Music Styles category: 7119 books
Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures
An Ecological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The sustainability of music and other intangible expressions of culture has been high on the agenda of scholars, governments and NGOs in recent years. However, there is a striking lack of systematic research into what exactly affects sustainability across music cultures. By analyzing case studies...
Soul Music
Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
"Exceptionally illuminating and philosophically sophisticated."
---Ted Cohen, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
"In this audacious and long-awaited book, Joel Rudinow takes seriously a range of interrelated issues that most music theorizing is embarrassed to tackle....
Portuguese Piano Music
An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
As the first book of its kind, Nancy Lee Harper’s Portuguese Piano Music: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography fills the gap in the historical record of Portuguese piano music from its start in the 18th century to the present. While although Spanish piano music is well documented owing to...
Nga Moteatea
An Introduction / He Kupu Arataki
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The songs of New Zealand's Maori tradition are a living art form and an abundant source of knowledge about tribal history and culture. An introduction to the classic collection first compiled in the 1920s by politician Sir Apirana Ngata, this volume not only outlines the origins and history of the...
by Joseph P. Swain
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Nearly all religious traditions have reserved a special place for sacred music. Whether it is music accompanying a ritual or purely for devotional purposes, music composed for entire congregations or for the trained soloist, or music set to holy words or purely instrumental, in some form or another,...
by Art Rosenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1968
An Instruction Method for playing the old-time five-string mountain banjo
based on the styles of traditional banjo-pickers.
Selling Folk Music
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals...
The Ignorant Maestro
How Great Leaders Inspire Unpredictable Brilliance
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
“Choosing ignorance might seem a terrible quality to exhibit in your workplace—a sure path down the stairs and out the corporate door. But stick with me here and see how it leads you upward. You’ll understand why great leaders embrace ignorance and use it to elevate their people to new heights...
by Bruce Springsteen, Frank Caruso
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Outlaw Pete is a modern legend of a criminal who starts out in diapers and confronts the roughest edges of adulthood. It’s one of the most ambitious and original story songs Springsteen has written.
When Bruce Springsteen was a little boy, he learned the story of Brave Cowboy Bill, about...
by David Pogue, Scott Speck
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms, oh, my! The beginner's guide to classical music
Classical Music For Dummies is a friendly, funny, easy-to-understand guide to composers, instruments, orchestras, concerts, recordings, and more. Classical music is widely considered one of the pinnacles of human...
Liveness in Modern Music
Musicians, Technology, and the Perception of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and technological terrain is one of the more complex and timely challenges facing scholars of current music, where liveness is typically understood to represent...
by Lucy Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
The Acoustic Songbook: Chord Songbook is a unique collection of 65 acoustic songs from the very best acoustic artists ranging from Loudon Wainwright III and Ralph McTell to Katie Melua and Radiohead, all arranged with full lyrics and detailed guitar chord guide. The songs cover a huge variety of styles,...
by Szymon Paczkowski
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Now appearing in an English translation, this book by Szymon Paczkowski is the first in-depth exploration of the Polish style in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach spent almost thirty years living and working in Leipzig in Saxony, a country ruled by Friedrich August I and his son Friedrich August...
Music and Theology
Essays in Honor of Robin A. Leaver
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
The scholar Robin A. Leaver holds a unique place in sacred music scholarship because of his training in both music and theology. He has written widely, bringing acute insights on a variety of musical repertories and topics related to Martin Luther, sixteenth-century psalmody, hymnody, and the sacred...