A History of Musical Style, Paperback

Until recently, glam rock has been a mere footnote in popular music history: a style-over-substance lark in an otherwise serious industry. Glam Roc...

Reducere. From the triumphant "Main Title" in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores...

Classic Rock History is a new and exciting book for rock music enthusiasts of all ages that enjoy the many rock subgenres that developed over the p...

Reducere. From Michele Wood and Toyomi Ingus, the award-winning artist and author of Going Back Home, comes their second book, i see the rhythm, a uniquely v...

A New and Concise History provides a strong foundation for understanding how music, the music industry, and American culture intersect. Ethnomusico...

Reducere. A history of the unique sounds of the Cajun Bayous. Extensive research, fieldwork, and personal interviews combine to provide a fascinating look in...

Reducere. "His art was of an encyclopedic nature, drawing together and surmounting the techniques, the styles, and the general achievements of his own and ea...

Reducere. Put on your dancing shoes and move to the music. Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country mus...

With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one of Britain's first female music writers in a book t...

Introduction and Practical Guide to Music Education provides students with comprehensive yet foundational knowledge of the music education professi...

DescriptionA Renaissance woman long before the Renaissance, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) corresponded with Europe's elite, founded...

Reducere. DescriptionMany grapple today with what the 'proper' style of music for church should be and sadly it becomes a worship war. Like the movie Star Wa...

Reducere. Not only biography, but also one of the earliest American attempts to trace the development of jazz."--from the foreword by Dan Morgenstern The fir...

Reducere. DescriptionSpecifically designed to teach jazz basics to students with 1 or 2 years playing experience, but with no prior experience playing jazz. ...

Reducere. DescriptionSpecifically designed to teach jazz basics to students with 1 or 2 years playing experience, but with no prior experience playing jazz. ...

Reducere. DescriptionSpecifically designed to teach jazz basics to students with 1 or 2 years playing experience, but with no prior experience playing jazz. ...

Reducere. DescriptionSpecifically designed to teach jazz basics to students with 1 or 2 years playing experience, but with no prior experience playing jazz. ...

Reducere. Rob Morgan's inimitable style will help people reacquaint themselves with the hymns of the faithful. His goal is to keep these traditional hymns vi...

Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style i...

Reducere. There were four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them--New Orleans, Chicago, and New York--have been well documented in prin...

Reducere. Description(Essential Elements Guitar). Essential Elements for Guitar, Book 2 is a continuation of the concepts and skills taught in Book 1 and inc...

Teachers and flutists at all levels have praised Nancy Toff'sThe Flute Book, a unique one-stop guide to the flute and its music. Organized into fou...

Reducere. Modern Rock: From the 1960s On provides readers with a succinct history of rock and roll that demonstrates the linear quality of the music genre. T...

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This book is a full and complete transcription of the first of four volumes of guitar music published by Guillaume Morlaye in 1552, "Le Premier Liv...

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Reducere. It was the 1960's. The British Invasion was under way as The Who, Beatles and Rolling Stones dominated the top of the charts. In Canada, Toronto's ...

From 1987 to 1995, Bristol, England's Sarah Records was a modest underground success and, for the most part, a critical laughingstock in its native...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mike Adamo(Percussion). The most in-depth study of breakbeat drumming in printThe style is divided into thirteen essential ...

Reducere. This biography tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he c...

Reducere. "Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriage--or should one say, duet--of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it...

DescriptionIt used to be a secret that, in its postwar heyday, the Broadway musical recruited a massive underground following of gay men. But thoug...

Reducere. Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers -- the nature of logic, the limits of language...

DescriptionThe Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy takes readers back into the imagined family of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Their mus...

DescriptionIt's hard to imagine that "the cool" could ever go out of style. After all, cool is style. Isn't it? And it may be harder to imagine a w...

Reducere. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardBilly Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, ...

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Reducere. In the history of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. Under the direction...

DescriptionWritten by fourteen leading experts in the field, this Companion covers almost every aspect of the harpsichord - the history of the inst...

Reducere. Georgia Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Georgia's history. Each episode included in the book is a st...

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Reducere. From his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the sixties and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy t...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Shanty BookLyrics and MusicSea ShantiesBy Richard Runciman TerryA sea shanty, chantey, or chanty is a type of work song that was onc...

Specifically designed for use on a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook of...

Reducere. Harry Chapin never reached sixty-five years-old. In fact, he never even reached forty. But in the all-too-brief time he was allowed, he achieved a ...

Reducere. This comprehensive survey of jazz piano, beginning with a brief history of the instrument within the jazz tradition and concluding with interviews ...

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Reducere. "In the eighties, Hip hop transformed from urban American from infancy to a new culture "With the gradual shift from the seventies disco scene, a n...

Reducere. Set against the backdrop of the witchcraft trial of his mother, this lively biography of Johannes Kepler - 'the Protestant Galileo' and 16th centur...

Reducere. (Book). The Martin Ukulele is a detailed look at the ukuleles built by the C. F. Martin Co. of Nazareth, PA, and at how the instruments' success fo...

Reducere. Hip Hop Truth for the Art and Pulse of America This cultural brilliance of sound presented a voice and mindset detailing life growing up in the str...

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Reducere. The first book-length study in English of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), Perpetual Movement offers both a production history that draws extensivel...

Reducere. DescriptionPlace any musical style in front of Faith No More, and seemingly, a timeless song of their own would soon be created. Between 1985-1997,...

Reducere. Gender and Pop Culture provides a foundation for the study of gender, pop culture, and media. This newly updated edition is comprehensive and inter...

Reducere. Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the Seventies. As the seductive focus of "T Rex", he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of ...

Reducere. Winner, Best History, 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research When Mississippi J...

Nestor Capoeira, a long-time teacher of capoeira and noted mestre (master), begins this revised edition of his bestseller with an in-depth history ...

DescriptionRipped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude o...

Reducere. Master the Drum Kit and Learn to Play Drums Like a Pro- A comprehensive guide to playing the drums for beginners- Quickly turn initial rudiments in...

Reducere. An introductory textbook for Rock Music Appreciation and History courses, Rock on Record traces the story of rock from the late 1940s through the p...

Reducere. Winner of the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book AwardWinnter of the Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and History In 19...