Music Styles category: 7119 books
by Gareth Malone
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Collins Shorts – insight in an instant. There’s more to classical music than Beethoven’s Fifth, but where to start? Gareth Malone, the charismatic TV choirmaster, gives you some easy tips on how to appreciate a whole new world of music. Collins Shorts are a fresh look at the ebook short, with...
The Rise of Gospel Blues
The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 1994
Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African-American churches since their organization in the late 1800s. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, as Michael W. Harris's history of gospel blues reveals. Tracing the rise of gospel blues as seen through the career of its founding...
Counterculture Kaleidoscope
Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular imagination as a turning point in modern American history and the end of the age of innocence. Yet, while the era has come to be synonymous with rebellion...
Phonographies
Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work, Alexander G. Weheliye...
by Neil Wenborn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Dvořák is one of the giants of nineteenth-century music. His New World Symphony is among the best loved works in the classical repertoire, and his inexhaustibly rich and varied output remains a staple of concerts and recordings across the globe. Catapulted to international fame by the runaway success...
BBC Proms 2018
Festival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. It is one of the strongest brand names in the music world and attracts a glittering array of artists and orchestras from the UK and around the world in over 150 concerts,...
Sondheim on Music
Minor Details and Major Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important composer and lyricist of musical theater in the second half of the 20th century. Celebrating his 80th birthday, this new edition of Sondheim on Music finds him in these guided interviews expounding in great depth and detail on his craft. As...
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Carl Craig [Detroit techno]
Musician Snapshots
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Carl Craig [Detroit techno] Musician Snapshots: The Music You Should Hear Series
Here’s a “musician snapshot” look at producer/musician/DJ/labelhead Carl Craig and his important recordings. One of the most successful of Detroit’s second wave of producers, Carl Craig’s career spans...
Somebody Scream!
Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and seventies were the golden age of political movements. The Civil Rights movement segued into the Black Power movement which begat the Black Arts movement. Fast forward to 1979 and the release of Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight."...
Bach in Berlin
Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion"
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before...
Why Can't I Sing About Love?
The Truth About the "Church" Against "Secular" Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Growing up as the son of prominent pastor and gospel artist, Bishop Paul S Morton, PJ has often been judged and questioned about his choice of a non-gospel music career. After years of trying to explain himself in his own words, he sought refuge in God’s Word. Through his studies, it was confirmed...
Experiencing Verdi
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Titles in The Listener’s Companion: A Scarecrow Press Music Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume explains in clear and accessible language how to listen to works from particular...
Rusalka
A Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Known worldwide as a composer of symphonies and chamber music, Czech composer Antonín Dvorák declared toward the end of his life that his main love was writing operas. Written in 1900 at the height of Dvorák’s creative powers, his fairy tale opera Rusalka is a masterpiece firmly established in...
Peggy Seeger
A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and tireless advocates. Here is the story of Seeger's...