Composers and songwriters

This study of Dylan's mission-driven music reveals a functional approach to art that not only sustained his 60-year career but forever changed an art form.

The Gospels And Christian Life reads the four canonical Gospels as handbooks for religious formation through communal practices.

Tells the story of her upbringing in South London to her thrilling rise to international fame as a singer and also a highly individual fashion icon.

Few expected politician Abraham Lincoln and Congregational minister Owen Lovejoy to be friends when they met in 1854.

The first collection dedicated to David Bowie's acting career shows that his film characterisations and performance styles shift and reform as decoratively as his musical personas.

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Yank Rachell and his mandolin playing style moved every musician lucky enough to hear him perform in the early sixties.

Ruth Etting (1897-1978) was among the most important performers of the early 20th century.

The global movement of culture and religion has brought about a serious challenge to traditional constitutional secularism.

The story of the legendary producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records, who made superstars of the 1970's that have stood the test of time: KISS, Donna Summer, the Village People, and Parliament-Funkadelic.

This is the second volume in Clinton Heylin's magisterial survey of the songs of Bob Dylan.

Explores the cultural, professional and personal contexts that shaped Stravinsky''s creativity and formed the backdrop to his acclaimed compositions.

A creative and accessible harmonic analysis of major works by key composers, demonstrating innovative methods in harmonic theory with sound examples.

This is the first full-length biography of Keith Relf, frontman for the Yardbirds and one of the great tragic characters in rock history.

This collection explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision.

Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical artists from the 1970s to today.

After it was announced that the twenty month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was abducted, the entire world grieved for their loss.

One of the world's greatest classical pianists reveals how the "e;other world"e; transformed his life and careerBy any measure, Byron Janis has had an extraordinary musical career.

A lightning rod for powerful emotions, Thomas Schippers began his escalation to fame at nineteen continuing with performances in many renowned venues in the world.

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Recorded Blues, Hip-Hop, Rhythm & Blues - Certificate of Merit (2014)For more than fifty years, Chicago drummer Jimmi Mayes served as a sideman behind some of the greatest musicians and musical groups in history.

In 1929 Nadia Boulanger accepted Igor Stravinsky's younger son, Soulima, as her student.

“Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration” (The Boston Globe).

Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War.

The Concert Composer's Business Handbook is written for composers of original music-mostly or completely within the world of concert or classical music-as a one-stop resource of information on earning income from music that they write.

This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms''s music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

Among the numerous sets of conferences that Thomas Merton presented to young prospective monks during his decade (1955-1965) as novice master at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani is a wide-ranging introduction to biblical studies, made available for the first time in the present volume.

An unprecedented exploration of Stravinsky''s use of the piano as the genesis of all his music - Russian, neoclassical and serial.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Neither Spem in alium, the widely acclaimed 'songe of fortie partes' by Thomas Tallis, nor Alessandro Striggio's forty-part Mass is the largest-scale counterpoint work in Western music.

An indispensable guide to Islamic political thought from Muhammad to the twenty-first centuryThe first encyclopedia of Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.

She traces his musical roots, piano studies, repertoire, and concert career through his correspondence with family and friends and his own and his contemporaries' memoirs, using material never before available in English.

Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era.

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Renowned scholars and performers present a wide range of different perspectives on Mozart''s chamber music with keyboard.

This high-quality reproduction of the original music scores features wide margins and clear note heads, making it ideal for following the music and a fantastic addition to music collections.

100 years after the Dada soirees rocked the art world, the author investigates the role that music played in the movement.

Behind the glamour and the crowds.

Over 17 years and eight albums, heavy metal band Machine Head have sold millions of units, earned a Grammy nomination and won personal awards from Metal Hammer and other magazines.

I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone chronicles Jim Dickinson's extraordinary life in the Memphis music scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to play with and produce a rich array of artists, including Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Arlo Guthrie, and Albert King.

By the early nineties, singer-songwriter and former Blake Babies member Juliana Hatfield s solo career was taking off: She was on the cover of Spin and Sassy.

From patriotic "e;God Bless America"e; to wistful "e;White Christmas,"e; Irving Berlin's songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war, and come home for the holidays.

Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation: this book explores fresh approaches to his music and the cultural forces affecting it.

A performer''s perspective on Reich''s compositions which explores the techniques developed by musicians to bring his compositions to life.