Music Styles category: 7119 books
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll
An Alternative History of American Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
"There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter...
The Pop Palimpsest
Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Within popular music there are entire genres (jazz “standards”), styles (hip hop), techniques (sampling), and practices (covers) that rely heavily on references between music of different styles and genres. This interdisciplinary collection of essays covers a wide range of musical styles and artists...
So You Want to Sing Music Theater
A Guide for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
In some ways, the successor of vaudeville and an extension of the opera and operetta, the stage musical has evolved into a worldwide juggernaut. Musicals are staged not only across the globe but are offered in a variety of settings, from the high school stage and major theater to the big screen. The...
Gypsy Music
The Balkans and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Gypsies have for centuries been simultaneously vilified and romanticized—associated with criminality and dirt, but at the same time with color, magic, and music. Gypsy music is popular around the world and often performed with gusto at major events, including at weddings in Bulgaria, jazz bars in...
by Richard L. Crocker
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Style — the distinctive manner of presentation, construction, and execution in any art — is a topic of primary importance in music history. This highly regarded text by noted musicologist Richard Crocker (University of California, Berkeley) takes a much-needed fresh look at the subject and attempts...
Louisiana Hayride
Radio and Roots Music along the Red River
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
On a Saturday night in 1948, Hank Williams stepped onto the stage of the Louisiana Hayride and sang "Lovesick Blues." Up to that point, Williams's yodeling style had been pigeon-holed as hillbilly music, cutting him off from the mainstream of popular music. Taking a chance on this untried artist,...
Gone to the Country
The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Gone to the Country chronicles the life and music of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots music during the folk revival of the late 1950s and 1960s. Formed in 1958 by Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley, the Ramblers introduced...
Listening to Bach
The Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening to Bach explores musical style as it was understood in the early eighteenth century. It encourages ways of listening that take eighteenth-century musical...
American Epic
The First Time America Heard Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrating the pioneers and artists of American roots music—blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, Native American—without which there would be no jazz, rock, country R&B, or hip hop today.
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by Larry Sandberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb. Following the success of the popular Acoustic Guitar Styles, Larry Sandberg’s Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an instructional book geared...
Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 2 : Advanced & Improvisation
(suitable for electric & acoustic guitar)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book TWO is a separate enhancement on "Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 1 : Fundamental".
Book TWO is comprised of 2 big chapters.
Chapter TWO includes different variations in rhythmic styles, fret positions of chord and changes in applications, integrated...
by Joe Diorio
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Jazz Blues Styles presents guitar solos in the styles of Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, and other jazz blues greats. Within the context of the blues, this book teaches: styles of jazz blues; jazz ideas, phrases, and licks; jazz syncopation, the rhythmic language of jazz; jazz phrasing,...
by Raymond A. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Read This eBook If Youíre Looking For A Great eBook On The Many Stlyes Of Jazz Music, The History Of Vocal Jazz, Creating Jazz Music, Lena Horne- Jazz Legend, Billie Holiday, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie and Jazz Music Today.. Plus Much More!
Colonial Counterpoint
Music in Early Modern Manila
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Named one of BBC History Magazine's "Books of the Year" in 2010 In this groundbreaking study, D. R. M. Irving reconnects the Philippines to current musicological discourse on the early modern Hispanic world. For some two and a half centuries, the Philippine Islands were firmly interlinked...