Music: styles and genres

In the 1960s, Welsh-language popular music emerged as a vehicle for mobilizing a geographically dispersed community into political action.

The first songbook by Abdullah Ibrahim contains 15 atmospheric songs for piano.

This book explores an album of popular music with a remarkable significance to a violent wave of postcolonial tensions in the Netherlands in the 1970s.

Analyzing the lack of diversity among opera executives, this book examines the careers of executive opera managers of color in the U.

The only encyclopedic anddefinitive book on American indie metal!

The first biography of guitar legend Angus Young, who has kept AC/DC at the top of the rock pile.

Giochino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide is designed as a tool for those beginning to study the life and works of Gioachino Rossini as well as for those who wish to explore beyond the established biographies and commentaries.

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted.

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist.

- Descubra las 211 canciones de los Beatles, descifradas, analizadas y explicadas, con el fin de comprender el modo en que dejaron su huella en la historia de la música.

A symbol of Trinidadian culture, the steelband has made an extraordinary transformation since its origins-from junk metal to steel orchestra, and from disparaged underclass pastime to Trinidad and Tobago's national instrument.

This volume brings together a selection of the most stimulating and influential writing on Haydn and his music in the English language.

Women built the popular song industry of Tin Pan Alley, yet many of their stories have seldom been told.

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In Pop Music and Hip Ennui: A Sonic Fiction of Capitalist Realism, Macon Holt provides the imaginative and analytical resources to think with contemporary pop music to investigate the ambivalences of contemporary culture and the potentials in it for change.

Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide provides concrete information and approaches that will help instructors include women and people of color in the typical music history survey course and the foundational music theory classes.

Celebrated musician and entertainer Lizzo wowed audiences and left many "e;feeling good as hell.

The Routledge Handbook to the Music of Alfred Schnittke is a comprehensive study of the work of one of the most important Russian composers of the late 20th century.

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Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture takes an interdisciplinary approach by utilizing several aspects of Brazilian music, race, and food as a window to understanding Brazilian culture, with music at the core.

As children, many of us learn to sing, "e;If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.

Examining the roots of the classical fugue and the early history of non-canonic fugal writing, Paul Walker's Fugue in the Sixteenth Century explores the three principal fugal genres of the period: motet, ricercar, and canonza.

Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a giant of twentieth-century classical music, but one whose eccentricities have sometimes obscured the moral seriousness of his approach to art.

By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Third Edition demonstrates how music reflects and deepens both individual and cultural understandings.

Hailed at its premiere at the London Coliseum in 1986 as the most important musical and theatrical event of the decade, The Mask of Orpheus is undoubtedly a key work in Harrison Birtwistle's output.

The first scholarly discussion on the band, Pearl Jam and Philosophy examines both the songs (music and lyrics) and the activities (live performances, political commitments) of one of the most celebrated and charismatic rock bands of the last 30 years.

In 1974, the International Congress on World Evangelization met in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Winner of the 2002 National Choral Award for Outstanding Choral Publication They are at the heart of every community in Canada, whether they be singing in concert or rehearsal, in a worship service or at a special event.

Jack Boss presents detailed analyses of Arnold Schoenberg''s twelve-tone pieces, bringing the composer''s ''musical idea'' - problem, elaboration, solution - to life.

Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance.

Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras demonstrates how the composer achieved his own Brazilian neoclassical style in a group of works, nine suites in total, that is arguably one of the best examples of homage to J.

"e;Maracatu Atomico"e; is the first academic work to investigate the mangue movement, one of Brazil's most vital pop culture trends of the last thirty years, and the related "e;new music scene"e; of Northeast Brazil.

The Gospel According To Elvis celebrates the life and legacy of popular music's most influential single artist with a rich mix of inspirational quotes, biographical anecdotes, facts and memorabilia drawn from his life and work.

Black celebrities in America have always walked a precarious line between their perceived status as spokespersons for their race and their own individual success----and between being "e;not black enough"e; for the black community or "e;too black"e; to appeal to a broader audience.

From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley dominated American music.

Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.

Amy Amy Amy unravels the all too short life and career of one of Britain's most brilliant and troubled stars.

The bestselling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand.

In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century.

Recognized as the primary American symphonist of the 20th century, Roger Sessions (1896-1985) is one of the leading representatives of high modernism.

Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017).

An Unsung Cat explores the life and music of jazz saxophonist, Warne Marsh.

This is the first full-length biography in English of Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824), one of the great violinist-composers in the history of music, and arguably the most influential violinist who ever lived.

Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration of Coltrane's sound and its spiritual qualities that are rooted in Black American music-culture and aspirations for freedom.

Johann Sebastian Bachs Zyklus von 40 Choralkantaten aus seinem zweiten Leipziger Amtsjahr (1724/25) ist sein ambitioniertestes Kantatenprojekt.

How can one describe the pluralisation of the religious realm, which is of such significance for processes of social change?

Harper aims to provide readers with a deeper, more accurate understanding of Falla's creative process by drawing from a complete array of rare, authentic sources including Falla's own personal library, valuable sketch material, and the more than 20,000 pieces of correspondence maintained in Granada, Spain by the Manuel de Falla Archive.