Music: A Subversive History, Hardcover - Ted Gioia

DescriptionA preeminent music historian and critic presents a global history of music from the bottom upHistories of music overwhelmingly suppress ...

Reducere. An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommende...

The Jazz Standards, a comprehensive guide to the most important jazz compositions, is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable i...

A bestselling music writer provides the first detailed exploration of the uses of music for curative purposes from ancient times to the present

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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...

Publisher: Stackpole BooksAuthor(s): Phil GioiaIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photog...

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Reducere. God's Free-Man is a historical presentation guided by God that delineates the capture of Harry and Kate Freeman, who were the co-founders of the ci...

The practice of mudlarking, searching the Thames foreshore for fragments of historical significance such as pieces of Roman tile or Georgian potter...

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Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders, " Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who...

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From the time San Jose was founded by the Spanish in 1777 as California's first civilian settlement, the city has had its share of risk-taking in o...

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Reducere. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the "Summer of Love" and the revolutionary music of 1967. During late spring 1967, tens of thousands of young peo...

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Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Hay...

The first in a relaunch of the Bing books, resized and beautifully produced for a new generation, paving the way for Bing's TV debut in 2014. Ages:...

Reducere. DescriptionNoise/Music looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and...

Embark on a musical journey around the world to meet the diverse cast of composers, musicians, and performers who are famous for making the music w...

Reducere. In this extraordinary memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the m...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Ted Greene's Chord Chemistry was originally published in 1971 and has become the classic chord reference book for two generations of guitarists. Wh...

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