Music: styles and genres

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.

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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.

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

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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.