Music Styles category: 7119 books
by Dick Spottswood
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
During the 1940s, country music was rapidly evolving from traditional songs and string band styles to honky-tonk, western swing, and bluegrass, via radio, records, and film. The Blue Sky Boys, brothers Bill (1917-2008) and Earl (1919-1998) Bolick, resisted the trend, preferring to perform folk and...
From Tejano to Tango
Essays on Latin American Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Author of two books on Issac Albeniz, including Issac Albeniz: A Guide to Research (1998), Walter Aaron Clark has compiled thirteen essays that discuss the various aspects of Latin American music. The essays cover the social and political impact the music generated as well as the rhythmic development...
Experiencing Beethoven
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Experiencing Beethoven, music historian Geoffrey Block explores in layman’s terms a highly representative body of about two dozen Beethoven instrumental and vocal works, offering listeners who know him well, or are just discovering him, an opportunity to grasp the breadth and depth of his musical...
House of Hits
The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Founded in a working-class neighborhood in southeast Houston in 1941, Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios is a major independent studio that has produced a multitude of influential hit records in an astonishingly diverse range of genres. Its roster of recorded musicians includes Lightnin' Hopkins,...
by Richard von Fuchs
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
this is the 4th volume in a series of original woodwind music. This has one trio. 2 duets, 8 quartets, and one quintet. Most are by the composer (author) but one is an arrangement of a traditional spiritual, one is an arrangement of Bach BMV 900, and one two are arrangements of a Chopin waltz. Single...
Glam Rock
Music in Sound and Vision
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Until recently, glam rock has been a mere footnote in popular music history: a style-over-substance lark in an otherwise serious industry. Glam Rock: Music in Sound and Vision reveals the true story of how glam carved out a place as a diverse musical style and how it related to the artistic, political,...
Experiencing Billy Joel
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Over the course of his career, Billy Joel has released a series of remarkable albums that together chart his journey as an artist from relative obscurity to international success. In Experiencing Billy Joel, musician and writer Thomas MacFarlane explores that musical journey, from Joel’s apprenticeship...
Oye Como Va!
Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed "Oye Como Va!" in the 1960s, his popular song was called "Latin" even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos Santana, a Mexican immigrant, blended Puente’s tune...
What Do You Know About Harry Styles? - The Unauthorized Trivia Quiz Game Book About Harry Style Facts
The Unauthorized Trivia Quiz Game Book About Harry Style Facts
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Question: Even before becoming a member of One Direction, he was in a band. Do you know the name of the band? Answer: Before becoming a member of One Direction, Harry was the lead singer in a band called White Eskimo. The band was started by his good school friends Hayden Morris, Nick Clough,...
The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
The Jazz Standards, a comprehensive guide to the most important jazz compositions, is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form. This essential book for music lovers tells the story of more than 250 key jazz songs, and includes a listening guide to more...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A celebration America’s ongoing love affair with the Beatles, four longhaired, oddly dressed chaps who appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday evening, February 9, 1964 with half of America watching from their living rooms. Editor Ben Nussbaum traces the beginnings of this first internationally...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Jazz can be difficult for the novice, but 30-Second Jazz proves the ideal companion for the newcomer to the subject, taking readers from the African-American roots of jazz all the way to today’s global mix of musicians and styles. Along the way, it looks at the shape, style and instruments of jazz,...
The Swing Era
The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 1991
Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat Hentoff called it "a remarkable...
by John S. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Jazz is a music formed from a combination of influences. In its infancy, jazz was a melting pot of military brass bands, work songs and field hollers of the United States slaves during the 19th century, European harmonies and forms, and the rhythms of Africa and the Caribbean. Later, the blues and...