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Wounds to Bind
A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
The dawn of folk rock comes to life in Jerry Burgan’s unforgettable memoir of the pre-psychedelic 1960s and the summer that changed everything.
As a naïve folksinger from Pomona, California, Burgan was thrust to the forefront of the counterculture and its aftermath. The Byrds, the Rolling...
Believe Your Ears
Life of a Lyric Composer
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Believe Your Ears: Life of a Lyric Composer is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. He worked as a newspaper reporter, a touring tennis player and a Stanford creative writing major before studying composition and conducting at Harvard....
by Edward Komara, Greg Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Search the Internet for the 100 best songs or best albums. Dozens of lists will appear from aficionados to major music personalities. But what if you not only love listening to the blues or country music or jazz or rock, you love reading about it, too. How do you separate what matters from what doesn’t...
David Shire's The Conversation
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Nominated for three Academy Awards in 1974, including Best Picture and Best Sound, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation is regarded as the archetypal achievement in weaving together a balanced blend of dialogue, cinematography, sound effects, and music. For the film, composer David Shire created...
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,...
Experiencing Black Sabbath
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Black Sabbath has often been credited with inventing heavy metal with their first album released in 1970. Their new style of music was loud, brutal, scary, innovative, and it has greatly influenced heavy metal bands since then. Their five decades of music cross generations of fans, and they remain...
Experiencing Bessie Smith
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Experiencing Bessie Smith, John Clark chronicles Bessie Smith’s vital contribution to and influence on music, the music industry, and the recording industry. While her recording career lasted only a decade, she toured long before setting her music to vinyl, with much of her early career amply documented....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social, political,...
Let's Rock!
How 1950s America Created Elvis and the Rock and Roll Craze
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Rock & roll was one of the most important cultural developments in post–World War II America, yet its origins are shrouded in myth and legend*. Let’s Rock!* reclaims the lost history of rock & roll. Based on years of research, as well as interviews with Bo Diddley, Pat Boone, and other...
by Thomas Donahue
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
The harpsichord was the standard keyboard instrument for three centuries before the invention of the piano. It enjoyed a revival in the second half of the twentieth century, but because of the interruption in its history as a more regularly used instrument, details about its construction are lacking....
by Elisa Koehler
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Titles in Dictionaries for the Modern Musician series offer both the novice and the advanced artist key information designed to convey the field of study and performance for a major instrument or instrument class, as well as the workings of musicians in areas from conducting to composing. Unlike other...
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...
Experiencing Rush
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In Experiencing Rush: A Listener’s Companion, music scholar Durrell Bowman guides readers through Rush’s long career, explaining through the artful combination of biography, history, and musical exegesis how to listen to this unique act. From Rush’s emergence as an early blues-rock power trio...
Experiencing David Bowie
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music. Still active in a career now well...