Music Styles category: 7119 books
This Music Leaves Stains
The Complete Story of the Misfits
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Few bands in the past three decades have proven as affecting or exciting as the Misfits, the ferocious horror punk outfit that lurked in the shadows of suburban New Jersey and released a handful of pivotal underground recordings during their brief, tumultuous time together. Led by Glenn Danzig, a...
Experiencing the Rolling Stones
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Experiencing the Rolling Stones: A Listener’s Companion looks at the Stones’ music from the inside out. Along the journey, Malvinni places individual songs and entire albums within the transformative era of the ’60s, focusing on how the Rolling Stones integrated African American R&B, blues,...
Leaders of the Pack
Girl Groups of the 1960s and Their Influence on Popular Culture in Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
In Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s and their Influence on Popular Culture musician and music historian Sean MacLeod surveys the hundreds of girl groups that appeared not only in the United States but also in Great Britain during the early 1960s. This study corrects the neglect of their...
The History of Hip Hop
The History of Hip Hop, #2
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
"Discover the second edition of the definitive history of hip hop, and learn how the 80's culture set new trends and broke boundaries forever!"
"Where hip hop transformed from infancy to new culture!"
With the gradual shift from the 1970s disco scene, a new style of music known as hip...
by Peter Sorel-Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
It is clear, from their career to date that the Arctic Monkeys are a band that has paved a new way for acts following them. Using the new systems of making and distributing music to their advantage, they have proved that compromises dont need to be made at the expense of good music, if you have the backing...
Blutopia
Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2000
In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of their work, Lock shows how these distinctive artists were each influenced by a common musical and spiritual...
Elmer Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Magnificent Seven was a Western reimagining of the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. Despite such stars as Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, and Charles Bronson, the film was not terribly successful when it premiered. However, in the years since, the film has become recognized as a classic of the genre....
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Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism [2 volumes]
The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
From the gospel music of slavery in the antebellum South to anti-apartheid freedom songs in South Africa, this two-volume work documents how music has fueled resistance and revolutionary movements in the United States and worldwide.
Singing Jeremiah
Music and Meaning in Holy Week
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
A defining moment in Catholic life in early modern Europe, Holy Week brought together the faithful to commemorate the passion, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In this study of ritual and music, Robert L. Kendrick investigates the impact of the music used during the Paschal Triduum on...
by Susan Tomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
In several decades as a distinguished classical pianist, Susan Tomes has found that there are some issues which never go away. Here she takes up various topics of perennial interest: how music awakens and even creates memories, what "interpretation" really means, what effect daily practice...
by Cormac Newark
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines...
by David McCleery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Amidst a background of wars and revolution, the nineteenth century produced many of the worlds best-loved composers. Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Tchaikovsky are just some of the many familiar names whose music was shaped by the events of the period: Discover Music of the Romantic Era charts the course...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
You've seen the movie, now get the rest of the story.This book is about the music.James Brown has had more of an influence on the music we listen to today than almost anyone else. He grew up in abject poverty, a black man in the post-depression south. His chances of making it in...
Heart Full of Soul
An Inspirational Memoir About Finding Your Voice and Finding Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
With a Bible belt twang and a shock of gray hair, American Idol winner Hicks resembles nothing less than the other tweeny pop stars churned out by the television megahit. In this inspirational autobiography, Hicks reveals that, before capturing televised glory (and more votes than George Bush in 2004),...