Music Styles category: 7119 books
The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt
Essays and Letters of a Traveling Bachelor of Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
During his early years, Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso, his adventures highlighted by his entrée into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time. In this second volume of Janita Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt’s...
Tearing Down The Wall
The Contemporary Guide to Decoding Pink Floyd - The Wall One Brick at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
SECRETS OF THE WALL REVEALED!
Imagine dusting off a beloved album, comfortable as an old pair of jeans, and one day discovering that it goes much deeper down the rabbit hole than you ever envisioned. The thematic intention of every note…The nuance behind every veiled reference…Until...
by Scott Joplin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Antoinette, originally composed in 1906. 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 library...
Country Music Changed My Life
Tales of Tough Times and Triumph from Country's Legends
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In this book based on new interviews, some of country music's greatest stars share personal moments of redemption, inspiration, and heartache related to the music that shaped their lives. Brenda Lee explains how her childhood singing gift raised her entire family out of dire poverty, and Pat Boone...
Love Rock Revolution
K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Punk isn't a sound--it's an idea! In its history, K Records has fostered some of independent music's greatest artists, including Bikini Kill, Beat Happening, Built to Spill, Beck, Modest Mouse, and the Gossip. In 1982, K Records released its first cassette and put its own spin on punk's defiant manifesto:...
by Peter Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Peter Dickinson has made an enduring contribution to British musical life, and his music has been regularly performed and recorded by leading musicians. His writings, brought together here for the first time, are equally noteworthy. Covering well over half a century, the subjects are fascinatingly...
When Music Migrates
Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945–2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Second World War era as a consequence of the movement of previously colonized peoples to the countries that colonized them. This development, which can be thought of...
Under My Thumb
Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Women write about their experiences of loving music that doesn’t love them back – a feminist 'guilty pleasures'.e - a kind of feminist guilty pleasures.
In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls,...
Elvis, Strait, to Jesus
An Iconic Producer's Journey with Legends of Rock 'n' Roll, Country, and Gospel Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
"In the world of modern country music history, Tony Brown has earned a critical spot...[as] one of the top creative minds of the past four decades." --Billboard.com
This striking photographic journey shows how Tony Brown became the King of Nashville: from pianist for Elvis Presley,...
So Lonesome
Hank Williams and the Creation of Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Hank Williams (1923–53) was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as the most important country music artist of all time, creator of an unforgettable sound and persona that helped to define the genre from its infancy and beyond. Though unable to read or notate music to any substantive...
by Scott Joplin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Scott Joplin's classic ragtime score, Palm Leaf Rag, originally composed in 1903. 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...
Understanding the Leitmotif
From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the Hollywood adaptations...
Geek Rock
An Exploration of Music and Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture examines the relationship between geek culture and popular music, tracing a history from the late 1960s to the present day. The term “geek rock” refers to forms of popular music that celebrate all things campy, kitschy, and quirky. In this collection...
by Darren Henley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
An essential short history of classical music, and a standalone accompaniment to the Handy Guides series
Trace the history of classical music from its birth through the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods and right up to the present day. Packed full of essential information, this pocket-sized...