Music category: 21679 books
by Nicole V. Gagné
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In the last decade of the 19th century, modernist sensibilities reached a critical mass and emerged more frequently in music as composers began employing dissonance, polyrhythm, atonality, and densities. Conversely, many 20th-century composers eschewed modernist devices and wrote accessible works...
by Richie Unterberger
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
"The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film" is a mammoth 350,000-word guide to the incredible wealth of music the Beatles recorded that they did not release, as well as musical footage of the group that hasn't been made commercially available. This revised and expanded ebook edition adds about 30,000 words...
Reds, Whites, and Blues
Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the...
Rocking the Classics : English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 1996
Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction mythology and fantasy literature and above all for its attempts to combine classical...
Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Musicians
Opening Windows / True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera / Lois Marshall / John Arpin / Elmer Iseler / Jan Rubes / Music Makers / There's Music in These Walls / In Their Own Words / Emma Albani / Opera Viva / MacMillan on Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This special twelve-book bundle is a classical and choral music lover’s delight! Canada’s rich history and culture in the classical music arts is celebrated here, both in the form of in-depth biographies and autobiographies (Lois Marshall, Lotfi Mansouri, Elmer Iseler, Emma Albani and more), but...
This Is Our Music
Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation...
Discovering Classical Music: Rossini
His Life, The Person, His Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE
Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...
by Martin Dowling
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Written from the perspective of a scholar and performer, Traditional Music and Irish Society investigates the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity. The opening chapter integrates a thorough survey of the early sources of Irish music with recent work on Irish social history in the eighteenth...
Music and the Road
Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon-these familiar figures have written road music for half a century and continue to remain highly-regarded artists. But there is so much more to say about road music. This book fills a glaring hole in scholarship about the...
Hidden in the Mix
The African American Presence in Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership between Lesley Riddle and A. P. Carter produced much of the Carter Family's repertoire; the street...
Ska
The Rhythm of Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Like other major music genres, ska reflects, reveals, and reacts to the genesis and migration from its Afro-Caribbean roots and colonial origins to the shores of England and back across the Atlantic to the United States. Without ska music, there would be no reggae or Bob Marley, no British punk and...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
“Before rock and roll, there was country” – Johnny Cash.This is the first in the "Legends of Country Music" series.This is, like the "Legends of Rock & Roll" series, a mini-biography of one the great performers from Country Music, Johnny Cash.I have always loved every genre...
Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks
The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture. But in 1972, the city of Austin, Texas became host to a growing community of musicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and fans who saw country music as a part...
O Sing unto the Lord
A History of English Church Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
For as long as people have worshipped together, music has played a key role in church life. With O Sing unto the Lord, Andrew Gant offers a fascinating history of English church music, from the Latin chant of late antiquity to the great proliferation of styles seen in contemporary repertoires.
The...