Music Styles category: 7119 books
by Timothy J. Cooley
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to consider the musical practices of surfers in locations...
Global Glam and Popular Music
Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective. Focus is given to a number of representative artists, bands, and movements, as well as national, regional, and cultural contexts from around...
by Hannah Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and aesthetics of filmmaking within a few short years. In France, debates about sound cinema were fierce and widespread. In French...
Bulgarian Harmony
In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of...
The Art Album: (FREEBIE VERSION)
Exploring the Connection Between Hip-hop Music and Visual Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Check out this FREE one of a kind book and find out what Russell Simmons has to say about each artists, visual and recording! See what visual artist Shepard Fairey has in common with Young Jeezy or Jay Z! See how we compare each album to its contemporaries and place them in their aesthetic order!...
The History of Hip Hop
The History of Hip Hop, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Eric Reese is taking the cultural shock of hip hop to unknown boundaries of music history, so educate yourself in the way of life that is defining young America now!
Hip Hop Truth for the Art and Pulse of America!
This cultural brilliance of sound presented a voice and unique mind through...
Gypsy Jazz
In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael Dregni, author of the acclaimed biography, Django....
A&R Pioneers
Architects of American Roots Music on Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A&R Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and,...
Gathering of the Tribe
Music and Heavy Conscious Creation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This is a fascinating overview of music's intriguing and enduring relationship with the dark side. Much of the music discussed in Gathering Of The Tribe deals with the special power of sound and tone. Frank Zappa may have said that ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture,’ but...
by Melvin P. Unger
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
The human voice an incredibly beautiful and expressive instrument, and when multiple voices are unified in tone and purpose a powerful statement is realized. No wonder people have always wanted to sing in a communal context-a desire apparently stemming from a deeply rooted human instinct. Consequently,...
So You Want to Sing Country
A Guide for Performers
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Country music, an original American artform, has been around since before the recording industry began and long before a singer even had the opportunity to sing into a microphone. From the early beginnings in the hills of Appalachia, to the rise of Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and the more recent megastars,...
by Janet Sturman
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Course of Mexican Music provides students with a cohesive introductory understanding of the scope and influence of Mexican music. The textbook highlights individual musical examples as a means of exploring the processes of selection that led to specific musical styles in different times and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Musicians are always quick to adopt and explore new technologies. The fast-paced changes wrought by electrification, from the microphone via the analogue synthesiser to the laptop computer, have led to a wide range of new musical styles and techniques. Electronic music has grown to a broad field of...
Death Metal and Music Criticism
Analysis at the Limits
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits, by Michelle Phillipov, is a significant intervention in popular music studies, and in the growing area of metal studies in particular. Combining original analyses of death metal with substantial and accessible overviews of popular music studies...