Music: styles and genres

Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music documents the variety of musics-from traditional Asian through jazz, classical, and pop-that have been created by Asian Americans.

After spending time as a professor in upstate New York, Robert Ward decided to give journalism a try.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Nor-tec phenomenon emerged from the border city of Tijuana and through the Internet, quickly conquered a global audience.

A contributory volume covering the history and current scene of electronic music.

What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage?

This book demonstrates the rich and varied ways in which heavy metal music draws on the ancient Greek and Roman world.

Researching Live Music offers an important contribution to the emergent field of live music studies.

Music criticism in England underwent profound change from the 1880s to the 1920s.

The analysis of popular music forces us to rethink the assumptions that underpin our approaches to the study of Western music.

Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) explores the role music-making has played in community projects run for young people in the poverty-stricken and often violent surroundings of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Myth pervades heavy metal.

Turkish Metal journeys deep into the heart of the Turkish heavy metal scene, uncovering the emergence, evolution, and especially the social implications of this controversial musical genre in a Muslim society.

Petr Il'ich Tchaikovsky: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography of substantial, relevant published resources relating to the Russian composer.

This is the fascinating biography, first published in 1985, of the remarkable Bengali religious leader Swami Pranavananda who lived in the turbulent years of the early twentieth century.

The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part.

Understanding and Crafting the Mix, 3rd edition provides the framework to identify, evaluate, and shape your recordings with clear and systematic methods.

More than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942.

Piano Lessons with Claudio Arrau provides an insider's view of the art of piano performance as exemplified by one of the great artists of the twentieth century.

The recent resurgence of experimental music has given rise to a more divergent range of practices than has previously been the case.

An Academy Awardnominated screenwriter and a mystery novelist, Roger L.

Susan Rutherford explores Verdi''s operas in the context of women''s social, cultural and political history in nineteenth-century Italy.

Japanese folk performing arts incorporate a body of entertainments that range from the ritual to the secular.

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This volume gathers together and organizes in an easily accessible format all known information relevant to the life and work of the French jazz musician Django Reinhardt.

The first full-length study to uncover the profound impact of early modern musical culture on George Herbert''s religious verse.

The Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006) was one of the most innovative and influential composers of the last 50 years.

This fully updated second edition is a selective annotated bibliography of all relevant published resources relating to church and worship music in the United States.

Nike Davies is one of the few African women known internationally in contemporary art circles.

An indispensable guide to this key topic in music studies, examining what Gregorian chant is, and its form and features.

Saturday Nights With Daddy at the Opry is both the story of growing up with a backstage pass to the entertainment world in Nashville as well as a heartwarming tale of a beautiful father-daughter relationship.

Merging scholarly insight with a professional guitarist's sense of the musical life, Yankee Twang delves into the rich tradition of country & western music that is played and loved in the mill towns and cities of the American northeast.

The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ'd.

This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing-or who have previously performed-in America's major symphony orchestras.

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Music is a central component of video games.

Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hopand its influence on her suitors became inextricable from their personal interactions.

First published in 1996, this volume counters the attitude of paying more attention to the performer than to the piece.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW STREAMING ON AMAZON FREEVEEFrom iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a nostalgic memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their origin story.

The Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year, now in paperback Paul McCartney says this is as close as he will get to an autobiography and no wonder his life is in every line of these songs .

The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ'd.

Edward Kennedy "e;Duke"e; Ellington (1899-1974) is recognized as one of the great composers and orchestra leaders of the twentieth century and is credited for raising jazz to its highest plateau.

Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.

Embodying Mexico examines two performative icons of Mexicanness--the Dance of the Old Men and Night of the Dead of Lake Ptzcuaro--in numerous manifestations, including film, theater, tourist guides, advertisements, and souvenirs.

Pepper Adams' Joy Road is more than a compendium of sessions and gigs done by the greatest baritone saxophone soloist in history.

Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set.

Dancer-choreographer-directors Fred Astaire, George Balanchine and Gene Kelly and their colleagues helped to develop a distinctively modern American film-dance style and recurring dance genres for the songs and stories of the American musical.