Jerome Kern's Jewel Box shows how the integration of spoken and sung performances in Kern's early musicals reveals new connections between musical theater scores and "e;straight"e; (spoken) theater.
Jerome Kern's Jewel Box shows how the integration of spoken and sung performances in Kern's early musicals reveals new connections between musical theater scores and "e;straight"e; (spoken) theater.
Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity: The Adolescentia Project explores music consumption, self-discovery, media culture, and memory through autoethnographic essays on albums we loved during adolescence covering three decades (1980-2010) as the music industry and socio-cultural identity landscapes in the United States significantly changed.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEREmbark on an extraordinary journey through the life, music and spiritual adventures of Yusuf/Cat Stevens, one of the iconic figures of our time.
Nordic Music Videos fills a gap in the existing research on music videos by bringing together new perspectives on music videos across the Nordic region, from the academic to the practical, the aesthetic to the industrial, while addressing issues of local, transnational, and global significance.
Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) likely suffered from a manic-depressive disorder but in his time very little was known about mental illness, and suicide was not a topic for general discussion.
From the sonically sparse Pure Heroine to the epic pop euphoria of Melodrama, and from the sunny optimism of Solar Power to the raw, primal energy of Virgin, Lorde has been crafting music that defines the moment for over a decade.
Since its release in 1976, ABBA's song "e;Fernando"e; has been loved by fans around the globe both for its sing-along chorus and its revolutionary spirit.
Historians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist era that produced it.
Dieses Buch bietet zehn Andachten für Feste im Kirchenjahr sowie jahreszeitlich orientierte Feiern - einsetzbar in Gemeinden, Pflegeheimen und Demenzwohngruppen.
Carl Dixon's journey through the twists and turns of a music performer's life began in Northern Ontario, where his boyhood dreams, shaped by the 1960s, collided with a new musical culture.
Carl Dixon's journey through the twists and turns of a music performer's life began in Northern Ontario, where his boyhood dreams, shaped by the 1960s, collided with a new musical culture.
During the years before World War II, hundreds of traditional musicians were sought out by commercial record companies, brought to New York or into localoften makeshiftstudios, to cut recordings that would be marketed as "race" and "hillbilly" music.
Kentucky Country is a lively tour of the state's indigenous music, from the days of string bands through hillbilly, western swing, gospel, bluegrass, and honkey-tonk to through the Nashville Sound and beyond.
The Southan inspiration for songwriters, a source of styles, and the birthplace of many of the nation's greatest musiciansplays a defining role in American musical history.
Frank Mathias was a teenager in a small town when the draft swept him into the army and then halfway around the world to the jungles of the South Pacific.
It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would "cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song"his Southern highlands folk-song compilations now constitute one of the largest collections of its kind in the Library of Congressbut he did much more than acquire songs.
