Music Styles category: 7119 books
Party Music
The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Examining the culture and politics of the Black Power era of the late 1960s, this book explores the relationship of soul music to the Black Power movement from the vantage point of the musicians and black revolutionaries themselves. The 1960s were a turbulent time for race relations in the United...
Pop-Rock Music
Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related techniques. The history of pop-rock...
Freedom Sounds
Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid...
by Leonard Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
With style, wit, and expertise, Leonard Bernstein shares his love and appreciation for music in all its varied forms in The Infinite Variety of Music, illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers. He begins with an “imaginary conversation” with George Washington entitled...
by Paul Elie
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The story of a revolution in music and technology, told through a century of recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
In Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring...
The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music
A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
A dazzling appraisal of the definitive classical music performances available today
For classical music lovers, there is nothing more beguiling and exciting than the range of technique and emotion that can capture or transform the great works in the hands of a conductor and musicians. But with...
by Neil Wenborn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Mendelssohn is one of the worlds best-loved composers. His greatest music The Hebrides, the Violin Concerto, the Italian Symphony is a cornerstone of the classical repertoire, while the Wedding March from his incidental music to A Midsummer Nights Dream has been the soundtrack to the happiest moments...
Murray Talks Music
Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916–2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his prizewinning study Stomping the Blues (1976) influence...
The Denver Folk Music Tradition
An Unplugged History, from Harry Tuft to Swallow Hill and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In 1962, Harry Tuft founded the Denver Folklore Center to bring together contemporary folk music fans and performers such as Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins and so many more. In the following decade, a core of folk enthusiasts established the Swallow Hill Music Association. These two organizations...
by Drew Beisswenger, Gordon McCann
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This book, which includes 308 tune transcriptions, is organized around individual fiddlers who typically combine Appalachian-style fiddling with rags, pop standards, Midwest-style fiddling and sometimes a touch of Western swing to create a style often identifiable as Ozarks. Thirty Ozarks fiddlers...
The Music and Life of Theodore "Fats" Navarro
Infatuation
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
The Music and Life of Theodore 'Fats' Navarro: Infatuation is the first comprehensive study of the jazz trumpeter Theodore 'Fats' Navarro. It provides biographical and discographical information on this talented musician, whose premature death from tuberculosis at 26 robbed the jazz world of his brilliance....
by Scott Joplin
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Pine Apple Rag, originally composed in 1908. Scott Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was known as the "King of Ragtime". Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive...
by Scott Joplin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, The Chrysanthemum, originally composed in 1904. Scott Joplin was an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was known as the "King of Ragtime". Classic Ragtime Music Collection constitutes an extensive...
Mojo Hand
The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and beyond, Lightnin’ Hopkins became one of America’s greatest bluesmen, renowned for songs whose topics effortlessly ranged from his African American roots to space exploration, the Vietnam War,...