Music: styles and genres

Women have been important players in the recording industry from the very beginning, but not until 1996 did they out-chart their male competitors and pull ahead in the race for hits.

Beginning early in the 1980s, a dance music revolution swept across Europe and Britain, merging rock, new wave, disco and worldbeat sounds.

Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology.

Leonard Bernstein was the quintessential American musician.

Winner of the IASPM Canada Book Prize 2019Honorable Mention for PROSE Award for Excellence in Music and the Performing Arts 2018When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone.

Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets focuses on macromarketing-related aspects of film music in general and on the cinemusical role of ambi-diegetic jazz in particular.

A Variety Best Music Book of 2022 A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022 A Library Journal Best Arts and Humanities Book of 2022 A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022 A Boot Best Music Book of 2022 A Ticketmaster Best Music Book of 2022 A Happy Magazine Best Music Book of 2022 Woody Guthrie First Book Award winner Awarded a Certificate of Merit in the 2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in the category Best Historical Research in Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music.

»Wenn es Mut braucht, sich ohne zu zögern in Abenteuer zu stürzen und nicht lange über Konsequenzen nachzudenken, dann gehöre ich vielleicht zu den Mutigen«, schmunzelt Bariton Clemens Unterreiner.

Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players.

Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos.

The first half of the 1970s was an especially fertile period for British progressive rock, laying claim to classics such as Tarkus, Selling England by the Pound, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, The Dark Side of the Moon, and Thick as a Brick.

Ivy Benson was born to be a musician.

In What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s.

Kitty Clive (1711-1785) was a top London stage star.

Why Sami Sing is an anthropological inquiry into a singing practice found among the Indigenous Sami people, living in the northernmost part of Europe.

Sound Design for the Visual Storyteller is an overview of the sound design process for the beginner filmmaker or storyteller, providing the foundational knowledge needed to succeed at utilizing and designing sound for visual stories, films, and even podcasts.

The deluxe eBook edition of Waging Heavy Peace includes excerpts of more than fifteen Neil Young songs (personally selected by Young himself) such as "e;After the Gold Rush,"e; "e;Like a Hurricane,"e; and "e;The Needle and the Damage Done,"e; providing a soundtrack to his stories.

In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Revised Edition, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself.

Combining a broad analysis of political culture with a particular focus on rhetoric and strategy, Jeffrey Sawyer analyzes the role of pamphlets in the political arena in seventeenth-century France.

Bla Bartk (1881-1945) was one of the most important composers and musical thinkers of the 20th century.

Musical theatre is often perceived as either a Broadway based art form, or as having separate histories in London and New York.

The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing.

Acts of terror are everywhere!

This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo.

The way most people think about religion and politics is only loosely linked to empirical reality, argues Ryan P.

You've seen Suzi Q, the feature documentary about legendary 70s rocker Suzi Quatro.

An authoritative guide to Arvo Pärt, this Companion provides a rounded picture of the man and his music.

When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field.

Die schönsten 20 neuen Kinderlieder-Hits von Detlev Jöcker.

This major essay collection takes a fresh look at how differences among people matter for music and musical thought.

Was wir Zuschauer am Abend auf der Bühne sehen, ist das Ende eines langen Weges: Bis Primadonna und Heldentenor sich unter dem Jubel des Publikums verneigen, brauchen sie nicht nur Talent und Ausbildung, sondern auch Bühnenpräsenz, Marktgespür, Kondition und Selbstbewusstsein - eben viel mehr als nur eine schöne Stimme.

How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World foregrounds the importance of embodiment as a means of surviving the disorientation of our twenty-first century world.

Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era is based on Paul Oliver's award-winning radio broadcasts from the BBC that were created over several decades.

Based on the author's research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict between the politics of remembering, nurtured by the Vietnamese Communist government, and the politics of forgetting driven by the capitalist interests of the music industry.

Interpreting Music Video introduces students to the musical, visual, and sociological aspects of music videos, enabling them to critically analyze a multimedia form with a central place in popular culture.

The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century.

This volume of essays on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reflects scholarly advances made over the last thirty years.

Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance.

This book examines the diplomatic activities and behind-the-scene negotiations which led to the Karun opening, including an 'Assurance' given by Britain to the Shah against a Russian retaliation.

In Harmony: The Complementary Musical Tales of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Sharon Civic Orchestra, and Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra is a stirring, historical account of these three Massachusetts ensembles.

Ray Charles: Man and Music is a complete biography of this seminal singer/pianist who has been active on the American music scene since the mid-'50s.

From the late-1970s to the late-1980s rock music in Yugoslavia had an important social and political purpose of providing a popular cultural outlet for the unique forms of socio-cultural critique that engaged with the realities and problems of life in Yugoslav society.

The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses.

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians in the French jazz world and the ways in which women thrive as professionals despite such conditions.

Wie beeinflussen Tanzbewegungen die musikalische Spielweise?

Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera offers a bold and refreshing assessment of the state of opera study as seen through the lens of semiotics.