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Jerome Kern's Jewel Box shows how the integration of spoken and sung performances in Kern's early musicals reveals new connections between musical theater scores and "e;straight"e; (spoken) theater.

The role of the commercial composer has grown to include a wide range of new responsibilities.

The volume on a standard amp goes to 10.

The Beatles and Black Music discusses the influence that Black music and culture has had over the Beatles throughout their collective and solo careers.

The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work.

The role of the commercial composer has grown to include a wide range of new responsibilities.

'The pages sing in this beautiful book.

A celebration of the four longhaired, oddly dressed chaps who took over America—filled with facts, stories, and photos.

This book explores some of the various ways in which hip hop has tragically and perilously been misused by scholars and how the study of hip hop often entrenches antiblackness as well as other social problematics.

Ewald Pfleger, Gitarrist, Musikproduzent, Autor und Komponist von »Live Is Life« ist Gründungsmitglied der Rockband Opus gibt in seinem Buch nicht nur die Antwort auf die Frage »Live Is Life oder Life Is Live?

Belle epoque Paris adored dance.

This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum.

Between the Ideal and the Real describes why Iraq state-building and democratic transformation failed by offering a very new, and unusual, perspective, away from the usual blame assigned to the US that has become part of the "e;conventional wisdom"e; about Iraq and the Middle East.

Jazz rock flourished from 1968 to 1974, offering a distinctively cool and innovative hybrid sound that captivated a generation—and beyond.

While much has been said about the nostalgia and historic references of Daft Punk's final album, Random Access Memories, this book reveals its ambition and future-focus, and claims these aspects do not necessarily contradict.

It's 2013.

Celebrate your enlistment in Rihanna's Navy with this gorgeously illustrated, all-encompassing fan book on everything there is to know and love about the modern icon that is Rihanna.

Activating Voices in Jazz History: Students Broadening the Narrative highlights the research of students who have been challenged to assess and interpret evidence found in historical records and engage in field interviews with a diverse representation of jazz artists.

Rojo Floyd es un acontecimiento literario único.

Julio Cortázar, Boris Vian, Jack Kerouac, Federico Monjeau, Horacio Verbitsky, Raúl González Tuñón, Paco Urondo, entre otros, reunidos en un libro que compila crónicas, entrevistas, ensayos y poemas sobre jazz, atravezados por una certeza: el swing no es solo un ritmo.

Paul Morley, author, journalist and cultural commentator, tells the story in Earthbound of post-punk, music and changing times - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin'The stand-out is Paul Morley's eclectic, headspinning Earthbound .

Asociado a la rebeldía y el inconformismo juveniles, el rock produjo una revolución cultural cuyos efectos aún modelan buena parte de nuestra vida cotidiana.

¿Qué tienen en común escritores, ensayistas, periodistas especializados y músicos de España y Argentina, como Antonio Muñoz Molina, Beatriz Sarlo, Hermenegildo Sabat, Juan Sasturain, Carlos Sampayo, Marcelo Cohen, Diego Fischerman, Pablo Gianera, Rafael Fillippelli, Sergio Pujol, Santiago Giordano, Eduardo Hojman, Jonio González, César Pradines, Gary Vila Ortiz, Marcelo Scalona, Raúl Acosta, José Luis Cavazza, Rubén "Chivo" González, Roberto Maurer, Guillermo Bazzola, Jorge Fondebrider, Humphrey Inzillo y Marcos Meyer?

Worldwide sensation One Direction is back to share all their secrets, dreams and stories from the past year with the fans they love in the latest instalment of their must-have Annual.

Monasticism is a social and religious phenomenon which originated in antiquity and which still remains relevant in the twenty-first century.

Monasticism is a social and religious phenomenon which originated in antiquity and which still remains relevant in the twenty-first century.

Soul Jazz is a history of jazz and its reception in the black community in the period from the end of World War II until the end of the Vietnam War.

There is no better authority on jazz than the creators, educators, and writers who have made this enigmatic musical style a major force internationally as well as in American history.

OK, break out your microphones (or hair brushes) and start singing to these test and quizzes.