Music: styles and genres

This book explores the crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood.

A PopSugar Best New Books of 2021 SelectionWeed inspires her.

A novel of honor, based on the events leading to the infamous Sand Creek Massacre of the Cheyenne Indians near Fort Lyon in 1864.

Although he is often identified as a Monteverdi scholar (Approaches to Monteverdi: Aesthetic, Psychological, Analytical and Historical Studies, published in the Variorum series in 2013), the majority of Jeffrey Kurtzman's work has focused on other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian sacred music.

This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian who constructed his theology "e;from above"e; and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H.

An ';incisiveheartwarming' (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musical theater masterworks as Company, West Side Story, and Into the Woods.

Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse develops tools from psychoanalysis for the analysis of Ornette Coleman's discourse.

This book examines the creative process of the Bee Gees and the latent elements that shaped their sound.

This book examines the creative process of the Bee Gees and the latent elements that shaped their sound.

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches.

Die Habsburger waren nicht nur eine der mächtigsten Dynastien Europas, sondern auch die maßgeblichen Förderer der klassischen Musik.

The Beatification of Shirley chronicles the Whitford family's journey through decades of miscalculations and misguided intentions.

A ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain.

An avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear, 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) marked a pivotal point in David Bowie's career.

An avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear, 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) marked a pivotal point in David Bowie's career.

Stephen Bonta's research on seventeenth-century Italian music, particularly for strings, spans more than 30 years.

A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell.

Over a career spanning six decades, Queen have become one of the most successful music artists in the history of the recorded music industry.

Die Trauer um Friedrich den Großen hallte weit über die Grenzen Preußens hinaus und inspirierte den begnadeten Komponisten Johann Friedrich Reichardt zu einem Werk von außergewöhnlicher Tiefe und Ausdruckskraft: der Trauer-Kantate auf den Tod des preußischen Königs.