Music: styles and genres

In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known.

This book is a summary of exercises and jazz improvisation lines designed to improve contemporary jazz style techniques.

Published in 1980, Blacks in Blackface was the first and most extensive book up to that time to deal exclusively with every aspect of all-African American musical comedies performed on the stage between 1900 and 1940.

Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian-"e;I'm a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer"e;-has lived through much of jazz's history and has known many of jazz's most important figures, often as friend and confidant.

Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892-1980) is considered to be one of our nation's most influential musicians.

In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E.

Charles Mingus is among jazz's greatest composers and perhaps its most talented bass player.

In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam.

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed.

After it was announced that the twenty month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was abducted, the entire world grieved for their loss.

What, where, and when is jazz?

Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding.

There is a myth that the long, dark days before punk were full of legions of British prog rock groups; that the likes of Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Emerson Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull roamed the land, soiling the culture like university-educated Orcs.

An exploration of rhythm and the richness of musical time from the perspective of performers, composers, analysts, and listeners.

In 1862, a group of undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania put the University's colors of red and blue in their buttonholes and gave the first performance of the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club.

This is the true story of Louis Bannet, a Jewish jazz musician known throughout Europe in the 1930s and 40s as The Dutch Louis Armstrong.

Mike Buchanan is a Bedford-based author who interviewed eight well-known local guitarists, and wrote accounts of their colourful lives:- Finger Pickin Good Paul Bonas- Hollerin Bob Foley- Amazin Max Milligan- Blindin Dave King- Lightnin Hands Pete Rose - Mumblin Cliff Hanson - Thunderin Paul Carrington (star of the authors travelogue Two Men in a Car: a businessman, a chauffeur, and their holidays in France) - Laughin John Verity

Yes, you got it right!

A founding member of the acclaimed New York-based company Mabou Mines, Breuer's gifts as a writer and director have have made him a mainstay of the theatrical avant-garde.

Canned Heats Story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and Survival

"e;Lyrical, intelligent, and passionately written, Whisper Tapes reignites a long dormant conversation about the urgency of global feminism.

This book is a summary of both exercises and improvisation lines designed to enhance contemporary jazz style techniques.

Since their breakthrough hit "e;Creep"e; in 1993, Radiohead has continued to make waves throughout popular and political culture with its views about the Bush presidency (its 2003 album was titled Hail to the Thief), its anti-corporatism, its pioneering efforts to produce ecologically sound road tours, and, most of all, its decision in 2007 to sell its latest album, In Rainbows, online with a controversial "e;pay-what-you-want"e; price.

Musical instruments come in all shapes and sizes!

Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness.

This book explains to the student how to start a phrase of Improvisation from any starting point of the scale (Major, dominant, minor, diminished, etc.

This book is a summary of both exercises and improvisation lines designed to enhance Intervalic Improvisation.

Men and women used to cheer: vive la diffrence!

Possessed by Music is the fascinating story of the Russian composer Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936).

Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed.

A deep dive into the history and retro appeal of musical exotica, including the Orientalism, Hawaiianesque, and Afro-tropicalism sub-sets.

In Black Metal music, the "e;most evil"e; wins.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

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In this riveting account of Biggies remarkable life, hip hop journalist Cheo Hodari Coker tells the story youve never heard about the dramatic, tension-filled world of Biggie, Tupac, Puff Daddy, and Suge Knight, tracing their friendships and feuds from the beginning to the bitter end.

From her fairytale childhood to her impressive array of movies and marriages, Elizabeth Taylors life, both on and off the screen, has enchanted, saddened, appalled, and entertained us for the past seven decades.

Bestselling author Joni Eareckson Tada invites families to rediscover some of the Christian faith's most beloved songs and draws out powerful truths from the music that has inspired generations of believers.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

In its revised third edition, this volume argues that an appreciation of opera is based on understanding of several key aspects: history, language, theatrical production, the power of the conductor, vocal tradition and standard repertory.

While rock groups such as the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean defined the beach music of Southern California during the 1960s, a different, R&B influenced sound could be heard along South Carolina's Grand Strand.

As technology advances, society retains its mythical roots--a tendency evident in rock music and its enduring relationship with myth and science fiction.

For years Rap artists have met with mixed reception--acclaimed by fans yet largely overlooked by scholars.

This volume covers aspects of opera translation within the Western world and in Asia, as well as some of opera's many travels between continents, countries, languages and cultures-and also between genres and media.