This book presents an introduction to more than a dozen different types of Balinese gamelan, each with its own established tradition, repertoire and social or religious context.
This interesting and authoritative book includes essential facts about the various forms of Japanese music and musical instruments and their place in the overall history of Japan.
A companion volume to the Emmy Award-winning PBS(R) series-interviews with "e;an essential voice in our national conversation"e; (Brian Williams, MSNBC anchor).
A companion volume to the Emmy Award-winning PBS(R) series-interviews with "e;an essential voice in our national conversation"e; (Brian Williams, MSNBC anchor).
This book presents an introduction to more than a dozen different types of Balinese gamelan, each with its own established tradition, repertoire and social or religious context.
This interesting and authoritative book includes essential facts about the various forms of Japanese music and musical instruments and their place in the overall history of Japan.
Folk Songs Hawaii Sings is a sparkling compilation of melodies from the islands of Polynesia together with a variety of folk songs that countless Asian people have brought with them to their new home in the Hawaiian Islands.
'A true original, a genuine maverick' ROBERT SMITH (The Cure)'An ode to creativity and thinking outside the box, as well as to rock and roll in its purest form: messy, unpredictable and wholly irresistible'TELEGRAPH'An intriguing insight into an industry during a time of big ideas and even bigger budgets, perfectly capturing the riotous energy of a uniquely creative moment in music history'ROLLING STONE'A dirty little page-turner from England's greatest music video director' MATT JOHNSON (The The)'Tim is a strange person'IGGY POP'The absolute dog's bollocks in the world of pop video.
This book examines how musical engagements shape daily life while seeking asylum, connecting fragmented life trajectories, building cross-cultural relationships, maintaining personal identity, and creating transformative moments.
This book examines how musical engagements shape daily life while seeking asylum, connecting fragmented life trajectories, building cross-cultural relationships, maintaining personal identity, and creating transformative moments.
Transmission of Japanese Jiuta Sokyoku for Shamisen and Koto: Negotiating Musical Identity offers a rich and compelling exploration of Japan's refined chamber music tradition for voice, shamisen (3-string lute), and koto (13-string zither).
Transmission of Japanese Jiuta Sokyoku for Shamisen and Koto: Negotiating Musical Identity offers a rich and compelling exploration of Japan's refined chamber music tradition for voice, shamisen (3-string lute), and koto (13-string zither).
In this innovative book, Mike Chasar forwards a theory for how we read, hear, and understand popular music lyrics on their own, in relation to each other, and in relation to the poetic tradition that they inherit, revitalize, and push into new expressive quarters.
In this innovative book, Mike Chasar forwards a theory for how we read, hear, and understand popular music lyrics on their own, in relation to each other, and in relation to the poetic tradition that they inherit, revitalize, and push into new expressive quarters.
This biography reveals the rock music legend's dramatic life story, from his Texas youth and rise to stardom to his personal tragedies and untimely death.
The definitive biography of the 1960s music legend covers her trailblazing life from troubled childhood to iconic stardom to her tragically early death.
The phrase dude food likely brings to mind a range of images: burgers stacked impossibly high with an assortment of toppings that were themselves once considered a meal; crazed sports fans demolishing plates of radioactively hot wings; barbecued or bacon-wrapped .
Railroads, tourism, and government bureaucracy combined to create modern religion in the American West, argues David Walker in this innovative study of Mormonisms ascendency in the railroad era.
In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul.
Mamie Smith’s pathbreaking 1920 recording of “Crazy Blues” set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for “race records.
This is an edited volume of music histories—of peoples, places, and institutions—that refuses to shy away from the geopolitical realities of a global musicology.
This is an edited volume of music histories—of peoples, places, and institutions—that refuses to shy away from the geopolitical realities of a global musicology.
The Ruffhouse Records founder tells how he overcame poverty, abuse, and addiction to start a label that launched some of music's biggest stars: "e;Gripping.
Railroads, tourism, and government bureaucracy combined to create modern religion in the American West, argues David Walker in this innovative study of Mormonisms ascendency in the railroad era.
The phrase dude food likely brings to mind a range of images: burgers stacked impossibly high with an assortment of toppings that were themselves once considered a meal; crazed sports fans demolishing plates of radioactively hot wings; barbecued or bacon-wrapped .
Mamie Smith’s pathbreaking 1920 recording of “Crazy Blues” set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for “race records.
In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul.
Glasgow-born Alex Harvey's career began in the 1950s when he won a competition to become Scotland's answer to Tommy Steele (he dubbed himself 'Last of the Teenage Idols').
Although opera figured importantly in the French quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns and in the English discussions of heroic tragedy, it was in Germany that its role in the development of criticism and aesthetics was most pronounced.
