Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
British Invasion
The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
In The British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence, Simon Philo illustrates how this remarkable event in cultural history disrupted and even reversed pop culture’s default flow of influence, goods, and ideas— orchestrating a dramatic turn-around in the commercial fortunes of British...
Listen Again
A New History of Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
How do you tell the key of a piece—without looking at a score? How do you know when a musical work ended before an audience applauds or a radio announcer returns on air? Was there, in fact, a ‘breakdown of tonality’ in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? These questions and others are the...
Warren Zevon
Desperado of Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Warren Zevon: Desperado of Los Angeles is the first book-length, critical exploration of one of popular music’s most talented and tormented antiheroes. George Plasketes provides a comprehensive chronicle of Zevon’s 40-year, 20-record career and his enduring cultural significance. Beginning with...
Music Theory Secrets
94 Strategies for the Starting Musician
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Rhythms, melodies, and harmonies are the building blocks of music. In Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician, Brent Coppenbarger offers a full range of methods to help musicians not only grasp but remember those key elements upon which the music they play is built: pitch, rhythm,...
Carl Maria von Weber
Oberon and Cosmopolitanism in the Early German Romantic
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Despite its enormous popularity throughout the nineteenth century, Weber’s swan song, Oberon, has remained separate from the mainstream thrust of our modern understanding of German Romantic opera. In Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon and the Cosmopolitanism in the Early German Romantic, music historian...
Singing in Greek
A Guide to Greek Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In Singing in Greek: A Guide to Greek Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, Lydía Zervanos reveals to singers the vast riches of Greek vocal music. Dating back to 1770, Greek art music—following the Western European styles, often drawing on themes from folk music and motifs—long awaits its rightful...
French Vocal Literature
Repertoire in Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
French Vocal Literature: Repertoire in Context introduces singers to the history and performance concerns of a vast body of French songs from the twelfth century to the present, focusing on works for solo voice or small vocal ensembles with piano or organ accompaniment, suitable for recitals, concerts,...
So You Want to Sing Light Opera
A Guide for Performers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
So You Want to Sing Light Opera is a concise handbook for performers, teachers, and directors who want to learn more about the delightful genre of light opera, including Viennese operetta, English comic opera, French opéra bouffe, and Spanish zarzuela. Award-winning opera director and singer Linda...
Alto
The Voice of Bel Canto
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Everyone is familiar with the words diva or prima donna, which have come to mean a (usually) outrageous operatic soprano, but there was a time when the star of the show was more often a contralto, or a soprano singing in today's mezzo-soprano range. This performer was referred to as an alto. In the...
Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi
A Guide for Directors and Performers
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi, veteran opera director William Ferrarapresents a detailed, practical exploration of the staging of twenty-one scenes from two of opera’s most beloved composers. He brings to life Donizetti’s delightful comedies, L’Elisir d’amore and...
Colin Powell
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Few figures in the past quarter-century have played a more significant role in American foreign policy than Colin Powell. He wielded power at the highest levels of the most important foreign policy bureaucracies: the Pentagon, the White House, the joint chiefs, and the state department. As national...
Feedback
The Who and Their Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
In Feedback: The Who and Their Generation, historian Casey Harison offers a cultural and social history of one of the most successful bands of the 1960s British Invasion. In this historically sensitive account of the superband’s impact during its first decade, Harison describes the key role played...
by Kathleen Fearn-Banks, Anne Burford-Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
From Amos 'n' Andy to The Jeffersons to Family Matters to Chappelle's Show, this volume has all different genres—animation, documentaries, sitcoms, sports, talk shows, and variety shows—and performers such as Muhammad Ali, Louis Armstrong, Bill Cosby, and Oprah Winfrey. Additionally, information...
From Small Screen to Vinyl
A Guide to Television Stars Who Made Records, 1950-2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
From its infancy, television networks and studios explore others avenues to increase their revenues. Conveniently enough, several film studios and production companies—MGM, MTM, Columbia/Screen Gems, Talent Associates, Warner Brothers—had their own record label divisions. The obvious benefit was...