Music: styles and genres

Congregational Music, Conflict and Community is the first study of the music of the contemporary 'worship wars' - conflicts over church music that continue to animate and divide Protestants today - to be based on long-term in-person observation and interviews.

In The Contradictions of Jazz, Paul Rinzler takes a new approach to jazz aesthetics and theory by exploring four pairs of opposites present in jazz: individualism and interconnectedness, assertion and openness, freedom and responsibility, and creativity and tradition.

A memoir of the Jazz Age and a life profoundly influenced by itMy Life in E-flat is the remarkable memoir of a woman who witnessed some of the most important movements in the history of jazz.

In spite of the existence of statistics and numerical data on various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemployment, household violence, teen pregnancy and encounters with the criminal justice system, social science literature on how racism affects the everyday interactions of African American families is limited.

The Stranglers have outlasted and outsold virtually every other band of their era, recording ten hit albums and releasing 21 Top 40 singles.

Among his numerous children, Johann Sebastian Bach sired five musically gifted sons.

This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry.

A 1999 overview of historical performance, surveying issues and suggesting future developments.

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

Scholarly Research in Music: Shared and Disciplinary-Specific Practices, Second Edition offers a comprehensive and detailed guide to engaging in research in all disciplines of music.

This book analyses the right to religious freedom in international law, drawing on an array of national and international cases.

The Eagles are the bestselling, and arguably the tightest-lipped, American group ever.

The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.

Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804.

The silent attentiveness expected of concert audiences is one of the most distinctive characteristics of modern Western musical culture.

Throughout his life, Louis Armstrong tried to explain how singing with a barbershop quartet on the streets of New Orleans was foundational to his musicianship.

In this volume, author John Corcelli reveals Zappa's roots as a musician, from his diverse influences to his personal life.

This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian, who constructed his theology "e;from above"e; and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H.

The early-Republican era (1923-1938) was a major period of musical and cultural change in Turkey.

This volume is the first book-length study of hooks in popular music.

Jungkook is one of the world's biggest stars, period.

Ben Earle''s study explores twentieth-century music and politics in two of their most extreme forms: modernism and fascism.

In histories of music, producers tend to fall by the wayside--generally unknown and seldom acknowledged.

An English translation of an important manual on vocal technique and performance in the eighteenth-century.

From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht's writings.

A detailed 2010 analysis of Bach''s Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world.

Innovations in postbop jazz compositions of the 1960s occurred in several dimensions, including harmony, form, and melody.

Joan Peyser offers a history of twentieth century music through the lives and works of its greatest composers in To Boulez and Beyond.

At lunchtime on a bitterly cold January day in 1969, the strains of guitar chords could be heard in the streets surrounding London's Savile Row.

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Winner of a 2022 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Award: General Interest (Third Place).

In a multidisciplinary work spanning musicology, electro-acoustic composition, architecture, urban studies, communication, phenomenology, social theory, physics, and psychology, Jean-Francois Augoyard, Henry Torgue, and their associates at the Centre for Research on Sonic Space and the Urban Environment (CRESSON) in Grenoble, France, provide an alphabetical sourcebook of eighty sonic/auditory effects.

This book explores the works and influence of the eighteenth-century British composer Charles Avison.

Polly Jean Harvey has won worldwide recognition for her raw, bluesy music while remaining one of rock's most enigmatic and private figures.

The one-hit wonder has a long and storied history in popular music, exhorting listeners to dance, to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, to ponder mortality, to get a job, to bask in the sunshine, or just to get up and dance again.

This essential reader includes Thomson's essays on making a living as a musician; his articles on classic composers; his relation to his contemporaries; his articles on newcomers in the music world, including John Cage and Pierre Boulez; his autobiographical writings and commentary on his own works.

No artist offered a more incisive and accurate portrait of the troubled landscape of the 1970s than David Bowie.

A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to aesthetic, stylistic, technical, and geographic categories, and set within the larger political, social, economic, and cultural framework.

Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Africa and the African Diaspora explores the ways in which religious ideas and beliefs continue to play a crucial role in the lives of people of African descent.

Krautrock is not a music genre.

A playwright, also known as a dramatist or dramaturg, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama.

New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, ECPA Bestseller'Country music artist Smith debuts with a sensitive and moving recollection of his path through grief.

With its dynamic choreographies and booming drumbeats, taiko has gained worldwide popularity since its emergence in 1950s Japan.

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

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.

Die Liederkunde bietet hymnologisch und theologisch fundierte Kommentare zu Text und Musik von verschiedenen Liedern aus dem Evangelischen Gesangbuch.

In der Praktischen Theologie wird die Forschung zur materialen Kultur, die in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften längst etabliert ist, bislang nur sehr zögerlich mitvollzogen.

In Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock: A Populist Rebellion in the 1990s, Ronald D.