History of music

Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892-1980) is considered to be one of our nation's most influential musicians.

In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam.

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed.

Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding.

Have you ever wondered how the Lord sustained Martin Luther through one of the most personally and spiritually intense times in the history of Christendom?

A deep dive into the history and retro appeal of musical exotica, including the Orientalism, Hawaiianesque, and Afro-tropicalism sub-sets.

In 1517, Martin Luther set off what has been called, at least since the nineteenth century, the Protestant Reformation.

In this third of three volumes addressing Luther's outlaw God, Steven D.

Presented on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, this collection of essays honors the life and work of Dr.

Some would argue that there is no need for yet another biography of Martin Luther.

By almost any reckoning, the Ninety-Five Theses ranks as the most important text of the Reformation, if not in substance at least in impact.

Ethics is the culmination of Dietrich Bonhoeffers theological and personal odyssey and one of the most important works of Christian ethics of the last century.

The Reformation-era writings that make up the Lutheran Confessions remain lively resources for Christian ministry and mission today.

Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world.

Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise.

Sixteen church historians here examine Martin Luther in an uncommon waynot as Reformer or theologian but as pastor.

Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music.

New perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all timePerhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957).

A world-renowned scholar of plainchant, Kenneth Levy has spent a portion of his career investigating the nature and ramifications of this repertory's shift from an oral tradition to the written versions dating to the tenth century.

A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-SaensCamille Saint-Saens-perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music-is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his earlier importance.

"e;Listening to the Beat of the Bomb"e; UPK author Charles Wolfe discusses his work and his new book Country Music Goes to War in the NEW YORK TIMES.

In Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of Hey Jude, James Campion dives deeply into the songs origins, recording, visual presentation, impact, and eventual influence, while also discovering what makes Hey Jude a classic musical expression of personal comfort and societal unity conceived by a master songwriter, Paul McCartney.

The 1970s saw a wave of singer-songwriters flood the airwaves and concert halls across the United States.

Richard H.

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental in music and other arts and in everyday communication alike.

This book explores dancing from the 1960s to the 1980s; though this period covers only twenty years, the changes during it were seismic.

Unique among the various types of impersonation entertainers, a tribute artist concentrates on only a few of a famous singer's notable characteristics in order to effectively evoke that performer through song.

Emotional courage is an underestimated characteristic of successful Black life in the segregated, unjust US south.

El presente libro registra un panorama de la historia institucional de las Bandas Departamentales del Valle del Cauca y Nariño.

Of the many Cold War radio DJs who broadcast to the USSR, Seva Novgorodsev must be near the top of the list.

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Die schönsten 20 neuen Kinderlieder-Hits von Detlev Jöcker.

Im März 1842 veranstalteten die Mitglieder des Wiener Hofopernorchesters auf Initiative und unter Leitung ihres ersten Kapellmeisters Otto Nicolai ein Konzert im Großen Redoutensaal in WIen, mit dem die Reihe der "Philharmonischen Konzerte" begann und in dessen weiterer Folge das Orchester die Bezeichnung "Philharmoniker" erhielt.

Chaikovski es, sin duda, uno de los compositores más queridos por los aficionados a la música en todo el mundo, una popularidad que, sin embargo, suele ir acompañada de un difuso conocimiento de su vida, sustentado en lugares comunes y clichés, cuando no en un cierto recelo por parte de ciertos sectores de la crítica, que han acabado por transmitir una imagen distorsionada de su figura.

DAS GROßE KLAVIERBUCH mit 34 der schönsten und bekanntesten Kinderliederhits von Detlev Jöcker.

Una conexión inspiradora entre personajes y eventos históricos con grandes artistas y canciones del rock¿Qué sorprendente vínculo existe entre determinadas historias y algunas canciones y artistas muy populares como "Losing my Religion" de R.

UN RELATO FASCINANTE E INSÓLITO DE LOS GRANDES HITOS DE LA MÚSICA CLÁSICAEl autor nos acerca –con inusual maestría– a los grandes nombres de la músi­ca clásica a través de un apasionante viaje musical en torno a las curiosidades que encierran las grandes obras y los compositores que las crearon.

Este libro no es un simple manual, ni un tratado de violín al uso.

In Search of Soul explores the meaning of ';soul' in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history.

As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness.

The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology.

Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a ';coloured' cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape.

What happened to musical modernism?

Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance.

In 1953, the same year that Elvis Presley cut his first demo, Cash Box magazine named the Hilltoppers the top vocal group of the year.

The Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on our special CD and:The tell-all letter from a teenage girl who kissedand kissedElvis PresleyHow corruption and greed made the Jacksonville music sceneGretchen Wilson, country musics Redneck WomanThe invaluable social spaces of African American record storesBobby Rush, bluesman-plusWhere Opryland resides in hearts, minds, and soulsBackstage with the Avett Brothers, Doc Watson, Tift Merritt, Southern Culture on the Skids, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Johnny Cash, and more great artists.

Despite its extraordinary popularity and worldwide influence, the world of rap and hip hop is under constant attack.