Genres & Styles

Showtime brings the history of Broadway musicals to life in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself. Beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849, Larry Stempel traces the growth of musicals from minstrel shows and burlesques,...

Just after World War I, jazz began a journey along America's waterways from its birthplace in New Orleans. For the first time in any organized way, steam-driven boats left town during the summer months to travel up the Mississippi River, bringing this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781895131383Author Aidan PrewettFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Political Animal PressPublisher Political Animal PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452289468Author Nelson GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 22mm

The first book of its kind, Gender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture, including its music, lyrics, imagery, performances, instruments, and business practices. Additionally, it explores how rock...

An electrifying collection of the finest, most entertaining, and illuminating writing on and from the rock and roll scene--from its earliest days to the present, from the brightest moments of the biggest stars to obscure but compellingly significant...

Many of Bob Dylan's most well-known works date from the 1960s, and can be seen as critical indicators of the changes in American society then and since. This book explores the unthreading of ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality, and identity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795795061Author Paul HindemithPage Count 32Imprint Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KGPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett Full Length, Musical / 12m, 10f, 1 girl (doubling possible) / Ints., exts. This enchanting classic of children's literature is reimagined in brilliant musical style by composer Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480344921Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 31Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950961535Author Lowry Global Media LLCFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Lowry Global Media LLCPublisher Lowry Global Media LLCWeight(grams)...

A masterly account of a fraught relationship between Schoenberg (the teacher) and Wellesz (his pupil), set against the intellectual and musical currents of the day. Egon Wellesz studied music only briefly with Arnold Schoenberg but remained forever...

Richard Wagner is one of the most controversial figures in Western cultural history. He revolutionized not only opera but the very concept of art, and his works and ideas have had an immeasurable impact on both the cultural and political landscapes of...

In 2015 University Press of Mississippi published Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s by Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin to critical acclaim and commercial success. Roughly half of Mississippi's rich, old-time fiddle tradition was...

for SA and harp or piano This gentle arrangement of the well-known Gaelic folk tune Morning Has Broken, also known as the hymn tune Bunessan, is part of a collection of six hymn arrangements for choir with harp or piano. The entire series of hymn...

AC/DC have undergone several line-up changes since releasing their first album, High Voltage, in 1975. However, they have gone from strength to strength and are celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2013. As of 2008, AC/DC have sold more than 200...

It started with a question about the blues: what makes the music of the downtrodden black man so alluring to white middle-class ears? And that's where it gets interesting. Because blues is more than a musical genre: it's a cultural phenomenon that spans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934558419Author Paul WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Entwhistle Books,U.S.Publisher Entwhistle Books,U.S.

Flamenco is renowned for its passion and flamboyance. Yet because it generates such visceral responses, it is often overlooked as a site for subtler discourses. This absorbing book articulates powerful and convincing arguments on such key subjects as...

For nearly a century, it has inspired composers, scholars, critics, performers, and visual artists. Severine Neff re-creates for her readers the quartet's historical, cultural, and musical background-its introduction of the human voice, its genesis...

Ranging from Los Angeles to Havana to the Bronx to the U.S.-Mexico border and from klezmer to hip hop to Latin rock, this groundbreaking book injects popular music into contemporary debates over American identity. Josh Kun insists that America is not a...

In Lockhart, Texas, a rural working-class town just south of Austin, country music is a way of life. Conversation slips easily into song, and the songs are full of conversation. Anthropologist and musician Aaron A. Fox spent years in Lockhart making...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527257108Author ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Freeworld SpeechPublisher Freeworld SpeechWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399530722Author David EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 234gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 129mm...

The contributors to Playing for Keeps examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a method for negotiating violence, trauma, systemic inequality, and the aftermaths of war and colonialism. Outlining the relation of improvisatory...

The Conservatoire Americain, the French musical institution at the Palais de Fontainebleau, was responsible for training generations of American musicians. Its students and faculty are among some of the most influential musical figures of the twentieth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793561483Author Andre PrevinPage Count 23Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions. What are the most striking and decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976404705Author Joe YoungbloodFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Smokin' Joe EntertainmentPublisher Smokin' Joe EntertainmentWeight(grams) 182g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851622132Author Igor StravinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302207Author Martin HuxleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

An NPR Best Books of 2019 Can't Stop Won't Stop meets Girls to the Front in this essential and long overdue history of hip-hop's female pioneers and its enduring stars. Every history of hip-hop previously published, from Jeff Chang's Can't Stop Won't...

Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments,...

Picture a day like this is the fourth operatic collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hill. This limited edition of the full score is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423445227Author R. M. EndresenPage Count 24Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

With 2014 marking the 60th anniversary of the release of Elvis Presley's first record, "That's All Right," this book makes the perfect companion for celebrating the life and music of one of the world's most popular entertainers. Packed with history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385263399Author John L. DigaetaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Complete definition and pronunciation guide for common ballet terms.About the AuthorThalia Mara taught ballet for more than 50 years and was the founder of the USA International Ballet Competition. She is the author of Steps in Ballet. Janice Barringer...

Rock and roll was born in the United States during the 1950s. Its popularity rapidly grew spreading across the Atlantic to England. The Brits transformed rock bringing it back to the States in a new form with the British Invasion. Since that time the...