Music-History & Criticism

The violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) is considered among the most influential performers in history and still maintains a strong following among violinists around the world. Dario Sarlo contributes significantly to the growing field of analytical research into recordings and the history of performance style....

Volume 7 of Beyond Salsa Bass continues our 4-volume study of the style of Alain P rez - the composer of La sandunguita, Salsa timba y amor, and Amigo Juan. P rez is one of the most talented bassists, composers and arrangers of modern...

Volume 6 of Beyond Salsa Bass begins our 4-volume study of the style of Alain P rez - the composer of La sandunguita, Salsa timba y amor, and Amigo Juan. P rez is one of the most talented bassists, composers and arrangers of modern...

The origin story of hip-hop--one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx--has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full story remains to be told. In vibrant prose, he combines never-before-used archival material...

Author: Glen HaydonISBN-10: 1258214458ISBN-13: 9781258214456Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.72d

American Negro Folk Songs is a collection of traditional African American songs compiled and edited by Newman Ivey White. The book includes over 200 songs, arranged by categories such as work songs, spirituals, and ballads. Each song is presented with its lyrics, musical notation,...

This is the tenth in a series of monographs--Shaping American Lutheran Church Music--published by the Center for Church Music, Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Illinois., highlighting people, movements, and events that have helped to shape the course of church music among Lutherans in North...

The only book of its kind, The Beatles & The Avant-Garde tells the story of the Fab Four's more aesthetically challenging material. With his trademark blend of intellectual rigor with accessibility, Beatles scholar Aaron Krerowicz explains the innovative thinking behind some of the band's...

"A chronicle of changing popular music styles and tastes as exemplified by "one-hit wonders" - focusing on the mainstream, on common musical currency, and on the often maligned"--Author: Sarah HillISBN-10: 1501368400ISBN-13: 9781501368400Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/24/2022Pages: 296Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Prince's position in popular culture has undergone only limited academic scrutiny. This book provides an academic examination of Prince, encompassing the many layers of his cultural and creative impact. It assesses Prince's life and legacy holistically, exploring his multiple identities and the ways in...

This is the first volume to mobilize encounters between the work of Gilles Deleuze and F駘ix Guattari and the rich developments in cultural studies of music and sound. The book takes seriously the intellectual and political challenge that the process philosophy of Deleuze and...

Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "The Girl from Ipanema," is not the best bossa nova record. Yet we've all heard "The Girl from Ipanema" as background music in a thousand anodyne settings, from cocktail parties...

He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during...

When Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-loving FBI agent's investigation into the murder of a small...

Is there such a thing today as music that's meaningfully new? In our contemporary era of remixing and retro styles, cynics and romantics alike cry "It's all been done before" while record labels and media outlets proclaim that everything is new. Coded into our...

The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete and the unrealizable. These seven essays on The Political Possibility of Sound...

An eclectic collection of academic articles, personal recollections, short stories, artwork, poetry and more. An anthology of work about Punk written by the survivors and by those who want the world to see not just the writings of those who were in the bands,...

Beethoven, by George Alexander Fischer, is an intimate biography of Ludwig van Beethoven and remains among the finest accounts of the great composer's life. Ludwig van Beethoven, baptised 17 December 1770 - 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure...

Chocolate Soup For Diabetics In Technicolor is a color photo gallery of some of the rarest freakbeat and psychedelic singles of the 1960's. It features artists from the famed Chocolate Soup seriesAuthor: David FurgessISBN-10: 1499727747ISBN-13: 9781499727746Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2014Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight:...

In the first place, it is not, as some suppose, a service which concerns priests alone. It is one in which all have a part: it is the heritage of all Catholics. We may say, indeed, that it has a lay origin, for the...

Expressway To Your Skull (Essential San Francisco Rock 1965-1974) takes a detailed look at the 200 best records from the San Francisco Bay Area psychedelic music scene of the mid to late 1960's. Featuring Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape...

Where did big bands and swing music go? They didn't leave. . . but many Americans actually believe they disappeared along with ballrooms, jukeboxes, bobby sox and zoot suits decades ago. Band leader Brooks Tegler, who has recreated the great music of World War...

First published in 1897, this was among the earliest works about Wagner and his works to come from outside Bayreuth and presented careful and probing analyses of both the poems and the music, touching for the first time on the essential themes and questions...

The interrelationship of music and theology is a burgeoning area of scholarship in which conceptual issues have been explored by musicologists and theologians including Jeremy Begbie, Quentin Faulkner and Jon Michael Spencer. Their important work has opened up opportunities for focussed, critical studies of...

Originally published in 1919, this guide is addressed - '.not to students and connoisseurs, but to plain simple people who like music but are a little bewildered by its complexity and by the pace at which it passes across their attention. He opens the...

A dynamic and original collection of essays on the transnational circulation and changing social meanings of Latin music across the Americas. The transcultural impact of Latin American musical forms in the United States calls for a deeper understanding of the shifting cultural meanings of...

Author: Art SimasISBN-10: 1403331588ISBN-13: 9781403331588Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2002Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The Woodstock 94 Story provides a comprehensive history of the 25th Anniversary Woodstock Music and Arts Festival which attracted an estimated 400,000 to the Winston Farm in Saugerties, New York. This history is captured in writing and by 100s of photographs by the author...

With Stanley Crouch's untimely death in 2020, American literature lost "a critic without peer" (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch--a towering stylist, fearless columnist, and without question, one of the finest jazz critics of all time--was Rabelaisian both in stature and...

With extracts from the composer's letters, writings, interviews, and broadcasts, and supported by evidence from his sketchbooks and manuscripts, Meaning and Identity in the Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett explores Tippett's intentions and argues that the experiences that triggered his creative impulses are integral...

French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900-65. French modernist composers were particularly receptive to early African-American jazz during the interwar years, and American jazz musicians, especially those concerned with modal jazz in the 1950s and early...

This book brings together an extensive and varied collection of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's written and spoken-word items for the first time. Spanning the composer's entire career, this compendium offers a balanced selection of Davies's articles and essays, speeches and lectures, interviews, radio broadcasts,...

Four of Schumann's great masterpieces of the 1830s - Carnaval, Fantasiest cke, Kreisleriana and Nachtst cke - are connected to the fiction of E. T. A. Hoffmann. In this book, John MacAuslan traces Schumann's stylistic shifts during this period to offer insights into the...

The centrality of fantasy to French literary culture has long been accepted by critics, but the sonorous dimensions of the mode and its wider implications for musical production have gone largely unexplored. In this book, Francesca Brittan invites us to listen to fantasy, attending...

Apparitions takes a new look at the critical legacy of one of the 20th century's most important and influential thinkers about music, Theodor W. Adorno. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book offers new historical and critical insights into Adorno's theories of...

The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no anthology of...

It seems self-evident that music plays more than just an aesthetic role in contemporary society. In addition, music's social, political, emancipatory, and economical functions have been the subject of much recent research. Given this, it is surprising that the subject of ethics has often...

Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music opens up a new way of thinking about the absence of women's music. It does not aim to find 'a solution' in a liberal feminist sense, but to discover new potentialities, new possibilities for thought and action....

For Olivier Messiaen, music was a way of expressing his faith. He considered it his good fortune to have been born a Catholic and declared that 'the illumination of the theological truths of the Catholic faith is the first aspect of my work, the...

How do we explain the globalized musical world in which we find ourselves in the early 21st century and how did we arrive here? This extraordinary book outlines an understanding of the human musical story as an intercultural-and ultimately a transcultural-one, with travel and...

This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and...

2017 Edition: Mark McAvoy explores the history of Cork rock music from the rise of legendary blues-rock guitarist Rory Gallagher and his successful career on the international stage, through the Finbarr Donnelly-led punk era of the 1980s, to indie legends The Frank And Walters...

George Harrison: Soul Man Vol. 2 is the companion to Vol. 1 published in February 2016. George Harrison: Soul Man Vol. 2 is an in-depth illustrated critical review of a remarkable musician, songwriter, producer and star. It maps his career from 1981 to the...

Informative. Smart. Outrageous. Outlaw Academic is Lawrence Russell's latest collection of reminiscences & reviews & rants from his 30 years as a playwright, novelist, rock musician, creative writing professor & audio magazine publisher in Victoria, BC, Canada... What can you expect? A swag bag...

The first analytical study of the pioneering English musician. The historian, Paul Sutton begins by taking the reader through a vastly entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to "a delta of Mississippi mud from where howled the first harmonica,...

The Beatles "Get Back"/"Let It Be" sessions and the resulting unreleased and released albums and bootlegged recordings are among the most interesting and confusing aspects of the Beatles recorded legacy. Bruce Spizer's fourth installment in his Beatles album series, The Beatles Finally Let It...

In Why Don't We Do It In The Road? the author looks back to the 1960s and the global phenomenon surrounding four young men from Liverpool . . .The names and the songs are well known, but the "why?" is more difficult to locate...

Written in Williams' "warm, relaxed, chatty style" ("The New York Times"), this book is a veritable portable jukebox of rock and roll and the stories behind the songs. "(Williams is) one of the most original thinkers and writers working within the dimension of rock....

Elvis Presley was never accused of a crime, but for years the FBI kept a file on Presley because of the crimes that went on in the background of his world: death threats made against him; a major extortion attempt while he was in...