Music: styles and genres

While much has been said about the nostalgia and historic references of Daft Punk's final album, Random Access Memories, this book reveals its ambition and future-focus, and claims these aspects do not necessarily contradict.

In A Faith Not Worth Fighting For, editors Justin Bronson Barringer and Tripp York have assembled a number of essays by pastors, activists, and scholars in order to address the common questions and objections leveled against the Christian practice of nonviolence.

With her deeply personal songwriting, countless hit songs, and genre-bending yet unmistakable sound, Taylor Swift has cemented her status as one of pop music's most iconic and culture-defining voices.

Though individual pieces from the late fifteenth century are widely accepted as being written for instruments rather than voices, they are traditionally considered as exceptions within the context of a mainstream of vocal polyphony.

This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson.

This book explores how three contemporary American artists through the mediums of film, literature and popular music have contributed to the tradition of American progressivism, and provides an invaluable companion to the understanding of complex issues such as inequality and social and economic decline that are apparent in America today.

As a noted composer and critic, Paul Dukas was a major figure in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French music.

First Published in 1994.

Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a ';coloured' cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape.

The two-volume work The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers offers a comparative study of two collections of early Christian texts: the New Testament; and the texts, from immediately after the New Testament period, which are conventionally referred to as the Apostolic Fathers.

In-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre, which engage with notions of Englishness and the idea of a 'musical renaissance'Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas comprises a sequence of in-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre.

'He plays the piano well,' wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927.

At a time of transformation in the music history classroom and amid increasing calls to teach a global music history, Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom adds nuance to the teaching of varied musical traditions by examining the places where they intersect and the issues of musical exchange and appropriation that these intersections raise.

Listen to Psychedelic Rock!

The Beatles are widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history and their career has been the subject of many biographies.

Now updated and expanded with four new chapters, this book explores the history, theory, creation and analysis of electronic music.

How and why is pre-existing music used in films?

This volume is a journey through musics that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century and were neither exclusively tonal nor serial.

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

In May 1967, during a discussion about his yet-to-be-released film Eat the Document, Bob Dylan cryptically remarked, 'The film is finished.

First Published in 1996.

Singers are faced with a unique challenge among musicians: they must express not just the music, but the lyrics too.

Black Sabbath has often been credited with inventing heavy metal with their first album released in 1970.

Offers unparalleled insight into the function of music in worship, ritual and society in late medieval Europe.

A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau.

Dance music at the courts of seventeenth-century Germany is a genre that is still largely unknown.

A new, definitive atlas of the European Reformations has been needed for many years.

Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies.

A pioneer of Chicano rock, Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara performed with Frank Zappa, Johnny Otis, Bo Diddley, Tina Turner, and Celia Cruz, though he is best known as the front man of the 1970s experimental rock band Ruben And The Jets.

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.

As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and readership positions.

This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900.

A comprehensive reassessment of this towering figure of twentieth-century music, examining works, cultural context and reception in Britain and beyond.

Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914-56), in his short life, made a profound mark on America's musical theater as a lyricist, book writer, and librettist.

Istvan Anhalt, born into a Jewish family in Budapest in 1919, studied with Zoltan Kodaly before being conscripted into a forced labour camp during World War II.

Mozart's Little Night Music is one of the most popular pieces in classical orchestra literature.

The genre of melodrame A grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions.

The rich local traditions of musical life in rural China are still little known.

The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

Stephen Sondheim is one of the best-known and most-loved musical theatre composers, but also one of the most misunderstood, often being labelled as 'distant' or 'cynical'.

In her provocative new book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America's most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music.

Throughout Spanish colonial America, limpieza de sangre (literally, "e;purity of blood"e;) determined an individual's status within the complex system of social hierarchy called casta.

Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media seeks to unpack and illuminate punk as a trajectory of 'timelesness.

Mute Records is one of the most influential, commercially successful, and long-lasting of the British independent record labels formed in the wake of the late-1970's punk explosion.

The volume on a standard amp goes to 10.

If you or a loved one are worried about Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, this pocket guide will help you to better understand the conditions, and how they are diagnosed and treated.

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in reggae music.