Music Styles category: 7119 books
Music and the Elusive Revolution
Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2011
In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May ’68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the...
by Richard Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
No matter how much you think you know about classical music, you’ll find plenty of baffling questions and surprising answers inside — all carefully compiled by Richard Baker OBE.
Challenge your friends! Try to answer questions round by round…or read it just for fun! You’ll have hours of enjoyment with the ultimate Classical Music questions and answers book.
Portrait Gallery
A Life in Classical Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
An absorbing memoir by an eminent broadcaster and classical music critic, full of anecdotes about nearly every major figure in the classical music world over the last 60 years
From Leonard Bernstein to Benjamin Britten, André Previn, and Igor Stravinsky, Edward Greenfield had the privilege...
by Helen Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
From early accounts of dance customs in medieval Ireland to the present, Helen Brennan offers an authoritative look at the evolution of Irish dance. Every type of dance from social to traditional to clergy is included. Brennan takes care to explain the different styles and traditions that evolved...
I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Except When I Hate It)
Extremely Important Stuff About the Songs and Bands You Love, Hate, Love to Hate , and Hate to Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Music breeds duality. We enjoy the music we love-listening to it, talking about it, reading about it. But it's just as fun to passionately revel in mocking the music we hate. Fortunately, musicians make this two-lane path very easy to follow. Half the time they're creating timeless works of art that...
K-POP Now!
The Korean Music Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
"K-Pop Now! […] features one hundred and twenty-eight glossy pages of Korean pop eye-candy." —KpopStarz.com
K-Pop Now! takes a fun look at Korea's high-energy pop music, and is written for its growing legions of fans. It features all the famous groups and singers, and takes an...
by Jim Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone chronicles Jim Dickinson's extraordinary life in the Memphis music scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to play with and produce a rich array of artists, including Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Arlo Guthrie, and Albert King....
Growing Up Rocking
(it begins...)
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In the 1950s, Cleveland, Ohio was the number one music city in the world. It was in Cleveland that DJ Alan Freed first coined the term “rock and roll” and it was in Cleveland that the teenage Henry Niedzwiecki, aka The OlDoowopper, grew up with a ringside seat to the birth of rock and roll or doo-wop...
Goodnight, L.A.
The Rise and Fall of Classic Rock--The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A behind-the-scenes journey through the rise and demise of the '70s and '80s classic rock era
Before disco, punk, hair metal, rap, and eventually grunge took it all away, the music scene in Los Angeles was dominated by rock 'n' roll. If a group wanted to hit it big, L.A. was the place to be....
Watermelon Wine
The Spirit of Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Originally published 25 years ago, Watermelon Wine was praised for its honest, unsentimental examination of the compassion as well as the passion behind authentic country music. Author Frye Gaillard looked at the commercialization of the Grand Ole Opry; the tradition-minded rebels such as Hank Williams,...
Deep Ellum
The Other Side of Dallas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Deep Ellum, on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas, retains its character as an alternative to the city’s staid image with loft apartments, art galleries, nightclubs, and tattoo shops. It first sprang up as a ramshackle business district with saloons and variety theatres and evolved, during the...
by Simon Spence
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
What happened to the Bay City Rollers is one of the greatest scandals in music industry. When The Screaming Stops reveals the dark truth behind 'rollermania', the pioneering boy band fad which gripped the UK in the seventies, exposing the sinister undercurrents which underpinned the band's phenomenal...
Richard Wagner
A Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history, such as The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and...
by James Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Ir has been said that no music amplifies the french ideals of precision and good taste better than the work of Maurice Ravel, yet his background could scarecly have been more cosmopolitan. The son of a Swiss father and a Basque mother, he was born near St. Jean de Luz in 1875; he died in Paris at...