Scarecrow Press imprint: 1180 books
Leoncavallo
Life and Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), whose credits include Pagliacci and the operatic works Chatterton, Der Roland von Berlin, Zazà, Maïa, Zingari, La bohème, and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum....
Ska
The Rhythm of Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Like other major music genres, ska reflects, reveals, and reacts to the genesis and migration from its Afro-Caribbean roots and colonial origins to the shores of England and back across the Atlantic to the United States. Without ska music, there would be no reggae or Bob Marley, no British punk and...
The Story of Boogie-Woogie
A Left Hand Like God
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
The Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God examines the socio-historical background of the boogie-woogie piano style, from its early appearances in the barrelhouses of lumber, turpentine, and railroad camps in the southern United States, to its emergence at rent parties in Chicago and St. Louis,...
Jazz in New Orleans
The Postwar Years Through 1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001
Jazz in New Orleans provides accurate information about, and an insightful interpretation of, jazz in New Orleans from the end of World War II through 1970. Suhor, relying on his experiences as a listener, a working jazz drummer, and writer in New Orleans during this period, has done a great service...
by John Michael Cooper, Randy Kinnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music provides detailed and authoritative articles for the most important composers, concepts, genres, music educators, performers, theorists, writings, and works of cultivated music in Europe and the Americas during the period 1789-1914. The roster of biographical...
Avant Garde
An American Odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Gertrude Stein and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead were unlikely friends who spent most of their mature lives in exile: Stein in France and Whitehead in the United States. Their friendship was based on a mutual admiration for the philosophical pragmatism of William James and skepticism toward the...
by Norman David
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
This book examines arranging methods and their applications. It is designed to be used in a jazz studies program and as a professional reference manual for musicians. The text begins with a historical overview of jazz band instruments and a study of their characteristics. The body of the text includes...
West Side Story
Cultural Perspectives on an American Musical
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
In West Side Story: Cultural Perspectives on an American Musical, Wells presents a major scholarly study of the famous American musical West Side Story, viewing the work from cultural, historical, and musical perspectives. From the "mambo craze" of the 1950s to the work's ongoing permeation...
Serge Chaloff
A Musical Biography and Discography
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1998
Serge Chaloff (1923-1957) is most widely remembered as the flamboyant baritone saxophone star with Woody Herman's 2nd Herd whose problems with drugs extended to erratic personal behavior. Nevertheless, there were many brilliant sessions featuring his work before and after his stint with Herman. This...
Harlem Jazz Adventures
A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Timme Rosenkrantz (1911–1969) was a Danish journalist, author, concert and record producer, radio show host, and entrepreneur with a consuming passion for jazz and little head for business. Known in Denmark and New York as the “Jazz Baron” because of his noble lineage, he was the first European...
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
The Never-Ending Highway
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
The American singer and guitarist Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1931- ) is a seminal figure in the folk music revivals of the United States and Great Britain. Declared an American treasure by former President Bill Clinton, Elliott has traveled and performed for more than 50 years, and his life and career...
The Conscience of the Folk Revival
The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Israel G. “Izzy” Young was the proprietor of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The literal center of the New York folk music scene, the Center not only sold records, books, and guitar strings but served as a concert hall, meeting spot, and information...
Listening to Stanley Kubrick
The Music in His Films
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick’s films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking. Despite playing such an important part in his productions, however, the ways in which Kubrick used music to great effect is still somewhat mysterious to many viewers. Although some viewers may...
Counting Down Bob Dylan
His 100 Finest Songs
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Counting Downis a unique series of titles designed to select the best songs or musical works from major performance artists and composers in an age of design-your-own playlists.
For fifty years, Bob Dylan’s music has been a source of wonder to his fans and endless fodder for analysis by music...