Music: styles and genres

What does it mean to be a modern Muslim today?

This fascinating and thought-provoking read challenges readers to consider entertainers and entertainment in new ways, and highlights figures from outside the worlds of film, television, and music as influential "e;pop stars.

Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), whose credits include Pagliacci and the operatic works Chatterton, Der Roland von Berlin, Zaza, Maia, Zingari, La boheme, and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum.

A complex history of rum, from its production to its consumption, and from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world It was strong.

The Ziegfeld Follies: A History in Song presents an account of the Follies through the musical productions contained in the show.

Like most ground-breaking art forms, contemporary creative music is rarely understood or accepted in its own time, and for those reasons, can largely go unheard.

"e;This book introduces us to the world of contemporary Japanese music and it guides us towards a better understanding of their world.

It has been said that zarzuela means to Spain what operetta means to Vienna, Offenbach to Paris, Gilbert and Sullivan to London, and the musical to Broadway.

This classic test first published in 1966 has withstood the test of time as a teaching aid for English-speaking singers, coaches, and accompanists, in order that their art may be more communicative to the public.

This classic text, first published in 1972, has withstood the test of time as a teaching aid for English-speaking singers, teachers, coaches, and accompanists, in order that their art may be more communicative to the public.

This second edition of Laster's Catalog combines in one volume the listings from the first catalog with the voluminous material that has appeared since 1973, more than doubling the number of citations.

Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer.

Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild were the first commercially significant record clubs in the world.

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Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), whose credits include Pagliacci and the operatic works Chatterton, Der Roland von Berlin, Zaza, Maia, Zingari, La boheme, and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum.

The Beatles' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry.

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The latest volume in the Music Library Association's Index and Bibliography series, Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000, features over 9,000 references to analyses of works by more than 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In West Side Story: Cultural Perspectives on an American Musical, Wells presents a major scholarly study of the famous American musical West Side Story, viewing the work from cultural, historical, and musical perspectives.

The classical music of Iraq, known as Iraqi Maqam, features classical and vernacular poetry sung by a virtuoso soloist and accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble.

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The Grosse Fuge, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in his late period, has an involved and complicated history.

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

To see a Broadway musical is to experience how a drama, using melody, harmony, and rhythm, evokes the emotion needed to perpetuate a story line.

Aristotle analyzed the popular art of his time: the tragedies and epics.

Denes Striny's international singing career brought him to the major opera houses of the world in leading roles.

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

I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.

This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular.

Since Radiohead's formation in the mid-1980s, the band has celebrated three decades of creative collaboration and achieved critical acclaim across music genres as cultural icons.

Led by the iconic Ian Curtis, Joy Division remains one of the most influential bands to emerge in the British Post-Punk Scene.

What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade?

Signs and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures.

To see a Broadway musical is to experience how a drama, using melody, harmony, and rhythm, evokes the emotion needed to perpetuate a story line.

What do martial arts signify today?

The Grosse Fuge, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in his late period, has an involved and complicated history.

Fryderyk Chopin's career is intricately entwined with the piano.

For Broadway audiences of the 1980s, the decade was perhaps most notable for the so-called "e;British invasion.

Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history than Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann.

Lyric diction is a portal to powerful and meaningful vocal performance because diction enables singers to communicate the vision of both the poet and the composer.

Of all the elements that combine to make movies, music sometimes seems the forgotten stepchild.

Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion offers an easy-to-read and new perspective on the remarkably diverse landscape that comprises Jewish music in the United States.

The musical output of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock has toppled genre boundaries and influenced generations of musicians.

In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi, veteran opera director William Ferrarapresents a detailed, practical exploration of the staging of twenty-one scenes from two of opera's most beloved composers.

Over the course of his career, Billy Joel has released a series of remarkable albums that together chart his journey as an artist from relative obscurity to international success.

Experiencing Alice Cooper: A Listener's Companion takes a long overdue look at the music and stage act of rock music's self-styled arch-villain.

No band has ever been able to demonstrate the enduring power of rock and roll quite like the Rolling Stones, who continue to enthrall, provoke, and invigorate their legions of fans more than fifty years since they began.

Punk rock has long been equated with the ever-shifting concepts of dissent, disruption, and counter-cultural activities.

Women's Bands in America is the first comprehensive exploration of women's bands across the three centuries in American history.

John Lee "e;Sonny Boy"e; Williamson was one of the most popular blues harmonica players and singers from the late 1930s through the 1940s.