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Sports Betting and Bookmaking
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Horse racing in America dates back to the colonial era when street races were a common occurrence. The commercialization of horse racing produced a sport that would briefly surpass all others in popularity, with annual races such as the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes growing to rank...
Fair and Foul
Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport’s darker side—the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. The sixth edition features a new chapter on mass media and sport, a revised introduction...
by Steve Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop,...
Who Did It First?
Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
“Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide their time in the minor leagues wishing for an opportunity to move up and play in the majors. Musical compositions aren’t very different—some songs...
Jason Molina
Riding with the Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Erin Osmon presents a detailed, human account of the Rust Belt–born musician Jason Molina—a visionary, prolific, and at times cantankerous singer-songwriter with an autodidactic style that captivated his devoted fans. The songwriting giant behind the bands Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co....
Other Planets
The Complete Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen 1950–2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker of a generation that includes Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Luciano Berio. His radically new electronic and instrumental...
Cello Secrets
Over 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Cellist
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Cello Secrets explains over 100 of the most helpful insider tricks cellists use to master the instrument. With each technique carefully explained and illustrated, the book serves as an accessible textbook for all advanced cello players, from talented teenagers to college students, to conservatory...
Writing Music for Commercials
Television, Radio, and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
In Writing Music for Commercials: Television, Radio, and New Media, professor, composer, arranger, and producer Michael Zager describes the process of composing and arranging music specifically for commercials across the growing variety of media formats. Writing music for commercials requires composers...
Counting Down Elvis
His 100 Finest Songs
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Over the course of the last six decades, Elvis Presley has sold more than a billion records; his music has touched nearly every modern listener. Despite an avalanche of books on his life, there are, surprisingly, few about his musical creativity. In Counting Down Elvis: His 100 Finest Songs, Mark...
The Clash
The Only Band That Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
When considered in a broader social context, The Clash stand as one of the most important musical acts in rock history. Original punks who transcended the music’s minimalist origins, The Clash lived and breathed the idea that they could change the world with their art.
In The Clash: The Only...
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard's The Dark Knight
A Film Score Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Christopher Nolan’s caped crusader trilogy—Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises—is considered by many to be one of the finest translations of comic book characters to the big screen. The second film in the series, The Dark Knight, was both a critical and commercial success,...
Brave Punk World
The International Rock Underground from Alerta Roja to Z-Off
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Punk rock may have started in the United Kingdom and United States but it certainly didn’t stay in either country. The genre flew around the globe like a contagion, touching off simultaneous movements in nearly every market imaginable: Japan, Yugoslavia, the Philippines, South Africa, New Zealand,...
Experiencing Chopin
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Experiencing Chopin: A Listener’s Companion,Christine Lee Gengaro surveys Chopin’s position as a composer at a time when the piano stood at the center of musical and social life. Throughout, she shines a spotlight on Chopin and his music, which illuminated the Romantic period in which he lived,...
Experiencing Carl Maria von Weber
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Scholars have long recognized Carl Maria von Weber as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music. The success of his opera Der Freischütz almost single handedly brought German operatic style onto the world stage, competing with and challenging established operatic traditions in France...