Music: styles and genres

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.

Setting the stage for a most intriguing journey into the world of minimalism, Robert Carl's Terry Riley's In C argues that the work holds its place in the canon because of the very challenges it presents to "e;classical"e; music.

During the 1980s, the urban youth movement known as la movida transformed the Spanish cultural landscape, particularly in the country's capital, Madrid.

For many years, John Lennon has been seen as the crazed and eccentric Beatle who provided some of the most memorable melodies the music world has ever known.

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Emotions in Jewish Music is an insider's view of music's impact on Jewish devotion and identity.

Ewan MacColl is widely recognized as a key figure in the English folk revival, who tried to convey traditional music to a mass audience.

John MacAuslan interprets four great Schumann works in the context of their literary connections and Romantic aesthetic concepts.

In 2008, Tosh Bermanauthor and publisher of TamTam Booksgot on a plane with a single motive: "e;Sparks Spectacular.

Thomas Schuttenhelm provides a detailed account of the events leading up to and throughout the compositional process associated with Michael Tippett's Fifth String Quartet and a comprehensive analysis of the entire quartet.

Thai classical singing is a genre that blossomed during the golden age of music in the royal court at Bangkok during the nineteenth century.

This South Korean group is at the forefront of the K-Pop wave sweeping the globe With a phenomenal string of No.

Rock 'n' roll infuses the everyday life of the American adult, but for the first, complete generation of rock 'n' roll fans-baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964-it holds a special kind of value, playing a social personality-defining role that is unique to this group.

Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star.

Metaphysical Graffiti explores the philosophical themes prevalent in the music of the classic rock era.

Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten.

Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life is a stunning collection of essays, photographs, and ephemera celebrating Billy Strayhorn, one of the most significant yet under-appreciated contributors to 20th century American music.

Since the late 1980s, the boundaries between the 'musicologies' have become increasingly blurred.

Unique and exciting, this ethnographic study is the first to address a little-known subculture, which holds a fascination for many.

The Ramones' music has influenced nearly every power pop, punk, alternative, and metal band.

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Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation.

For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the land of music .

Hearts of Darkness is the story of a generation's coming of age through the experiences of its three most atypical pop stars.

Hailed at its premiere at the London Coliseum in 1986 as the most important musical and theatrical event of the decade, The Mask of Orpheus is undoubtedly a key work in Harrison Birtwistle's output.

Providing a thorough introduction to both choral and instrumental conducting, this textbook offers a complete package of teaching, study, and assessment materials to support a single-semester foundational conducting course.

Satie's music and ideas are inextricably linked with the City of Light.

Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself.

This book brings together a leading team of international experts in arts and global development to showcase effective practice and to explore how this vibrant interdisciplinary field has developed and what the latest research can teach us.

Esteemed by many of his most distinguished contemporaries, including Arnold Schoenberg , Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) was a protege of Brahms and Mahler.

In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why “authentic” atheism is so very hard to come by How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism?

"In welcher Erscheinung die Obraszowa auch vor uns tritt, wir werden sofort zwei Gegensätze wahrnehmen, zwischen denen sich ihre Persönlichkeit bewegt.

The first comprehensive study in book form of Liszt's visits to England, replete with copious illustrations, appendix, and fascinating details of several previously unknown Liszt compositions.

Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention.

This volume gathers together twelve essays on the composer's music, reflecting the author's interests in aesthetic and psychological issues, the sacred works, methods of structural analysis, and the problems of making critical editions.

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AIready a legendary performer in the music industry, Jewel has been writing poetry, short stories, and prose since she was young.

Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music.

Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.

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Satan in the Dance Hall explores the overwhelming popularity of social dancing and its close relationship to America's rapidly changing society in the 1920s.

In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music.

The extensive journals of the dilettante English composer John Marsh, which cover the period 1752-1828, represent one of the most important musical and social documents of the times.

Filled with never-before-seen photos and art throughout, the much-anticipated autobiography from rock icon and lead singer of Blondie, Debbie HarryBRAVE, BEAUTIFUL AND BORN TO BE PUNKMusician, actor, activist, and the iconic face of New York City cool, Debbie Harry is the frontwoman of Blondie, a band that forged a new sound that brought together the worlds of rock, punk, disco, reggae and hip-hop to create some of the most beloved pop songs of all time.

Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a "e;leper messiah,"e; a more appropriate moniker might be "e;rock god"e;: someone whose influence has crossed numerous sub-genres of popular and classical music and can at times seem ubiquitous.