Music: styles and genres

Made in Puerto Rico: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of 20th and 21st century popular music in Puerto Rico.

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera.

Featuring a foreword from Annie MacIn Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends.

'Have I always wanted to garden?

'I found it fascinating - it's an integral part of the history of Dublin that has been lost to time for too long' - Rick O'SheaA feminist history of Europe's largest red-light district and an examination of the lives of the women who worked there.

In the first years of the new millennium Russell Watson was at the peak of his success as a much loved classical singer.

A love letter to America from the pen of actor, producer, immigrant, and activist Wilmer Valderrama.

Herbert Grönemeyer – die erste umfassende Gesamtdarstellung über den Künstler und sein Werk Zum ersten Mal sah ihn die halbe Nation in dem Film »Das Boot«.

Take a bumpy ride with Denise known on stage as Dutchess through the dark day-to-day life of a career stripper/dancer.

Based on previously unpublished documents, Frank D'Accone sets the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in the later 15th century and the emergence in the early 16th century of a new Florentine school of composers.

This book explores the works and influence of the eighteenth-century British composer Charles Avison.

Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and continues to influence contemporary Black popular music and Black popular culture, especially rap music and the Hip Hop Movement.

Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive study of the history and evolution of pianoforte music from its origins in the early 18th century to modern times.

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK'A must-read memoir that you'll want to share with all the women in your life' MICHELLE OBAMA'A work of art' OPRAHTo understand the icons Beyonc , Solange and Kelly, you have to understand where they came from.

Whether accompanying a march, a sit-in, or a confrontation with police, songs and protest are inextricably linked.

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.

Descubra un tesoro de la música barroca con "Fantasías y Variaciones", una exquisita selección de piezas instrumentales de los maestros holandeses del siglo XVII, magistralmente compiladas y editadas por Mario A.