Music Styles category: 7119 books
Mondo Exotica
Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them—Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age and Cold War period as well as the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design. The music journalist and radio...
Emotions in Jewish Music
Personal and Scholarly Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Emotions in Jewish Music is an insider’s view of music’s impact on Jewish devotion and identity. Written by cantors who have devoted themselves to the study and execution of Jewish music, the book’s six chapters explore a wide range of musical contexts and encounters. Topics include the spiritual...
by Stephen A. King, Barry T. Bays III, P. Renà Foster
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Who changed Bob Marley's famous peace-and-love anthem into "Come to Jamaica and feel all right"? When did the Rastafarian fighting white colonial power become the smiling Rastaman spreading beach towels for American tourists? Drawing on research in social movement theory and protest music,...
A Rocket in My Pocket: The Hipster's Guide to Rockabilly Music
The Hipster's Guide to Rockabilly Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Rockabilly had its roots in country, blues, folk, hillbilly, R&B, boogie-woogie and most other indigenous Deep South forms of popular song that you could strum three chords along to or howl down a cheap microphone. It was young people's music, made almost entirely by the first wave of teenagers,...
Real Love, No Drama
The Music of Mary J. Blige
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Mary J. Blige is an icon who represents the political consciousness of hip hop and the historical promise of soul. She is an everywoman, celebrated by Oprah Winfrey and beloved by pop music fans of all ages and races. Blige has sold over fifty million albums, won numerous Grammys, and even played at...
Gunther Schuller
A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Simultaneously the memoir of a famed composer, conductor, and music educator, and an important historical sourcebook on the American musical scene during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, the autobiography of Gunther Schuller chronicles the first thirty-five years of this multifaceted...
by Patty Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Playboy—the magazine, the empire, the lifestyle—is one of the world's best-known brands. Since the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953, two elements have been remarkably consistent: the first, obviously, is the celebration of nubile, female flesh. The second, readers may be surprised to learn,...
by Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The book provides truly rare knowledge of the emergence of natural musical notes (swaras) from the eternal impulse of Nāda and consequent emanation of the Shastric (Indian Classical) Music. This Indian classical music was developed and propagated by the Vedic sages. They had recognized the linkage...
Energy Flash
A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s.
England, Germany,...
Life Beyond Reggae Music
The Artists We Love & Want to Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Life Beyond Reggae Music offers the greatest reading and learning experience for lovers of reggae, music, Jamaican culture and is a fulfilling read for book lovers around the world; providing never before documented facts from some talented reggae artists we know and love. The author Heather has written...
Improvisation and Music Education
Beyond the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This book offers compelling new perspectives on the revolutionary potential of improvisation pedagogy. Bringing together contributions from leading musicians, scholars, and teachers from around the world, the volume articulates how improvisation can breathe new life into old curricula; how it can...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en scène and music were as important...
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
The Never-Ending Highway
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
The American singer and guitarist Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1931- ) is a seminal figure in the folk music revivals of the United States and Great Britain. Declared an American treasure by former President Bill Clinton, Elliott has traveled and performed for more than 50 years, and his life and career...
Country Music Records
A Discography, 1921-1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
More than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. With primary research based on files and session logs from record companies, interviews with surviving musicians, as well as the 200,000 recordings archived at the Country...