Genres & Styles

Americana is a music that defies definition. It isn't rock, although it does encompass rock. It isn't folk, but folk is there. It isn't Celtic, but it is woven with Celtic threads. It is a blend of forms, music that draws on a wide range of influences...

Teen pop is a sub-genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging romantic eroticism and autonomy. But tweens and teens buy music that isn't primarily marketed to them, too. Teen pop...

Dancing has its place in all societies; yet the phenomenon of dance has been oddly neglected by most anthropologists. This volume is intended to further anthropological awareness of its critical relevance. It is claimed that, in a very important sense,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955090875Author Chris SearleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Northway PublicationsPublisher Northway Publications

This book is a backstage pass to the ups, downs, and all-out craziness of arena rock-deep discussions with Rod Stewart, jamming with legends like Mick Jagger and Justin Timberlake, gaining groupies, and striking out solo. Stevie Salas was one of many...

The turn of the 20th century was a time of great change in Britain. The empire saw its global influence waning and its traditional social structures challenged. There was a growing weariness of industrialism and a desire to rediscover tradition and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653169Author Gavin WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784655914Author Gwilym DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Mozart's enduring popularity, among music lovers as a composer and among music historians as a subject for continued study, lies at the heart of The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. This reference book functions both as a starting point for information on...

for SATB and organ or organ, harp, and strings Maurice Ravel's popular Pavane pour une infante defunte is here arranged for mixed voices and organ or chamber ensemble, allowing choirs to perform this beautiful staple of the orchestral repertoire for the...

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of...

Tales of The Smiths is a comic book retelling of the band members' teenage years, before the group was famous, and includes fascinating digressions about their influences (the New York Dolls, Nico, Sex Pistols, NY punk, Patti Smith, etc) and the times in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634000058Author Gary CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Houston Publishing, Inc.Publisher Houston Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311403Author Alexandros AnesiadisFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Celebrate 40 years of Screaming for Vengeance with the official graphic novel!Teaming with writers Rantz Hoseley (Comic Book Tattoo, the Heroin Diaries) and Neil Kleid (Savor), and artist Christopher Mitten (Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.), the multi-platinum...

How can we--jazz fans, musicians, writers, and historians--understand the legacy and impact of a musician like Dave Brubeck? It is undeniable that Brubeck leveraged his fame as a jazz musician and status as a composer for social justice causes, and in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538996Author Jessica HopperFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint MCD X Fsg OriginalsPublisher MCD X Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Today, more than a century after its first performance, Richard Wagner's The Ring of Nibelung endures as one of the most significant artistic creations in the history of opera. This monumental work not only altered previously accepted concepts of music...

A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903-58) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago blues-man of the 1930s. His success came as he fused traditional rural blues with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955090851Author Mike HennesseyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Northway PublicationsPublisher Northway Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423424444Author Aaron CoplandPage Count 96Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

for upper voices and organ This radiant anthem was commissioned as part of the celebrations to mark Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee. It was first performed at the Service of Thanksgiving on 5 June 2012 at St Paul's Cathedral by choristers from the Chapel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915608324Author Peter CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Country Music Foundation Press,U.S.Publisher Country Music Foundation Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438493367Author Robert J. CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)...

What is opera and how does it work? How has this dramatic form developed and what is its relevance in the modern world? Perfect for music students and opera-goers, this introductory guide addresses these questions and many more, exploring opera as a...

This book is a concise, evocative, and thoroughly researched study of one of the great rock'n'roll pioneers. After "Tutti Frutti," Little Richard began garnering fans from both sides of the civil rights divide. He brought black and white...

Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999212776Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Wax Poetics BooksPublisher Wax Poetics BooksWeight(grams) 372g

Dance Music of the French Baroque brings together information on rhythm from the interrelated fields of music, dance, poetry, rhetoric, and philosophy. Part I is devoted to the various factors involved in dance rhythms, including tempos, rhythmic feet,...

An alphabetical history of rock 'n' roll's most iconic band...the Grateful Dead.Featuring playful rhymes and glorious illustrations, The ABCs of the Grateful Dead celebrates the band's rich and dynamic history. Each letter of the alphabet highlights a...

Hip-Hop en Francais charts the emergence and development of hip-hop culture in France, French Caribbean, Quebec, and Senegal from its origins until today. With essays by renowned hip-hop scholars and a foreword by Marcyliena Morgan, executive director of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394629Author Richard StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250034816Author Paul EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360265Author Stephen SondheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Subverting assumptions that American musical theater is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals of the 1950s and early 1960s celebrated strong women characters who defied the era's gender expectations...

Keynotes is a new series of essential piano repertoire from across the ages which has been carefully selected and edited by John Lenehan, one of Britain's most experienced, versarile and sought-after pianists. Keynotes contains unusual and imaginative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480390782Author Frederic ChopinFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Britten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was deeply committed and sensitive. As a result, both his responses to poetry and his collaborationswith his librettists...

In The Music Goes Round and Around Basil Tschaikov (known to his friends and colleagues as Nick) chronicles from many different perspective how during his lifetime the many technological developments and changes in society have affected the music...

This 2003 Companion is a fascinating and accessible exploration of the world of grand opera. Through this volume a team of scholars and writers on opera examine those important Romantic operas which embraced the Shakespearean sweep of tragedy, history,...