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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China,...
Global Minstrels
Voices of World Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
As the fastest growing sector of the U.S. music market, world music has embedded itself in the fabric of American life. Artists such as Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and the Talking Heads have all utilized characteristics of the "world" sound in their music, while international performers are...
Mongolian Film Music
Tradition, Revolution and Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In 1936 the Mongolian socialist government decreed the establishment of a film industry with the principal aim of disseminating propaganda to the largely nomadic population. The government sent promising young rural Mongolian musicians to Soviet conservatoires to be trained formally as composers....
Audio Culture, Revised Edition
Readings in Modern Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical...
Blues Keyboard Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Keyboard (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Teach yourself how to play keyboard with our easy blues keyboard lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***"This book can get you started quickly. It is easy to follow and the music you make...
by Steve Swayne
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
"The research is voluminous, as is the artistry and perceptiveness. Swayne has lived richly within the world of Sondheim's music."
---Richard Crawford, author of America's Musical Life: A History
"Sondheim's career and music have never been so skillfully dissected, examined,...
Singing in My Soul
Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Black gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communities after World War II. Jerma A. Jackson traces the music's unique history, profiling the careers of several singers--particularly Sister Rosetta Tharpe--and demonstrating...
Groove Music
The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is familiar in every corner of the world. But hip-hop...
Pop Cult
Religion and Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
At a time when fundamentalism is on the rise, traditional religions are in decline and postmodernity has challenged any system that claims to be all-defining, young people have left their traditional places of worship and set up their own, in clubs, at festivals and within music culture.
Pop...
by Edwin Roxburgh
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Conducting for a New Era fills in a lacuna by offering guidance and practical advice for conducting twentieth-century and contemporary repertoire. The book begins with a look at the development of the art of conducting during the first half of the twentieth century. Distinctions are made between conductors...
Musicians from a Different Shore
Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan...
Guitar Lessons - Guitar Bar Chords for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Guitar Chords (Free Video Available)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Teach yourself how to play guitar chords with our easy rhythm guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free guitar videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy...
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.” —Bernard Shaw, 1894
Critical Shaw: Music is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw’s extensive writings...
by Tapper, Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Music explained for children, first published in 1898. "A book of this kind, though addressed to children, must necessarily reach them through an older person. The purpose is to suggest a few of the many aspects which music may have even to the mind of a child. If these chapters, or whatever may be logically...