Popular music

This volume gathers together and organizes in an easily accessible format all known information relevant to the life and work of the French jazz musician Django Reinhardt.

The intense and continuing popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and depth of the academic critical response.

Jazz Sells: Music, Marketing, and Meaning examines the issues of jazz, consumption, and capitalism through advertising.

If you ever needed proof that a magazine can have a love affair with a musician, you're holding it in your hands.

There has never been a band like Pearl Jam.

Reelin' in the Years tell the remarkable story of the American jazz rock band who have sold over 50 million albums during a career lasting over 20 years: Steely Dan.

"e;Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice.

A complete history of Toronto's legendary Horseshoe Tavern, "e;the Birthplace of Canadian Rock,"e; to coincide with its seventieth anniversary.

Cómo utilizar la ciencia de la sanación con sonidos para alcanzar un estado superior de la conciencia, fortalecer las relaciones, promover la unidad planetaria y contribuir a la sanación física y emocional

• Ofrece ejercicios de respiración, entonación, sonidos sagrados y cánticos de mantras de las bijas para activar y balancear los chakras a fin de mejorar la salud y la armonía

• Muestra cómo practicar la sanación con sonidos por cuenta propia o con un acompañante, para mejorar la comunicación, reducir el estrés y crear equilibrio y paz interior

Los maestros espirituales de la antigüedad y los expertos en física cuántica moderna reconocen que el universo es vibración.

Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by ongoing tension between assimilation to the broader culture, as typified by mainline Protestant churches, and defiant rejection of cultural incursions, as witnessed by more sectarian movements such as Mormonism and Hassidism.

Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller shaped the rock and roll era - this is their story in their own words.

Keith Lowell Jensen thinks you should punch Nazis.

Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set.

Learning Jazz: Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy addresses a debate that has consumed practitioners and advocates since the music's early days.

In the contemporary world, the role of the commercial composer has grown to include a wide range of new responsibilities.

Thirty years ago, Kathryn Tanner put forward a daring proposal.

Das unentbehrliche Handbuch, vollgepackt mit Informationen zur Musik von The Police und Sting.

Made in Latin America serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Latin American popular music.

An unorthodox musician from the start, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's style of composing, performing, and of playing (and tuning) the guitar is unique.

One hot summer night in 1945, three young American writers, each an enfant terrible, came together in a stuffy Manhattan apartment for the first time.

On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a time when young men wore their dangerous habits like badges of honor.

Nirvana FAQ traces the band from its genesis to its end.

The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.

Theorizes an alternative form of masculinity in global literature that is less egocentric and more sustainable, both in terms of gendered and environmental power dynamics.

This book seeks to interrogate the representation of Black women in television.

A concise and authoritative introduction to Islamic political ideasIn sixteen concise chapters on key topics, this book provides a rich, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, presenting essential background and context for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.

An oral history of the legendary band Primus, with a star-studded cast of interviewees (Tom Waits, Phish front man Trey Anastasio, etc.

Men in all stages of transition have come and gone from my life, and each one has been entirely different.

A pioneering "e;horror-punk"e; band, the Misfits are legends in their own time.

The author describes how playing drum kit enables him to experience transcendence through being fully present with himself and others.

Black Power Music!

In the first half of the twentieth century, modernist works appeared not only in obscure little magazines and books published by tiny exclusive presses but also in literary reprint magazines of the 1920s, tawdry pulp magazines of the 1930s, and lurid paperbacks of the 1940s.

The first systematic study to address the character and scope of American popular music in India during British rule.

Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention-its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders.

'This is the most glorious of books.

Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918.

A brilliant new biography of the extraordinary, outrageous performer who helped open the floodgates of Rock 'n' Roll.

This is Part Two of Volume One'Mark Lewisohn knows the Fab Four better than they knew themselves' The GuardianThis extended special edition of Mark Lewisohn's magisterial book Tune In is a true collector's item, featuring hundreds of thousands of words of extra material, as well as many extra photographs.

It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others, new romantics, new wavers, the bats or the morbids.

Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music, with the aim of exploring "e;how the record shapes the song"e; (Moylan, Recording Analysis, 2020) from a variety of perspectives.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDiscover the moving, entertaining, never-before-told story of how one man found his calling: to see that those who defend this country and its freedoms are never forgotten.

This volume examines the powerful ways in which identity can be shaped by rock music.

En France, tout finit par des chansons' is the well-known phrase which sums up the importance of chanson for the French.

When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention.

Known for albums like Late for the Sky, The Pretender, and Running on Empty, Jackson Browne was a master of capturing the counterculture ethos of the 1960s.

The transition from the valveless natural horn to the modern valved horn in 19th-century Paris was different from similar transitions in other countries.

Now firmly established as one of the leading textbooks in the increasingly popular field of radio studies, Radio in Context provides students with a practical, critical and comprehensive understanding of the main principles and techniques used in radio programming.

Is "e;goth music"e; a genre, and if so, how does it relate to the goth subculture?

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