Music reviews and criticism

The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century.

From their humble beginnings as friends in high school, to playing strip clubs in nothing but well-placed socks, through a struggle to find the right guitarist, to the present day, Red Hot Chili Peppers FAQ chronicles the adventures of the best-selling alternative rock band of all time.

In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism.

Teen pop is a sub-genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens.

Die Münchner Tagung über Aufführungs- und Interpretationsfragen zur Musik für Tasteninstrumente vom April 2018 hat innovativ musikwissenschaftliche Darstellungen mit musikalischen Demonstrationen an historischen Typen des Klaviers verbunden.

In Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century, Margot E.

"e;Don Giovanni"e; Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance.

Twentieth-century composers created thousands of original works for solo percussion and percussion ensemble.

Music was everywhere during the Civil War.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

As the sound-producing mechanism for the bassoon, the reed is a vital component in the sound of the entire instrument.

Von lang tradierten Klängen, alten und neuen Liedermachern, dem Festival von Sanremo und der Showbühne des Eurovision Song Contest bis zur globalen Tragweite der Hip-Hop-Kultur präsentiert der Band aus romanistischer Perspektive ein Spektrum, das zeigt, wie diesseits und jenseits der Romania Pop(ulär)musik sich in Europa verortet, Europa konstituiert und zugleich kritisiert

The former Van Halen front man recounts his life, from his childhood to his wild days in rock 'n' roll, in this one-of-a-kind memoir.

The sounds of spectators at football (soccer) are often highlighted - by spectators, tourists, commentators, journalists, scholars, media producers, etc.

A biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.

Innovative analytical techniques provide a penetrating view of how Haydn and Mozart employ harmony in their compositions.

In When Rock Met Reggae, Steven Blush takes a spirited, cross-genre perspective in this "e;illuminating chronicle"e; (Booklist) of the crossover of Jamaican, British, and American sounds that changed the face of popular music.

Cleverly marketed by their original manager as the bad boys of rock, the Rolling Stones have survived dalliances with the devil, drug busts, and the death of founding member Brian Jones to become the world's longest-running rock and roll band.

Detailed overview of Handel's final 22 operas - including major masterpieces such as Orlando, Ariodante and Alcina and the brilliant lighter works Partenope, Serse and Imeneo - by the world's leading authority.

Beyond its elucidation and critique of traditional 'notation-centric' musicology, this book's primary emphasis is on the negotiation and construction of meaning within the extended musical multimedia works of the classic British group Pink Floyd.

Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today.

Winner of the Modern Language AssociationsAldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Hip hop is a global form of creative expression.

Shortly after Chopin's death in 1849, Franz Liszt wrote the first full-length biography of his fellow composer.

Making New Music in Cold War Poland presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War.

A detailed 2010 analysis of Bach''s Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world.

More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock'n'roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash.

One of Europe's foremost experts on early guitar music explores this little known but richly rewarding repertoire.

After Sound considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound.

Few music groups have been able to sustain a fan base as passionate and dedicated as that of Phish, and this entertaining guide rewards those fans with everything they need to know about the band in a one-of-a-kind format.

One of the most fascinating figures of seventeenth-century music, composer and singer Antonia Padoani Bembo (c.

Dave Matthews Band celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2016, a milestone few bands achieve.

When Colleges Sang is an illustrated history of the rich culture of college singing from the earliest days of the American republic to the present.

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

Koza Dabasa explores Okinawa's island culture and its ghosts of war through the lens of Nenes, a four-woman pop group that draws on the distinctiveness and exoticism of Okinawan musical tradition.

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A varied and wide-ranging collection in which the celebrated post-war composer Peter Maxwell Davies presents his work and his opinions.

The final section of the Montpellier Codex analysed in full for the first time, with major implications for late-medieval music.

This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart''s time within its highly social salon-performance context.

Debussy's Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism explores the music of Claude Debussy and its early reception in light of the rise of the empirical human sciences in Western Europe around the turn of the twentieth century.

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs.

An accessible multi-disciplinary exploration of Franz Schubert''s haunting late song cycle Winterreise (1827) that combines context and different analytical approaches.