Music Styles category: 7119 books
Johnny's Cash and Charley's Pride
Lasting Legends and Untold Adventures in Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
-Peter Cooper, a well-respected music writer and musician, was the music writer at the Tennessean for over a decade and is now the Editor at the Country Music Hall of Fame. -The top music and radio genre in the US, the interest in country music continues to grow stronger and wider annually. -The popularity...
Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music
Performance, Authority, Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This interdisciplinary volume explores the girl’s voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers through topics that range from female vocal development during adolescence to girls’ online media culture. While girls’...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
In this book, native popular musicologists focus on their own popular music cultures from Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the first time: from subcultural to mainstream phenomena; from the 1950s to contemporary acts. Starting with an introduction and two chapters on the histories of German popular...
by Virgil Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
**An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America’s greatest composer-critic. **Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page...
Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America
Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history...
by Naomi Waltham-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In what ways is music implicated in the politics of belonging? How is the proper at stake in listening? What role does the ear play in forming a sense of community? Music and Belonging argues that music, at the level of style and form, produces certain modes of listening that in turn reveal the conditions...
Excellence in Music Ministry
An Inward Foundation For An Outward Expression
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Grammy Award winner and trumpeter, Phil Driscoll says, “Excellence in Music Ministry should be a must in the curriculum of anyone serious about pursuing their gift and calling before God. Really, if “caught,” it will change the life of any musician or singer who takes the time to read its words.”...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Beyond the familiar forms of Mississippi Delta Blues and mainstream country music, the vernacular music of the South also ranges from the ceremonial music of Native Americans, to "shout" singing in South Carolina sea islands, Cajun fiddling, and Mexican-American conjunto music. Sounds of...
Ballet Music for Exercises 5
Original Scores to the Soundtrack - Sheet Music for Your eBook
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Original Musicscores of the Soundtrack of "Ballet Music For Exercises 5", Pianomusic by Klaus Bruengel. The label "Scores &Parts" produces eBooks containing musical scores and parts. The eBooks can be effectively used on stage, with an iPad or Kindle, to read music whilst playing an Instrument. Klaus...
Doctor Sonja's Bitches Brew
A 'Telling' Journey Through Music Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
What threads could possibly stitch together wide-ranging music spaces? Here Dr. Sonja Strode tells a magical tale sewing together her links in an inter-connected world of musicians. On a music-packed journey, like Taliesin's salmon her 'telling' flips its way back and forth places in Wales, London,...
For Those Tears I Died
The Amazing Story About How One Song Brought Healing to Millions and Birthed Contemporary Christian Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
“The mother of contemporary Christian music" - Excerpt from "The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music", Sept. 2002
“She is Conservative Christianity’s worst nightmare: a Jesus-loving, Bible-believing, God-fearing lesbian Christian." - Christian Century Magazine
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The Reinvention of Religious Music
Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
On the basis of a careful analysis of Olivier Messiaen's work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. Addressing his notion of a "hyper-religious" music of sounds and colors, it aims to show that Messiaen has broken new ground. His reinvention of religious...
by Doris Leibetseder
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Why is gender inseparable from pop songs? What can gender representations in musical performances mean? Why are there strong links between gender, sexuality and popular music? The sound of the voice, the mix, the arrangement, the lyrics and images, all link our impressions of gender to music. Numerous...