Blues category: 910 books
Microgroove
Forays into Other Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music. Corbett's approach to writing is as polymorphous as the music, ranging from...
by Hal Leonard Corp., Hal Leonard Corp.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
(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 Julius Lester, Pete Seeger
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1965
From Introduction: "Huddie Ledbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly, died in December, 1949 at the age of 64. He had come out of the deep South, settled down in a little apartment on New York's lower East Side, determined to build a successful career as a musician. Unfortunately, there was not much interest...
Torch Singing
Performing Resistance and Desire from Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2007
In this innovative book, Stacy Holman Jones presents torch singing as a much more complicated phenomenon than the familiar trope of a woman lamenting her victimhood. With an ethnographer's eye, she observes the bluesy torch singers, asking if they are possibly performing critiques of the very lyrics...
Buried Treasure Volume 2
Overlooked, Forgetten and Uncrowned Albums
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Buried Treasure is a colorful smorgasboard of music. Revered musicians, actors, and pop culture icons each contribute their favourite albums to create a fantastically eclectic collection.
A&R Pioneers
Architects of American Roots Music on Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A&R Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and,...
by Peter Spitzer
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Jazz Theory Handbook is a complete guide to all the essential topics of jazz theory, suitable for all treble instruments. Its approach is clear and concise, realistic and practical. This book will help you to understand how contemporary jazz players think, and to apply theory concepts in your own...
Che razza di musica
Jazz, blues, soul e le trappole del colore
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Un libro che mette radicalmente in discussione le categorie frequentemente legate al jazz e alla musica afroamericana. Musica “nera”, “jazz bianco”, cantanti neri che possiedono il senso del “soul”, lo swing come attitudine “naturale” dei neri americani: quale fondamento hanno espressioni...
The Product of Our Souls
Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The first concert by an African American ensemble at the esteemed venue was more than just a concert--it was a political act of desegregation, a defiant challenge to the status quo in American...
Music Therapy
An art beyond words
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Music therapy is recognised as being applicable to a wide range of healthcare and social contexts. Since the first edition of Music Therapy: An art beyond words, it has extended into areas of general medicine, mainstream education and community practice. This new edition revises the historical...
The Rolling Stones
Sociological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Helmut Staubmann, draws from a broad spectrum of sociological perspectives to contribute both to the understanding of the phenomenon Rolling Stones and to an in-depth analysis of contemporary society and culture that takes The Stones a starting...
Besessen - Das turbulente Leben von Prince
Aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage
Language: German
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Abschied im Purple Rain
Am 21. April 2016 wurde Prince leblos in seinem Haus in Minnesota gefunden - er wurde 57 Jahre alt. Die Zahl der Nachrufe und trauernden Statusmeldungen in den sozialen Netzwerken zeigte: Prince Rogers Nelson hat mit seinen Songs, seiner Attitüde, seiner sexuell aufgeladenen...
Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
Von den Eurythmics bis SuperHeavy (Die Autobiografie)
Language: German
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Dave Stewarts Leben war ein wilder Ritt - voller Musik und ausschweifender Partys, durchzogen von einem Strom neuer Ideen und geprägt von unendlichem Schaffensdrang. Schon früh war der gebürtige Nordengländer nach London gegangen, und schon als Teenager stand er bei Elton Johns Label Rocket unter...
Go-Go Live
The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Go-go is the conga drum–inflected black popular music that emerged in Washington, D.C., during the 1970s. The guitarist Chuck Brown, the "Godfather of Go-Go," created the music by mixing sounds borrowed from church and the blues with the funk and flavor that he picked up playing for a local Latino...