Music Styles category: 7119 books
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
by Marianne Wheeldon
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Today, Claude Debussy's position as a central figure in twentieth-century concert music is secure, and scholarship has long taken for granted the enduring musical and aesthetic contributions of his compositions. Yet this was not always the case. Unknown to many concert-goers and music scholars is...
Chamber Music
A Listener's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Oxford's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony, The Concerto, and Choral Masterworks--have been widely praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now James Keller follows these greatly admired volumes with Chamber Music. Approaching...
Beyond Bach
Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a number of composers, many of them more popular with the music-loving public. Eschewing the great composer...
Soundtracks of Asian America
Navigating Race through Musical Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences of Asians and Asian...
Rock & Roll Jihad
A Muslim Rock Star's Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
"The story you are about to read is the story of a light-bringer....Salman Ahmad inspires me to reach always for the greatest heights and never to fear....Know that his story is a part of our history."
-- Melissa Etheridge, from the Introduction
With 30 million record sales under his belt,...
The Selling Sound
The Rise of the Country Music Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country’s most obvious stylistic hallmarks, Diane Pecknold demonstrates...
Pilgrimage to Dollywood
A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
A star par excellence, Dolly Parton is one of country music’s most likable personalities. Even a hard-rocking punk or orchestral aesthete can’t help cracking a smile or singing along with songs like “Jolene” and “9 to 5.” More than a mere singer or actress, Parton is a true cultural phenomenon,...
by Béla Bartók
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
A collection of 3 classic Hungarian folk songs originally published in 1908. Songs include: 1. The Peacock, 2. At the Jánoshida Fairground, 3. White Lily. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed,...
by Nikolai Findeizen, Daniel C. Waugh, Malcolm Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history.
Volume 2 of...
The Real 213
Behind The Music Tales, #10
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Exclusive interviews and photos with Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Warren G, and Bishop Don Magic Juan. An All-Star cast on an unflinching mission to advance the gospel of their enduring legacy, and the case of G-funk. It ain't no joke!
Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and...
by Dick Weissman
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
In recent years an almost overwhelming number of books have appeared covering various aspects of American folk music and its history. Before 1970, most comprised collections of songs with a sprinkling of biographical information on noted performers. Over the past decade, however, scholars, journalists,...
Destined for Greatness
Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in a College Music Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Pursuing the dream of a musical vocation—particularly in rock music—is typically regarded as an adolescent pipedream. Music is marked as an appropriate leisure activity, but one that should be discarded upon entering adulthood. How then do many men and women aspire to forge careers in music upon...
Powerful Voices
The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Collegiate a cappella, part of a long tradition of unaccompanied singing, is known to date back on American college campuses to at least the colonial era. Considered in the context of college glee clubs, barbershop quartets, early-twentieth-century vocal pop groups, doo-wop groups, and contemporary...