Popular music

How does the constant presence of music in modern life-on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television-affect the way we listen?

In Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity, Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the present.

Charles Mingus is among jazz's greatest composers and perhaps its most talented bass player.

Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz.

Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately-classical, jazz, and popular-this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music.

New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before.

What is jazz?

In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory.

Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century?

Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time.

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

Celluloid Symphonies is a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible.

What, where, and when is jazz?

There is more to sound recording than just recording sound.

Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian-"e;I'm a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer"e;-has lived through much of jazz's history and has known many of jazz's most important figures, often as friend and confidant.

In a tour de force of lyrical theory, Joshua Clover boldly reimagines how we understand both pop music and its social context in a vibrant exploration of a year famously described as "e;the end of history.

This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas.

For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture.

Horace Silver is one of the last giants remaining from the incredible flowering and creative extension of bebop music that became known as "e;hard bop"e; in the 1950s.

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz's greatest and most enigmatic figures.

"e;Mek Some Noise"e;, Timothy Rommen's ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation's Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity.

The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s and '40s, when swing was at its height.

Proud to Be an Okie brings to life the influential country music scene that flourished in and around Los Angeles from the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s to the early 1970s.

Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to the policies that have shaped artistic life.

This book explores the complexity of Cuban dance music and the webs that connect it, musically and historically, to other Caribbean music, to salsa, and to Latin Jazz.

Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century.

Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.

In this vibrant and pioneering book, Nadine Hubbs shows how a gifted group of Manhattan-based gay composers were pivotal in creating a distinctive "e;American sound"e; and in the process served as architects of modern American identity.

In this fascinating social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, Catherine Parsons Smith ventures into an often neglected period to discover that during America's Progressive Era, Los Angeles was a center for making music long before it became a major metropolis.

Jewish Identities mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about "e;Jewish music,"e; which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group.

Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war.

Throughout his distinguished career, Philip Brett wrote about the music of the Tudor period.

This authoritative volume of 453 letters written by and to composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) provides unparalleled insight into one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history.

It is well known that Bela Bartok had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe.

In this provocative analysis of Beethoven's late style, Stephen Rumph demonstrates how deeply political events shaped the composer's music, from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution to his later entrenchment during the Napoleonic era.

Floyd Levin, an award-winning jazz writer, has personally known many of the jazz greats who contributed to the music's colorful history.

Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice.

After a hundred years of recording, the process of making records is still mysterious to most people who listen to them.

From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones.

This book helps band directors teach and develop successful jazz programs in middle schools and high schools.

In this fresh and innovative study, Judith A.

This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture.

'I hope that as you gaze upon my life in clothing, it will inspire you to develop, and celebrate, your own sense of style.

An overview of blues and gospel music as an expression of twentieth-century black US experience.

The long-awaited, untold, inside story of the rise of the legendary actor, singer, scholar, and activist.

The inside story of the life of Cheryl Burke, TV star, dancer, choreographer, and two-time champion on the top-rated TV hit series Dancing with the StarsCheryl Burke has been dancing since the age of four and competing since she was thirteen years old.

Inside one of the world's most dangerous jobs with the star of History's top-rated reality show, Ice Road TruckersThe highest-rated reality show ever to hit the History channel, Ice Road Truckers follows the heart-pounding adventures of the tough-as-nails truckers who risk peril every day to deliver goods and supplies in Alaska and across Canada's frozen north.

Inside one of the world's most dangerous jobs with the star of History's top-rated reality show, Ice Road TruckersThe highest-rated reality show ever to hit the History channel, Ice Road Truckers follows the heart-pounding adventures of the tough-as-nails truckers who risk peril every day to deliver goods and supplies in Alaska and across Canada's frozen north.

The official book celebrating the 25th anniversary of SPIN magazineFrom its first issue in 1985, SPIN has cultivated a reputation for brilliant writing and broad musical coverage, including genres and artists long abandoned by its competitors.

The official book celebrating the 25th anniversary of SPIN magazineFrom its first issue in 1985, SPIN has cultivated a reputation for brilliant writing and broad musical coverage, including genres and artists long abandoned by its competitors.