Music: styles and genres

Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination.

Musicians in the 16th century had a vastly different understanding of the structure and performance of music than today's performers.

Developing Musicianship through Aural Skills, Third Edition, is a comprehensive method for learning to hear, sing, understand, and use the foundations of music as part of an integrated curriculum, incorporating both sight singing and ear training in one volume.

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage.

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera.

Chuck Eddy is one of the most entertaining, idiosyncratic, influential, and prolific music critics of the past three decades.

Thomas Schuttenhelm''s book presents an investigation into Michael Tippett''s creative process and a comprehensive critical commentary on his orchestral music.

Punk bands have produced an abundance of poetic texts, some crude, some elaborate, in the form of song lyrics.

Through the rise and fall of the Hollywood studio system, David O.

This acclaimed travel guide, hailed as the bible of blues travelers throughout the world, will shepherd the faithful to such shrines as the intersection where Robert Johnson might have made his deal with the devil and the railroad tracks that inspired Howlin' Wolf to moan "e;Smokestack Lightnin'.

Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music gives a historical and philosophical account of the discussions of the nature of time and music during the mid-twentieth century.

In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America.

The gayat al-matlub fi 'ilm al-adwar wa-'l-durub by Ibn Kurr is the only theoretical text of any substance that can be considered representative of musicological discourse in Cairo during the first half of the fourteenth century CE.

Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.

Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world.

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Black Sea Sketches is a portrait of some of the diverse musical cultures surrounding the Black Sea and in its hinterlands.

The Language of the Modes provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality.

Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war, landscape, and the Utopian imagination.

In 2015 University Press of Mississippi published Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s by Harry Bolick and Stephen T.

John Cage seeks to explore the early part of the composer's life and career, concentrating on the pre-chance period between 1933 and 1950 that is crucial to understanding his later work.

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The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being.

In recent decades the rise of the so-called "e;global obesity epidemic"e; has led to fatness and fat bodies being debated incessantly in popular, professional, and academic arenas.

How do you create a style of opera that speaks to everyone, when no one agrees on what it should sayor how?

This anthology of 25 scholarly articles offers a broad historical overview of the history, definition, and scope of ethnomusicology.

Richard Wagner's magnum opus meets the celebrated translator of Jules Verne novels in this colorful and original work.

Zen Buddhist practice has its own indigenous music: the ritual chanting which, along with bells and percussion instruments, form a part of virtually every Zen ceremony and formal event, both monastic and lay.

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Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music.

A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.

A fascinating look at the history of the Beatles, from their formative years through the present day, as detailed in hundreds of entries chock-full of information never before shared with the public.

This companion to The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook combines scholarship with a unique approach to the study of the world's foods, musics, and cultures.

This book surveys the breadth, richness, and meaning of Duke Ellington''s celebrated career, examining his impact on jazz music and its surrounding culture.

This is the second of a two-volume study of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

There has never been a band like Pearl Jam.

Eric Coates (1886-1957) is perhaps the most familiar name associated with British light music.

This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience.

A new wave of scholarship inspired by the ways the writers and musicians of the long nineteenth century themselves approached the relationship between music and words.

Las relaciones musicales entre España y América han sido y son motivo de atención por parte de académicos, investigadores y, sobre todo, de los públicos receptores que consumen, disfrutan y resignifican repertorios, conceptos e identidades.

WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardNo one composer is at the centre of this fascinating story, but a larger picture emerges of a shift in musical scenery, from the world of the innocent Romanticism of Berlioz and Schumann to the more potent musical politics of Wagner, and of his antidote (as many saw him), Brahms.

As the Bride of Christ, the body of Christian believers has been called to serve Him.

The Routledge Handbook of Asian Music: Cultural Intersections introduces Asian music as a way to ask questions about what happens when cultures converge and how readers may evaluate cultural junctures through expressive forms.

A remarkable bandleader, composer and clarinetist, Artie Shaw's popularity defined the American music scene from 1938 to 1945, the Swing Era.

This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space.

Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture.

Winner of the 2023 Vincent H.

A new biography of one of the key composers of 20th-century American popular song and jazz, Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race illuminates Blake's little-known impact on over 100 years of American culture.