Music Styles category: 7119 books
Let the World Listen Right
The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
In the Mississippi Delta, creativity, community, and a rich expressive culture persist despite widespread poverty. Over five years of extensive work in the region, author Ali Colleen Neff collected a wealth of materials that demonstrate a vibrant musical scene.Let the World Listen Right draws from...
by Woody Mann
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2002
Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles.
by Ed Manolio
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
This book concerns itself with only recorded popular music. The definition of popular music is simple. It is the traditional characterization of any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time), although I personally do not agree with idea of it being popular for only a short...
by Jeff Wagner, Steven Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Revered former Metal Maniacs editor Jeff Wagner analyzes the heady side of metal in this exhaustive narrative history of a relentlessly ambitious musical subculture. Beginning with the hugely influential mid-1970s efforts of Rush and King Crimson, Wagner unfurls a huge tapestry of sounds and styles,...
by Bob Blumenthal
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The story of the development of jazz and the extraordinary jazz legends who changed the face of music. Do you have a hard time differentiating between hard bop, bebop, and the blues? Need to Know?Jazz puts jazz in its musical and historical context, and gets you started with stories of famous artists...
by Manfred F. Bukofzer
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise of Baroque music. It was written for the music student and music lover, with the aim of acquainting them with this great period of music history and helping them to gain a historical understanding of music without which baroque music cannot be fully...
Feeding Back
Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Feeding Back: Conversations with Rock’s Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock offers a counter-history of rock music through the lens of interviews with musicians including Richard Thompson, J Mascis, James Williamson, Bob Mould, Tom Verlaine, Lydia Lunch, Lee Ranaldo, Johnny Marr,...
The Rise of the Crooners
Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Rudy Vallee
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2001
Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Rudy Vallee—these cultural icons whose fame spanned all the important mass media, also played a vital role in the origin and development of the crooning tradition.
Crooning represented one of the most important musical styles of the twentieth...
The Power of Black Music
Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1996
When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition...
The Real Book - Volume IV
E-flat Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
(Fake Book). Since the 1970s, The Real Book has been the most popular book for gigging jazz musicians. Hal Leonard is proud to publish completely legal and legitimate editions of the original volumes as well as exciting new volumes to carry on the tradition to new generations of players in all styles...
by Shovana Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Indias rich cultural legacy has been founded on the abiding faith of the Indians in the divine power, whose worship had found expression through dance. Bhakti or devotion was the underlying essence of the various dance forms that developed in India. Indian Classical Dances is a unique presentation of...
Experiencing Chick Corea
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
With twenty-three Grammy wins, Chick Corea is a legendary jazz figure and one of the most prolific and influential contemporary pianists of our time. He has produced hundreds of releases in multiple genres over five decades, and he is one of the hardest-working musicians in the industry, with a yearly...
by Paul Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Over three decades Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war and the struggles of the...
Erik Satie
A Parisian Composer and his World
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Erik Satie's (1866-1925) music appeals to wide audiences and has influenced both experimental artists and pop musicians. Little about Satie was conventional, and he resists classification under easy headings such as "classical music". Instead of pursuing the path of a professional composer,...