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Hip Hop at Europe's Edge
Music, Agency, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell,...
Hip Hop Africa
New African Music in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other...
Keystone Korner
Portrait of a Jazz Club
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
The award-winning photographer’s pictorial history of the famous San Francisco Jazz club featuring oral histories and more than 100 images—“A treasure” (SF Weekly).
In the words of Wynton Marsalis, “Keystone Korner was the quintessential jazz club . . . a happy home to...
The Notation Is Not the Music
Reflections on Early Music Practice and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Written by a leading authority and artist of the historical transverse flute, The Notation Is Not the Music offers invaluable insight into the issues of historically informed performance and the parameters—and limitations—of notation-dependent performance. As Barthold Kuijken illustrates, performers...
by Billy Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Legendary jazz ambassador Dr. Billy Taylor's autobiography spans more than six decades, from the heyday of jazz on 52nd Street in 1940s New York City to CBS Sunday Morning. Taylor fought not only for the recognition of jazz music as "America's classical music" but also for the recognition of black...
Bach's Cello Suites, Volumes 1 and 2
Analyses and Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
J. S. Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello are among the most cherished and frequently played works in the entire literature of music, and yet they have never been the subject of a full-length music analytical study. The musical examples herein include every note of all movements (so one needs...
Singing Games in Early Modern Italy
The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
In Italy during the late cinquecento, printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but also in lay homes, courts, and academies. No longer confined to the salons of the elite, music took on the role of social play and recreation. Paul Schleuse examines...
Breaking Time's Arrow
Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Charles Ives (1874–1954) moved traditional compositional practice in new directions by incorporating modern and innovative techniques with nostalgic borrowings of 19th century American popular music and Protestant hymns. Matthew McDonald argues that the influence of Emerson and Thoreau on Ives's...
Fanfares and Finesse
A Performer's Guide to Trumpet History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Unlike the violin, which has flourished largely unchanged for close to four centuries, the trumpet has endured numerous changes in design and social status from the battlefield to the bandstand and ultimately to the concert hall. This colorful past is reflected in the arsenal of instruments a classical...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Revised and expanded since it first appeared in 1991, the guide features two new chapters on ornamentation and rehearsal techniques, as well as updated reference materials, internet resources, and other new material made available only in the last decade.
The guide is comprised of focused chapters...
Shostakovich's Music for Piano Solo
Interpretation and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
The piano works of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) are among the most treasured musical compositions of the 20th century. In this volume, pianist and Russian music scholar Sofia Moshevich provides detailed interpretive analyses of the ten major piano solo works by Shostakovich, carefully noting...
Leo Ornstein
Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and...
Death in Winterreise
Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Lauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a...
by Jeremy Yudkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Focusing on one of the legendary musicians in jazz, this book examines Miles Davis's often overlooked music of the mid-1960s with a close examination of the evolution of a new style: post bop. Jeremy Yudkin traces Davis's life and work during a period when the trumpeter was struggling with personal...