Music Styles category: 7119 books
Music Video After MTV
Audiovisual Studies, New Media, and Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos. However, in academia, music videos do not currently share this popularity. Music Video After MTV gives music video its due academic credit by exploring the changing landscapes...
by Carlos Barbosa-Lima, John Griggs
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Brazilian classical/jazz guitar virtuoso Carlos Barbosa-Lima and John Griggs have collaborated in writing these five extended, original solo compositions. These pieces explore a wide variety of Brazilian jazz rhythms, harmonies, and tone colors. Thoughtfully written in separate standard notation and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The Companion to Irish Traditional Music is a landmark, easy to use A-Z format for studying, exploring and researching one of Ireland’s most universally recognisable cultural expressions.
Among the existing publications on Irish traditional music there are works of monumental initiative and...
by The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Michael McCall, John Rumble
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Immediately upon publication in 1998, the Encyclopedia of Country Music became a much-loved reference source, prized for the wealth of information it contained on that most American of musical genres. Countless fans have used it as the source for answers to questions about everything from country's...
by Nicolae Sfetcu
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
In popular music, country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic Music, Blues, Gospel music, and Old-time music that began to develop rapidly in the...
Country Music USA
50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
“Fifty years after its first publication, Country Music USA still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form. Here are the stories of the people who made country music into such an integral part of our nation’s culture. We feel lucky to have had Bill Malone as...
Detroit Country Music
Mountaineers, Cowboys, and Rockabillies
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The richness of Detroit’s music history has by now been well established. We know all about Motown, the MC5, and Iggy and the Stooges. We also know about the important part the Motor City has played in the history of jazz. But there are stories about the music of Detroit that remain untold. One...
Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic popular and avant-garde electronic musicians is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And...
Classical Music in a Changing Culture
Essays from The American Record Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Founded in 1935, The American Record Guide is America's oldest classical music review magazine. In 1987, when Donald Vroon assumed its editorship, he took on the Herculean task of writing editorials on a vast array of subjects, amassing a wealth of commentary and criticism on not only the foibles...
The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt
Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers, and Performers Part 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers and Performers, the third volume in Janita R. Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt heralds his admiration for early nineteenth-century opera and musical stage works....
Music Learning and Teaching in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
An Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Music Learning and Teaching in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Designed for music teachers, students, and scholars of music education, as well as educational administrators and policy makers,...
by Joseph P. Swain
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Sacred music is a universal phenomenon of humanity. Where there is faith, there is music to express it. Every major religious tradition and most minor ones have music and have it in abundance and variety. There is music to accompany ritual and music purely for devotion, music for large congregations...
by Steven C. Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature is a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American “hot” music—minstrelsy, ragtime, jazz, and especially blues—emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both...
Foretastes of Heaven in Lutheran Church Music Tradition
Johann Mattheson and Christoph Raupach on Music in Time and Eternity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
In the two centuries after Martin Luther’s affirmation that music stood second only to theology, Lutheran theologians and musicians formulated a theological defense of music that validated this exalted status. Against Calvinist rivals and Pietist critics, the orthodox Lutheran position further claimed...