Music category: 21679 books
by Lawrence Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions—questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future....
It's Just the Normal Noises
Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression, and the Mystery of Americana Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. Music can function as an escape from the outside world or as an explanation of that world. Listeners who identify...
Recorded Music in American Life
The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 1999
Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historical and cultural influences flowed through them? Do recording machines simply capture what's already out there, or is the music somehow transformed...
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Protest Music After Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Nuclear power has been a contentious issue in Japan since the 1950s, and in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the conflict has only grown. Government agencies and the nuclear industry continue to push a nuclear agenda, while the mainstream media adheres to the official line...
by Jonathan Kregor
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range that included the overtures of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the literary music of Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's symphonic poems, the tone poems of Strauss and Sibelius, and compositions...
Cultural Codes
Makings of a Black Music Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
No art can survive without an understanding of, and dedication to, the values envisioned by its creators. No culture over time has existed without a belief system to sustain its survival. Black music is no different. In Cultural Codes: Makings of a Black Music Philosophy, William C. Banfield engages...
I'll Take You There
Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom's Highway
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
“A biography that will send readers back to the music of Mavis and the Staple Singers with deepened appreciation and a renewed spirit of discovery” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)—from the acclaimed music journalist and author featured prominently in the new HBO documentary Mavis!
This...
The Contemporary Minstrel
Songwriting, Recording and Making Money with Your Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
In The Contemporary Minstrel, Louis Anthony deLise presents a first-of-its-kind organized and scholarly study of the craft of creating and marketing pop songs. He includes in this book a primer on music theory, detailed descriptions of all pop song forms, analysis of well-written songs and a complete...
Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk
Aggressive Sounds in Contemporary Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk: Aggressive Sounds in Contemporary Music, edited by Eric James Abbey and Colin Helb,is a collection of writings on music that is considered aggressive throughout the world. From local underground bands in Detroit, Michigan to bands in Puerto Rico or across Europe, this...
by Jon Paxman
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
“A great reference tool for anyone who wants to explore the history of music.” - Philip Glass
Jon Paxman's Classical Music 16002000: A Chronology interprets four centuries of Western classical music, considering its evolution from two different perspectives.
Monumental in scope but...
by M. Jennifer Bloxam, Joshua Kalin Busman, Stephen A. Crist
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This essay collection celebrates the richness of Christian musical tradition across its two thousand year history and across the globe. Opening with a consideration of the fourth-century lamp-lighting hymn Phos hilaron and closing with reflections on contemporary efforts of Ghanaian composers to create...
Charting the Classics
Classical Music in Diagrams
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
A witty and fun graphic depiction of the classical music world
With this fun and lighthearted book, readers can see the world of classical music as it’s never been seen before. Using flow charts, pie charts, Venn diagrams, checklists, graphs, and other ingenious graphics, the authors...
Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film
Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how concert performance reflexively articulates...
Rush
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Rush is often referred to as a libertarian rock band, but really what the band is channeling is an Aristotelian individualism, a philosophy that strongly resonates with today's 40-somethings. This helps explain the band's resurgence in popularity, culminating in its 2013 induction in the Rock and Roll...