Genres & Styles

Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851628790Author Christopher NortonPage Count 21Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship between theatrical works and politics or ideology in this period and on the question of...

Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Leo Ferre are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with each other by the public and the media. They have been described as the epitome of chanson, and of...

In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music examines the important issues surrounding the music and image of one of the most innovative and successful rock bands ever. The band influence is examined both through an explication of...

In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaeton. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as "the music of the enemy,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312358198Author Kyle AndersonPage Count 240Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Written late in his life, J. S. Bach's The Art of Fugue has long been admired-in some quarters revered-as one of his masterworks. Its last movement, Contrapunctus 14, went unfinished, and the enigma of its incompleteness still preoccupies scholars and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241147Author The MekonsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture PublicationsWeight(grams) 302g

How and why was outdated racial content - and specifically blackface minstrelsy - not only permitted, but in fact allowed to thrive during the 1930s and 1940s despite the rigid motion picture censorship laws which were enforced during this time?...

Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, and concerts has presented the music of European Gypsies, or Roma, to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional enthusiasm. Yet, as author Carol Silverman...

Pink Floyd are one of the world's most successful rock bands of all time. After their breakthrough record, "The Dark Side Of The Moon", brought prog rock to the masses, they have never looked back, and their influence continues today in rock, ambient and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692997468Author Jim KrennFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Primary Records Group, Inc.Publisher Primary Records Group, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking...

With one world tour already under his belt, 18-year old pop star on the rise Shawn Mendes is set to take over the charts for years to come. First discovered on the popular social media app Vine, Mendes developed a following of millions online based on...

Presenting for the first time Akim Volynsky's (1861-1926) pre-balletic writings on Leonardo da Vinci, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome, And Then Came Dance...

NOW IN PAPERBACK! J.J. Johnson, known as the spiritual father of modern trombone, has been a notable figure in the history of jazz. His career has embodied virtually every innovation and development in jazz over the past half-century. In this first...

In the three decades since Kool Herc first put the same record on two side-by-side turntables, DJs have moved out of city parks, house and block parties, and the darkened booths of nightclubs, and onto center stage, performing before admiring crowds of...

This contributory volume, the first book of its kind, provides a snapshot of the ways in which discourse about Western music and race overlapped and became intertwined during the period from Wagner's death to the rise of National Socialism and fascism...

Not Your Muse is the official album-matching songbook to the debut studio album by British singer and songwriter Celeste, which was released on 29 January 2021. With unique artwork, images and photographs, this book has been specially curated by Celeste...

Founded in the late 1980s by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman, Seattle-based Sub Pop Records released early recordings by then-upstart regional bands such as Green River, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Tad, Nirvana, Flaming Lips, Afghan Whigs, and Screaming...

Since the bicentennial of Mozart's death in 1991, the principal concern of much Mozart research has been to situate the composer and his music in increasingly well informed biographical, historical, critical and analytical contexts. The contributors to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977894536Author Joe EspositoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint TCB JOE PublishingPublisher TCB JOE PublishingWeight(grams) 193g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439176665Author Lips ReinerPage Count 320Imprint MTV BooksPublisher MTV Books

Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks is a collection of essays dedicated to the study of recorded popular music, with the aim of exploring "how the record shapes the song" (Moylan, Recording Analysis, 2020) from a...

Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as Broadway's West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied...

Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion presents a wide-ranging compilation of essays, spanning more than 15 countries. Organized in four parts, the articles examine the regulation and exploitation of dancers and dance activity by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416551423Author Sandy DentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Glly - Gallery BooksPublisher Glly - Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

Fourteen revealing essays by a prominent Berlioz authority on some of the composer's acclaimed compositions (the Symphonie fantastique, Les Nuits d'ete, Les Troyens) and writings (the celebrated Memoires). Written for both music lovers and scholars,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910295656Author Chris CowlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Apex Publishing LimitedPublisher Apex Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing. In considering...

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423464440Author Elena Kats-CherninPage Count 76Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

In this remarkable history of one of the most popular symphonic works of the modern period, Esteban Buch traces the complex and contradictory uses - and abuses - of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony since its premiere in 1824. Sensitive and fascinating, this...

In 1980, Led Zeppelin formally disbanded following the death of drummer John Bonham. Yet over three decade, the music, the mystique, and the legacy of this legendary rock act lives on. Reissues of their music sell in the millions, while rumors of reunion...

This book provides the first independent examination of Dick Clark's landmark television show, "American Bandstand". It is both a history of the show and the changing styles of rock 'n' roll music over four decades, and an examination of the...

for SATB (with divisions) and piano The Music of Stillness is a beautiful and emotive setting of Sara Teasdale's poem 'There Will Be Rest'. Sonorously scored choral phrases conjure up images of 'stars shining, rooftops covered with snow, crystal peace.....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538136669Author Frederick Paul WalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692543603Author Chris BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Beckeresque PressPublisher Beckeresque PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759609358Author Dr. Kris PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 215g