Genres & Styles

Winner of a 2022 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Print ComicsOne of The Washington Post's 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2022 * One of NYPL's Best Books of 2022 *A Publishers Weekly "Best Book of 2022" A formative coming-of-age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480345126Author Sergei RachmaninoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone an updating of Shakespeare located in a vividly realized, rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495021299Author Glenda AustinPage Count 31Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades.So claims Down with Childhood, as it takes in psychedelia's...

'Hip Hop is Dead! Long Live Hip Hop!' From the front lines of hip hop culture and music in the USA, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Hawaii, Tanzania, Cuba, Samoa and South Africa, academics, poets, practitioners, journalists, and political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495050763Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 120Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Jamaican Voiceworks is an outstanding collection of fun and appealing Jamaican songs presented in the practical Voiceworks format. Including little-known gems and traditional favourites alongside classic pop hits, these arrangements cover a wide range of...

Agile, flexible and never afraid of controversial innovations (such as abandoning traditional 'black tie' evening dress for its players or giving amplified concerts with creative lighting at the Hammersmith Apollo), the LCO has surfed the waves of...

Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was twenty-four years old, and the opera was described by Albert Einstein as 'one of those works that even a genius like Mozart could write only once in his life'. It is one of most astonishing achievements of an altogether...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825617539Format PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Music Sales Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957612013Author Ian CumpsteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Northern Displayers, Skadi PressPublisher Northern Displayers, Skadi PressWeight(grams)...

How relevant is classical music today? The genre seems in danger of becoming nothing more than a hobby for the social elite. Yet Kent Nagano has another world in mind - one where everyone has access to classical music. In Classical Music: Expect the...

You've recorded the album, toured the world, and all of the fans have left the venues. Where can the rock star now turn for sanctuary? With stadium size egos to placate, how does the rock star relax in their household? From Keith Moon's stately home to...

In a series of powerful strokes, the music of Beethoven's last years redefined his legacy and enlarged the realm of experience accessible to the creative imagination. Maynard Solomon's "Late Beethoven" investigates the phenomenon of the final phase,...

What begins as one woman's search for her own artistic courage unravels into a stunning look into what jazz music can teach us about our search for the truest version of ourselves.For decades, seasoned players on the scene have spoken in whispered tones...

Charles Mingus is one of the most important-and most mythologized-composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a bandleader, composer, producer, and record-label owner. His...

Charles Mingus is among jazz's greatest composers and perhaps its most talented bass player. He was blunt and outspoken about the place of jazz in music history and American culture, about which performers were the real thing (or not), and much more...

Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaeton, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaeton musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681121871Author Michels MabelFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679762201Author Albert MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 117gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570272295Author Zack FurnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 361g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375750007Author Henry RollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Villard BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815740117Author Itamar RabinovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142003527Author Ashley KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 187mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617755002Author Scott CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Near the end of his life, Richard Wagner supervised the publication of his collected writings, providing an extensive view of his thoughts about art and politics from his youth to his final period of triumph. After his death, there was still more to be...

Metallica formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, their original line-up consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, and bassist Ron McGovney. Mustaine and McGovney subsequently left and were...

We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an act...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642933840Author Alan LeedsFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *...

In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and its politics in the early twenty-first century. Drawing together...

George Balanchine's arrival in the United States in 1933, it is widely thought, changed the course of ballet history by creating a bold neoclassical style that is celebrated as the first American manifestation of the art form. In Making Ballet American,...

Stephen Sondheim's Company appeared in 1970, and the American musical theatre has never been the same. The adventures of a bachelor and his married friends, Company exploded the musical's traditional business model of romantic tales with a beginning,...

Maceo Parker's signature style became the lynchpin of James Brown's band when he and his brother Melvin joined the Hardest Working Man in Show Business in 1964. That style helped define Brown's brand of funk, and the phrase "Maceo, I want you to blow!" ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793564934Author Ludwig van BeethovenPage Count 88Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

This collection of Preces & Responses follows on from Shaw's classic 'Tudor' volume, with later settings by Gibbons & Barnard (SAATB), William Child (SAATB), Richard Ayleward (SATB, in D major), John Reading (SATB) and Thomas Ebdon (SATB, with optional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101671Author Norman C. WeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 299g

This stimulating and perceptive study of jazz relates the work of jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman to such subjects as primitivism in the arts,...

Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) was one of the leading international composers of the post-war period as well as one of the most productive. Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) was one of the leading international composers of the post-war period as...

From the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen - whose subject has become a modern myth and its heroine a symbol - provides new understanding of the opera's enduring yet...