Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America's Black Music Roots presents a new framework for racial justice discourse in the context of music studies and education.
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.
'Kerry's an incredible writer and this memoir is so raw, vulnerable and honest' MICHELLE OBAMAAward-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the deeply moving journey of her life so far, and the bravely intimate story of discovering her truth.
Cabo Verdean Rhythms examines the rhythms, movements, and performances of Kola San Jon, a performative tradition central to Cabo Verde's Festas Juninas, as a lens for understanding the ongoing negotiations of social and cultural boundaries in Cabo Verde.
In the late 1980s Horslips lyricist and drummer Eamon Carr began his journalistic career by conducting interviews with an eclectic mix of famous people.
Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, this collection explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated in print, on stage, and through various expressive media as a dynamic factor in contemporary culture.
Rave may be the middle word in travel, but when raving reporter Kirk Field created the world's first holiday company catering exclusively to clubbers, the world threw everything it could at him: 9/11, volcanic ash clouds, suspicious customs officers, avalanches, North Sea storms, pandemics, fraudulent accountants, and the ghost of Michael Jackson.
El cancionero tradicional popular infantil para flauta dulce soprano digitación alemana y de doble agujero es un cancionero con una recopilación de 50, partituras infantiles en castellano populares tradicionales para flauta dulce soprano.
From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Bjork "e;Songs can be intensely personal (whether you hear them or sing them) and none of us would choose the same twelve songs as anyone else.
From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Bjork "e;Songs can be intensely personal (whether you hear them or sing them) and none of us would choose the same twelve songs as anyone else.
I Love You a Thousand Ways is the story of one of the most loved, respected, and imitated singer/songwriters in the history of country music, a man whose songs touched the lives of millions of people.
The first major rock music festival and the precursor to Woodstock, the Monterey International Pop Festival was an unprecedented gathering of pop, soul, jazz, and folk artists who took the stage one luminous weekend during the Summer of Love.
Made in Patagonia, bandas y solistas del fin del mundo es un compilado con reseñas, entrevistas y testimonios de más de 100 músicos independientes desde Ushuaia hasta Neuquén.
Este es el primer libro en décadas consagrado a la discusión de las teorías existentes en una disciplina que ha sido puesta en cuestión por el advenimiento de la globalización, la fusión incontrolada de los géneros, la pérdida de las identidades y el surgimiento de las músicas del mundo.
El presente libro da cuenta de la memoria documental y fotográfica del Taller de Ópera de la Escuela de Música de la Universidad del Valle durante los veintidós años de su historia como proceso académico.
This "e;crisp, absorbing"e; fully illustrated tribute to fifty iconic female musicians and bands is "e;a must for rock and roll and women's studies enthusiasts.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR, NOW UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL Readers LOVE Everything is Everything:'Clive Myrie is one heck of an author' 'Well written and thought provoking.
Todos los elementos técnicos para componer y trabajar con seriedad y solvencia en el campo de la música popular: Armonía, melodía y contrapunto en composición, forma, y arreglos, escritura a varias voces y orquestación.
The latest volume in Hans-Gunter Heumann's successful Best of Piano Classics series offers an attractive colourful mix of very easy to easy original piano pieces from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern periods.
The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by adrenaline, panic, and pure faith.
Ween now seems like a permanent fixture on the pop-cultural landscape, but when the band first hit MTV in the early '90s, their longevity wasn't so secure.
When Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, "e;one, two, one, two, three, four,"e; followed by the droning synth chords of "e;Born in the U.
When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic flash of James Brown on acid with the raw musical dynamics of the Who gone berserk.
After Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significant cash in the long run) and then handed the reins to their guitarist and resident perfectionist Lindsey Buckingham.
'Goth can plausibly claim to be the near-definitive word on the subject' - GuardianGoth is an entertaining and evocative personal history of Goth music and culture, told by a true insider.