Music Styles category: 7119 books
by Paul Tonks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. Classical purists say it isn't...
Hello, Hello Brazil
Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
“Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres likesamba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de...
Mourning de Pachmann
The Quest for the Spirit of Chopin
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In January 1933, widowed Canadian psychiatrist Charles Flemming traveled to Rome to deliver a paper at an international psychiatric meeting and to further research the career of the eccentric Ukranian pianist, Vladimir de Pachmann, for a biography he has always wanted to write. En route, he learns...
That's Got 'Em!
The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
William C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most truly important, yet unheralded, African American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth century. In That's Got 'Em!, Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a seven-decade career. His talent transformed...
by Leonard Feather
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1957) - Jazz at last has matured to a full-fledged art, not only in this country, hut throughout the world as well. What has been known as an American folk music is now becoming an international form of expression, with artists in all countries constantly exchanging ideas and...
Experiencing Broadway Music
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener’s Companion explores approximately the last century of American musical theater, beginning with the early–twentieth-century shift from European influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works of seamlessly integrated song and dance that...
by Andrew O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
'Absolutely hilarious' - Neil Gaiman
'One of the funniest musical commentators that you will ever read . . . loud and thoroughly engrossing' - Alan Moore
'A man on a righteous mission to persuade people to "lay down your souls to the gods rock and roll".' - The Sunday Times
'As...
Respect Yourself
Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal,...
by Daryl Easlea
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
He became famous with Genesis but simply to call Peter Gabriel a pop star would be to sell him very short indeed.
Peter Gabriel has pursued several overlapping careers; neither becoming a parody of his past self nor self-consciously seeking new images, he instead took his creativeness and perfectionism...
Legacies of Ewan MacColl
The Last Interview
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Ewan MacColl is widely recognized as a key figure in the English folk revival, who tried to convey traditional music to a mass audience. Dominant in the movement during the 1950s and much of the 1960s, his position has come under attack in more recent years from some scholars. While it would be arrogant...
Nationalist and Populist Composers
Voices of the American People
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Populism and nationalism in classical music held a significant place between the world wars with composers such as George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein creating a soundtrack to the lives of everyday Americans. While biographies of these individual composers exist, no single book has...
Music Is My Life
Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural...
Civic Jazz
American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that Gregory Clark examines in Civic Jazz. Melding Kenneth...
by Steve Lambley
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
And the Band Begins to Play is an in-depth, 12-volume guide to every song recorded by the Beatles. Part Twelve examines the LP Abbey Road 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...