Music category: 21679 books
by Daniel J. Shevock
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy examines the capacity of musiciking to cultivate ecological literacy, approaching eco-literate music pedagogy through philosophical and autoethnographical lenses. Building on the principle that music contributes uniquely to human ecological thinking, this volume tracks...
Popular Music and Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies
Ideology, Control and Resistance in Turkey since 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Popular music has long been used to entertain, provoke, challenge and liberate but also to oppress and control. Can popular music be political? What types of popular music work best with politics? How can songs, videos, concerts or any other musical commodity convey ideas about power, politics and...
by Mark Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
In A Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship, author Dr. Mark Pearce offers a researched and in-depth look at music, praise, and worship from a Biblical point of view. Providing keen insight into this complex subject, it gives a new understanding and appreciation of the importance of music,...
Gypsy Music
The Balkans and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Gypsies have for centuries been simultaneously vilified and romanticized—associated with criminality and dirt, but at the same time with color, magic, and music. Gypsy music is popular around the world and often performed with gusto at major events, including at weddings in Bulgaria, jazz bars in...
by Sara Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
How is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? How, for example, did the Beatles emerge in Liverpool, how did they come to be categorized as part of Liverpool culture and identity and used to develop and promote the city, and how have connections between the Beatles...
by Greg McCandless, Daniel McIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
In the contemporary world, the role of the commercial composer has grown to include a wide range of new responsibilities. Modern composers not only write music, but also often need to perform, record, and market their own works. The Craft of Contemporary Commercial Music prepares today’s music students...
Music in a New Found Land
Themes and Developments in the History of American Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The subject of this book is accurately defined by its subtitle. Music in a New Found Land does not pretend to be a comprehensive history of American music. Nor does Mellers strive to catalog what he considers to be authentic American music. Instead, he deals, in some detail, with comparatively few...
by Michael Kowalski
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
It has never been easier to listen to music. We struggle to imagine what life may have been like less than 100 years ago, when there were no radio or TV broadcasts and only a fortunate few had access to a gramophone. Today there are multiple radio and TV channels playing music of all types 24 hours...
Fiddling Way Out Yonder
The Life and Music of Melvin Wine
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2002
From a small mountain town in West Virginia, elder fiddler Melvin Wine has inspired musicians and music enthusiasts far beyond his homeplace. Music, community, and tradition influence all aspects of life in this rural region. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine shows how in Wine's...
Whisperin' Bill Anderson
An Unprecedented Life in Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Whisperin’ Bill: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music presents a revealing portrait of Bill Anderson, one of the most prolific songwriters in the history of country music. Mega country music hits like "City Lights," (Ray Price), "Tips Of My Fingers," (Roy Clark, Eddy Arnold,...
All You Need to Know About the Music Business
10th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
“The industry bible” (Los Angeles Times), now updated, essential for anyone in the music business—musicians, songwriters, lawyers, agents, promoters, publishers, executives, and managers—trying to navigate the rapid transformation of the industry.
For more than twenty years, All You...
by Gus Snedeker
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
You may turn on the CD player or the radio when you want to hear music—but once, in the days before modern technology, music was enjoyed whenever groups of people got together. You probably know some folk songs, a song that was passed along from person to person. Learn about: • types of folk songs...
Flute Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Flute (Free Video Available)
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Teach yourself how to play flute with our easy flute lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free flute videos for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along. Also includes music score and flute animation for easy music learning.***"Awesome. I heart this...
Black, Blanc, Beur
Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
Rap music was born in America in the early 1980s. Over the last decade it has not only grown in popularity within the United States, with rap music soaring to the top of the music charts, but it has also influenced other cultures around the world. Black, Blanc, Beur is about the emergence and growing...