Music

This book investigates two areas in which the appreciation of sonic creativity can be easily acquired across diverse cultures, ages and interests: the music of sounds - making music with any sounds, part of today's sampling culture and the music of things - and the creation of instruments using existent materials (another type of sampling?

When it was originally published in 1967, this study of J.

Music Under the Soviets (1955) examines the concept of Soviet music, its special characteristics and its differences from the musical tradition of the West.

Innovation in Music: Adjusting Perspectives brings together cutting-edge research on new innovations in the field of music production, technology, performance, and business.

With Universal Mother, Sinead O'Connor explores childhood trauma and her experiences as a woman, mother, target of scorn, and ultimate phoenix.

This book examines how gender and class discourses shape 'musical mothering' by incorporating knowledges from sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and education.

A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell.

This unique volume brings together wide-ranging research that could only be written by someone singularly expert in the full range of Christian worship and music from ancient to modern.

A study of John Sangster's jazz suite The Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s.

Originally published in the 1940s, Paul Hindemith's remarkable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind.

This book examines how gender and class discourses shape 'musical mothering' by incorporating knowledges from sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and education.

What if you had the chance to tell your hero just how much they meant to you?

Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'.

'An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment' KAREN JOY FOWLER'[A] reminder about what it means to be alive .

In this nationally bestselling ';delightful compendium of everything you ever wanted to know about' (The Washington Post) Joni Mitchell, the eternal singer-songwriter is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, lyrics by Henry Alford, ';the most graceful of humorists' (Vanity Fair) and a writer for The New Yorker.

In Akkorde ohne Applaus gewahrt Matthias Hartwig alias Jimmy de la Mar einen ehrlichen und fesselnden Einblick in das Leben eines Musikers jenseits des Rampenlichts.

All about the world of music and entertainment, from the views as a Artist, Manager, producer and consumer as well as the dark side of entertainment as we know it today 

Peggy Rowe is at it again, proving once more that great content is all around us, even in the retirement community she now calls "e;The Home.