Music category: 21679 books
The Music of the Netherlands Antilles
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is kept in an...
by Leigh H. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Dolly Parton is instantly recognizable for her iconic style and persona, but how did she create her enduring image? Dolly crafted her exaggerated appearance and stage personality by combining two opposing stereotypes—the innocent mountain girl and the voluptuous sex symbol. Emerging through her...
by Michael C. Scoggins
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Country music in the Carolinas and the southern Appalachian Mountains owes a tremendous debt to freedom-loving Scotch-Irish pioneers who settled the southern backcountry during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These hardy Protestant settlers brought with them from Lowland Scotland, Northern England...
A New America
How Music Reshaped the Culture and Future of a Nation and Redefined My Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**The long-anticipated companion book to the groundbreaking HBO documentary The Latin Explosion by renowned music producer Tommy Mottola.
Legendary music mogul, entertainment impresario, and New York Times bestselling author Tommy Mottola explores and expounds on his lifelong love of Latin...
Real Country
Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2004
In Lockhart, Texas, a rural working-class town just south of Austin, country music is a way of life. Conversation slips easily into song, and the songs are full of conversation. Anthropologist and musician Aaron A. Fox spent years in Lockhart making research notes, music, and friends. In Real Country,...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Garth Brooks has been certified one of the bestselling artists in history. In the United States, he is third, only behind Elvis Presley and The Beatles. That includes all types of music, not just country. The Legends of Country Music explores the life of Garth Brooks, but more importantly, it considers...
Rebel Music
Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This fascinating, timely, and important book on the connection between music and political activism among Muslim youth around the world looks at how hip-hop, jazz, and reggae, along with Andalusian and Gnawa music, have become a means of building community and expressing protest in the face of the...
by Helio Orovio
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2004
Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world’s richest and most influential musical cultures. It is the most extensive compendium of information about the singers, composers, bands, instruments, and dances of Cuba ever assembled. With...
by Norman Abjorensen
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
This book seeks to trace the rise of popular music, identify its key figures and track the origins and development of its multiple genres and styles, all the while seeking to establish historical context. It is, fundamentally, a ready reference guide to the broad field of popular music over the past...
Music from the True Vine
Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
A musician, documentarian, scholar, and one of the founding members of the influential folk revival group the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger (1933-2009) spent more than fifty years collecting, performing, and commemorating the culture and folk music of white and black southerners, which he called...
Nothing but Love in God’s Water
Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Volume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and on through the Montgomery bus boycott. This second volume continues the journey, chronicling the role this music played in energizing and...
by John Franceschina
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923 constitutes the first three volumes of a critical survey of incidental and dance music arrangers in the American theatre: what they did and how they did it from the early days of the American musical theatre through the musicals...
by Gene Wilburn
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
NORTHERN JOURNEY was first published in 1995, by Reference Press, and was updated with a second edition in 1998. This is an ebook reprint of the Reference Press 1998 second edition.NORTHERN JOURNEY is a guide to the traditional and contemporary acoustic music of Canada released in CD format...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Music Business
Break Through the Noise of the Music Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Instrumental in turning musicians into moneymakers.
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Music Business is written for every musician who needs to learn the business of music, as well as for all businesspeople entering the music industry. Author Michael Miller covers all the key business topics...