Music: styles and genres

Richard Egues and Jose Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachacha.

Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy causing fascination and intrigue in some and rejection and scorn in others.

In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music's most dramatic genre.

"e;Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly"e; (Col 3:16).

After it was announced that the twenty month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was abducted, the entire world grieved for their loss.

Electroacoustic music, a flourishing medium for over half a century, remains today, in a wide array of technological forms, one of the major areas of creative activity in music.

Newark studies the development of a key device in French fiction of the nineteenth century: the soirée à l''Opéra.

The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies consolidate an area of scholarly inquiry that addresses how mechanical, electrical, and digital technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly mobile-portable, fungible, and ubiquitous.

Jazz in New Orleans provides accurate information about, and an insightful interpretation of, jazz in New Orleans from the end of World War II through 1970.

Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times.

McGill University's Faculty of Music - now the Schulich School - has been a centre of new music in Canada for decades, helping to shape contemporary composition, electro-acoustic research, performance, and sound recording.

WINNER: 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardAnalyzes two groups of "e;musical novels"e; -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Michael Ondaatje, and novels based on Bach's Goldberg Variations.

Discussion concerning the 'musicality' of Samuel Beckett's writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in Beckett Studies, one that continues to be informed by the still-emerging evidence of Beckett's engagement with music throughout his personal and literary life, and by the ongoing interest of musicians in Beckett's work.

Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one.

Described as the "e;life and soul of British contemporary music"e;, Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano.

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Do the church and politics ever go together?

When it was formed, Trojan Records epitomised the punk DIY ethic over a decade before 1976.

In a career spanning 70 years, composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist David Amram is hailed today as the creator of symphonic works, chamber music, and two operas; as a brilliant jazz and vocal improviser; and the composer of memorable stage and film scores.

¿Qué conecta el pulso global del imperio de Felipe II con la administración de la justicia en un inhóspito paraje rioplatense a finales del siglo XVI?

LA HISTORIA DE LOS JESUS AND MARY CHAIN CONTADA POR LOS HERMANOS REIDDurante cinco años, los hermanos William y Jim Reid conversaron hasta altas horas de la madrugada en el salón de la casa de sus padres en East Kilbride, Escocia, imaginando cómo sería su grupo de rock ideal.

Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "e;Marcus delivers yet another essential work of music journalism.

"El dólar de la salsa examina los avatares de una expresión artística comunitaria en el complejo contexto económico contemporáneo de la música popular.

The simple but vital premise behind this important book is that a healthy voice is a beautiful voice, and a clear tone and pleasant sound will arise from a healthy vocal technique.

Early '70s Radio focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "e;formats,"e; which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences.

Samba is Brazil's "e;national rhythm,"e; the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood.

So far religion has been seen as cause for dramatic developments in the history of cities, it has contributed to the monumentalisation of centres and or has given importance to ex-centric places.

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When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life.

Max Reger (1873-1916) is perhaps best-known for his organ music.

The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies consolidate an area of scholarly inquiry that addresses how mechanical, electrical, and digital technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly mobile-portable, fungible, and ubiquitous.

Cinema scholars categorize city symphony films of the 1920s and early 1930s as a subgenre of the silent film.

Alongside Saint Thomas Aquinas, the thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory.

Over the past twenty-five years Europe and North America have witnessed an enormous revival of interest in early music.

Led by the iconic frontman Robert Smith, the Cure remain one of the most beloved and influential bands in the history of alternative rock.

Why do we find it hard to explain what happens when words are set to music?

The past 50 years have seen a tremendous arts boom in Seattle, which has given the city not only internationally recognized classical music institutions but also great performance halls to showcase their work and that of visiting artists.

Contact between cultures may also lead to rejection as well as suppression of certain types of music.

Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond.

On a sweltering Sunday evening in August 1965, 56,000 people traveled by plane, car, bus, ferry, and subway train to pack New York's Shea Stadium.

Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege.

Step into a world where the brightest creative minds of contemporary musical theatre share their insights and inspirations.

Legendary drummer and founding member of The Doors John Densmore unpacks the intersection of art and commerce in this deeply principled middle finger to greedThere are some of us out there who still have principles and cannot be bought.

Sigismund Thalberg, ein Name, der in der Welt der klassischen Musik unauslöschliche Spuren hinterlassen hat.

This biography tells the story of Alice May, a touring prima donna in the nineteenth century who travelled from England to Australia, New Zealand, India and the US, taking part in pioneering performances of the popular light operas of the day.

Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s.

A mediados de los sesenta, la música popular norteamericana dio un giro copernicano cuando la fábrica de hits de Nueva York se vio desplazada por los himnos aterciopelados y edénicos que empezaron a brotar de Los Ángeles de la mano del genial productor Phil Spector y grupos como los Beach Boys, los Byrds o The Mamas and the Papas.