the ideological and political...

Author: Tim RileyISBN-10: 1401324525ISBN-13: 9781401324520Publisher: Hachette BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2011Pages: 784Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.60lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.50w x 2.10dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/11/2011Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2011Booklist 09/01/2011 pg. 26New York Times Book Review 10/09/2011 pg. 18Kirkus Best Books 12/01/2011 pg. 2207

A massive full-colour book recounting the coming of age of heavy metal and hardcore in West Flanders through never before published stories, photos and memorabilia. The organisers, eyewitnesses and band members tell how the slumbering province of West Flanders experienced its rude awakening -...

The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In The Tenderness of Silent Minds, Martha C. Nussbaum, a leading thinker on emotion, morality, and justice, conducts a pioneering...

Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre explores jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchange, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicians, composers, bands, groups, albums, and songs. Rather than focusing on jazz as as solely as an American...

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...

The nature of musical performance has intrigued researchers for a long time. This book explores the contributions and limitations of some of these approaches, be it theoretical, cultural, historical, perceptual, or analytical. Through a detailed investigation of recent recordings of J. S. Bach's 6...

Written by a group of dedicated flamenco enthusiasts, this book traces the history and development of flamenco, the stirring form of folk dance created by the gypsies of the Andalusian region of Spain in the 19th century and still popular today.Author: Claus SchreinerISBN-10: 1574670131ISBN-13:...

The Language of the Modes provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. The volume codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. For...

Thomas Hastings (1784-1872) is generally remembered as a compiler and composer of hymn tunes and anthems, but rarely is he spoken of as a prolific writer of hymn texts. Nor do many people refer to Hastings as an author, even though he penned several...

Pierrot lunaire (1912) is one of the most important music theatre works ever written. This is the first guide in English to a work which continues to be performed, broadcast and recorded worldwide.The book describes the cultural environment around the turn of the century...

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary globalized musical culture has become ubiquitous and unremarkable, its fascinating origins long predate the internet era. In Music and...

This volume presents a comprehensive history of violin performance against the background of the violin's evolution and the music written for it. Boyden focuses on the techniques of violin playing in centuries past, and discusses such practical questions as the development of bowing disciplines,...

Demonstrates that the concept of genius is as vitally needed as ever and can illuminate the workings of Mozart's creative imagination. Much recent, distinguished Mozart criticism has set out a critique of the concept of genius. Whether following the scientist seeking greater objectivity, the...

Country music star Blake Shelton has released twelve studio albums as of 2022. This project simply pairs the alphabet with 26 songs from his studio album/ EP discography from the time period of 2010 - 2014. He started off the decade with the release...

Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement form that is itself organized as a sonata form. Drawing on a variety of historical and recent approaches to musical form...

Gritty City is a love letter to Winnipeg, a prairie metropolis born out of rebellion, a river city marooned in the middle of a continent. Maybe there is something in the water that makes us different... Gritty City is the first book to tackle...

Lawrence Schulman's second book for BearManor Media includes all of his non-Garland writings, save three, between 2000 and 2024, on a whole host of other artists and authors, including Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Mildred Bailey, Patsy Cline, Bernard Herrmann, among others. With a Foreword...

In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of Black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a vanguard of Black women singers including Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel...

Music has been significant in social, religious, and political ritual, and in education, art, and entertainment in all human cultures from antiquity to today. The Cultural History of Western Music presents the first study of music in all its forms - ritual, classical, popular...

In recent years Gian Francesco Malipiero has been recognised increasingly widely as one of the most original and strangely fascinating Italian composers of the early 20th century. He was the teacher of Maderna and Nono, and was revered by (among many others) Dallapiccola, who...

In The Gaithers and Southern Gospel, Ryan P. Harper examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither's Homecoming video and concert series--a gospel music franchise that, since its beginning in 1991, has outperformed all Christian and much secular popular music on the American music market. The...

""Singing and Playing: The Beginners' Book of the Oxford Piano Course for Class and Individual Instruction"" by Ernest Schelling is a comprehensive guide for beginners to learn how to play the piano. The book is designed to be used in both group and individual...

Of all the creative industries, the most distinct link between drug use and creativity lies within music. The two elements seem to be intertwined, inseparable; that mythical phrase "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" has been bandied about with a wink and a grin...

In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music's most dramatic genre. Extending his ongoing project of clarifying music's various roles in Western society, Kramer brings to opera his distinctive and pioneering...

The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music provides a significant contribution to the research and history of Spanish film music, exploring the interdependence and ways in which discourses of sound and vision are constructed dialogically in Spanish cinema, with contributions from leading international researchers.Author:...

Music Through the Ages is intended to help musicians, music students, and music lovers understand how the history of Western music has spanned since documented history has been in existence, the different genres as they developed over time, what each development has led to,...

Edmund Rubbra's music has given him a reputation as a 'spiritual' composer, who had an interest in Eastern thought, and a mid-life conversion to Roman Catholicism. Author: Lucinda CradduckISBN-10: 0367635380ISBN-13: 9780367635381Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2024Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR - WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS - Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction - A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory...

From Confucius to Saint Augustine and Beethoven to the blues, a rediscovery of the joy that is music In this revelatory book, Daniel K. L. Chua asks a simple question: Is music joy? For Chua, the answer is a resounding yes--music is a lesson...

The definitive and fascinating biography of the musical trailblazer who wrote the classic "Blue Suede Shoes" and was the influence behind countless other legendary hits, a rock and roll legend in his own right, and the original rockabilly cat--Carl Perkins. He was the King...

Pressure Drop chronicles reggae's most tumultuous and influential decade. Beginning in 1970 and unfolding both in Britain and Jamaica, reggae flourished against a backdrop of political upheaval, gang warfare, Black Nationalism, racial and class discrimination and grinding poverty. The music that developed as rocksteady...

From lullabies to songs for the dying, Why We Sing is a fascinating exploration of singing in all its varied forms, from the personal perspective of Julia Hollander, song therapist, teacher and performer. As a singing therapist, teacher and performer, Julia Hollander is in...

While New Wave pop music was dominating the charts in the early 1980s, one band made up of a trio of throwback-loving musicians from the suburbs of Massapequa, Long Island--guitarist/singer Brian Setzer, drummer Slim Jim Phantom, and bassist Lee Rocker--returned rockabilly to the international...

Music and sound studies have increasingly turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought in recent years, raising new questions about the forms and circulation of cultural, technological, political, and military power as manifest in and through sound. However, most of this...

In the vast ocean of electronic music genres, Jersey Club music stands out as a rhythmic force that originated from the streets of Newark, New Jersey, in the early 2010s. Born out of a fusion of Baltimore Club, hip-hop, and house music, Jersey Club...

Joseph Haydn was a prolific genius and a pivotal figure in the history of music. This lively and well-written biography-primarily written for the general public-outlines his life and achievements in an engaging and reliable manner. It will appeal to devotees of Haydn's inventive and...

The book "" Garcia the Centenarian and His Times; Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made...

What does it mean for poetry and music to turn to each other in the shadow of the Holocaust, as means of aesthetic self-reflection? How can their mutual mirroring, of such paramount importance to German Romanticism, be reconfigured to retain its validity after the...

"Too frequently a multi-author work on a composer obscures rather than illuminates its subject. This volume casts a genuinely prismatic light upon it."R.J. Stove, The New Criterion "An Anniversary Portrait succeeds in offering a sufficient yet panoramic view of Elgar's life and music. The...

When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. Leonard Feather, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said "no other writer now living can write with comparable grace and equal enthusiasm about everyone from Jack Teagarden...

In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context...