Music: styles and genres

Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows.

The New York Times bestselling collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.

Thomas McGeary''s book explores the relationship between Italian opera and British partisan politics in the era of George Frideric Handel.

This book will reconstruct and analyze the logic and frameworks surrounding positive evaluations of popular art in articles and books predominantly published in the United States and western Europe.

A Rough Trade Book of the YearThe Sunday Times bestsellerThe much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer ButlerWith over 70 million records sold, heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath are one of the most influential bands of all time.

Flop Musicals of the Twenty-First Century offers a provocative and revealing historical narrative of a group of musicals that cost millions and had spectacular potential .

Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Australasia's most successful and adored bands.

In 1902 The Gramophone Company in London sent out recording experts on "e;expeditions"e; across the world to record voices from different cultures and backgrounds.

Examines post-colonial issues in Madama Butterfly, the historical background, conflicted representation of the heroine, and controversial reception in Japan.

This fourth edition of Marketing Recorded Music is the essential resource to help you understand how recorded music is professionally marketed.

Noted music education and arts activist Charles Fowler has inspired music educators for more than 60 years.

The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus/Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century musical thought in the decades between the treatises of Johannes de Garlandia and Franco of Cologne.

When large numbers of students from Spain arrived in New York in 1880, they introduced the American public to a new instrument - the mandolin.

Stan Levey is widely considered to be one of the most influential drummers in the history of modern jazz.

Northern Soul is a cultural phenomenon twice removed from its original source in Britain in the late 1960s.

In January 1933, widowed Canadian psychiatrist Charles Flemming traveled to Rome to deliver a paper at an international psychiatric meeting and to further research the career of the eccentric Ukranian pianist, Vladimir de Pachmann, for a biography he has always wanted to write.

This wide-ranging and authoritative volume discusses the major works of acclaimed contemporary composer Adès from a variety of critical perspectives.

Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century.

Starting with 1964's Goldfinger, every James Bond film has followed the same ritual, and so has its audience: after an exciting action sequence the screen goes black and the viewer spends three long minutes absorbing abstract opening credits and a song that sounds like it wants to return to 1964.

Who wrote the first true "e;opera"e;?

In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton.

Music Sociology critically evaluates current approaches to the study of music in sociology and presents a broad overview of how music is positioned and represented in existing sociological scholarship.

In The Way You Wear Your Hat, author Bill Zehme presents a masterful assembly of the most personal details and gorgeous minutiae of Frank Sinatra's way of livingmatters of the heart and heartbreak, friendship and leadership, drinking and cavorting, brawling and wooing, tuxedos and snap-brimsall crafted from rare interviews with Sinatra himself as well as many other intimates, including Tony Bennett, Don Rickles, Angie Dickinson, Tony Curtis, and Robert Wagner, in addition to daughters Nancy and Tina Sinatra.

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Immerse students in the music traditions of the Irish, one of North America's largest ethnic populations.

Saved by Song returns to print with its sweeping overview of the history of gospel music.

When Shane, Kian, Mark, Nicky and Bryan celebrated the beginning of 2001 in true Irish style, they had no idea of the adventures that lay ahead.

The Classical Revolution studies the recent emergence of a new brand of classical music, one rooted in "e;pre-modern"e; tonal traditions.

Not just a complete fan's guide to the music of Michael Jackson, this book is the definitive overview of the unforgettable King of Pop's unique career.

To what extent do indie masculinities challenge the historical construction of rock music as patriarchal?

An Out-of-Control Rock Star.

Classical music is everywhere in video games.

Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins weaves together subversive pedagogy and theories of resistance with community music education and choral music, inspiring professionals to revisit and reconsider their pedagogical practices and approaches.

Nearly all religious traditions have reserved a special place for sacred music.

An ';impassioned tribute' (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the most influential music culture today, Atlanta rapa masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli.

French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting 'national' music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music's role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks.

Although Beyonce Knowles is not yet 30, the sensual superstar has already succeeded on many levels: as a dancer, singer, composer, model, music producer, video director and actress.

A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever change music and popular culture.

John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra is one of the seminal works of the second half of the twentieth century, and the centerpiece of the middle period of Cage's output.

Drawing on cinematic traditions of Hollywood, France, and Britain, this book investigates the relationship between opera and film.

This book explores how independent film and music artists and labels use crowdfunding and where this use places crowdfunding in the contemporary system of cultural production.

In this biography, Robert Walker skilfully blends the fascinating story of Rachmaninoff's life with the historical background of his times.

Now updated and expanded with four new chapters, this book explores the history, theory, creation and analysis of electronic music.

UPDATED FOR 2017 WITH A NEW CHAPTERThe definitive history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's great bands, by founder member Nick Mason.