Music Styles category: 7119 books
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The compilation album Now That's What I Call Music 96 was released in April 2017 and features 43 popular hits spread over two disks.
This official songbook for Now That's What I Call Music 96 contains 20 of the biggest and best chart hits from the album, specially arranged for Piano and Voice...
Terminated for Reasons of Taste
Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that "rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because the losers have always played a big role in keeping rock interesting." Rock's losers share top billing with its winners in this new collection...
The Beat
Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
The Beat! was the first book to explore the musical, social, and cultural phenomenon of go-go music. In this new edition, updated by a substantial chapter on the current scene, authors Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr., place go-go within black popular music made since the middle 1970s--a...
by Ivan M. Tribe, Jacob L. Bapst
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
West Virginia has been known for a century as a rich repository of traditional country music and musicians. Beginning in the mid-1920s, phonograph recordings and radios brought this music to a wider audience. With the passing of time and the influence of commercialization, this music developed into what...
Singing in Polish
A Guide to Polish Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Singing in Polish: A Guide to Polish Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire stands as the first book-length resource for non-Polish–speaking singers, voice teachers, and vocal coaches that offers the essential tools for learning how to sing in Polish. Scholar and singer Benjamin Schultz offers a rich...
Soul Serenade
Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music
Growing up in rural Arkansas, young Rashod Ollison turned to music to make sense of his life. The dysfunction, sadness, and steely resilience of his family and neighbors...
Remix Multilingualism
Hip Hop, Ethnography and Performing Marginalized Voices
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
"Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes bricolage....
Tracing Tangueros
Argentine Tango Instrumental Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. Rather than perpetuating the glamorous worldwide conceptions that often only reflect the tango that left Argentina nearly 100 years...
Damage Incorporated
Metallica and the Production of Musical Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
"Damage Incorporated" is the first book about the legendary heavy metal band Metallica that provides a detailed exploration of the group’s music and its place within the wider popular music landscape. Written with a broad readership in mind, it offers an interdisciplinary study that incorporates...
Marty Robbins
Fast Cars and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
From his first performance in the late 1940s until his early death in 1982, Marty Robbins established himself as one of the most popular and successful singer/songwriters in the latter half of the 20th century. On the country charts, he racked up 15 #1 hits, including the crossover smashes El Paso...
by Lee Gabor
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
This song was written in the late 1970s for submission to a songwriting contest. Lee was among the winners. The theme is an old fashioned family reunion with lots of food and music. The lyrics appear in the novel "Texas Bootstomp Boogie." In the sheet music ebook, a lyric sheet is included for vocalists....
by Felicia M. Miyakawa, Joseph G. Schloss
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
A history of the development of hip-hop music and dance. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
The Concise Guide to Hip-Hop Music
A Fresh Look at the Art of Hip-Hop, from Old-School Beats to Freestyle Rap
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In 1973, the music scene was forever changed by the emergence of hip-hop. Masterfully blending the rhythmic grooves of funk and soul with layered beats and chanted rhymes, artists such as DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash paved the way for an entire new genre and generation of musicians. In this...
Back to the Miracle Factory
Rock Etc. 1990's
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Paul Williams has been writing about pop music for decades, never flagging in his enthusiasm or his emotional and intellectual openness to the newest music. He has been doing this ever since he founded the rock magazine, Crawdaddy, in 1966. His insight into how it feels when we listen to certain performers...