Cross-Cultural Musicology from Asia-Pacific Perspectives brings together thirteen scholars to consider what it means to teach, research, write, and talk about music history in the context of globalization.
Cross-Cultural Musicology from Asia-Pacific Perspectives brings together thirteen scholars to consider what it means to teach, research, write, and talk about music history in the context of globalization.
In fascinating, star-studded anecdotes, original Monkee Micky Dolenz takes readers from his starring role at age 12 as TV's "e;Circus Boy,"e; to the open casting call that brought the Monkees together, through the creative conflicts that finally drove them apart.
Pocos compositores han gozado de la aceptación crítica o la longevidad de Jean Sibelius, que murió en 1957, a los 91 años, después de haber puesto a Finlandia en el mapa de la cultura europea, por mucho que su figura superase con creces los límites nacionales para llegar a ser uno de los pilares centrales de la música clásica contemporánea.
"Cuando los gigantes caminaban sobre la Tierra" es, ante todo, la biografía definitiva de Led Zeppelin, una banda que en apenas una década transformó la historia de la música y desapareció de repente tras una década de éxitos, y también de excesos encarnados en el lema: «sexo, drogas y rock&roll».
Metallica es la banda de metal más grande del planeta y son grandes por méritos propios: hace cuatro décadas reinventaron la historia de la música y siguen en la brecha demostrando que su directo es inapelable.
A comienzos de 1991, el mánager musical Danny Goldberg aceptó hacerse cargo de Nirvana, uno de los muchos grupos de rock de la escena musical "underground" de Seattle.
Desde la importancia del papel jugado por la música en la Revolución francesa hasta la "Séptima sinfonía" de Shostakovich, la música clásica y el nacionalismo han mantenido a lo largo de la historia una relación simbiótica que ha definido buena parte de nuestro imaginario a través de la creación de comunidades nacionales y todo el andamiaje cultural que las sostiene, la puesta en valor de las tradiciones folclóricas, etc.
Ziemlich beste Freunde:Die Autobiografie der Simple Minds»Wenn ich an Charlie denke«, sagt Simple-Minds-Sänger Jim Kerr, »dann denke ich nicht daran, wie wir bei Live Aid oder beim Nelson Mandela Tribute Concert zusammen auf der Bühne standen, sondern daran, wie ich ihn als Achtjährigen im Sandkasten spielen sah, als wir uns das erste Mal begegneten.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 When the world comes to an end, Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, all the big city orchestras will still be playingThe Merry Widow.
LA GUÍA DE LOS FESTIVALES MUSICALES DE ESPAÑA QUE ESTABAS ESPERANDOEspaña es uno de los países con más cantidad y variedad de festivales musicales del mundo, desde los más renombrados internacionalmente hasta los más especializados e insospechados.
The book joins a growing scholarship in the field of Bollywood film studies, encompassing methodological sub-groups such as discursive or narrative studies, textual analysis, audience research, and the political economy of Bollywood.
If Genesis, according to British comedian and fan Al Murray 'were the progressive rock band who progressed', then Peter Gabriel as a solo artist would be the member that progressed the most.
The book joins a growing scholarship in the field of Bollywood film studies, encompassing methodological sub-groups such as discursive or narrative studies, textual analysis, audience research, and the political economy of Bollywood.
The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle class, and strengthened the position of the very wealthy.
A compelling portrait of rocks greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on the happiest and most productive period of Jimi Hendrixs life.
This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a postcivil rights generation.
Este libro explica la trayectoria de Serrat no solo a través de sus canciones y su música sino también a través de los momentos trascendentes de una vida íntimamente ligada con la historia reciente de nuestro país: la dura posguerra en Barcelona, su juventud activista en la España franquista, el escándalo de Eurovisión, la "Nova Cançó" catalana, el exilio por motivos políticos, el reconocimiento en la España de la transición, el éxito internacional.
Among collections of letters written between American soldiers and their spouses, the Civil War correspondence of William and Jane Standard stands out for conveying the complexity of the motives and experiences of Union soldiers and their families.
Among collections of letters written between American soldiers and their spouses, the Civil War correspondence of William and Jane Standard stands out for conveying the complexity of the motives and experiences of Union soldiers and their families.
The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle class, and strengthened the position of the very wealthy.
This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a postcivil rights generation.
In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher Kit Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.
A compelling portrait of rocks greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on the happiest and most productive period of Jimi Hendrixs life.
While David Bowie was alive, his songs and their strange commentaries on modern life had some kind of deep significance that made sense of it all for many people.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 When the world comes to an end, Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, all the big city orchestras will still be playingThe Merry Widow.
In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher Kit Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.
Formed at their Oxfordshire secondary school in the mid-eighties, Radiohead have gone on arguably to be not only the most important rock group of the 1990s, but also the most significant post-rock group of the new century.
*One of Stylist's top ten fiction books to look out for in 2026 and an Apple Best Book of February*SUPERFAN is a dark, addictive novel about K-pop fandom, obsession, and the dangerous illusion of being seen.
Folk Songs Hawaii Sings is a sparkling compilation of melodies from the islands of Polynesia together with a variety of folk songs that countless Asian people have brought with them to their new home in the Hawaiian Islands.
