Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time.
Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time.
1973 was a year that glittered and growled, a year when British music stood at the crossroads of fantasy and fury, glamour and grit, reinvention and collapse.
An electrifying collection of essays from legendary cultural critic and Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Tate Easily one of the greatest wordsmiths [and] the best American writer and thinker of the past forty years Washington PostFrom one of the most original, creative, and provocative writers on American culture comes a now-classic collection of essays, delving far and wide into Black music, into film, into the beats and rhyme of culture (Questlove).
Blunt, irreverent, and at times delightfully subversive, Opera Wars spotlights operas colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic futurea colorful, witty look behind the velvet curtain (Rene Fleming).
A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn.
A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn.
What began as an underground 60s Mod scene in unlicensed, no-frills clubs in the North West of England became a youth craze that has long surpassed all others.
'A wonderfully warm tale of weddings, funerals, marathon sauna contests - and the incomparable thrill of your first kiss, from "e;the Nick Hornby of the Arctic"e;.
La obra "e;Sociologia y musica: aportes investigativos para el caso colombiano"e; es una compilacion academica que busca contribuir a la investigacion sobre la sociologia de la musica en Colombia a traves de ocho trabajos diversos.
En esta nueva edición de la Guía del flamenco se expone el origen y el desarrollo del flamenco, y se analizan los periodos fundamentales de su evolución, así como los enclaves geográficos más significativos.
Per ogni ARMY che ha mai messo in pausa una canzone per cogliere un verso, rimandato indietro un videoclip fotogramma per fotogramma, o perso un pomeriggio in una teoria sui BTS: questo libro è per te.
Un libro que nos presenta 25 exponentes destacados de la musica espanola en el siglo XXI, cuya obra recorre generos y sonoridades, confeccionando en cierta medida un mapa de la diversidad sonora que hay en ese pais, recorriendo del folclor de distintas regiones a la cancion de autor, el flamenco, el rock, el hip-hop, el rap, la musica de fusion, etcetera.
The ultimate collection of 100 legendary guitarsFrom the beginnings of the American guitar in the 19th century to the avant-garde Canadian creations of a few months ago, from folk to electric to archtop; from the cheap guitar of the bluesmen of the 1960s to the Les Paul worth half a million dollars; all the instruments presented in this book are exceptional, whether it's because of their sound, their craftsmanship, the way they play, their aesthetics or the artists they inspired.
El territorio andado es el de la formacion auditiva, un espacio paradojal y caleidoscopico, en el cruce de las exigencias del dominio de la notacion musical de los musicos del siglo XIX y las necesidades que de ella tienen los protagonistas de la cultura musical posalfabetizada.
In seinem neuesten Buch entlarvt Marcus drei »gewöhnliche« amerikanische Songs als grundlegende Dokumente amerikanischer Identität: Bascom Lamar Lunsfords »I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground« (1928), Geeshie Wileys »Last Kind Words Blues« (1930) und Bob Dylans »Ballad of Hollis Brown« (1964).
