Music Styles category: 7119 books
Heresies of Music
An A-Z diagnostic guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
What is Lisztomania, and how was it cured? Who was Drog, and what was his prophecy regarding Electronic Music? What preparation do you need before throwing an artistic tantrum? Which orchestral musicians are also qualified to run a hospital?
The plausible answers to these and many other tantalising...
Classical Music
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
What does classical music mean to the Western World? How has it transformed over the centuries? What relevance does it have today? Julian Johnson inspires readers to explore over 1000 years of music, and examines how music is related to some of the big ideas of Western experience including spirituality,...
Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Peter Philips (c.1560-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting musical, social, religious and political networks linking him with some of the key international players in these spheres. Despite the undeniable quality of his music, Philips...
The Real MC Eiht: Geah!
Behind The Music Tales, #11
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
MC Eiht = Reality Rap. Enter the underbelly of Compton and discover the keys to success and longevity in the music game.
The Real MC Eiht: Geah! includes one exclsuive 1996 interview and links to 31 videos.
Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and feel of the...
The Secular Commedia
Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook shows that this familiar music...
Balkan Fascination
Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
Divi Zheni identifies itself as a Bulgarian women's chorus and band, but it is located in Boston and none of its members come from Bulgaria. Zlatne Uste is one of the most popular purveyors of Balkan music in America, yet the name of the band is grammatically incorrect. The members of Sviraci hail...
by Travis D. Stimeling
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Now in its sixth decade, country music studies is a thriving field of inquiry involving scholars working in the fields of American history, folklore, sociology, anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and geography, among many others. Covering issues of historiography and practice...
by Steve Swayne
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
"The research is voluminous, as is the artistry and perceptiveness. Swayne has lived richly within the world of Sondheim's music."
---Richard Crawford, author of America's Musical Life: A History
"Sondheim's career and music have never been so skillfully dissected, examined,...
Singing in My Soul
Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers--particularly Sister Rosetta Tharpe--and demonstrating...
Groove Music
The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is familiar in every corner of the world. But hip-hop...
Pop Cult
Religion and Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
At a time when fundamentalism is on the rise, traditional religions are in decline and postmodernity has challenged any system that claims to be all-defining, young people have left their traditional places of worship and set up their own, in clubs, at festivals and within music culture.
Pop...
by Edwin Roxburgh
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Conducting for a New Era fills in a lacuna by offering guidance and practical advice for conducting twentieth-century and contemporary repertoire. The book begins with a look at the development of the art of conducting during the first half of the twentieth century. Distinctions are made between conductors...
by Arthur Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
"Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" is an American popular song first published in 1917. Sullivan was an English composer best known for his comic musical opera collaborations with the librettist W. S. Gilbert. His works also include 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works...
by Arthur Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
"Birds in the Night - A Lullaby" is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1869. Sullivan was an English composer best known for his comic musical opera collaborations with the librettist W. S. Gilbert. His works also include 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios,...