Music: styles and genres

This in-depth and original study examines 100 productions and analyses why George Abbott's name became synonymous with the 'golden age' of Broadway.

Since John Lennon composed Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in early 1967, fans and music critics alike have argued over the meaning of the song.

La obra Trío de cuerda fue escrita en Sabadell a lo largo del periodo comprendido entre el 28 de junio y el 20 de julio de 1992.

As a homeless child prodigy, Harley Flanagan played drums for bands at Maxs Kansas City and CBGBs, and was taught to play bass by the famed black band Bad Brains, and drank with the notorious Lemmy of Motrhead.

The Woodstock festival of 1969, which featured such groups and artists as the Who, Country Joe and the Fish, Ten Years After, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, is remembered as much for its 'bringing together' of the counter-cultural generation as for the music performed.

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An important figure during the golden age of Broadway, John C.

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us.

To most people, the term "e;opera house"e; conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan.

You might not know his namebut youve heard his work.

Great music arouses wonder: how did the composer create such an original work of art?

Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.

Want to learn how to play guitar in two pages?

Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas.

In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players.

The magisterial portrait of Chopin, the man and his music, that you've been waiting for.

This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the Renaissance.

Sound, Music, Affect features brand new essays that bring together the burgeoning developments in sound studies and affect studies.

Rebecca Herissone''s study is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to the creation of music in late seventeenth-century England.

A monumental study of musical practices in 18th century Santiago de Chile, and the only English-language monograph about Chilean colonial music, A Sweet Penance of Music offers a comprehensive view of musicians within the city and their links with other Latin American urban centers in the wider colonial system.

A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition.

Dave Thompson, author of Virgin's acclaimed Red Hot Chili Peppers biography, takes a new and very detailed look at the creation of one of the world's most influential bands.

In Spirit Song: Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries, Marc Gidal investigates how and why a multi-faith community in southern Brazil utilizes music to combine and segregate three Afro-Brazilian religions: Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Batuque.

20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century catalogues, categorizes, and analyzes the 269 musicals that opened on Broadway from the 2000-2001 season through the 2019-2020 season.

What were the historical and cultural processes by which Cyril of Alexandria was elevated to canonical status while his opponent, Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, was made into a heretic?

A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms''s music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe analyses the revitalisation and repatriation of historical recordings from the largest sound archive in Africa, the International Library of African Music (ILAM).

Even prior to the field's invention, Susanne Langer implied that the arts are all subtopics of Communication Studies.

Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of U.

Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space.

An introductory survey of the most enduring and popular genre of instrumental music, perfect for students, teachers and performers.

"e;Don Giovanni"e; Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance.

Recent scholarship has vanquished the traditional perception of nineteenth-century Britain as a musical wasteland.

P'ansori is the quintessential traditional Korean musical drama, in which epic tales are sung and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer.

Recent scholarship has offered a veritable landslide of studies about early modern women, illuminating them as writers, thinkers, midwives, mothers, in convents, at home, and as rulers.

This book provides a socio-cultural analysis of khayal bandishes composed by Ne'mat Khan 'Sadarang' and Feroze Khan 'Adarang'.

Fight the Power considers timely social justice issues for Black people in America through the lens hip-hop lyrics.

It is impossible to contain Henry Cowell within the boundaries of the consistencies of forms, styles, ensembles, and genres of Western art music.

Activating Voices in Jazz History: Students Broadening the Narrative highlights the research of students who have been challenged to assess and interpret evidence found in historical records and engage in field interviews with a diverse representation of jazz artists.

Unaccountably, Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism.

Many people will know something about the life of Lutoslawski , but few know anything about Lutoslawski the man.

For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic.

This volume by Gracia Grindal introduces English-speaking readers to several significant yet unsung Lutheran women hymn writers from the sixteenth century to the present.

This collection of essays is the first book-length study of music history and cosmopolitanism, and is informed by arguments that culture and identity do not have to be viewed as primarily located in the context of nationalist narratives.

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In a stretch of just seven years, the Beatles recorded hundreds of songs which tower above those of their worthy peers as both the product of cultural leadership and an artistic reflection of their turbulent age, the1960s.

Establishing an intersection between the fields of traditional music studies, English folk music history and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, this book responds to the problematic emphasis on cultural identity in the way traditional music is understood and valued.