Music Styles category: 7119 books
by J. Steve Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
As a professor, I am constantly concerned with equipping my students with a scriptural perspective of cutting edge issues in today's youth culture. When it comes to music, I have yet to find a more balanced and thorough work on the subject. -- Dr. Bill Jones, president, Columbia International University
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Reading Country Music
Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 1998
With its steel guitars, Opry stars, and honky-tonk bars, country music is an American original. The most popular music in America today, it’s also big business. Amazing, then, that country music has been so little studied by critics, given its predominance in American culture. Reading Country Music...
Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina
A Guide to Music Sites, Artists, and Traditions of the Mountains and Foothills
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else in America. This guide puts readers on the trail to discover many sites where the unique musical legacy thrives, covering bluegrass and stringband music,...
Weekend Societies
Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn of the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate empires, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into cross-genre, multi-city, transnational mega-events. From free party teknivals proliferating across Europe...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Despite the close and longstanding links between sport and music, the relationships between these two significant cultural forms have been relatively neglected. This book addresses the oversight with a series of highly original essays written by authors from a range of academic disciplines including...
by Christina Gier
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
An advertisement in the sheet music of the song “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France” (1917) announces: “Music will help win the war!” This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors of society during the American engagement in the First World...
by Rich Kienzle
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Southwest Shuffle documents an important period in country music history. During the '30s and early '40s, hundreds of thousands of "Okies," "Arkies," and other rural folks from around the Southwest resettled in California, in search of work. A country music scene quickly blossomed...
Christian Congregational Music
Performance, Identity and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Christian Congregational Music explores the role of congregational music in Christian religious experience, examining how musicians and worshippers perform, identify with and experience belief through musical praxis. Contributors from a broad range of fields, including music studies, theology, literature,...
Everything in its Right Place
Analyzing Radiohead
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so radically experimental that it thwarts any learned...
Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
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...
by Nicole V. Gagné
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In the last decade of the 19th century, modernist sensibilities reached a critical mass and emerged more frequently in music as composers began employing dissonance, polyrhythm, atonality, and densities. Conversely, many 20th-century composers eschewed modernist devices and wrote accessible works...
Rocking the Classics : English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 1996
Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction mythology and fantasy literature and above all for its attempts to combine classical...
This Is Our Music
Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation...
Hidden in the Mix
The African American Presence in Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership between Lesley Riddle and A. P. Carter produced much of the Carter Family's repertoire; the street...