Music Styles category: 7119 books
Disenchanting Les Bons Temps
Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
The expression laissez les bons temps rouler—"let the good times roll"—conveys the sense of exuberance and good times associated with southern Louisiana’s vibrant cultural milieu. Yet, for Cajuns, descendants of French settlers exiled from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the mid-eighteenth...
Country Boys and Redneck Women
New Essays in Gender and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Country music boasts a long tradition of rich, contradictory gender dynamics, creating a world where Kitty Wells could play the demure housewife and the honky-tonk angel simultaneously, Dolly Parton could move from traditionalist "girl singer" to outspoken trans rights advocate, and current...
Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance
State, Markets, Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance. Domestic artists' sales, airplay and concert attendance have all grown dramatically while new avenues for 'kiwi' pop exports emerged. Concurrent with these trends was a new collective sentiment that embraced and celebrated domestic...
by Norma Lee Browning
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Music lessons, Joe Maddy has always felt, should not be painful. They are an exciting experience at the Interlochen Arts Academy or any of the other thousands of schools around the world to which Doctor, Professor and conductor Maddy’s influence has extended during the past forty-five years.
Joe...
Twentieth-Century Classical Music
A Ladybird Expert Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.
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How did modern classical music develop over the 20th Century?
What enabled women to get their music performed in the early 1900s?
Which classical composers borrowed from jazz?
How did composers respond to politics...
by Stanley Yates
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Although Johann Sebastian Bach did not write any music for the guitar, transcriptions of his unaccompanied string music and music for lute have long been a part of the guitar repertoire. Despite the respect that this music commands among musicians and audiences debate still exists as to what constitutes...
The Real Daft Punk
The age of Homework and Discovery & the rise of Dance Music.
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
-Over 80 original behind the scenes photos!
-161 links to official singles and behind the music tales.
-Exclusive 1997 and 2001 interviews with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
The Real Daft Punk embodies the dynamic practices and principles that launched Daft...
by John Mullen
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Using a collection of over one thousand popular songs from the war years, as well as around 150 soldiers’ songs, John Mullen provides a fascinating insight into the world of popular entertainment during the First World War. Mullen considers the position of songs of this time within the history of...
A Happy Type of Sadness:
A Journey Through Irish Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Country music fandom is at an all-time high in Ireland; social dancing has never been as popular. New artists, bands and venues proliferate; it seems each week ‘Ireland’s latest country sensation’ is brought to the public’s attention through the ever-widening media outlets populated by the...
Jim Crow's Counterculture
The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form -- the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R. A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians in the segregation...
The Underground Is Massive
How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Joining the ranks of Please Kill Me and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop comes this definitive chronicle of one of the hottest trends in popular culture—electronic dance music—from the noted authority covering the scene.
It is the sound of the millennial generation, the music “defining youth...
Situated Listening
The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the conception of moving pictures, the representation of music listening has remained a special occurrence....
The Classical Revolution
Thoughts on New Music in the 21st Century Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
"Rich in discussion-worthy arguments … an important contribution to musical aesthetics." — Die Tonkunst
"An excellent and expansive view of where we now are in the larger world of contemporary art music." ― Academic Questions
These essays by a prominent composer offer a thought-provoking...
Billy Joel
America's Piano Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Despite his tremendous success, Billy Joel’s gifts as a composer and commentator on American life are long overdue for a thorough investigation. In Billy Joel: America’s Piano Man, music historian Joshua S. Duchan looks at the career and music of this remarkable singer-songwriter, exploring the...