Music: styles and genres

Kevin Liles rose from intern to president of Def Jam Records in only nine years.

The first cultural history of the Philippines during the twentieth century, Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation focuses on the relationships between music, performance, and ideologies of nation.

The interdisciplinary approach of Music and Medieval Manuscripts is modeled on the work of the scholar to whom the book is dedicated.

Aspects of beauty in the music of MozartIt is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Elvis, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Frank Zappa, Madonna: Die Geschichte der Popmusik ist immer auch eine Geschichte der Bühnenshows.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe.

Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays.

Marilyn Manson in his own words.

Cultivating Sikh Culture and Identity explores the development of modern Sikh identities through the concept of 'cultivation of culture'.

This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber's ground-breaking article, "e;Popular Arts in Africa"e;, which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories.

Adorno believed that a circular relationship was established between immediacy and mediation.

The shortest runs can have the longest legacies: for too long, scholarship surrounding British musical theatre has coalesced around the biggest names, ignoring important works that have not had the critical engagement they deserve.

"e;Icouldn't imagine a finer or livelier guide through the world of opera.

THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK-Published in celebration of BTS's 10th Anniversary, stories that go beyond what you already know about BTS, including unreleased photos and all album information.

Emerging from a period of protest and social unrest, 1968 was the year that ushered in gut-punching sounds that would define classic and hard rock-the formation of bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath rolled away the light sounds of psychedelic music and Flower Power.

The articles here deal with liturgical music.

Before the Nazis sent members of the Filar family to Treblinka, these were the last words Marian Filar's mother said to him: "e;I bless you.

A lively set of new essays on Dylan''s work as a writer and composer and on his place in American culture.

From countercultural resistance to world music craze, Balkan music captured the attention of global audiences.

In recent years, girls' and mixed-gender ensembles have challenged the tradition of male-dominated gamelan performance.

At the height of Tim Maia's soaring fame, he joined a radical, extraterrestrial-obsessed cult and created two plus albums of some of Brazil's-and the globe's-best funk and soul music.

How does popular music produce its subject?

Fats Waller (1904-1943) was an outsize man in all respects: five feet eleven inches tall, he weighed 285 pounds.

The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology.

"e;Interspersed with [a] wealth of well-considered commentary are the smart and affectionate recollections of Burton Bernstein.

Awards: Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019 Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2019 The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre-World War II era.

Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers in their socio-historical contexts.

Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magliabechiana XIX, 164-167 (FlorBN Magl.

Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians focuses on ageing within contemporary popular music.

Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century.

The Groovology of White Affect theorizes white aesthetics and race formation in South Africa from a position immersed in the sonic.

Ewe dance-drumming has been extensively studied throughout the history of ethnomusicology, but up to now there has not been a single study that addresses Ewe female musicians.

Michael Ewans explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case studies.

Why did jazz go Latin?

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.

Sounds of the Pandemic offers one of the first critical analyses of the changes in sonic environments, artistic practice, and listening behaviour caused by the Coronavirus outbreak.

Das Cello – ein Instrument, das durch seine Tiefe und Wärme die Herzen von Musikliebhabern weltweit berührt.

From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound, offering a plural, original history of new music and showing how music had begun a change of paradigm, moving from a culture centred on the note to a culture of sound.

Union and Distinction in the Thought of St Maximus the Confessor presents the writings of a key figure in Byzantine theology in the light of the themes of unity and diversity.

Die Ausgabe enthält in historisch-kritischer Edition Meyerbeers umfangreiche Korrespondenz sowie seine Tagebücher und Taschenkalender.

Studying the role of music within religious congregations has become an increasingly complex exercise.

In a series of 20 candid interviews with radical women musicians and performance artists, author Zora von Burden probes the depths of how and why they broke through society's limitations to create works of outstanding measure.

Published in 1980, Blacks in Blackface was the first and most extensive book up to that time to deal exclusively with every aspect of all-African American musical comedies performed on the stage between 1900 and 1940.

Paul Wranitzky, ein Zeitgenosse von Größen wie Haydn, Mozart und Beethoven, erlebte in seiner Zeit großen Ruhm, geriet jedoch im Laufe der Geschichte fast in Vergessenheit.

Music videos are available on more channels, in more formats, and in more countries than ever before.