Music-History & Criticism

The Island Book of Records brings the early years of this iconic record label to life. A fifteen-year labour of love, the volumes will fully document the analogue era of Island. Offering a comprehensive archive of album cover design and photography, together with the...

The brother and sister team of Karen and Richard Carpenter rank as one of the most successful acts in pop music history. Between the first Carpenters' album released in 1969 and their final studio album together in 1981, they achieved three Grammy awards, 18...

From his upbringing as a "red-diaper baby" among some of the leading lights of American music and Left politics, to his legendary work as bassist for the Bill Evans trio, to his collaborations with such figures as Charles Mingus and Billie Holiday, Chuck Israels...

How did a European social dance craze become part of an American presidential election? Why did the recording industry become racially divided? Where did rock 'n' roll really come from? And how do all these things continue to reverberate in today's world?In Revolutions in...

This book contextualizes a globalization process that has since ancient times involved the creation, use, and world-wide movement of song, instrumental music, musical drama, music with dance, concert, secular, popular and religious music. Integral to the process have been political, economic, military, and religious...

Jeffrey Pulver wrote numerous works on music, including Paganini, the Romantic Virtuoso, and Aids to Elementary Violin Playing. This particular work seeks to rescue and herald the English history of music, and to elevate it to the status of music found in France, Italy...

""Music And Bad Manners"" is a book written by Carl Van Vechten and first published in 1916. The book is a collection of essays that explore the intersection of music and social etiquette. Van Vechten argues that there is a strong connection between good...

Offers a major new contribution to understanding Schubert's creative approach and the gothic imagination more generally. This book illuminates Franz Schubert's engagement with gothic discourse at the intersection of music, literature and the visual arts. Ideas of the gothic provide a framework for contextualizing...

Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize A Rough Trade Book of the Year A Resident Book of the Year A Monorail Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the Year A unique journey into the legacy and afterlives of the artists...

From 1970 to 1973 Underground Press rock critic Rick McGrath interviewed, reviewed and photographed many of the musicians who visited or lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, for the alternate newspapers The Georgia Straight, The Grape and The Terminal City Express. In Straight Man Rick...

London, 1966: Paul McCartney met a group of three electronic musicians called Unit Delta Plus. McCartney was there because he had become fascinated by electronic music, and wanted to know how it was made. He was one of the first rock musicians to grasp...

In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the role of the musician, but where exactly does the listener stand in...

When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies--and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre--continue...

In the long decade between the mid-1950s and the late '60s, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time...

This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life combines orchestral repertory history with critical thought. It includes topics such as the art of orchestration, scorereading, conducting, international orchestras, recording, and becoming an orchestral musician, educator or informed listener.Author: Colin LawsonISBN-10: 0521806585ISBN-13: 9780521806589Publisher: Cambridge University...

The works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) had a major impact on the music of the 20th century, influencing a range of figures from Ravel and Stravinsky to Henri Dutilleux and Toru Takemitsu. Less well known is Debussy's influence on the popular culture of the...

The complex notion of rasa, as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa...

Author: Jamie L. ReulandISBN-10: 1009425021ISBN-13: 9781009425025Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2023Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.69d

This book explores dancing from the 1960s to the 1980s; though this period covers only twenty years, the changes during it were seismic. Nevertheless continuities can be found, and those are what this book examines. In dancing, it answers how we moved from the...

Rhythmic Studies of the Word V2 is a book written by James M. Cavaness and originally published in 1911. The book is a comprehensive guide to the study of rhythm in language and poetry. It is designed to help readers understand the principles of...

""How To Study Music"" is a comprehensive guide to learning music, written by Charles Hubert Farnsworth and first published in 1920. This book is intended for anyone who wants to study music, whether they are a beginner or an experienced musician. It covers a...

""The Violoncello: Its History, Selection, and Adjustment"" is a comprehensive guide to the history, construction, and maintenance of the violoncello, written by Arthur Broadley and originally published in 1921. The book covers the origins and evolution of the instrument, as well as the different...

Bells and Bellringers is a book written by Benjamin Lomax in 1879 that provides a comprehensive guide to the art of bell ringing. The book covers a wide range of topics related to bells and bell ringing, including the history of bells, their construction,...

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...

This book presents accounts of creative processes and contextual issues of current-day and early-twentieth century women composers. This collection of essays balances narratives of struggle, artistic prowess, and of "breaking through" the obstacles in the profession. Part I: Creative Work - Then and Now...

Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado is a book written by Robert Lawrence that provides a comprehensive overview of the popular comic opera. The Mikado is one of the most famous works of Gilbert and Sullivan, and the book delves deep into the history, background,...

""Antonio Stradivari: His Life and Work 1644-1737"" is a comprehensive biography of the famed Italian luthier, Antonio Stradivari, written by Victor Carroll Squier. The book delves into Stradivari's life and career, providing a detailed account of his upbringing, apprenticeship, and rise to prominence as...

Ballads, Folk Songs And Folk Tales From West Virginia is a collection of traditional songs and stories from the Appalachian region of the United States, compiled by Ruth Ann Musick. The book features a variety of ballads, folk songs, and folk tales that have...

""American War Ballads and Lyrics"" is a comprehensive collection of songs and ballads that chronicle the major wars in American history. The book includes works that depict the Colonial Wars, the American Revolution, the War of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the Civil...

How jazz spurred a generational debate that reshaped American culture.Author: Jacob W. HardestyISBN-10: 1438494637ISBN-13: 9781438494630Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dReview Citation(s): Choice 05/01/2024

Honorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards - Performing Arts & Music Honorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition​ Popular music has long been a powerful force for social change. Protest songs have served as anthems regarding war, racism, sexism, ecological destruction, and so many...

In All I Want Is Loving You: Popular Female Singers of the 1950s, author Steve Bergsman focuses on the white, female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. These popular performers, many of whom graduated...

In What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. Many of the singers of this era became wildly famous...

The relationship between Romanticism and film remains one of the most neglected topics in film theory and history, with analysis often focusing on the proto-cinematic significance of Richard Wagner's music-dramas. One new and interesting way of examining this relationship is by looking beyond Wagner,...

Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity. This exchange climaxed just after World War II, when a group of New York-based musicians, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and David Tudor, formed friendships with a...

Author: Ed WardISBN-10: 1665284110ISBN-13: 9781665284110Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2016Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.30lbs

Made in Germany: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary German popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of German music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music...

Where faith and music come together... An inspiring collection of scripture where music and praise for the LORD are intertwined. These contemplations reflect the joy and beauty of music's place in the Old and New Testaments.Author: Debbie BurkeISBN-10: 1687127131ISBN-13: 9781687127136Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/18/2019Pages:...

Of all pop music's icons, the Beatles have attracted more attention and generated more discussion than any other performers. The group's transformation from a semi-professional skiffle group in Liverpool to one of the twentieth century's key historical and cultural events has been told and...

Now a byword for beauty, Verdi's operas were far from universally acclaimed when they reached London in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why did some critics react so harshly? Who were they and what biases and prejudices animated them? When did their...

This collection uncovers how music criticism contributed to national and transnational preoccupations and agendas. Music Criticism in France examines the aesthetic battles that animated and informed French musical criticism during the interwar period (1918-1939). Drawing upon a rich corpus of critical writings and archival...

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...

All-new interviews with 33 of the world's leading composers--from Adams and Crumb to Guba?ulina and Rihm--give unique insights into the creative process. B疝int Andr疽 Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of...

Nadia Boulanger and Igor Stravinsky began corresponding in 1929 when Stravinsky sought someone to supervise the musical education of his younger son, Soulima. Boulanger accepted the position and began what would prove to be a warm and lasting dialogue with the Stravinsky family. For...

A defense of Schenkerian analysis of tonality in music. A wide range of music -- from Bach to Mozart and Brahms -- is marked by its use of some form of what is generally called "tonality" the tendency of music to focus melodically on...

A study on the influence which the German novelist Jean Paul Friedrich Richter had upon Robert Schumann's music. Robert Schumann frequently expressed his deep admiration for the novels of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, the late-eighteenth-century German novelist, essayist, and satirist. Schumann imitated Jean Paul's...

MICHAEL JACKSON: THE LAST DANCE Michael Jackson: The Last Dance uniquely captures the expressive power of people in motion pouring forth warm feelings of joy and condolences in praising the legendary songbird who passed June 25, 2009. While photographs capture the heartfelt sentiments from...

Music in Youth Culture examines the fantasies of post-Oedipal youth cultures as displayed on the landscape of popular music from a post-Lacanian perspective. Jan Jagodzinski, an expert on Lacan, psychoanalysis, and education's relationship to media, maintains that a new set of signifiers is required...

Although the surface thread is autobiographical, "Local DJ" is much more an interwoven narrative on Rock n Roll culture from the late 50 s through present times. Perspective is subjectively recounted by one who was both involved with and influential upon the music over...

The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s. Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop...