Over their 30-year career as one of the most influential and successful bands in the world, The Grateful Dead released just a handful of studio albums and a small number of live recordings.
Exploding onto the late 1960s scene, The Stooges were a bunch of misfit Mid-Western delinquents, and their charismatic frontman, Iggy Pop, was a performer extraordinaire.
The hard-rocking British supergroup was fronted by Steve Marriott, possessor of what is generally regarded as one of the finest ever rock and blue-eyed soul voices.
In 1992, Singer, pianist and composer Tori Amos achieved fame with the intensely personal solid gold record, Little Earthquakes, the first of fifteen studio albums.
The Roland x0x Series: A History of Early Roland Synthesizers and Drum Machines from SH-101 to TR-909 offers an authoritative but accessible investigation of how the design of these most influential musical instruments is shaped by technological factors, institutional contexts, market forces and imagined users and uses.
The Roland x0x Series: A History of Early Roland Synthesizers and Drum Machines from SH-101 to TR-909 offers an authoritative but accessible investigation of how the design of these most influential musical instruments is shaped by technological factors, institutional contexts, market forces and imagined users and uses.
Of all of the 'classic' British rockers who came to prominence in the 1960s, only a very few have achieved significant, sustained success through to the present day.
This edited volume offers a new perspective on the new objectivity movement in music during the interwar period, challenging the view of it as a solely German or Berlin-based movement.
For many instructors today, teaching canonical dramatic repertoire can be a fraught proposition: from Don Giovanni to South Pacific, key works in the history of opera and musical theater present challenges related to gender, race, colonialism, class and more.
For many instructors today, teaching canonical dramatic repertoire can be a fraught proposition: from Don Giovanni to South Pacific, key works in the history of opera and musical theater present challenges related to gender, race, colonialism, class and more.
Schwarz oder wei: Das tragische Leben von Michael Jackson40 Jahre lang begeisterte der King of Pop die Fans mit einer Karriere der Superlative das legendare Album Thriller von 1982, mit dem er den weltweiten Durchbruch als Solokunstler feierte, ist mit 67 Millionen verkauften Tontragern bis heute das weltweit erfolgreichste Pop- Album aller Zeiten.
Hendrik Otremba, Schriftsteller und Musiker in Personalunion, nahert sich einfuhlsam dem Werk der legendaren Kolner Band Can an und spricht mit deren Grunder Irmin Schmidt.
August Wilhelm Iffland legte die Korrespondenz, die er als Direktor des Berliner Nationaltheaters von 1796 bis 1814 fuhrte, geordnet ab und etablierte so ein administratives und dramaturgisches Archiv, das zu einem wichtigen Arbeitsinstrument seiner Theaterleitung wurde.
Hendrik Otremba, Schriftsteller und Musiker in Personalunion, nahert sich einfuhlsam dem Werk der legendaren Kolner Band Can an und spricht mit deren Grunder Irmin Schmidt.
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present.
The creative use of indeterminacy, that is, "e;chance,"e; is an often-overlooked design opportunity despite the universality of chance in art, nature, science, and life.
This book argues that the songs on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding are deeply concerned with the fractures in collective memory and politics contemporary with its composition and recording.
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present.
This volume brings together contributions from musicology, philosophy, cognitive science, and performance studies to explore how emotional content in Early Music can be understood and interpreted.
