Music Styles category: 7119 books

Perhaps the greatest pianist who has ever lived, Liszt was one of the titanic musical figures of the Romantic age. Abandoning his spectacular career as a travelling virtuoso in his mid-thirties, this passionate lover and fond father dedicated himself instead to a life of composing, conducting, teaching...

Scholars have long recognized Carl Maria von Weber as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music. The success of his opera Der Freischütz almost single handedly brought German operatic style onto the world stage, competing with and challenging established operatic traditions in France...

Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration of Coltrane's sound and its spiritual qualities that are rooted in Black American music-culture and aspirations for freedom. A wide-ranging...

'My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being...' John Coltrane rose from a hard and impoverished childhood in North Carolina to become one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. From session musician to band member of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie...

This collection shows how traditional music and dance have responded to colonial control in the past and more recently to other external forces beyond local control. It looks at musical pasts and presents as a continuum of creativity; at contemporary cultural performance as a contested domain; and...

Though not a household name for the general public, Kent Finlay (1938–2015) was one of the world’s best-known and best-loved promoters, mentors, and gurus of Texas music. In 1974, he founded the Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos as a venue for live music and an incubator for young talent....

With some of the greatest songs in popular music under their belt, Simon & Garfunkel brought together elements of both The Beatles and Bob Dylan to craft masterpieces of thoughful, engaging and electric pop music. This collection features the music and lyrics to fourteen of Simon and Garfunkel's...

Despite coming from a city of one-hit wonders, singer Jake Bugg has managed to jump from the bottom to the top, and continues gaining in popularity In a world of boy bands and manufactured pop, Jake Bugg’s simply-strummed tales of life on the council estate where he grew up have connected...

And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part One examines the LP Please Please Me and associated singles. Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together...

And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Two examines the LP With The Beatles and associated singles. Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together...

And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Four examines the LP Beatles For Sale and associated singles. Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together...

And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Three examines the LP A Hard Day's Night and associated singles. Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together...

And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Eleven examines the LP Let It Be and associated singles. Going further than the usual song-by-song, album-by-album guide, it is a record of every moment that the Beatles came together to...

"A deeply felt and largely compelling portrait of an age that indelibly marked everyone who took part in it. Indispensable for understanding the culture of the '60s and the music that was at its heart." - starred review, Kirkus Reviews In 1966, at the ripe age of 22, Richard Goldstein...