Music Styles category: 7119 books
Cumbia!
Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and...
American Sabor
Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial musical contributions of Latinas and Latinos in American popular music between World War II and the present in...
by Ralf von Appen, André Doehring, Allan F. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Existing books on the analysis of popular music focus on theory and methodology, and normally discuss parts of songs briefly as examples. The impression often given is that songs are being chosen simply to illuminate and exemplify a theoretical position. In this book the obverse is true: songs take...
Noël Akchoté : Playing (The Guitar Styles & Techniques Of )
Solos Transcriptions
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Noël Akchoté : Playing (The Guitar Styles & Techniques Of ), (NA Books 001)
107 Pages, Music Transcriptions from Noël Akchoté's Guitar Solos as Played on The Albums “Green Lands”, “Picture(s)”, “Plays The Music Of Ornette Coleman”, “Lust Corner”, “I...
by Chris Goertzen
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff's activity could not anticipate our modern contest-driven fiddle subcultures. But the fate of the Virginia Reels pointed in that direction,...
What Makes Music European
Looking beyond Sound
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint of other cultures. In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller examines the limitations of accepted wisdom about the concept of music in Euro-Western culture. His...
Experiencing Jewish Music in America
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion offers an easy-to-read and new perspective on the remarkably diverse landscape that comprises Jewish music in the United States. This much-needed survey on the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic and diverse musical culture invites...
Linda Ronstadt
A Life In Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Often dismissed by rock historians as a product of the antiseptic Californian country-music scene, an artist who relied on watered-down covers of classic rock n’ roll and pop standards, this description of Linda Ronstadt couldn’t be further from the truth. Throughout a recording career that has...
by Tom Perchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The essays contained in this volume address some of the most visible, durable and influential of African American musical styles as they developed from the mid-1960s into the 21st-century. Soul, funk, pop, R&B and hip hop practices are explored both singly and in their many convergences, and in...
Music In The Late Twentieth Century
The Oxford History of Western Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative...
Jazz in New Orleans
The Postwar Years Through 1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001
Jazz in New Orleans provides accurate information about, and an insightful interpretation of, jazz in New Orleans from the end of World War II through 1970. Suhor, relying on his experiences as a listener, a working jazz drummer, and writer in New Orleans during this period, has done a great service...
Interval
Poems Based On Bach's "Goldberg Variations"
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In this series of poems responding to Johann Sebastian Bach’s spectacular “Goldberg Variations,” New Hampshire State Poet Laureate Alice B. Fogel has paid homage to a 274-year-old masterpiece and, with the theme of spirit and embodiment that music—and life itself—evoke, has rendered from...
Segregating Sound
Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how...
by Gillian Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Based on original archival...