Music: styles and genres

*; Includes contributions from the late Ralph Metzner, Chris Bache, Whitley Strieber, Jeffrey Kripal, Angela Voss, Bill Richards, Chris Timmermann, Michael Winkelman, Luis Eduardo Luna, Anton Bilton, Bernard Carr, Daniel Pinchbeck, Dennis McKenna, Ede Frecska, and David Luke *; Explores DMT beings, alien abduction, plant sentience, neuroscientific DMT research, the connections between LSD and DMT entities, and the nature of mind and reality Found throughout the plant and animal kingdom, DMT (dimethyltryptamine) is also naturally occurring in humans, and may be released during near-death and actual death experiences, earning it the title ';the spirit molecule.

This book demonstrates the rich and varied ways in which heavy metal music draws on the ancient Greek and Roman world.

Recorded by his quartet in a single session in 1964, A Love Supreme is widely considered John Coltrane's magnum opus and one of the greatest jazz albums of all time.

Arduino, Teensy, and related microcontrollers provide a virtually limitless range of creative opportunities for musicians and hobbyists who are interested in exploring "e;do it yourself"e; technologies.

Born in 1916, Henri Dutilleux is one of France's leading composers, enjoying an international reputation for his beautifully crafted works.

To witness war is, in large part, to hear it.

Irving Berlin remains a central figure in American music, a lyricist/composer whose songs are loved all over the world.

Bei bisher über 4`000 Auftritten in 19 Ländern erlebte der preisgekrönte Schweizer Boogie- und Bluespianist Nico Brina den Zauber der improvisierten Musik, wie sie auf Menschen wirkt, was sie auslöst in ihren Seelen.

Der italienische Komponist Agostino Steffani (1654–1728) erlebt in den letzten Jahren sowohl in der Musikwissenschaft als auch in der Aufführungspraxis eine Renaissance.

The theme of the essays in this volume is the identification of the resources which between c.

This is the third in a set of four collections of articles by Michel Huglo to be published in the Variorum series.

The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

Alberto Ginastera: A Research and Information Guide is the first bio-bibliographic study of the composer and the only published book on the subject in English.

Music and noise seem to be mutually exclusive.

Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild were the first commercially significant record clubs in the world.

From the Romantic era onwards, music has been seen as the most quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time.

Michael Jackson challenged the power structure of the American music industry and struck at the heart of blackface minstrelsy, America's first form of mass entertainment.

A timeless classic.

An essential companion to Michael Jackson's music, films, and books, this work offers 21 original, academic essays on all things Jackson-from film, music, and dance to fashion, culture, and literature.

The first biography of Richard D'Oyly Carte, this is a critical survey of the career of the impresario whose ambitions went beyond the famous partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan.

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Oft und gerne gehört, selten untersucht – in diesem Buch geht es um Musikvorlieben, die einem selbst peinlich sind: Kitsch, Camp, Trash.

The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the "e;First Man of Jazz.

Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish easily.

Almost as soon as 'club culture' took hold - during the UK's Second Summer of Love in 1988 - its sociopolitical impact became clear, with journalists, filmmakers and authors all keen to use this cultural context as source material for their texts.

The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and features of British musicals, which explore the aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings of a tradition that initially gave rise to the American musical and later challenged its modern pre-eminence.

Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration of Coltrane's sound and its spiritual qualities that are rooted in Black American music-culture and aspirations for freedom.

This book contributes to a broadened theorisation of journalism by exploring the intricacies of African journalism and its connections with the material realities that underpin the profession on the continent.

Opening up the dialogue between popular music studies and aging studies, this book offers a major exploration of age and popular music across Europe.

This is the first study of its kind, focusing exclusively on scenes throughout the world; it makes an important contribution to metal studies.

In the first full-length biography of one of Canada's most gifted and influential composers, Pamela Jones draws from extensive interviews with composers, performers, students, friends, and family members.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER | USA TODAY BESTSELLERThe best things in life are really not that fancy.

This book includes biographical information on Carlos Prieto, his contributions to music, as well as a detailed catalog of 72 pieces commissioned and/or dedicated to him.

Embodying Voice: Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner articulates the process of developing an operatic voice, explaining how and why the training of such a voice is as complex and sophisticated as it is mysterious.

Most of the world remembers Ronald Reagan and Nancy (Davis) Reagan as geriatric figures in the White House in the 1980s.

Around about August 1948, Mr and Mrs Cyril Wakeman had an early night and some time later, at Perivale in Middlesex, Mrs Wakeman produced a bonny baby son.

Exploring musical theater on film for fans of the genre, Listen to Movie Musicals!

Beginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define.

More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization.

The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon.

Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture's inherent temporality.

Activities for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the University Classroom is the first interdisciplinary collection of activities devoted entirely to teaching about gender and sexuality.

The Orthodox Church has been characterized by some as "e;the best-kept secret in North America.

A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life.

Unlike traditional music, film music sources are often difficult to locate and do not follow the patterns that researchers are trained to identify.