Music category: 21679 books
The Music Lesson
A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes…and feeling them.
The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who...
Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Edition
Winning Marketing Strategies for Today's Music Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
For everyone interested in starting a record label–to market new talent or to release and promote their own music–there has never been a better time to do it!
Music can be released, distributed, and promoted for a fraction of traditional costs. Veteran author and music-business consultant...
The Rest Is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. At the same time, the influence of modern...
Absolutely on Music
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former...
Songs of America
Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and music superstar Tim McGraw
“Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw form an irresistible duo—connecting us to music as an unsung force in our nation's...
Made in France
Studies in Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Made in France: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary French popular music. The volume consists of essays by scholars of French popular music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music...
Protest Music in France
Production, Identity and Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Barbara Lebrun traces the evolution of 'protest' music in France since 1981, exploring the contradictions that emerge when artists who take their musical production and political commitment 'seriously', cross over to the mainstream, becoming profitable and consensual. Contestation is understood as...
Try Whistling This
Writings on Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Perceptive and entertaining, Try Whistling This is a pleasurable journey through music, ideas and history. Andrew Ford traces the concept of dirty dancing back to the sixteenth century, marvels at the weirdness of Percy Grainger and considers the decision of Wilhelm Furtwängler to keep conducting under...
by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The history of Irish traditional music, song and dance from the mythological harp of the Dagda right up to Riverdance and beyond.
Exploring an abundant spectrum of historical sources, music and folklore, this guide uncovers the contribution of the Normans to Irish dancing, the role of the music...
The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and its Diaspora
Community and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
For at least two centuries, and arguably much longer, Ireland has exerted an important influence on the development of the traditional, popular and art musics of other regions, and in particular those of Britain and the United States. During the past decade or so, the traditional musics of the so-called...
Appetite for Self-Destruction
The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the epic story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world --...
My Country
50 Musicians on God, America & the Songs They Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Now in paperback, a volume of stunning photographs of 50 country music icons and intimate accounts of their thoughts on God, America, and their favorite songs.
Award-winning photographer and author of My Last Supper, Melanie Dunea traces the throughlines from country music's gritty roots to...
Bobby Braddock
A Life on Nashville’s Music Row
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
If you know country music, you know Bobby Braddock. Even if you don't know his name, you know the man's work. "He Stopped Loving Her Today." "D-I-V-O-R-C-E." "Golden Ring." "Time Marches On." "I Wanna Talk About Me." "People Are Crazy." These...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
The ninth entry in the acclaimed series celebrating the best writing on every style of music, from rock to hip-hop, R&B to jazz, pop to blues, and more.
Best music writing is the definitive guide to the year in music writing, an annual feast of essays, missives, and musings on every musical...