Music: styles and genres

This book brings together important material from a range of sources and highlights how government organizations, musicians, academics and commercial companies are concerned with, and seek to use, a particular notion of Irish musical identity.

This element seeks answers to the question, how Offenbach''s stage works were performed/transformed in interwar and post-World War II Budapest.

Insights into Music Composition is a guide and source of inspiration for beginning students of music composition.

Cider with Roadies is the true story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop.

From silent cinema to the modern Hollywood blockbuster - a lively and international perspective on the history of film music.

In Crossing Traditions: American Popular Music in Local and Global Contexts, a wide range of scholarly contributions on the local and global significance of American popular music examines the connections between selected American blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop music and their equivalents from Senegal, Nigeria, England, India, and Mexico.

Often people are given new positions in order to provide them with developmental experiences.

The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design offers a comprehensive overview of the diverse contexts of creativity and research that characterize contemporary sound design practice.

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music is the first comprehensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field.

Uses rhetorical and literary theory to recover the power of the blues in its cultural tradition.

Part reference book, part history, and part road map to the connectivity of popular music, this book is a must for all rock ‘n’ roll fans as it brings together a compilation of over two hundred genres of rock music—an entertaining, enlightening, knotty family tree of America’s favorite musical genre.

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.

Bits and Pieces tells the story of chiptune, a style of lo-fi electronic music that emerged from the first generation of video game consoles and home computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

First published in 1987, New York Times bestseller, I'm With The Band has been reprinted throughout the years, all over the world.

This volume assembles leading scholars to provide a comprehensive study of representation in music from the nineteenth century to today.

Finding the Beat explores humankind's ability, propensity, and enjoyment in finding the beat in live and recorded experiences of music-making through the lens of entrainment, the human capacity to perceive a beat and to synchronize to it.

This volume recognizes the need for culturally responsive forms of school counseling and draws on the author's first-hand experiences of working with students in urban schools in the United States to illustrate how hip-hop culture can be effectively integrated into school counseling to benefit and support students.

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century.

The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environment for Hip-Hop to specifically grow in the geographies of New York City and its boroughs.

This edited volume of case studies presents a selective history of French music and culture, but one with a dynamic difference.

Sara Manasseh brings a significant, but less widely-known, Jewish repertoire and tradition to the attention of both the Jewish community (Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Oriental) and the wider global community.

The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms across the globe.

First published in 2011, this research study includes a biography section as well as the works of Gabriel Urbain Faure born on 12 May 1845.

Jacques Offenbach, der "König der Operette", revolutionierte im 19.

The Politics of Verdi's Cantica treats a singular case study of the use of music to resist oppression, combat evil, and fight injustice.

Shortly after Chopin's death in 1849, Franz Liszt wrote the first full-length biography of his fellow composer.

LEO SMITH-cellist, journalist, composer, and teacher-was one of the most picturesque and frequently idolized artists on the Canadian scene.

How do you turn songwriting talent into a professional career?

Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century.

D,at de S,rac (1872-1921) is best known for his piano music but his compositions included orchestral and vocal works, including opera, cantata and incidental music.

First Published in 1996.

Julie Brown reconsiders Schoenberg''s step into atonality as a response to Wagner''s charges concerning the Jewish influence on German music.

Dance music at the courts of seventeenth-century Germany is a genre that is still largely unknown.

Winner, ASA (American Society for Aesthetics) 2023 Outstanding Monograph Prize

For Theodore Gracyk meaning in popular music depends as much on the context of reception and performer's intentions as on established musical and semantic practices.

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format.

Gyorgy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century.

In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists.

'The message is consistent: it's not what you do in life, but how you do it.

This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom.

The Pre-history of 'The Midsummer Marriage' examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippett's first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase.

Experience the passion and drama of the world's greatest operas with this sumptuously illustrated visual guide.

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

This innovative study of nineteenth-century cellists and cello playing shows how simple concepts of posture, technique and expression changed over time, while acknowledging that many different practices co-existed.

Schenkerian Analysis: Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm, Motive and Form, Second Edition is a textbook directed at all those-whether beginners or more advanced students-interested in gaining understanding of and facility at applying Schenker's ideas on musical structure.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the childhood musical experiences of Vietnamese elders, providing a unique lens on the intersections between identity, culture, and music education.

Amid enormous changes in higher education, audience and music listener preferences, and the relevant career marketplace, music faculty are increasingly aware of the need to reimagine classical music performance training for current and future students.

First Published in 2002.

The symphony retained its primacy as the most prestigious large-scale orchestral form throughout the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in Britain, Russia and the United States.