Music: styles and genres

He penned songs such as "e;Witchcraft"e; and "e;The Best Is Yet to Come"e; (signature tunes for Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, respectively) and wrote such musicals as Sweet Charity, I Love My Wife, On the Twentieth Century, and The Will Rogers Follies - yet his life has gone entirely unexplored until now.

American Rap Scenes examines the history and legacy of rap music in 25 American cities through factors of geography, migration, movements, music, and technology.

The politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.

Since its emergence in sixteenth-century Germany, the magician Faust's quest has become one of the most profound themes in Western history.

Freiheit in der Musik: musikalische Revolutionen und neue KlangweltenDie Neue Musik ist nicht in einem Augenblick entstanden: Spätestens ab 1950 haben Komponisten sich mehrfach eine neue Tonkunst vorgestellt, in Manifesten, in ihren Lebenswegen und ihren Kompositionen realisiert und damit eine ganz eigene, extrem farbige Bewegung angestoßen.

Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity.

This is a comprehensive guide to popular music literature, first published in 1986.

Fleetwood Mac was a triumph from the beginning-their first album was the UK's bestselling album of 1968.

Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy models effective practices for researchers and instructors striving either to reform music history curricula at large or update individual topics within their classes to be more inclusive.

This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy.

Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality brings together a collection of original, interdisciplinary, critical essays exploring the negotiated place of gender and sexuality in heavy metal music and its culture.

While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the world, few works have included a study of gender and sexuality.

What is it about musical theatre that audiences find entertaining?

In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends.

This is an account of the actions taken by the residents of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to create a local amateur society singing the music of J.

The first concept album in the history of popular music, the soundtrack of the Summer of Love or 'Hippy Symphony No.

"e;An extraordinary oral history of the making of a modern musical masterpiece.

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

Julius Korngold, critic at the highly influential newspaper Neue Freie Presse, was close to and supportive of Gustav Mahler and, for the first time, essays on the man and his music are made available in English.

Say the words evangelical worship to anyone in the United States -- even if they are not particularly religious -- and a picture will likely spring to mind unbidden: a mass of white, middle-class worshippers with eyes closed, faces tilted upward, and hands raised to the sky.

Dieses Buch zeichnet den Weg des italienischen Kunstliedes von der "romanza" zur "lirica" im 19.

This third edition is a basic textbook on the development of pipe organ composition in geographically diverse schools.

This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music-songs and dances-from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Die Habsburger waren nicht nur eine der mächtigsten Dynastien Europas, sondern auch die maßgeblichen Förderer der klassischen Musik.

Just after recording with John Coltrane in 1963, baritone singer Johnny Hartman (1923-1983) told a family member that "e;something special"e; occurred in the studio that day.

This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine "e;Iranian-ness"e; in the context of Iran's local, regional, and global position.

Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy-Blue (1993), White (1993), and Red (1994)-is one of the great achievements of European film.

This comprehensive book documents the nearly half-century-long story of The Rolling Stones-the group many regard as the most eminent rock band ever.

These volumes present the recently discovered archives of the Erard firm, perhaps the largest record of musical instrument making anywhere.

This issue explores the often uneasy relationship betwen rock and classical music by presenting a range of essays on the composers, performers, theorists, historians, critics and listeners who welcome the difficult but fruitful intercourse between classical and popular culture.

Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship provides early-career singers with an overview of the structure of the opera industry and tools for strategically approaching a career within it.

Featuring interviews with everyone from childhood friends to band members, producers and engineers, this is a portrait of the real man, who grew up in Indiana and still lives there today - a passionate musician and a tireless campaigner for the lifestyle and values of the American family farmer.

As the first book of its kind, Nancy Lee Harper's Portuguese Piano Music: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography fills the gap in the historical record of Portuguese piano music from its start in the 18th century to the present.

A reliable scholarly reference tool for those actively pursuing the historical performance of music.

Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States.

Bright Star of the West examines the life, repertoire, and influence of Ireland's greatest sean-nos (old-style) singer, Joe Heaney (1919-1984).

Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters?

Representations of music were employed to create a wider 'Orient' on the pages, stages and walls of nineteenth-century Britain.

The first book of its kind, Gender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture, including its music, lyrics, imagery, performances, instruments, and business practices.

An introduction to Buddhist mantras and mudras, used by meditators to open doors within.

You Really Got Me is Nick Hasted's illuminating biography of The Kinks, drawing on years of in-depth interviews with Ray and Dave Davies and shedding new light on a turbulent 30-year career scarred by suicide attempts, on-stage fights and recurring mental breakdowns.

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

From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragedie en musique).

For this authoritative post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E.

Mahler's Voices brings together a close reading of the renowned composer's music with wide-ranging cultural and historical interpretation, unique in being a study not of Mahler's works as such but of Mahler's musical style.

Johann Sebastian Bach's two surviving passions--St.